ARTICLES
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Martin Shkreli, the now infamous pharmaceuticals CEO who boosted a rare disease drug by 5,000%, has swiftly become the "Internet's most hated man." We spoke to a crisis management expert to find out where he went wrong.
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How do you sell a six-figure painting? Branding and a heavily "curated" marketplace.
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The first conjugal visits in America took place in 1904 at Parchman Penitentiary, an institution that resembled a slavery-era plantation more than a prison.
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Americans unanimously hate traffic roundabouts. But data shows that these feelings are unjustified: they are safer, less damaging to the environment, cheaper, and more efficient than traditional intersections. It's time we learn to love them.
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An analysis of the jobs that most often lead to mixing business with pleasure.
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We now accept freelance articles on Priceonomics. Submit your essay and if it's accepted and published you get $1,000.
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Highly-accomplished scientists are more likely to have an artsy hobby than the average scientist. And Nobel prize winners are even more likely.
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Cats like to sit in the most inconvenient places — especially on our computers. Here's a software program that's trying to change that.
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Not all shelter dogs and cats have the same likelihood of being adopted. We used data from Petfinder to explore which characteristics make some pets more likely to be adopted than others.
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Musicians are constantly disappointing or surprising us with the quality of their output. We statistically analyzed which albums over the past 15 years were unexpectedly good and bad.
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An unofficial guide to San Francisco's most insurmountable residential streets.
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Airports incite strong feelings. We analyzed user survey data to understand which airports travelers hate and love.
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What's the best that can happen when anarchists open a pizza shop? This is the story behind Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, and some of the best pizza in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The costs of college textbooks are incredibly high and growing quickly. We analyzed which major's textbooks are most expensive.
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For 30 years, Michael Christiansen and his team of 'clown doctors' have inspired terminally-ill children around the world.
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Finally, statistical proof that bosses write the darndest emails.
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Ever wonder what it would cost to build something like Airbnb, but for ferrets? Or Uber, but for burritos?
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At the peak of the U.S. alpaca frenzy, top breeding alpacas would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. While adorable, for many Americans these critters were a seriously bad investment.
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Holy crap, living in San Francisco is pretty darn expensive.
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Californians use less energy than those in the rest of the country. Some have attributed this difference to energy efficiency policies. Researchers are now challenging this assumption and wondering if efficiency programs really work at all.
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In 2009, the Seasteading Institute threw a floating festival they compared to a mini Burning Man. They hoped participants would get so excited about it, they would start to solve the hard technical obstacles to living on water.
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In the history of atomic warfare, one man is often overlooked.
