ARTICLES
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After being ousted from Stanford University in the 1960s for fiddling around with computers too much, composition professor Dr. John Chowning changed the course of music history.
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Want to be a street musician? Busk smarter, not harder, with this guide to serenading the streets.
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[deep voice] In a world...where movie trailers reign supreme...one word...doesn't make sense. [/deep voice]
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The first truly viral computer viruses spread through floppy disks. Who invented them depends on who you ask, and whether they’re a Mac or a PC.
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How laziness and iPhone separation anxiety led one 20-year-old on a quest to reimagine underwear.
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Woodstock music festival (1969) featured a legendary array of rock performances -- but how much were the musicians paid for their efforts?
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Used in everything from Star Wars to Grand Theft Auto, the ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is the not-so-inside joke of Hollywood’s sound effects producers.
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Now you can easily get the keywords from the text of any webpage you crawl with the Analysis Engine. Here's how it works.
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Behind the mirage of Blue Moon's artsy advertisements and “craft beer” claims, one of America's biggest breweries deceives its imbibers.
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That Nigerian Prince email scam is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Your grandparents' grandparents might have fallen for it.
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We wrote a web crawler that analyzes where BuzzFeed sources its viral content from.
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When an outdated electronics chain tried to be "hip" in the early 80s, shit went bananas.
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China was so ahead of the curve they had predictive text on their typewriters. They also really, really needed it.
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If you were born in the Year of the Dragon, you might think your zodiac sign is the best. The problem is, lots of other people do too.
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The Priceonomics Analysis Engine can now extract text from web pages and calculate the reading level.
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If you looked even remotely like a newborn piglet in Colonial America, it often came with a death sentence.
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The odds are stacked against these noble brass blowers. A dirty little secret of the orchestral world is that there are far too many tubists.
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People say Google has a monopoly on search because they have 68% market share. What if the answer is much higher?
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We’ve long suspected that people who like Priceonomics are compassionate, good-looking, intelligent people -- and that our critics are the opposite of all of these things. What does the data say?
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From 1790 to present day, the reading level of State of the Union Addresses has steadily declined.
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The first step in assisting a community's homeless population is to measure it and study it. But how do you census homeless people?
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How two families -- one low-income and Latino, and the other middle-class and white -- dealt with the aftermath of a grave tragedy.
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We built an algorithm to figure out the most interesting facts in the world.
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Last week, a fire in San Francisco's Mission District displaced 18 families, most of whom were low-income, long-time Latino residents. This is who they are.
