ARTICLES
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Narcissists tend to be charming and successful, but also egotistical, self-focused, and vain. Thankfully, spotting one just got easier.
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Is it possible to give half your work away for free and still turn a profit? One designer says 'Yes,' and urges you to follow suit.
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A map that captures San Francisco's varied history of horizontal expansion.
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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.
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Eighty-four years ago, two Italians from Philadelphia invented the cheesesteak; today, Frankie Olivieri Jr. keeps his family's legacy alive and well.
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Maybe you haven't noticed, but just about every scene in every blockbuster movie has the same color scheme.
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A glimpse inside a shady world that offers $250 college diplomas, fake transcripts, and the subtle promise of a brighter future.
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How a team of physicists calculated the "color of the universe", and how, at first, they got it wrong.
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Texas is responsible for 518 of the United States' 1,398 executions over the last 30 years -- and it isn't just because they're the biggest.
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How New York's most famous eccentric transcended homelessness, blindness, and social norms to become an internationally renowned composer.
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Our quest to figure out the most interesting XKCD comics of all time.
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For more than a century, Americans ate horse meat -- both out of necessity, and for its unique taste. And at times, they didn’t just eat it: they loved it, savored it, and treasured every last morsel.
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The story of a girl who got too many parking tickets, and dared to dream of a better tomorrow.
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The man who commands one of America's most well-known civilian militias owns 20 guns and writes poetry in his spare time.
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Why the Backstreet Boys will haunt Millennials -- and their children -- to their graves.
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After making his fortune as a speculator, America's first eccentric, 'Lord' Timothy Dexter, embarked on an unparalleled crusade of weirdness.
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We share all our traffic and visitor numbers for 2014.
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While the DIY tattoo trend has many opponents, this school teacher is paying her rent by selling kits for safer self-tattooing.
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For more than a century, we've declared things to be "as American as apple pie" -- but can we really lay claim to the pastry?
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How a scrappy "misfit" engineer with no college education revolutionized the world of tape.
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SEO data about RetailMeNot, a site that lives and dies by the Google algorithm.
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How Star Wars' fearless commander claimed the word "droid" -- and how it affected those wishing to use it.
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A new product from Priceonomics for crawling and analyzing web data.
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A follow-up post, with one methodology for ranking cities by diversity.
