ARTICLES
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Four charts proving there's no "typical American city" when it comes to race.
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It turns out that the structure of a conventional work week gives its prisoners a gift in disguise: shared weekends. What people mean when they say today "feels like Friday."
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How the world's simplest toy endured through religious cults, a seven-figure debt, and an unlikely change in leadership to find success.
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Computational linguistic analysis of Yelp reviews sheds light on what we really mean when we say a dessert is 'orgasmic' or fries are 'like crack.'
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According to the World Lung Foundation’s 2012 Tobacco Atlas, Americans consume more cigarettes per capita annually than French people do.
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The origins of the term "smart aleck" involve prostitution, corrupt police, and a unjustifiably smug con-artist.
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Looking back at the history of New York pig ownership yields a window into a very different city: in which businessmen waded in sewage, and young boys tore through the streets on the backs of feral hogs.
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How an abandoned cat named Dewey brought a small Midwestern town back to life.
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Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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They bought "Virgin Mary" toast for $28,000. They shelled out $25,000 for William Shatner's kidney stone. They tattooed URLs on foreheads, and streaked at the Super Bowl. And eventually, it paid off.
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The cars that have been most reported stolen in the United States in 2013 aren't exactly luxury vehicles.
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The surprisingly potent angst of political defeat experienced by voters, and how long it takes to wear off.
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What do Sasquatch, Mark Twain, and a developing fetus have in common? They're all things Andy Huot sees in Cheetos.
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How a science fiction writer brought his vision of the afterlife to life.
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Real estate search is a lucrative market and Zillow is King. Or is Google King?
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How a psych study enacting a story from the Bible showed why good people don't always do the right things. One of the reasons, at least.
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When Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation both wanted the same slogan in 1992, there was only one way to settle the matter: a CEO vs. CEO arm wrestling match.
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There's more to those skimpy, mass-produced, high markup rayon costumes than meets the eye.
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In 1950, the U.S. government secretly covered U.S. cities with bacteria in the name of scientific research. For thirty years, the tests remained a secret -- even after a San Francisco resident died as a result.
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Terence Faulkner wrote 1/3 of the opposing arguments in this year's SF voter guide. And large chunks of them read like he's yelling at you.
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The Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916 killed 10 and seriously wounded 40 -- but the injustice that followed was almost as grave.
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The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are like a SaaS company that requires its customers to recruit or they get their subscription canceled. But if the end of the world actually happens, it will probably disrupt our models.
