ARTICLES
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How the ultimate stickler for correlation vs causation got tobacco wrong.
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American politicians have made solar energy a partisan issue. But Americans buying solar panels are much more pragmatic.
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The organizations willing to spend $20,000-$200,000 to hear a luminary speak include Wall Street banks, summer camp executives, and national associations of bakers.
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There were no charts in the newspaper 100 years ago. Today, data visualization in the media is ubiquitous. What took so long?
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Most communities don't want nuclear waste and that's causing a national crisis.
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In 1250, the southeastern United States was home to a city larger than London whose people built 200 huge, earthen pyramids. So why do so few people know about it?
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The United States may dominate swimming and women's gymnastics. But America couldn't win gold at computer programming.
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There are more interracial marriages now than ever. But it's not primarily because Americans are more progressive.
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What's the fairest way to split up an apartment? A divorce settlement? A war-torn country? First, start with a cake.
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Grattan Elementary was once an exception to the increasing segregation of America's schools. But it didn't last.
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Because of a quirk in how America funds its 100,000 public schools, local school boards pay investment bankers $3 to $4 billion every year.
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In its heyday, the KKK made a ton of money off of membership fees, and by aggressively selling robes, memorabilia, candy, and life insurance to its own members.
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There's no better sign of a country's health and wealth than the height of its people. We examined which countries are tallest and shortest, and why Americans are no longer growing.
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The airwaves are worth billions, but it took three academics to figure out how to sell them.
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In 1884, Adolph Spreckels shot the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. But he never went to jail. Instead he inherited his father's sugar business and married a young, nude model.
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In 1984, a man named Michael Larson won $110,237 on "Press Your Luck" — more than double the winnings of any other game show contestant in history at the time. But his success wasn't due to luck alone.
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The Harvards of the world are launching online courses.
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Rotisserie chickens are delicious, ready-to-eat, and don't cost any more than an uncooked chicken. Is that combination too good to be true?
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Californians pay billions more at the pump. The odd thing is that nobody knows exactly why.
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When the traditional safety net falls short, phone sex offers (mostly) women a quick, accessible way to earn money.
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A special Priceonomics investigation into why men go pee-pee on the floor. Laziness or intractable problem of physics?
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Should your website's click buttons be red or blue? Companies increasingly use A/B testing to optimize the Internet, and we examined the data to see how successful they have been.
