ARTICLES
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We explore the hotly contested history of the crowning jewel of statistics.
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How a guitar pedal that sounds like a crying baby helped revolutionize modern music.
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We wanted cheap flights. Instead we got baggage fees and connections through Houston.
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A recent analysis of Google Trends data reveals that the revelations of the NSA's surveillance programs had a "chilling effect" on certain kinds of behavior on the internet.
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Increasingly, making chart topping hits is a collaborative process.
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Born a slave, Mary Fields later became one of the early pioneers of the Wild West, bypassing conventional restrictions on race and gender. Yet, in the narrative of American folklore, she has been largely forgotten.
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The quintessential Thai dish got its start when the Prime Minister promoted the recipe as a way to unite the country.
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The nations of the world have sold off their names as branding tools. But it turns out that real-world politics have consequences, even when it comes to URLs.
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A peek-a-boo inside a niche, seasonal industry, where hand-crafted pumpkin masterpieces sell for upwards of $700.
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Just how much water does a lawn use and should you stop flushing the toilet instead?
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With college costs rising, we analyzed the higher education data to find the schools where low income students get the best and worst bang for their buck.
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The term “wheelhouse” presents an interesting case of how a word can lose touch with its original meaning as a consequence of technological changes.
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Due to a "quirk" in how the US Census counts population, black prisoners boost the political power of politicians who represent rural, mostly white districts.
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Researchers have known how to develop better male contraceptives for a long time. Why hasn't it happened?
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It has been legal to buy and sell recreational weed in Colorado since 2014. What's it like to shop for it?
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Over the course of a decade, a Wikipedian named "koavf" has made nearly 1.5 million edits on the online encyclopedia. That's 25,000 hours of work — and he's done it all for free. Who is he?
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"Data Science" is a relatively recent phenomenon. Where did it come from? And why isn't it just statistics?
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The Nigerian government gave away nearly $60 million to winners of a business plan competition. The impressive job creation results of the competition has at least one expert wondering, "Is this the most effective development program in history?"
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Hollywood has asked Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson to save the world for decades. When they retire, who will replace them?
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How a 30-year-old comic strip made everyone notice that women in movies rarely talk to each other; and gave them a tool to ask: Why not?
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On the streets of San Francisco, an illicit drug market thrives. We interviewed ex-drug dealers and users to piece together its economics.
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The pie chart has been under attack for over a century. How did this beleaguered chart come to be so popular and yet so reviled?
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Before he was The Donald, Trump took on the NFL as the young owner of the New Jersey Generals.
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Software is eating the world, but not at America's shipping ports.
