To serve the ball in tennis, a player first tosses the ball in…
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Science of the tennis toss
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China’s possible blockade around Taiwan
It appears China wants to impose a blockade around Taiwan with ships, submarines,…
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Megaflood scenario
Highlighting research by Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain, who studied “plausible worst…
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Breaking down the higher price on a restaurant receipt
If you’ve eaten at a restaurant lately, you might have noticed a substantially…
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Tracked while reading about being tracked at work
While reading this NYT article, by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, on the…
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Serena Williams’ career rankings
Serena Williams announced her retirement from professional tennis. As is required for any…
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Finding illegal airstrips in Brazil
Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York…
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Housing displacement after disasters
Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support…
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Income ladder for the children of immigrants
You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…
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Active shooter endings
For The New York Times, Larry Buchanan and Lauren Leatherby used Sankey diagrams…
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Shifting flight paths for wealthy Russians
For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped…
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Final texts
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer, for NYT Opinion, approached the one-million mark for Covid deaths…
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Reaching 1 million deaths
The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in…
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Inflation based on your spending
We’ve been hearing a lot about inflation rates lately on a national scale.…
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Formula 1 car redesign
The rules around a car’s aerodynamics for Formula 1 racing changed a lot…
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Tucker Carlson word usage and patterns
Tucker Carlson hosts a nightly show viewed by millions. The New York Times…
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Tonga shockwave around the world
Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.…
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Ukraine’s defense in Kyiv
The New York Times shows how Russia has tried to take over and…
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Potential coronavirus mutations
For NYT Opinion, researchers Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, and Tyler Starr, along with…
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Intercepted Russian radio communications
The New York Times analyzed Russian radio communications near Kyiv. The unencrypted transmissions,…