There’s something about hearing music live no matter how many times you’ve heard…
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Comparing live music recordings against the studio versions
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Historical cost of light
These days, most of us don’t have to do much to turn on…
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Analysis of representation in crossword puzzles
For The Pudding, Michelle McGhee analyzed representation in crossword puzzles. Some crossword publications…
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Reconstructing protests in Minneapolis using hundreds of livestreams
From a distance, it’s difficult to build an understanding of the scale and…
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Telling stories in visual, data-driven essays
For The Pudding, Ilia Blinderman rounds out his three-part series on creating visual,…
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Defining ’90s music, based on song recognition
In search of songs that define music in the 1990s, Matt Daniels and…
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Words used to describe men and women’s bodies in literature
Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and…
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Karen equivalents, based on name data
The name Karen. It’s not a common baby name these days. It peaked…
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Looking for generational gaps in music
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
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Testing the infinite monkey theorem
If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an…
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How people laugh online
Laughter online is full of nuances. A capitalization of some letters or a…
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Celebrity name spelling test
Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…
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Population mountains
You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…
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Increasing similarity of Billboard songs
Popular songs on the Billboard charts always tended to sound similar, but these…
