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Fonts primer
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Competitive hot dog eating requirements
Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, so gross to watch but impossible to…
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A year of flight paths, for someone with an unlimited pass
United Airlines sold a lifetime unlimited pass in 1990 for $290,000. Tom Stuker…
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Using gaps in location data to track illegal fishing
Speaking of non-location in the seas, researchers at the University of California at…
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See if you are middle class
What counts as middle class depends on who and where you’re asking. Even…
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Map of donut federations
In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of…
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More hiring, because more quitting
This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem…
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Swipe left or right to cut the national debt
Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more…
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How much AI will affect your job
Research by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans provides estimates for…
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Mapping where trees will grow
As the climate changes, the places that different types of trees will grow…
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Words used in cannabis business names
Daniel Wolfe for The Washington Post looked at the similar word choices across…
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Science behind California rains
It rained a lot more than usual this winter in California. Diana Leonard…
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Declining vacation time from work
Despite available vacation days, it appears that American workers are taking less and…
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Words used in layoff letters
Tech layoffs continue, and as companies deliver more letters, there are some repeated…
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Visual explainer on what an AR-15 does to the human body
This is necessarily uncomfortable to go through, but for The Washington Post, N.…
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Fake sugars in your food
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg, and Laura Reiley visually describe…
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When spring is coming where you live
Going off the calendar, today is the first day of spring, but nature…
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Maps of home heating sources in the United States
For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the…
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Line chart race to show emissions
For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens used the line chart equivalent of a…
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Shooting down the Chinese balloon
Shooting down a floating balloon out on its lonesome seems like a straightforward…