The Real Kevin Bacon 🔗
Demystifying the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future center of Hollywood. [...]
The Pudding
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Who believes in an afterlife? 🔗
A room of thousands of humans wrestling with what comes after it all. [...]
Why some people mow a lawn better than others. 🔗
Why some people mow a lawn better than others. [...]
How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed 🔗
How the words we teach English language learners changed. [...]
Ethical NBA Championships, Ranked 🔗
Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title? [...]
5,000 Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 🔗
Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus. [...]
A History of Menus is a Menu of History 🔗
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America? [...]
A Love Story 🔗
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships. [...]
Growing Up with K-Pop 🔗
Two friends tell the story of their friendship through every generation of K-pop. [...]
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise 🔗
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction. [...]
A Journey Through Infertility 🔗
An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives. [...]
Sizing Chaos 🔗
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women. [...]
Common Threads 🔗
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories. [...]
In pursuit of democracy 🔗
Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress. [...]
What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts 🔗
A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home. [...]
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way 🔗
What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes? [...]
NYC's Urban Textscape 🔗
What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets? [...]
Bears Will Be Boys 🔗
How and why do we gender animals in stories? [...]
30 Minutes with a Stranger 🔗
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change. [...]