An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes
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An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.
https://pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf
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Mapping 100,000 moments of human happiness.
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/happy-map
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The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing
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Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
https://pudding.cool/2025/12/motifs
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Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
https://pudding.cool/2025/11/democracy
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A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
https://pudding.cool/2025/10/walk
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What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?
https://pudding.cool/2025/08/onions
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What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view
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How and why do we gender animals in stories?
https://pudding.cool/2025/07/kids-books
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Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change.
https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger
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A six-minute video about the loneliness epidemic, in data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w339vE2F8
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How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?
https://pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi-casting
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Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/birthday-effect
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We try to predict the price and quality of a bottle of wine based on the animal on the label.
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/wine-animals
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We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna
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What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize.
https://pudding.cool/2025/03/housewives
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Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language
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Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
https://pudding.cool/2025/02/middle-school
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The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.
https://pudding.cool/2024/11/sitters-standers