Independent data desk · Est. 2026
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Fifty years of basketball, baseball, and mutual fund data on whether winning streaks predict what comes next, and why Kalshi and Polymarket are betting you'll ignore the answer.
Read the investigationFifty years of basketball, baseball, and mutual fund data on whether winning streaks predict what comes next, and why Kalshi and Polymarket are betting you'll ignore the answer.
Read moreBillboard hits have lost nearly a third of their length since 1990, and their intros have all but disappeared. A data dive into song shrinkflation, the death of the instrumental intro, and what TikTok has to do with it.
Read moreI broke down exactly what my daily coffee habit costs per year and compared it to a Texas mortgage payment. Here's why I'm not cutting the coffee.
Read moreTwo essays answer the same assignment prompt I was given in my Intercultural Communication class. One by myself and one completely generated by Claude.
Read moreAn empirical investigation into why 12 yards feels like a mile under World Cup pressure.
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