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Every sidequest so far. A few are still being counted. Most of the numbers are illustrative for now, and labeled as such inside each piece.

Feb 2025
Economics

Getting What You Pay For

Reward a number and you get the number, not the thing it stood for. Six incentives that backfired, with the receipts.

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Feb 2025
Pop

The Two Guys Behind Songs You Think You Chose

Pull the credits on a decade of pop number ones and the same small circle of names keeps turning up.

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Jan 2025
Maps

An Offer They Can't Refuse (US Edition)

More than half of the modern United States arrived with a price tag. Here is what the country paid.

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Dec 2024
History

Yes, China Really Does Love Fireworks

It sounds like a lazy stereotype, so we ran the numbers. It turns out to be an understatement.

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Nov 2024
Hip-Hop

Who Keeps Yelling Their Own Name?

Twenty years of Billboard hip-hop hits, mined for the producer tags shouted over the intro.

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Oct 2024
Sampling

The Six Seconds Hiding in Everything

One 1969 drum break turns up under thousands of songs. We tried to count how many.

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