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December 2014

What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs
Ray Rice Was Awful When He Last Played Football
An NBA Player’s Draft-Day Grudge Doesn’t Help Him Play Better
Middle Class Families Will Have The Hardest Time Paying Off Holiday Debt
Hurricane Katrina, Peer Pressure and Energy Conservation
What Might Persuade Hillary Clinton Not To Run In 2016
Who Had The Worst Career After The First ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy?
The Revolution In Tennis Stats That Didn’t Stick
How Allowing Gay Men To Give Blood Would Affect Donations
The Chances The Philadelphia 76ers’ Losing Streak Will Reach 18, 19, 20 … 54 Games
Calorie Counts On Menus Won’t Change What Americans Eat
The 2014 Senate Elections Were The Most Nationalized In Decades
How New York City Will Grade Universal Pre-K
How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies
College Football Playoff Update: TCU Promotion Shakes Up Odds
NFL Week 14 Playoff Implications: The Chargers Have A Pulse
FiveThirtyEight Job Opening: Copy Editor
The Grand Jury In The Eric Garner Chokehold Case Was Especially Unlikely To Indict
Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather?
How Common Is It For A Man To Be Shorter Than His Partner?
Land Mines Aren’t Killing As Many People As They Used To
Conservation Efforts Are Set To Get A Boost — Thanks To The Duck Stamp
Minor Crimes Get Unusually High Attention In Eric Garner’s Neighborhood
NFL Week 14 Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds
Skeptical Football: Sizing Up The Inevitable Patriots-Packers Super Bowl
The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools
Bill Cosby’s Fall From Among The Most-Trusted Celebrities To The Least
November’s Jobs Report Crushed It
The Best Holiday Shopping Partner: A Capuchin Monkey
Why UAB’s Football Team Couldn’t Even Last 20 Years
Senate Forecast: Landrieu Headed Toward Historic Defeat In Louisiana Runoff
The 2014 Elections That Ended In A Tie
Federer, Djokovic Set To Play For First Time In A Tennis Hotbed: India
College Football Playoff Update: Oregon Makes A Case For No. 1
College Football Playoff Update: Is TCU A Lock?
USA Draws The ‘Group Of Death’ In 2015 Women’s World Cup
College Football Playoff Update: Three Teams Are Fighting For The Last Spot
College Football Playoff Update: Does Ohio State Have A Shot?
FiveThirtyEight’s Final College Football Playoff Forecast
Ctrl + ← Marriage, Divorce And White Progress
College Football Playoff: Final Thoughts And National Championship Odds
Economists Aren’t As Nonpartisan As We Think
Does A Team Really Need A Star To Get To The NBA Finals?
SantaCon’s Army Of Drunk Santas Could Bring Christmas To New York City’s Children
Minimum Wages, All-Boys Schools And Thomas Piketty
Before Detroit Can Move On, It Needs To Upgrade From Windows XP
Does It Matter If Calorie Counts Make People Feel Bad?
Democrats Shouldn’t Give Up On The South
The Final College Football Playoff Rankings Contradict History
The Time A Guy Named Flipper Set The Single-Game NFL Receiving Record
Americans Have Grown More Supportive Of Torture
Organic Eating In The Alley Behind Your Apartment
NFL Week 15 Playoff Implications: The Chances A Coin Flip Will Decide The Postseason
Immigration Projections Rebound With The Economy
How Many Homeowners Have Paid Off Their Mortgages?
Should States Spend Billions To Reduce Class Sizes?
Week 15 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds
Obama Is Unpopular, And That’s Unlikely To Change
The Most Talented College Football Team In History
Support For Gun Control Slips As Media Loses Interest
Of Course You Hear What I Hear — Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven
The Wealth Gap Between Whites And Minorities Is Growing
Chug, Run, Repeat
The FiveThirtyEight 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Data Sets Edition
Once And For All: Michael Jordan Was Way Better Than Kobe Bryant
Ctrl + ← Torture
Number Of The Week: 52
We Could See More And More ‘Hot Droughts’ Like California’s
Don’t Bet On Clinton Faltering In Iowa A Second Time
The Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight Is Several Years Too Late
How Many Of Your Co-Workers Are Hungover?
Do Concussions Lead To Suicide?
Jobless Weight Gain, Climate Change Economics And Early Retirement
Significant Digits for Tuesday, December 16
How Many People Can The Plants In One City Feed?
Is Jeb Bush Too Liberal To Win The Republican Nomination In 2016?
Sacramento Kings Coach Mike Malone Didn’t Deserve To Be Fired
Another Reason Mondays Are The Worst
Taliban Attack At Pakistan School Sets Back Modest Progress Against Terrorism
Significant Digits for Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014
The Final ‘Hobbit’ Film Is An Unprecedentedly Gratuitous Stretch Of Source Material
Decades Before Moneyball, The Dallas Cowboys Used Advanced Stats To Win Super Bowls
There Won’t Be A Backlash To Ending The Cuba Embargo
NFL Week 16 Playoff Implications: When Things Start To Shake Out
What The Next Generation Of Economists Is Working On
The U.S. Appetite For Cuban Cigars Isn’t What It Used To Be
Sony Should Send ‘The Interview’ Straight To Video On Demand
Killing ‘The Interview’ Could Cost Sony $100 Million
The Conventional Wisdom On Oil Is Always Wrong
Significant Digits for Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014
These Authors Know The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Backstory Better Than George R.R. Martin Does
The Most Frequent Guests On ‘The Colbert Report’
The Race For The Top Pick In The 2015 NFL Draft
Every NBA Team’s Chance Of Winning A Title By 2019
Cuban Players Already Have Been Gaining Ground In MLB
Week 16 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds
The Army Is Building An Algorithm To Prevent Suicide
Significant Digits for Friday, Dec. 19, 2014
What’s The Most Common Street Name In America?
The Arizona Cardinals Have Been The Luckiest Team In The NFL
Jeb Bush Might Have A Tea Party Problem In 2016
Rand Paul Just Hurt His Chances In Florida’s 2016 GOP Primary
Celtic Or Maverick, Rajon Rondo Remains A Mystery
Skeptical Football: A Tale Of Two Quarterbacks Struggling Against The Buffalo Bills
Ctrl + ← Men Not At Work, Segregation And Gentrification
Significant Digits For Monday, Dec. 22, 2014
We May Never Know How Well Cloud Seeding Works
The Superfans Using Stats To Get To The Bottom Of ‘Serial’
New Prenatal Tests Aren’t Perfect — But They’re Close
Tony Romo’s Been Great, But He’s Not The MVP
If I Had A Nickel For Every Time Someone Said ‘If I Had A Nickel…’
New Yorkers Who Like Cops Don’t Like De Blasio
Significant Digits for Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014
There Are Way Too Many ‘Best Of 2014’ Lists
NFL Teams Are Analyzing Everything From The Salary Cap To Fan Loyalty
Americans Love The Holidays, But Spend Them Doing Things They Hate
College Football’s Bloated Bowl Season In 3 Charts
NFL Week 17 Playoff Implications: Someone Has To Win The NFC South
Week 17 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Special Seahawks Edition
Don’t Take Ben Carson Seriously (Except In Iowa — Maybe)
Significant Digits for Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014
Skeptical Football: The NFC South Isn’t The Worst Division In NFL History
Which Christmas Songs You’re Most Likely To Hear On The Radio
Forget The Next LeBron, Andrew Wiggins May Not Be The Next James Posey
Ctrl + ← The Best Data Journalism Of 2014
Baseball’s Hot Stove Season Offers More Sizzle Than Substance
Significant Digits for Monday, Dec. 29, 2014
There’s Not Much Evidence A New Coach Will Help The Jets, 49ers Or Falcons
More Of The Long-Term Unemployed Are Finding Jobs
Americans Disagree With Obama On The State Of Race Relations
Significant Digits for Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014
Tennis Has An Income Inequality Problem
Television Bias, Energy Efficiency, Financial Literacy And Poverty
Who Goes To Meaningless NFL Games And Why?
Our 33 Weirdest Charts From 2014
How The Economist Got Its List Of Top Economists Wrong
A Deadly 2014 For Air Travel Has Reversed Recent Safety Gains
Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet
Significant Digits for Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014
As The New Year’s Ball Drops, So Do Champagne Prices
The Biggest Stories Of 2014? Now, Wait Just A Minute
Week 18 NFL Elo Ratings And Playoff Odds: Wild Card Edition
Checking The Accuracy Of My Tarot Card Reading
What I Got Wrong In 2014
The (Very, Very Short) Christmas Music Cycle