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May 2015

The U.K.’s Youngest Constituency
Significant Digits For Friday, May 1, 2015
The Most Diverse Cities Are Often The Most Segregated
Anatomy Of A Podcast Ad
But First, A Word From 100 Podcasts’ Sponsors
How Physics Explains Thor’s Hammer And Captain America’s Shield
Andrew Wiggins And The Problem With Scorers
Chris Christie’s Access Lanes To The GOP Nomination Are Closed
Police Killings Almost Never Lead To Murder Charges
Baltimore Has A History Of Improper Arrests
The Week In Data: Changing Opinions, Heavy Drinking And P-Values
NBA Playoffs Preview: Hawks vs. Wizards Is Almost A Tossup
NBA Playoffs Preview: Do The Grizzlies Have Any Chance Against The Warriors?
What Explains UKIP’s Success In Clacton But Nowhere Else
Significant Digits For Monday, May 4, 2015
Yadier Molina Forgot How To Frame A Pitch
NBA Playoffs Preview: The Cavs, Down Two Players, Are Still Favored Against The Bulls
The Democratic Base Is Shifting, But The Party’s Position On Trade Isn’t
Two Background Players Join The 2016 Fray: Carly Fiorina And Ben Carson
NBA Playoffs Preview: Clippers Are Slight Favorites Against The Rockets
There’s A Difference Between Broke And Bankrupt For Ex-NFL Players
All Politics Is Local, Even In The Most Average Place In The U.K.
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 5, 2015
There’s A Good Chance You’ve Already Heard This Year’s Song Of The Summer
Huckabee May Be Doomed To Rerun His 2008 Campaign In 2016
Enough Already About The Job-Hopping Millennials
A Few People Lead Many Of The Anti-Muslim Groups In The U.S.
Podcast: Boring Boxing, NBA Round 2, Why The World Needs A New Baseball Stat
Are We Right About The U.K. General Election?
Food Deserts, Community Colleges And Innovative Slackers
Significant Digits For Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Think You Know Who Will Win The U.K. Election? Want To Bet?
‘Adam Silver Rides A Bear’ And Five Other Perfect Ideas For Fixing The NBA Lottery
Why Ken Jennings’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Streak Is Nearly Impossible To Break
Is Six Democratic Debates Too Few?
We’ll Never Know Whether Stephen Curry Deserved To Be MVP (And That’s OK)
FiveThirtyEight Dissects The Deflategate Report
It Takes Years To Investigate A Campus Sexual Violence Complaint
Video: It’s Election Day In The U.K.
Where’s The Beef?
Significant Digits For Thursday, May 7, 2015
Baltimore’s Toxic Legacy Of Lead Paint
What To Expect On Election Night In The U.K.
U.K. General Election 2015 Live Blog
Women With Ph.D.s Buck The Trend Toward A Baby Bust
What The U.K. Exit Poll Will Tell Us
There Is No Presidents’ Trophy Curse, But That May Not Help The New York Rangers
Significant Digits For Friday, May 8, 2015
Racial And Ethnic Gaps Remain A Big Question in Medicine
What We Got Wrong In Our 2015 U.K. General Election Model
The Jobs Recovery Is Back On Track
Is Baseball Moving Beyond Old Guys In The Dugout?
Willie Mays Was Way Better Than Alex Rodriguez
The Rangers Are The San Antonio Spurs Of The NHL
The Week In Data: Motherhood, The Flash Crash, And Where You Live
IUDs Are More Affordable Than Ever, So Will More Women Get Them?
Significant Digits For Monday, May 11, 2015
What Else We Got Wrong In Our U.K. Election Model
Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees Are The World’s Largest Group of Stateless People
LeBron May Be The Most Clutch Playoff Shooter Of His Generation
Advanced Placement Tests, Tuition Increases And The Power Of Lists
Ken Jennings Has Nothing On Joe DiMaggio
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Some Washington Bureaucrats Are Adopting The Tech Tools Of Silicon Valley
There Is No ‘Blue Wall’
What If Tom Brady Missed Four Games Every Year?
Joining The Avengers Is As Deadly As Jumping Off A Four-Story Building
Losing Draft Picks Hurts The Patriots More Than Tom Brady’s Suspension
Are There Too Few Teachers, Or Too Few Good Ones?
How Pervasive Is Homophobia In U.S. Sports?
Significant Digits For Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Podcast: Deflategate, And We Pick An NBA Draft-Fix Winner!
How Data Nerds Found A 131-Year-Old Sunken Treasure
FDA Suggests Rule Change That Could Allow 2 Million People To Donate Blood
How To Stop NBA Tanking: Tie Your Fate To Another Team’s Record
SurveyMonkey Was The Other Winner Of The U.K. Election
And Now, The Roy Awards For The Best NHL Playoff Goaltending Performances
Significant Digits For Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Biggest U.S. Police Departments Are Getting Smaller
The Rangers’ Stranger And Stranger Statistical Feats
Jeb Bush’s Bumbling On Iraq May Hurt Him Later Rather Than Sooner
There’s No Agreement On The Number Of Palestinians
Chase Utley Is The Unluckiest Man In Baseball
Hockey Refs Are Out To Get You (If They Already Got The Other Guy)
Significant Digits For Friday, May 15, 2015
‘Mad Men’ Is Ending. What’s Next For The Cast?
Trust (With A Margin Of Error) Upcoming Tropical Storm Forecasts
How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins?
Adrian Beltre Is Hall Of Fame Worthy
Dairy Queen’s Kids Menu Is Still Super Unhealthy
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Likely Won’t Face Execution For A Very Long Time
The Week In Data: Murders, Marriage, Money And Methodology
Be Skeptical Of American Pharoah
750,000 People Travel The Northeast Corridor Every Day
Significant Digits For Monday, May 18, 2015
Big Business Is Getting Bigger
How Big A Problem Are Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs?
LeBron Dominates The Conference Finals
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Evangelical Protestants Are The Biggest Winners When People Change Faiths
NBA Playoffs Preview: Is It Warriors vs. Rockets? Or Curry vs. Harden?
Ignorance Of Inequality, Working Moms, And Public Defecation
Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal.
Podcast: Clippers’ Collapse, Rangers’ Squeakers, And Baseball Embraces Statcast
Significant Digits For Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Everybody Calm Down About Breastfeeding
NBA Playoffs Preview: LeBron vs. The Super-Balanced Hawks
Breaking Music Down To Its Genes
Statheads Had A Good Feeling About The Lightning’s Tyler Johnson
LA’s New Minimum Wage Isn’t Worth Anywhere Close To $15
As A Major Retraction Shows, We’re All Vulnerable To Faked Data
Dear NFL: Kickers Will Not Be Stopped
How Suburban Are Big American Cities?
Significant Digits For Thursday, May 21, 2015
The GOP Candidates Most Likely To Be Left Out Of The Debates
New Study Details The Risks Of Reporting Sexual Assault In The Military
Charities Don’t Need To Break Laws To Waste Your Money
How We Calculate NBA Elo Ratings
The Complete History Of The NBA
A Baseball’s Exit Velocity Is Five Parts Hitter, One Part Pitcher
Significant Digits For Friday, May 22, 2015
The Best NBA Teams Of All-Time, According To Elo
Rafael Nadal Is 80 Percent Of What He Used To Be
Same-Sex Marriage Wins Easily In Ireland
The Week In Data: Cruise Ships, Road Trips And Baseball
Why John Nash Matters
Why The Oldest Person In The World Keeps Dying
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Bill Russell’s Celtics Were Great. Tim Duncan’s Spurs Have Been Better.
Workplace Inequality, Juvenile Mental Health And Pre-K Politics
Are The Rangers And Blackhawks Clutch — Or Lucky?
Three Out Of Every Four Tornado Warnings Are False Alarms
Significant Digits For Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Rick Santorum’s 2016 Bid Shows Just How Far The GOP Field Has Come
Podcast: Nadal’s Decline, Every NBA Team Ranked, And Whether Stars Matter
That Time Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura Was Elected Governor Of Minnesota
Farewell, Atlanta Hawks: What A Disappointing End To A Surprising Season
The ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case Relies On Statistics That Nobody Has
How FIFA’s Structure Lends Itself To Corruption
Why George Pataki’s Candidacy Is Virtually Hopeless In Two Charts
Significant Digits For Thursday, May 28, 2015
Are Long-Distance Relationships Doomed?
What The Nebraska Vote Means For The Death Penalty Nationally
‘Hot Takedown’ Wonders: Do Stars Matter?
The Bulls Just Fired One Of The Best Coaches In The NBA
One Of These World Cup Hosts Is Not Like The Others
We Don’t Know How Well The NBA’s Concussion Tests Work
How To Break FIFA
Significant Digits For Friday, May 29, 2015
The Supreme Court Could Transfer A Lot Of Political Power Away From Cities
The Astros Are Making A Historic Turnaround
Here’s What Adam Silver Thinks About Our Proposal To Fix The NBA Draft
Marylanders Don’t Like Martin O’Malley, So Why Would The Rest Of America?
The Week In Data: Inequality, Ignorance And Inboxes