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August 2015

The Week In Data: E-Waste, High School Musicals, And Police Chases
There’s No Perfect Way To Sort The Candidates For A Primary Debate
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 3, 2015
Joe Biden’s Schrödinger’s Cat Campaign
There’s Top-Heavy Super PACs, And There’s Super Top-Heavy Super PACs
How Our Parole Simulator Works
Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015
The Fox News GOP Debate Lineup Looks Pretty Set
800 Of You Told Us Which Candidates Fox News Should Invite To The GOP Debate
Did Your Team Blow It At The Trade Deadline?
Joe Biden Isn’t The Anti-Clinton
Podcast: The Incredible Ronda Rousey, The MLB Trade Deadline, And A Doping Scandal
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015
Meet The Maniac Who Scaled 58 Peaks In Less Than 10 Days
The Cannabis Chemist
States Vary Enormously On HPV Vaccination Rates
Podcast: Totally Subjective Presidential Odds (Early August Edition)
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015
Donald Trump’s Six Stages Of Doom
Every Guest Jon Stewart Ever Had On ‘The Daily Show’
Podcast: When Data Tells Us To Lock Someone Up
Live Coverage Of The First Republican Debate
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 7, 2015
Tracking Police Violence A Year After Ferguson
Don’t Forget The Workers The Recovery Is Leaving Behind
Donald Trump Won’t Win A War Against Fox News
Did The Debate Hurt Or Help Trump? Watch His Favorability Numbers.
Is 2015 The Year Baseball’s Projections Failed?
Somebody Get Katie Ledecky A Time Machine
The Week In Data: Spam, Sweat And Sperm
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 10, 2015
Data Availability Determines Whether Campaigns Focus On The Middle Or The Base
Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are
Blue Jays’ Breakout Is No Surprise, But Don’t Forget The W’s And L’s
What We Don’t Know About Canada Might Hurt Us
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015
The Bernie Sanders Surge Appears To Be Over
FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring Fall Interns
Donald Trump Is Winning The Polls — And Losing The Nomination
The Last Kings Of Kong
Rick Perry’s Low-Budget Campaign Needs Super PACs To Survive
What A Bar Graph Can Tell Us About The Legionnaires’ Outbreak In New York
Podcast: We Tell John Starks Why He Was The J.R. Smith Of The ’90s
Geno Smith Wasn’t Better Than His Backup
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015
The Post-Debate Losers (Walker) and Winners (Fiorina)
What Online Dating Was Like In The 1960s
Win Or Lose At The PGA, Jordan Spieth Is Having One Of Golf’s Greatest Seasons
Your Genes Won’t Make You Rich
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015
What Does It Mean To Die Of Natural Causes?
Podcast: We Still Rely On Volunteers To Tally The Victims Of Police Violence
Game Theory Says R.A. Dickey Should Throw More Knuckleballs
Candidates In Donald Trump’s Position Have A Terrible Track Record
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 14, 2015
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Is The Rare Biopic Not About White Dudes
MLB’s Best Free Agent Doesn’t Play Baseball
The Week In Data: Ferguson
Hillary Clinton’s Inevitable Problems
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 17, 2015
Jason Day Deserves An Ovation, But Give The Field A Golf Clap Too
Everything* Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Gets Wrong
Jordan Spieth’s Majors Run Was One Of The Greatest In Golf History
Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015
Is The Republican Establishment Losing Control Of The Party?
Podcast: A Premier League Preview; The NFL Gets Microchips
Science Isn’t Broken
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015
Senator Sanders, You’re No Barack Obama
Umpires Are Less Blind Than They Used To Be
Statistics Could Do More For Your Sex Life Than ‘Female Viagra’
Raising A Ballerina Will Cost You $100,000
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015
Chase Utley’s Case For The Hall Of Fame
The Gender Orgasm Gap
Podcast: The Military’s Drone Obsession Isn’t Making It Better
What Carly Fiorina Needs To Make CNN’s Main Stage Debate
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 21, 2015
Harry Kane, Luckiest Man In Soccer
This Is How Bernie Sanders Could Win
The Week In Data: Abortion Access, Illegal Ivory And Timeless Songs
Katrina Washed Away New Orleans’s Black Middle Class
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 24, 2015
Has The ADA Broken Its Economic Promises To People With Disabilities?
Worried About The Stock Market? Whatever You Do, Don’t Sell.
Don’t Read Too Much Into Ohio State’s Unanimous No. 1 Ranking
Test Scores Don’t Tell Us Everything About New Orleans School Reform
Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015
Joe Biden Is Buying Time By Playing The Media
Jordy Nelson’s Injury Will Test Aaron Rodgers — And The Value Of Wide Receivers
The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person
Podcast: The FiveThirtyEight Crash Course In Pitching Stats
We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because Of Katrina
Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015
Donald Trump Is Running A Perpetual Attention Machine
The Happiest And Saddest Fans In Baseball
One Way To Fight The California Drought: Study Trees
I’m Better Than 245 NFL Players At Catching Footballs
Why The Plan To Shrink New Orleans Failed
Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015
The Mets’ Hot Streak Should Carry Into September
When Trump Attacks!
Psychology Is Starting To Deal With Its Replication Problem
Podcast: Bad Incentives Are Blocking Better Science
Public Transit Should Be Uber’s New Best Friend
A Nerd’s Guide To The 2,229 Paintings At MoMA
Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 28, 2015
Most Of The Biden Speculation Is Malarkey
The Week In Data: Minimum Wage, College Majors And Ashley Madison
Serena Williams And The Difference Between All-Time Great And Greatest Of All Time
Eliminating Hepatitis C Means Treating Prisoners
Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 31, 2015
A Ben Carson Surge May Test Trump
We Got Berned