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TSA PreCheck allows U.S. travelers to skip the part of airport security where you take your shoes off. For NYT's the Upshot, Ben Blatt and Christine Chung analyzed wait times at a handful of ...

The U.S. federal government does not release official numbers for the cuts to health agencies, so ProPublica tracked changes to federal employee directories to estimate. They estimate 20,500 worker ...

For WaPo's Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam goes looking for American and British words, finding the most statistical action in spoken words over written. We used our new measure to focus o ...

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For Wired, Lauren Goode spent a day vibe-coding at Notion: The next assignment was as open-ended as Lucy's was specific: to build whatever I wanted. The freedom was unnerving, a Rorschach test for ...

New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a handful of celebrities and politicians. The project is called the Panama Playlists. I found the real Spotify accounts ...

Will Smith posted a video showing highlights from his tour, but parts of it look AI-generated. Signs in the crowd are illegible, faces look smudged, and fingers are maybe a little too long. Andy Ba ...

For the Washington Post, Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed mapped the change in summer time. The analysis, conducted by climatologist Brian Brettschneider, examined the hottest 90 days of the year from 1 ...

Speaking of the Correct the Map campaign, Miguel García Álvarez reminds that there is no such thing as the correct map, because all maps are a compromise to show a three-dimensional space in two di ...

For Reuters, Catarina Demony and Ayendeng Bior report on the African Union's push for the Equal Area projection (above) instead of the ill-used Mercator projection: "It might seem to be ...