Work David has bylined at Quartz
David has been producing bylines for Quartz's since its founding, in 2012. He's made award winning data visualization, written deeply reported investigations, coded delightful interactive features, performed statistical analysis, and written up breaking news.
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- Elon Musk’s 9-day Twitter silence is unusually long for him
- Do you live close enough to a small US airport to have lead exposure? Check our maps
- We won our lawsuit against the US government over paywalled travel data… again
- These charts lay bare the world’s massive vaccine equity gap
- I know Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified for the Supreme Court because of how she decided my lawsuit
- How many chicken wings are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday?
- The history of WarnerMedia now that AT&T is spinning it off
- In 2022, the Doomsday Clock didn’t change for the second year running
- If you live within a mile of these 50 US airports, you won’t get real 5G in January
- How you could have turned $1,000 into $1.4 trillion by perfectly trading the S&P 500 in 2021
- New CDC guidance confusing you? Ask our chatbot if you only need a five day quarantine
- The most popular emoji used on Venmo in 2021
- The complete, searchable list of people and companies at COP26
- The most popular Netflix movies and shows of all time
- US airlines are planning to unnecessarily burn 20,000 tons of CO2 per day because of FAA rules
- We read the 4000-page IPCC climate report so you don’t have to
- When and how to quit your job, according to four experts and a chatbot
- Cameo shows even celebrity women value their labor less than men
- WarnerMedia’s 98-year journey to a proposed merger with Discovery, in one graphic
- What we know about the economic recovery from the emoji being used on Venmo
- Jamie Dimon used the words “Latinx” and “carbon” for the first time in JPMorgan’s annual letter
- The Suez Canal is blocked. This is how ships avoid it and how much cargo flows through it.
- We sold the first-ever NFT news article for $1,800
- Asians are more likely to have public-facing businesses in the US than any other racial group
- This article is on sale as an NFT
- How Jeff Bezos changed the economy, in charts
- Only one US stock has done better than Amazon in the Jeff Bezos era
- Who’s the next GameStop? These are the 10 most shorted stocks
- 2020 somehow had no effect on the 2021 Doomsday Clock
- Which S&P 500 companies are changing their political donation policies?
- Where to read Donald Trump’s tweets now that Twitter has closed his account
- CEOs and executives can’t remember to unmute either
- The busiest US air travel day in 2020 may be lower than any day in 2019
- The more “American” a US county, the less likely it voted for Biden
- The ways to understand US election results
- What the US’s GDP figure really means
- The challenge of percent change
- Donald Trump’s record on the economy
- Four Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes that show how RBG saw the world
- A tool to practice overcoming “the mother of all biases”: overconfidence
- Use this tool to overcome the biggest decision-making mistake
- The last time GDP was this bad was only a few years ago
- Here’s what we know is wrong with the PPP data
- Out of hundreds of names exposed in the PPP data, 98% used Bank of America
- The places in the US that are the farthest from fireworks
- 8 tips to make better charts
- Trump wants to save the lobster industry, after boiling it alive
- Trump’s immigration order suspends a scandal-plagued visa for foreign nannies
- The Covid-19 pandemic has made canned foods, shelf-stable milk, and vodka seem better
- What are the best groceries to buy for the coronavirus shutdown? Help us find out.
- What unemployment claims can tell us about tomorrow’s jobs report
- Have you been asked to promote questionable coronavirus claims?
- Who’s in Davos? A brief summary in tables and maps
- The confidential list of everyone attending the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos
- How the World Economic Forum secretly categorizes Davos delegates
- Life in 2020, according to CES
- The NRA was able to run an anti-Michael Bloomberg ad on Bloomberg.com
- Which regions of the UK have had a recession recently?
- Every state recession since 2007 and why they matter
- William Barr’s donations to Senate Republicans spiked just before they confirmed him as attorney general
- How easy is it to find one patient among 1.3 million anonymized medical records?
- The Boeing 737 Max killed over 300 people—yet airline execs still want it in the air
- Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for
- We summarized every single section of the Mueller report so you don’t have to
- The complete history of humanity’s ill-fated attempts to cheat death
- Pinterest’s Pinterest
- The five loudest moments from Michael Cohen’s Congressional hearing
- All of a sudden, flying from LA to New York is taking less than four hours
- The list of Davos attendees for 2019
- Goldman Sachs’s changing priorities, as reflected in its 19 letters to shareholders
- How much is your job offer actually worth?
- Exactly how powerful the Anchorage, Alaska earthquake was
- Netflix is dominating the Sunset Strip
- The media coverage of the migrant caravan nearly stopped after the US midterms
- Trump’s frantic midterm MAGA rally schedule, mapped and explained
- Fifty years of hurricanes as strong as Michael in the North Atlantic
- Ten years ago today, Morgan Stanley owed the US government $107 billion
- Delta grounded all of its US domestic flights because of a computer issue
- The Founders Index: A rising generation of female entrepreneurs in the US
- An inside look at how Trump’s infamous jobs day tweet roiled some government economists
- All of the EU’s anti-Trump tariffs
- Every comeback for Trump’s whataboutism on Canadian trade
- Waymo may get $465 million in US tax breaks, and that’s okay
- How every US Supreme Court justice voted in the gay-wedding cake case
- Here’s our estimate for the sales Starbucks will lose because of racial-bias training
- Europe’s insatiable hunger for avocados may be causing a drought in Chile
- Is that destination wedding worth the trip? Our chatbot can help you decide
- Two US senators are calling for an investigation into Google’s tracking of Android phones
- The evolution of Bloomberg’s homepage from 2010 to 2018
- A lie about Mike Pompeo’s Gulf War service started with an anonymous Wikipedia edit
- The first US passenger airline with an accidental death since 2009 is Southwest Airlines
- Everything Mark Zuckerberg promised Facebook would get back to Congress about
- Zuckerberg bingo: Get your card for the Facebook CEO’s testimony to Congress
- Spotify had a wimpy market listing, and that’s okay
- We won our lawsuit against the US government over paywalled immigration data
- What Saudi Arabia’s 200 GW solar power plant would look like—if placed in your neighborhood
- Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs will now exempt most of US imports
- What Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos did wrong, according to the SEC
- The US is now buying more stretchy pants than blue jeans
- See exactly how the US stock plunge compares to the worst ever
- Ignore the stock market rollercoaster, the sell-off in bonds is what matters
- In China, the data your car collects about you is for sale
- The longest, craziest, and most #DavosMan titles of people at Davos
- Google can still use Bluetooth to track your Android phone when Bluetooth is turned off
- If you’re using an Android phone, Google may be tracking every move you make
- The list of Davos attendees for 2018
- Here are 1,310 direct flights created in 2017 that you can now take
- A snowy Christmas season isn’t the worst time to fly—it just feels like it sometimes
- Edward Snowden created an app to catch hackers
- Toshiba created a radiation-shielded selfie stick to investigate the melted Fukushima reactor
- What the Christmas tree industrial complex looks like from space
- Use our calculator to see if grad school will really make you wealthier
- Interactive: Can you get carbon emissions under control?
- Rich countries are reducing their emissions—by exporting them to China
- The one-day timeline of US senators calling for Al Franken to resign
- Eight out of 10 Americans are within 10 miles of a CVS
- One thing the Republican tax plan won’t cut: The 100-page instruction manual
- Are we witnessing the end of the jumbo jet?
- Are you flying on your airline’s busiest day?
- The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is visible from space
- DNAInfo’s and Gothamist’s archives still exist and are likely to be resurrected
- The island Bangladesh is thinking of putting refugees on is hardly an island at all
- Where is Thengar Char?
- The maker of Tasers ignored US government demands because of a spam filter
- Super Typhoon Lan is headed for Japan
- Trump isn’t going to block the release of the final JFK files and wants everyone to know
- North Korea wrote an open letter to the West, and it’s a doozy
- Costco has officially raised the alarm on US tariffs
- Amazon’s Whole Foods deal isn’t disrupting grocery prices
- Satellite images of Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria show scope of destruction
- More than 874,000 cars fled Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma
- Watch a Delta flight race Hurricane Irma into and out of Puerto Rico
- Airlines are price gouging in the path of Hurricane Irma—and algorithms are to blame
- Incredible before and after images of Houston neighborhoods hit by Hurricane Harvey
- Government emails show USCIS was caught off guard and unprepared by the Muslim Ban
- How hurricanes affect construction jobs
- Houston’s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant
- Watch from space as Burning Man rises out of the desert playa
- Mexican tourists are skipping Trump’s America
- This tool lets you find the Confederate monument closest to you
- US tourism was falling even before Trump got elected
- Map: Asia’s infrastructure boom is coming to the cities most threatened by climate change
- Does this monkey want to attack you? Take our quiz and find out!
- Images can now be stored in the DNA of living things
- Why calculating home run distances is like measuring sea level
- Emmanuel Macron’s official portrait is a symbolic celebration of centrism
- Now is a peak time for flight delays in the US
- The US government says you shouldn’t be forced to use special characters in your passwords
- Mark Zuckerberg just sold $42.5 million of Facebook stock
- A 2 million cubic meter landslide in California, before and after images
- I-95 traffic on Memorial Day mapped so you can try to avoid it
- A federal judge is skeptical of the US charging a journalist $174,000 for government data
- The most exciting two minutes in sports isn’t getting any faster
- 50% of US coal jobs are in just 25 counties
- Nearly every way the United incident could have ended differently—in one flowchart
- Everything that went wrong in United’s violent passenger deplaning
- China is no longer perceived as the world’s economic superpower
- The UK is also banning in-flight laptops on some flights from the Middle East
- Map: All the air routes the UK just banned electronic devices on
- Laptops and tablets have been banned from being used on 56 routes to the US
- The US is banning in-flight electronics on some Middle East routes for security reasons
- Trump has flip-flopped on his decision not to increase airport fees for passengers
- Are a third of Venmo transactions right now illegal gambling payments?
- The most normal thing about the US is its interest rates
- The foolishness of using a wall to stem US immigration, in one chart
- A 100% tariff on a Harley? True.
- It’s 2017 and Canada Goose has zero women on its board
- In swampy Washington, a lobbyist tells the president “I’m a member of your club”
- Interest in travel to the US has plummeted since Trump became president
- After 14 days of Donald Trump, news magazine covers are getting dark
- Trump’s immigration order doesn’t affect citizenship applications
- The Trump administration is using a misleading statistic to defend its immigration order
- Track changes: How Trump’s executive order on immigration changed between the draft and final version
- Trump’s immigration order will also bar dual-citizens
- Trump just made it harder for tourists to visit the US
- How many people will Trump’s travel ban affect? The US government wants you to pay for that information
- The global populist backlash didn’t ground the private helicopters flying into Davos
- Canadians are discriminating against foreign wine, and the US isn’t going to take it anymore
- The list of Davos attendees for 2017
- Joe Biden divulges after-office plans on a hot mic
- The most popular books at US public libraries this year, mapped by city
- Donald Trump says he’s shutting down his charity foundation
- China dominates the world’s trade of Christmas stuff
- New data estimate the Arctic lost enough ice this week to cover the UK
- Pay attention to this lawsuit if you care about immigration policy under Donald Trump
- Is this the end of the bond boom?
- The last five US presidential election winners have been named Time’s person of the year
- The best time to drive home after Thanksgiving
- Suffering from a Trump-induced hangover, Jose Cuervo is reportedly postponing its IPO
- All of Trump’s cabinet nominations
- One in every five Americans is about to get legally high AF after this election
- Voters in nine US states will consider legalizing marijuana for medicinal or recreational use
- The five reasons the US Department of Commerce should be forced to give me its data for free
- A visual history of how presidential elections affect US financial markets
- The great global avocado trade flow chart
- Avocados are now too popular for their own good
- The price of US eggs has fallen by 52%
- Mapped: Everywhere the A380 flies
- This is what the next generation of high-speed rail in America looks like
- The GOP’s web addresses can be hacked
- This is what Burning Man 2016 looks like from space
- Tim Cook just unlocked $135 million in bonus pay from Apple
- American Airlines is sending 20 MD-80 jets to an airplane graveyard
- Angela Merkel’s post-Brexit European tour, mapped
- The US government’s fix for airlines’ tech problems is to do nothing
- A pilot’s personal camera is to blame for an airplane’s 4,400 foot plummet
- Corporate executives, in their own words, on the Rio Olympics’ impact on business
- Watch the incredible transformation of Rio’s Olympic stadiums, in time lapse
- The US government is finding few buyers for its paywalled immigration data
- NBC’s reason for not showing the Olympic ceremonies live is “women”
- Refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini just won her heat at the Olympics
- The first gold medalist at the Rio Olympics is an American
- Rio Olympics 2016: How to watch the full first day of men’s gymnastics qualifications on any device
- Another failure at GoJet Airlines leaves Delta and United flyers stranded
- A disruptive startup just sold for $1 billion—and it isn’t even a tech company
- The US government has changed its reason for denying my request for data on who’s entering the country
- The US has cut off the path to citizenship for India and China’s most exceptionally talented people
- What air travel between the UK and Europe looked like pre-Brexit
- I’m suing the US government for its data on who’s entering the country
- The US government’s proposal to shorten security lines asks airlines to give up over $1 billion
- The US’s infuriating airport security problem, in one chart
- This is the best US airline to quickly earn free flights with miles
- Donald Trump may be the US military’s least liked Republican presidential candidate in over a decade
- Corporate developers beware, there’s a spammy security flaw in JIRA Service Desk
- India is considering fines and prison time for people who make maps with the “wrong” borders
- How to get a cheap airfare, according to a guy who sets the prices for American Airlines
- At the very most, just 23 Trump Tower residents voted for Donald Trump
- Southwest has an explanation for why it kicked an Arabic-speaker off its plane
- “TSA is our No. 1 problem right now”: Long security lines are frustrating US airlines, too
- Of course The Masters is a private jet kind of event
- The evolution of a diamond mine, seen from space
- Do you remember when the skiers wearing helmets were the weird ones?
- Someone is posting images of dead unicorns in the heart of Silicon Valley
- The Kalamazoo, Michigan shooting suspect is an Uber driver
- Another Super Bowl tradition: a surge in private jet travel
- The best time to buy a Super Bowl ticket
- Zika is just one flight away from these 57 countries
- We brought an antenna to Davos to track private air travel, and here’s what we found
- The 27 CEOs who are conspicuously absent from Davos
- Here’s the list of everyone attending Davos
- This is what David Bowie’s death looked like to Spotify
- The US government finally says when everyone needs Real ID to fly—in 4 years
- The US has delayed coercing states into upgrading their drivers’ licenses—again
- More people are flying in the US than ever before
- You could have turned $1,000 into trillions by perfectly trading the S&P 500 in 2015
- Relax America, your driver’s licenses will still be accepted at airport security
- There’s a cauliflower shortage in the US, and it’s making prices skyrocket
- The TSA can now require you to be body scanned
- This chart shows just how rapidly drones are coming to the US
- The US successfully delayed the WTO’s approval of $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs
- Get to know the world’s largest coffee conglomerate, JAB Holdings
- Every shot from every “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer, logged and charted
- A failure at GoJet Airlines is affecting Delta and United flyers
- A shooting in Southern California kills at least 14, and a gunman is possibly still at large
- A clearer look at the flight path Turkey says was used by a Russian jet
- The day before Thanksgiving actually isn’t the busiest time to fly
- Map of the Paris Attacks: What happened and where
- These are the locations of the attacks in Paris
- A pricing glitch means American Airlines is on the hook for more than $1 million
- Tech glitches keep plaguing US airlines. This dashboard kept track of them all.
- The most dangerous intersections in America
- Half of American Airlines’ revenue came from 13% of its customers
- What we know about the spreadsheet a hacker claims to have stolen from CIA director John Brennan’s email account
- The US is investigating reports that the CIA director’s email got hacked
- The pay disparity of the Cubs and Mets’ rosters
- Congress is mulling whether to fine American car hackers $100,000–maybe even if they own the car
- US egg exports are a rare example of a perfect market in the real world
- Venomous sea snakes are washing up in California for the first time in 35 years
- This is how incredibly expensive US eggs are right now
- Warm temperatures are screwing up Maine’s famous foliage
- This is the best price you can expect to get on a Thanksgiving flight
- Charted: What the landmark Trans-Pacific trade deal really means
- A record number of Arctic-going vessels have permits to travel the ice-free route north of Russia
- You can now unlock your iPhone 5S for free
- The “Waze left” may be coming to an end
- US egg prices are at their highest in more than 30 years
- The most popular books in U.S. public libraries, mapped by city
- Watch how a presidential motorcade can double a neighborhood’s traffic in an instant
- This game will show you just how foolish it is to sell stocks right now
- Ryanair is losing the battle against having to pay you for flight delays
- How to time your flights to get the cheapest fare from the US
- The definitive reasons why summer is the worst time to fly in the US
- A list of everything Donald Trump runs that has his name on it
- Behold: NASA’s first image of the whole Earth in decades
- The Baconpocalypse has finally come to a close
- Bitcoin and space travel are two of the fastest-growing areas of venture-capital funding
- Eggs are now more expensive than chicken in the US
- A Los Angeles wildfire turned a freeway into a Hollywood apocalypse scene
- Iran deal: Here’s how sanctions paved the way
- The United States is investigating airfare price collusion
- This is when your time zone gets an extra second
- The origin of leap seconds, and why they should be abolished
- Quartz Daily Brief—Greece teeters, Cigna blows off Anthem, Taylor Swift dumps Apple, QR codes gone wild
- Quiz: Do you know Africa as well as you think you do?
- US airlines are rejecting the international push for smaller carry-on bags
- A commercial pilot has been suspended for taking a selfie while flying a plane
- Jack Dorsey’s tweets on a chart
- The airline industry wants your carry-on to be 40% smaller
- It’s OK not to start your y-axis at zero
- United says hackers didn’t cause its systemwide shutdown today
- Every United Airlines flight was grounded this morning in the US
- The Nepal earthquake today had less than one-fifth the strength of the last one
- Scientists are measuring the Nepal earthquake by bouncing radar beams off Kathmandu from space
- Last minute Mayweather-Pacquiao tickets are the best Mayweather-Pacquiao tickets
- Was the Nepal earthquake twice as big as we thought?
- This map shows where the strongest earthquakes are expected to strike
- At least 10% of Los Angeles is using Waze
- The EU countries that depend the most on Gazprom’s Russian gas
- Australia is going taco crazy
- A man says his flight instructor was FaceTiming when their helicopter crashed
- Use this slider to see The Dress change colors before your very eyes
- Priceline and Expedia are spending more and more to get you to book a hotel room
- Proof you have no idea what a good price for your flight is
- A ticket to Disney World now costs more than $100
- Watch the invisible patterns of sea cargo cover the earth
- The slow death of the Boeing 747
- The simple reason why your airline points always get more valuable
- Angela Merkel’s crisis world tour, mapped and explained
- Selfies caused a deadly plane crash
- Nearly half the UK is up for fracking, and these maps show you where
- The real number of private jets used to get to Davos
- Davos is still mostly a men’s club
- Search and sort the list of everyone attending Davos this week
- Update: Instagram says private photos were only public by user choice
- Your private Instagrams weren’t as private as you thought they were
- How the Charlie Hebdo attack and manhunt unfolded day by day, city by city
- The December 2014 jobs report
- We’re live-charting the very strong US jobs report for December
- Everything Disney has leaked about the Millennium Falcon so far (and more)
- Map: What 24 American cities wanted for Christmas
- How you could have turned $1,000 into billions of dollars by perfectly trading the S&P 500 in 2014
- These are the rules about pilots taking pictures in the cockpit
- The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the air
- We’re live-charting the absolutely fantastic US jobs report for November
- Rich countries and the minorities they discriminate against, mapped
- You’d never know it from these beautiful maps that US infrastructure is crumbling
- The new Star Wars trailer is out: now wait 12 months for the actual movie
- How to time your purchase of a Christmas tree
- The worst days to fly in the US, ranked
- How America’s only water sommelier justifies his restaurant’s 44-page water menu
- LA’s best Instagrammers took over this contemporary art show
- Delta’s flag-waving meets its match in market realities
- Does chickpea-free hummus still count as hummus?
- Watch the invisible patterns of air travel over some of the busiest skies in the world
- All of the Bureau of Labor Statistics emails containing the phrase “in one chart,” in one chart
- We’re live-charting the not altogether terrible US jobs report for October
- Americans are finally flying for Thanksgiving again
- Where and why some middle-class American families are actually getting giant raises
- Proof that New Yorkers aren’t scared of Ebola infections on the subway
- Why Kayak has always been wrong about the best time to book your holiday flights
- Here’s who should be happiest about falling oil prices
- 3 things we learned from Airbnb’s proprietary data
- The family trees of the six companies that make 50% of the world’s beer
- India took a picture of Mars—and found a picture of India
- Use this calculator to see how bars jack up the prices of your favorite drinks
- What we learned from mapping the fashion Instagram universe
- The more people fly, the more they prefer the aisle seat
- Explore the hidden patterns of the fashion Instagram universe
- Apple used trick photography to make the new iPhones look thinner
- How Russia can hurt the West: An embargo hit list for Vladimir Putin
- No, Ralph Lauren isn’t selling a racist polo
- Guess which day is the most popular for buying pot in Washington state
- Police in Ferguson may look like soldiers, but their tactics wouldn’t pass US Army muster
- Here’s what the man playing one of Robin Williams’ signature characters told his audience last night
- Diamonds are the US trade deficit’s best friend
- Here are the 35 countries one flight away from Ebola-affected countries
- Virgin America is a low-cost airline making its money from high-priced tickets
- Apple’s latest slow-growth quarter in charts
- Rupert Murdoch seems to have fallen out of love with Twitter
- Airbus wants to patent a way to guarantee you even less legroom
- These are the World Cup countries that shout “goooaaaaal!” the loudest on Facebook
- All of the teams that banned sex at the World Cup have been eliminated
- Corporate America takes World Cup breaks, and we have the data to prove it
- Budweiser and Microsoft were the World Cup ad winners this week
- This forlorn oil tanker has been marooned off the Moroccan coast for three weeks
- The economics of business class, explained through America’s most popular flight
- The completely free way for New York City residents to control their A/C from their smartphones this summer
- See how borders change on Google Maps depending on where you view them
- World Cup ads are pushing rum in English and beer in Spanish
- These are the images that make the Washington Redskins’ logo too offensive for a trademark
- The complete guide to World Cup sex rules
- The 747 is going extinct
- 17 members of the Croatian World Cup team are older than the Republic of Croatia
- GoPro says it’s worth half of a Nikon and one-fifth of a Fuji
- Here are the 32 countries Google Maps won’t draw borders around
- Foreign tourists choose to travel in a very different India than locals
- Every chart from today’s Apple WWDC keynote
- Apple just took another step towards obscuring the way the web works
- Everyone is cutting their carbon emissions—except India
- A cartographic guide to Starbucks’ global domination
- A short history of three-wheeled cop cars
- Here’s what’s left of the team trying to “save the New York Times”
- A one-day ticket to Disneyland could soon set you back $100
- These are the posters trying to sway Swiss voters on a $28 hourly minimum wage
- The fear that fewer airlines means higher airfares is confirmed by this chart
- How Switzerland turns a little coffee into a lot of money
- The US economy added 288,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%
- Where the best and worst tippers in America live
- Filing taxes in the US is actually getting easier
- How many hours of your life is air pollution stealing from you?
- Watch what happens if the world economy goes wrong this year
- The value of the US’s Chinese imports plummeted, and the Peoples’ Bank of China had nothing to do with it
- What people order at Starbucks around the United States
- The so-so US jobs report for March in two simple charts
- The guy who created the iPhone’s Earth image explains why he needed to fake it
- The Million Dollar Homepage still exists, but 22% of it has rotted away
- How the internet works, and why it’s impossible to know what makes your Netflix slow
- This startup thinks it knows what makes a perfect paper notebook
- Watch out, world: The Americans are coming back
- The simple way to make airplane wine taste better
- The perky US jobs report for February in two simple charts
- How Kickstarter users raised nearly $1 billion: The really long tail of crowdfunding
- We analyzed 37 years’ worth of Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters. Here’s what we found
- Surprise: There’s really no need to conceal your email address from spammers
- Globalization really means countries just trade with their neighbors
- The two big winners following Mt. Gox’s demise
- Simple’s users were just valued at 28 times WhatsApp’s, and that doesn’t matter one bit
- Here are all of the S&P 500 companies that are worth less than WhatsApp
- Here’s why you shouldn’t buy a US-to-Europe flight more than two months in advance
- Where Europeans go on vacation, once they leave their country
- Netflix is outdoing HBO and Showtime with its buzzy original shows
- America’s fastest growing exports are the ones that destroy the planet
- Green Mountain and Coke just staved off their biggest threats in one fell swoop
- Four ways Microsoft wants you to see its new CEO Satya Nadella
- The best time to buy a Super Bowl ticket is right before the game
- What made the US economy grow in 2013?
- A GIF of world unemployment since 1991
- Jack Dorsey hasn’t tweeted in three weeks. Should we care?
- Iran’s president thinks it can become the world’s 10th largest economy. Good luck with that
- The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4
- Breaking down the Davos attendee list
- Only 15% of Davos attendees are women, even fewer than last year
- Over the last three months, Shashi Tharoor tweeted about his wife 33 times. She of him: 443.
- Frere-Jones is suing Hoefler for half of the world’s preeminent digital type foundry
- The list of everyone attending Davos this year
- December’s weather was so terrible, it kept a quarter million Americans home from work
- Why “rebalancing” the German economy is easier said than done
- Janet Yellen just became the most powerful woman in US history
- Tonight’s Uber surge pricing nightmare doesn’t have to happen next New Year’s Eve
- How far you could get from New York in one day—back in the day
- Somali piracy was reduced to zero this year
- The most popular lightbulb in America will be banned on Jan. 1
- The one airport hack that will get you home faster
- By reading this page, you are mining bitcoins
- Investing a day late every day would have returned 19.6% in 2013
- How you could have turned $1,000 into billions of dollars by perfectly trading the S&P 500 this year
- All of a sudden, China is importing vast amounts of photographic film from the US
- All the rungs on the ladder Mary Barra climbed to become GM’s next CEO
- The US employment report is due at 8:30am ET. Economists expect 180,000 jobs were added in November.
- Share photos you’ve taken with Nelson Mandela
- What made this US trade report so different
- The secret behind America’s record exports
- The suspiciously simple strategy behind the “best performing hedge fund in history”
- If Katie Couric is internet famous it sure doesn’t show on Twitter
- Boeing is everything right and wrong about the US export push
- Janet Yellen bingo: the only way to watch the confirmation hearings
- Here’s the most amazing part of flying we hope you’ll never have to experience
- The price of a bitcoin, in gold, over time
- An illustrated guide to what happened during the US government shutdown
- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo can be tracked in real time, using Twitter
- Microsoft botched the Excel spreadsheet in its Surface tablet ad
- All the flights that are dependent on LAX staying open
- Thanks to Halloween, October is the biggest month for Big Candy
- The longest flight in the world is about to be abolished
- Germany opened its immigration gates and the rest of Europe came pouring in
- Apple is either terrible at designing charts or thinks you won’t notice the difference
- What bookies don’t want you to know about NFL underdogs
- Why mink coats are big business in Greece, of all places
- All of these companies have more cash right now than the US government
- Shutdown imperils US sandwich inspections—unless they happen to be open-faced
- Don’t hate Mondays—they’re the best day to apply for a job
- Your alternative US jobs number: 170,000ish
- Don’t be misled by this chart Twitter used in its IPO filing
- Here’s how Twitter is describing itself ahead of the IPO
- Here’s what every US government department and agency website looks like under the shutdown
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- Why traffic jams are the sign of a healthy economy
- Even as energy use tilts towards natural gas, America still relies on petroleum and coal
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- Why the rest of the world is hankering for America’s bull semen
- A brief history of the US government’s awful graphic design
- The US has sent nearly $2 million worth of bull sperm to Iran this year
- China accounts for $6.3 billion of the US’s new $8 billion trade shortfall
- Everyone who’s attending Bilderberg, the world’s most elite conference
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- 29 of the world’s largest bike-sharing programs in one map
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- Charts show how Facebook destroyed $40 billion in value during its first year as a public company
- The UK’s fastest growing tourist group endures the slowest visa process
- Skylab launched 40 years ago, paving the way for Chris Hadfield to become famous
- Brits are now poorer than the French, Swiss, Belgians, Swedes, Austrians, Aussies and Canadians
- $1 billion of gold has been shipped from New York to South Africa this year
- It’s been a full year since Somali pirates hijacked a boat
- #FinanceDerbyHorseNames don’t have anything on these real-life horses of finance
- The most exciting two minutes in sports isn’t getting any shorter
- The consumer internet is 20 years old but we’re still getting duped by its tricks
- Google’s executives make it rain but Apple’s cause a downpour
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- A spambot’s cookbook, hilariously and creepily exposed
- How and where the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is unfolding
- Twitter account attributed to Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is fake
- 20th Century Fox could soon be a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox
- Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millennials are the least entrepreneurial generation
- US immigrants are twice as likely to start a business as native-born Americans
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- How the key players in the SeaWorld IPO rank in the underwater kingdom
- The Economist’s Big Mac Index, with The Economist instead of a Big Mac
- “The British are watering our whiskey,” warned American diplomat in 1973
- The only good thing about Tesla’s new financing is how much a Mercedes is worth
- Everything you ever wanted to know about baseball ticket prices
- Americans are still fighting banks over their mortgages—and it’s intensifying
- Now’s the time to fly from the US to Paris. It’ll cost $280 more in June
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- There’s no such thing as a tech company anymore
- The 10 activist investors you should know
- China surges to become the world’s third-largest arms exporter
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- E-books and rum replace faucets and champagne in UK’s official basket of goods
- All the words Warren Buffett had never used until this year
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- Camping, rooftop scooter-riding, and group yoga on Google’s next campus
- The euro zone never followed its own rules in the past and will break them in the future
- Dolls, thick trees, and “general confusion methods”: Al Qaeda’s tips for how not to get killed by a drone
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- Here’s the secret list of journalists who start judging the Pulitzer Prizes today
- China surpasses the US as world’s biggest trader
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- The best part of the RBS Libor scandal: The emoticons
- The seven founders who own more of their company than Michael Dell does of his
- Hidden in the revisions: 1.2 million more American jobs since 2011
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- One chart that explains why Apple is now a broken stock
- The annotated history of Netflix’s recent past
- If Spain were the size of the US, it would have over 40 million unemployed
- This week women are 66% harder to find at Davos than anywhere else
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- The confidential list of everyone attending Davos this year
- Here’s how technology stocks reacted to Facebook’s Graph Search event
- Finding someone stealing hay is becoming easier than finding a needle in that haystack
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- Line for line, US income taxes are more complex than ever
- Here’s how countries voted on Palestinian statehood today—and Israeli statehood 65 years ago
- The US Joint Strike Fighter program is projected to cost two-thirds of the war in Afghanistan
- A worthless, $65 million piece of art ends up in MoMA
- China is the new economic superpower in the eyes of the world
- Your Christmas gadgets aren’t getting much cheaper this year
- Where would rockets land if Gaza were in your backyard?
- Investors hate US elections: see how stocks have reacted to the past 10
- Gun companies pop on Obama’s win because he’s been good for guns
- Obama has been at least twice as good for the creation of American millionaires as George W. Bush
- See where New York City uses the most energy—when it has any
- Here are the fastest growing flight routes to and from the US
- Look at all the ripple effects of Google’s accidental earnings release
- That friend who says he works 75 hours a week? He’s probably only clocking 50
- Compare how the world’s top economies help poor countries. (The 1% don’t rank well.)
- Before he won a Nobel Prize, his teacher told him pursuing science “would be a sheer waste of time”
- Here’s how Michigan got Canada to pay for their new bridge—but might turn it down, anyway
- Since 2000, the number of mobile phones in the developing world has increased 1700%
- Google has surpassed Microsoft’s market value for the first time
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