The Pudding

Demystifying the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future center of Hollywood.

A room of thousands of humans wrestling with what comes after it all.

Why some people mow a lawn better than others.

How the words we teach English language learners changed.

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus.

Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships.

Two friends tell the story of their friendship through every generation of K-pop.

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.

Mapping 100,000 moments of human happiness.

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.

Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.

Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.

A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.

What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?

What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?

How and why do we gender animals in stories?

Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change.

A six-minute video about the loneliness epidemic, in data.

How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?

Are you more likely to die on your birthday?