You’ll often hear people talk about home field advantage in football, which simply means that home crowd, lack of travel, etc. are worth a couple points to the final score. It’s discussed less often in basketball but the advantage is
Former President Jimmy Carter recently turned 100 years old. Any American who becomes president has by definition lived an exceptional life, but Carter stands out among peers. While six presidents have lived into their 90s, including Carter, he’s now the
Split-ticket voting is when you select candidates of different political parties on the same ballot. You might vote for a Democrat for state legislature and a Republican for mayor. That’s in contrast to straight-ticket voting, which of course means picking
The NFL’s enforcement of this rule has long been a source of frustration for fans. Minor incidental contact with a quarterback can suddenly trigger a 15-yard penalty and an automatic first down, which can easily change the course of a
Netflix premiered a new sci-fi show this year, 3 Body Problem, which brought attention to a whole host of nerdy Wikipedia articles. [No spoilers!] One of those topics was the three-body problem. The TL;DR version is that if you have
Today marks 60 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. I’ll do a quick dive into the bill’s history and then create a map of Congress’s final vote. If you’d rather skip to the code,
This year Oppenheimer took home the Academy Awards’ Oscar for Best Picture. It was a somewhat unusual winner because the movie also performed exceptionally well at the box office. In recent years, the Best Picture category has favored more niche
In case it wasn’t clear from the picture, I’m not actually a Bigfoot enthusiast. My original plan was to plot election data but that felt a little too heavy. I need to pace myself if I’m going to make it
The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) collects crime-related data from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. The FBI then compiles the data and publishes quarterly and annual reports. It isn’t a perfect snapshot of crime as participation
We’ve been hearing the Aaron Taylor-Johnson rumors for years. And if recent reports are true, he’s all but officially confirmed as the next James Bond star. At the time of this post, prediction market Polymarket lists Taylor-Johnson as having an
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