In search of Fenn’s treasure: A 5-day quest for $2 million hidden in the Rockies (optioned for TV)
Tiny Desk: How NPR’s concert series earned a cult following
Zombies: A geo-political history
What I learned analyzing 7 months of Donald Trump’s tweets
What I learned reading 4,000 Trump and Clinton tweets
Inside the underground business of home-grown weed consulting
How one man found 83 messages in bottles
What it’s like to be a professional Santa Claus
The actors and actresses who most consistently appear in terrible movies
Why big-budget films are getting worse
How public restrooms have bred fear for centuries
An analysis of America’s hate groups
The case for allowing 16 year-olds to vote
How one man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard
The tech behind “vote trading” platforms
Donald Trump is the only U.S. president in history with no military or political experience
Today’s teens are less tech-obsessed than their millennial predecessors
What data on 3,000 murderers and 10,000 victims tells us about serial killers
Life as one of America’s 4,788 Trumps
American tourists in Iceland now outnumber Iceland’s population
Republicans and Democrats think their states are great for totally different reasons
The Man Who Got No Whammies (optioned for film)
The Invention of the Slinky (optioned for film)
The Invention of the Aeropress
The Father of the Digital Synthesizer
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling
The Strange Life of Lord Timothy Dexter
The Richest Photographer in the World
The Woman Behind Apple’s First Icons
The Underground Economy of Dolores Park
The Secret Life of San Francisco Street Performers
Homeless in San Francisco: Nate the Great
The Business of Building Roller Coasters
Mapping the Steepest Streets of San Francisco
A Profile of Infamous Media Hoaxster, Alan Abel
How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company
How Esurance Lost Its Mascot to the Internet
The Bizarro Life of Cartoonist Dan Piraro
The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero
Who Owns the Copyright to ‘Happy Birthday’?
Life in the Silicon Prairie: Tech’s great migration to the Midwest
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble of ’99 (and what it tells us about Bitcoin)
The failed quest to bring smells to the internet
How the sharing economy makes us trust complete strangers
How the king of fake news built his empire
The rise and demise of American Airlines’ lifetime pass
On Sears and the politics of patents
The botched Coca-Cola heist of 2006
Profile of Alex Tew, founder of Calm.com
Profile on ClassPass founder, Payal Kadakia
The man who sold shares of himself
Why You Should Love Hipster Entrepreneurs
The Dancing Robot That Took Over San Francisco
The Business of Fake Hollywood Money
The Typo That Destroyed a NASA Rocket
The Rise and Fall of the Fireman’s Pole
How Cotton Candy Was Popularized By a Dentist
The Evolution of Potty Training Tech
How Much Does It Cost to Book Your Favorite Band?
The Pen Pal Romances of WriteAPrisoner.com
Why Portland has so many strip clubs
The most expensive cars ever sold: A data analysis
Millennials have very little confidence in most major institutions
Americans seem more interested in the inauguration protests than the inauguration