Carl Bialik
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Instrument Of Terror
Terrorist attacks in the U.S. increasingly take the form of mass shootings. → Read More
We Converted $100 Into As Many Currencies As Possible
A few years ago, passing by a currency-exchange shop, I wondered how long it would take to lose all my money in commissions and fees by trading cash back and forth between different countries’… → Read More
Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th
Thousands of babies are born in the U.S. whenever Friday falls on the 13th of the month — but about 800 fewer than you’d expect if parents and the doctors who … → Read More
How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win
A woman has never come closer to the presidency than Hillary Clinton did in winning the popular vote in November. Yet as women march in Washington on Saturday, … → Read More
Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results
The Wisconsin vote in the presidential election is undergoing a recount. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who requested the Wisconsin recount, also has raised funds for a recount in Pennsylvania a… → Read More
How Two Grade-Schoolers Set Off A Tennis Revolution
When Peaches Bartkowicz and Chris Evert put their left hands above their right hands to grip their tennis racquets, they were girls in grade school unknowingly … → Read More
First-Grade Teachers Still Favor Boys Over Girls In Math, Research Suggests
You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. A new study shows that first-grade teachers consistently rate girls’ math ability … → Read More
Three Out Of Four Media People Covering The U.S. Open Are Men
Professional women’s tennis players make as much as the men do at all four Grand Slams. And the most successful American players are women: Serena Williams has 22 career major titles while her sist… → Read More
New Yorkers Will Pay $56 A Month To Trim A Minute Off Their Commute
How much would you be willing to pay to shave a minute off your commute? For New Yorkers, the answer appears to be around $56 per month. That’s how much more New Yorkers pay in rent, on avera… → Read More
The Ageless Dominance Of Serena Williams And Novak Djokovic
This article also appears in ESPN The Magazine’s September 5 issue. Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic just keep getting better with age. Upsets in Rio aside, both are poised to dominate thei… → Read More
Why Are So Many Black Americans Killed By Police?
Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be killed by police officers. Researchers agree that racism almost certainly plays a role in that disparity. But “racism” is too … → Read More
The Mass Shootings Fix
Australia and Great Britain made extensive changes in gun policy in response to mass shootings two decades ago, and there has only been one mass shooting in eit… → Read More
In The Shadow Of Exile
Schuylkill federal prison is a four-hour drive from Rochester.Illustration and graphics by Ella KoezeIn 1998, Bill Johnson traveled from his home in Rochester, New York, to Richmond, Virginia, to s… → Read More
In The Shadow Of Exile
Schuylkill federal prison is a four-hour drive from Rochester.Illustration and graphics by Ella KoezeIn 1998, Bill Johnson traveled from his home in Rochester, New York, to Richmond, Virginia, to s… → Read More
Terrorists Are Turning To Guns More Often In U.S. Attacks
The gunman who entered a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday — killing at least 50 people and injuring 53 others in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history -… → Read More
Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question
QUOTE CORRECTLY ANSWERED 1 As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods — they kill us for their sport. 75.2% 2 I will not become an executioner. 73.3 3 Weep I ca… → Read More
The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing
As Twitter celebrates its 10th birthday today, @VENETHIS will send approximately his 37,771,000th tweet. He’s by far the service’s most prolific user, according to Twitter Counter, a statistics and… → Read More
The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing
As Twitter celebrates its 10th birthday today, @VENETHIS will send approximately his 37,771,000th tweet. He’s by far the service’s most prolific user, according to Twitter Counter, a statistics and… → Read More
San Jose Is The Most Forgettable Major American City
What’s that California city again? Starts with “San,” has a million people, near the coast? Almost everyone can think of San Francisco or San Diego. But San Jose, the nation’s 10t… → Read More
Republicans Liked Ben Carson To The End (But Not Enough To Vote For Him)
Many of the traditional rules of politics don’t seem to apply this year, but at least in the case of Ben Carson, they do. Carson, who will skip Thursday’s debate in Detroit and may suspend his camp… → Read More