Priceonomics

Do humans have cold, evil monkey hearts?

A special Priceonomics investigation into why men go pee-pee on the floor. Laziness or intractable problem of physics?

Will Vinton brought clay to life with characters like the California Raisins and the Noid -- until Nike billionaire Phil Knight stepped in and bought the business for his son.

The data science tools created by Hadley Wickham have been downloaded millions of times and changed data visualization.

Auto-Tune - one of modern history's most reviled inventions - was an act of mathematical genius.

Few customers enjoy negotiating over the price of a car. Why won't this hated practice go away?

In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.

Jehovah's Witnesses are like a SaaS company that requires its customers to recruit or they get their subscription canceled. But if the end of the world actually happens, it will probably disrupt our models.

We analyzed how much money people make from their side-gigs on Uber, Airbnb, Lyft and more.

A map that captures San Francisco's varied history of horizontal expansion.