The Pudding

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The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.
websitehttps://pudding.cool
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The PuddingJun 26, 2024
We collaborated with NHPR's investigative team, Document, to analyze 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse at New Hampshire’s youth facilities. Explore the staggering scale and detail from one of the largest youth detention abuse scandals in American history. https://ydcpodcast.org
Failures to Act

Almost 1,300 people say the state of New Hampshire failed to act to protect them from child abuse at youth facilities. Here’s what the allegations reveal.

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The PuddingMay 16, 2024

We've updated our morphing WNBA Kicks piece to add in 2024 signature shoe drops from Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart, and we CANNOT wait to be able to do this for A'ja Wilson next year!

https://pudding.cool/2022/09/wnba-kicks/

A visual history of WNBA Kicks

A morphing look back through women's basketball signature sneakers from Swoopes to Stewie

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The PuddingApr 9, 2024

This is a teenager. We’ll call him Alex.
Our latest story follows Alex — along with hundreds of other teenagers — for the next 24 years until they reach their later 30s.

💻 Interactive version: https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/

📽️ Video version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mixv0Hk

This is a teenager

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

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The PuddingMar 27, 2024

Drum roll please! 🥁

We're excited to announce the 3 members of our inaugural Cohort: Ahmed Bendaly, Vivian Li, and Andrew Park. Let's show them some love!

The PuddingMar 11, 2024
New project! We examine 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” rankings https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/
What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time?

Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings

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The PuddingDec 13, 2023

We've added over 100 new inputs for 2023. It's time to get your music judged! 🤖

https://pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-music/

How Bad Is Your Streaming Music?

Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.

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The PuddingOct 26, 2023
New project! We explore how the most popular genres have shifted over the past 7 years, with K-pop now having more streams than R&B and EDM on Spotify. https://pudding.cool/2023/10/genre/
You should look at this chart about music genres

How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier

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The PuddingOct 24, 2023
Just in time for the 2023 #NBA tipoff, we've updated our morphing #AirJordan piece to include the 38s.
https://pudding.cool/2018/09/jordans/
A visual history of every Air Jordan

Michael Jordan is the OG 🐐 (both in basketball and sneakers). Watch how the design of his iconic Air Jordan changes over the last 37 years.

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The PuddingOct 16, 2023
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Too bad, we did! 📚💖
We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers to find trends in the level of raunchiness, the art style, and the representation of racial diversity. https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/
What does a happily ever after look like?

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of racial diversity.

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The PuddingSep 26, 2023
This is “Martin.”
At 7:20am he watches TV.
At 10:15am he gets groceries.
At noon he eats lunch.
At 5:10pm he watches more TV.
At 8:30pm he goes to bed.
“Martin” lives a pretty isolated life. Find out why this matters in our newest piece.
https://pudding.cool/2023/09/invisible-epidemic/
24 hours in an invisible epidemic

Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight

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