Slumdog Millionaire: How Much is 20 Million Rupees, Anyway?
20 million rupees. That’s a lot of cash, right? Well, sort of.
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Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities
Overthinking It salutes this year’s Super Bowl champions with some totally unnecessary Excel.
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The Blockbuster Bell Curve: Are we running out of good movies, too?
As a follow up to the wildly popular “Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock” article on the decline of rock music (and U.S. oil production), I decided to take the logical next step in pop culture quantitative analysis: Greatest Movies Lists. … Continued
The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs
What’s the link between oil production and rock music quality during the second half of the 20th century?