Around 3 months into my backpacking trip, I was wandering around in Ukraine while trying to learn a few words. As hard as I tried, I would butcher the... read more →

Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz... read more →

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between. Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary... read more →

Data Futures is a live experiment about the connections between our data and ourselves. It is run in conference settings, with a large, real-time... read more →

Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by... read more →

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family... read more →

President Donald Trump announced July 27th that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed... read more →

This is a data- and research-driven story about the way we think about college students' upward mobility. For instance, how colleges can be a finishing... read more →

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death all over the world. In Italy smoking cause the death of c.a 83.000 people every year. Nowdays, thanks to... read more →

Being an outspoken woman on Twitter is hard. To find out how hard, we gathered a day’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women — Barkha Dutt,... read more →

In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a... read more →

Ditch The Label joined forces with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million Tweets over a four-year period to explore the current climate of cyberbullying and hate... read more →

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To... read more →

Female characters appear in superhero comics less often than males — but when they are included, how are they depicted? read more →

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have played Google’s game Quick, Draw! prompting us to ask what takeaways it might have for global culture,... read more →

In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua... read more →

Dowry is official illegal in India, yet it remains common. Even in Delhi, the country's modernizing capital, 1,330 dowry cases were registered with the... read more →

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in... read more →