Nearly named "Cadabra", this online bookstore called a last-minute audible to change its name when a lawyer insisted it sounded too much like "Cadaver".

Earlier this year, Nouriel Roubini, an economist known as "Dr.Doom" urged the SEC to investigate this eccentric CEO over currency manipulation.

Oil is transported long distances underground through a series of these.

The first ever Chief Data Scientist of the federal government was appointed by this former US president.

The Social Network is a 2010 film which portrays the founding of this popular website and the resulting lawsuits.

From the Big Short to the Blind Side, Michael Lewis has a knack for writing books that end up on the big screen. But his most famous book chronicles a small budget baseball team that ushered in the sport's analytics revolution.

This famous scientist, who was fittingly born during a lightning storm, once built an earthquake machine that helped Mark Twain shake his constipation issues.

This part of corn doesn’t taste very good until it’s exposed to extreme heat.

Offering a prize of one million dollars, this company held an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films.

Many speculate that the eccentric billionaire, Russ Hanneman, was originally inspired by Mark Cuban in this HBO series about a startup with a revolutionary data compression algorithm.

Despite funding research that led to the discovery of the t-distribution, this company is better known for launching a series of record breaking books (among other things).

This number describes the "collaborative distance" between its eponymously named mathematician and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.

Native to Burma, this snake has become a major nuisance since being introduced in the Florida Everglades.

This popular language learning website that relies on gamification and artificial intelligence went public in June 2021.

In this dark and reflective British TV series, each episode features a dystopic future involving science fiction technology.

The book, Bringing Down the House, which was later adapted into a movie, profiles the true story of a group of MIT students who use card counting to beat casinos at what popular card game?

Sometimes called the "father of modern statistics", this scientist was also lifelong friends with Charles Darwin's son, Leonard.

In the early 20th century, this industry dominated the job market in Appalachia. Its recent collapse has had a profound effect on the local economies.

In 2017, European regulators hit this company with a $2.7 billion fine for promoting its own shopping results over results from competing shopping services.

This AI system that sparked a nuclear holocaust in The Terminator is also the name of the surveillance system used by the Chinese government.

Based on the success of this original book on pop culture and economics, its co-authors have since developed a regular radio segment on NPR, and a weekly blog.

Raised by first-generation Polish immigrants, this trio of sisters include the CEO of YouTube, the CEO of 23andme, and a professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco?

Educational apps are a useful tool for kids to independently achieve this desired outcome.

This little yellow elephant was the inspiration for a popular big data tool that has recently fallen out of favor.

In the 2013 sci fi movie, Her, this actor falls in love with his artifically intelligent virtual assistant.