LatestWhy Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? The Science of Earworms
Wondering why do songs get stuck in your head and refuse to leave? You are not broken, and you are not alone. Around 90 percent of people get a tune…
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LatestWondering why do songs get stuck in your head and refuse to leave? You are not broken, and you are not alone. Around 90 percent of people get a tune…
Read the story →
Film & TV“Based on a true story” used to be a warning label, code for a film about to swap…
GamingAsk ten people for the best indie games of all time and you will get eleven lists, all…
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Science & SpaceYou are reading this with an organ that runs on roughly the power of a dim light bulb,…
Internet CultureEver wondered how does video streaming work when you tap play and a movie starts in under a…
TechnologyYour phone wants you to stop. Not in the abstract, eat-your-vegetables way it has gently nagged you about…
Film & TVAt its Upfronts presentation on May 13, Netflix dropped the usual pile of announcements: a Will Ferrell comedy,…
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TechnologyDoes dark mode save battery? Yes on OLED phones, no on LCD screens.
Memes & Internet HistoryEurovision has been smuggling weirdness onto European television for seventy years. Bread baking grandmas, hard rock zombies, a…
MusicVienna gets its second night of Eurovision 2026 tonight. Wiener Stadthalle, 21:00 CEST, fifteen songs competing for ten…
Books & ReadingOn Monday 11 May 2026, in the Grosvenor House ballroom on Park Lane, a Nigerian independent press founded…
CuriositiesAn amateur naturalist named Eviatar Itzkovich was wandering the Golan Heights one summer night and noticed something deeply…
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