Are newly released songs losing their cultural foothold? By some measures, yes. Tracks released over 10 years ago now account for around 20 percent of the Spotify Top 100. As of this writing, the following songs have made the Spotify Top 100 every day for the last three months: "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers...

Polls say Americans' ideal movie length is 92 minutes, but Hollywood is no longer in that business. In the 1980s, 13 percent of wide theatrical releases ran under 90 minutes; in the 2020s, it's seven percent and most of those are animated kids' films. Meanwhile, the share of wide releases running over two hours has mor...

Beast Industries is hosting a ritzy breakfast in New York City to court brand and ad executives, hosted by none other than the Beast himself (Jimmy Donaldson) and Jeffrey Housenbold, the CEO of Beast Industries. Notably, this is TV upfronts week, where TV companies and streamers pitch advertisers on spending commitment...

Bears beat dogs, cats, and the combined forces of team rabbit/bunny to be the number one animal in the title of children's books. Without the alliance of rabbit and bunny, the fourth place role would be filled by dragons. About one in every 321 children's books has "dragon" in the title, crushing others in th...

In disastrous news for the himbos, beefcakes, swoles, brawny and hunks, there is a looming shortage of the whey protein concentrate that constitutes the central ingredient in protein powders, as demand for high-protein foods has outpaced the dairy industry's ability to supply what was once a byproduct. Whey protein con...

When an "A" used to mean something Last year at Harvard, 66 percent of grades were an A, and 84 percent of grades were either an A or A-. This has set off concerns about grade inflation and some of the bad incentives that might emerge from such a system; for instance, if an A is the expectation, students may ...

...is making the cost of hard drives increase.... The colossal data center buildout crucial to tech titans' investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure has sent prices for solid state drives and other storage spiraling upwards, and it's having unintended effects across other sectors that rely on consistent ac...

A new study published in Nature Sustainability argues that at this point, southern Louisiana will face three to seven meters of sea level rise as a result of warming global temperatures, which will result in the loss of three quarters of its remaining wetlands and push the shoreline as much as 100 kilometers inland. Th...

The Edmonton Oilers have managed to build what is considered the single largest 50/50 raffle in pro sports, with the contest selling C$472 million (US $350 million) in tickets since 2001, half of which has gone to prizes for residents in Alberta and the other half (after expenses) to funding the foundation. That "...

The estimated valuation of the average WNBA team is now $427 million, up 59 percent year over year and up 345 percent compared to 2024, thanks to surging popularity, more valuable television deals that begin in 2026, a fresh CBA that guarantees labor peace for the foreseeable future and an on-court product that is comm...

" If you look up the definition for killing time, it is to engage in an activity, usually a rather aimless or idle one, with the goal of making time seem to pass more quickly or less slowly. If you're killing time, it means that you believe you have time to kill, right? Got plenty of time. You talk to people that ...

A new projection from the Food Industry Association and NielsenIQ predicts that online grocery sales will grow to $452 billion by 2028. Already, most of the grocery dollar growth is happening online, with 72 percent of growth in the grocery business last year coming from the online space. This year, sales are projected...

The humble but efficient station wagon - an automobile style also known as estates in the U.K., Kombis in Germany and breaks in France - has been steadily going out of style as SUVs and crossovers gobble up market share for the kind of cars that can comfortably fit a family. In 2017, 2.45 million station wagons were so...

Don Sutton was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998, ten years after the end of his storied pitching career. In twenty-three seasons, most of them pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sutton rarely led the league in any particular statistical category. He only won more than 20 games in a single season one t...

Lots of people who bought cars during the pandemic are deeply underwater on those vehicles, meaning the amount they owe is considerably higher than the actual value of the vehicle. Among car buyers who traded in a car to buy a new one, 30 percent had negative equity on their trade-in, owing an average of $7,200. One th...

Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught one specific pickup truck speeding through school zones and running red lights over 547 times in the borough of Staten Island, with the vehicle receiving 187 camera-issued tickets in 2025 alone - an average of one every other day. Based on the data, this vehicle is piloted by the...

High ticket prices and new levels of inhospitable hosting has put a pall over the expected tourism surge for the World Cup games in the United States, and has sent prices dropping sharply in the major metropolitan areas that had been gearing up for the games and the guests. Following the reveal of the schedule in Decem...

In April, 34 percent of all NBA games were decided by at least 20 points, the highest rate of any month in the history of the NBA. The second-highest month for such blowouts was March 2026, when 28 percent of games were decided by 20 points or more, and February saw the fifth-highest month on record. The end of the reg...

The average weight of a running shoe is 8.8 ounces for a men's size nine, but footwear companies are in an arms race (a legs race?) to get that weight as light as possible. A recent study found that an elite runner who is able to shed 3.5 ounces off their shoe might run a marathon about 57 seconds faster. This has led ...

The massive sales of new vinyl records has been an ongoing story in the music business, with 48 million new vinyl records sold in 2025, a $1 billion business for a music industry that has all but switched over to streaming. That said, used vinyl is a force to be reckoned with in its own right. The statistics around the...