How travel and visa restrictions became a World Cup story The 2026 World Cup is the largest in history since it includes 48 nations, three host countries, and stadiums across the United States, Mexico and […]
10 famous songs that almost went to a completely different artist The music industry has a mythology about itself: that the right song finds the right artist, that these pairings are somehow inevitable. Almost none […]
Beloved songs that make little or no sense when you read the lyrics You know how you can sing along to a song for years and then one day, mid-chorus, you actually hear what you’re […]
Can the 2026 Spain World Cup squad do what the class of 2010 did? The comparison to 2010 starts before anyone asks for it. It started before the squad was announced, and by the time […]
Can AI predict who wins the World Cup? Someone is going to try to answer that question whether we ask it or not. The 2026 World Cup is underway, 48 nations are competing across three […]
More overplayed songs, according to our readers Reader comments keep coming in, and this one stopped us mid-scroll. A reader who spent over fifty years as an underground DJ left a response to a recent […]
It is commonplace to assume that the world of Anime is for teenagers, for people who discovered it on Crunchyroll at fifteen and built their personality around it. That assumption is not exactly wrong about […]
Our AI overlords predict who will win Tuesday, June 23’s World Cup matches We asked the same four systems, four new matches, and a Tuesday card that gets genuinely interesting once you move past the […]
Our favorite karaoke songs from the 80s: What did we miss? Nobody in 1983 was thinking about karaoke, since the concept’s materiality barely existed. They were just making the song as big as it felt […]
Unglamorous inventions seniors swear by Nobody puts a shower chair on a wish list. Nobody posts an unboxing video of a pill organizer or photographs their new grabber tool for social media. These are the […]