More sitcom theme songs our readers can’t get out of their heads Henry Mancini wrote the Peter Gunn theme using a single chord. The whole thing sits on a single bass note for two minutes […]
’80s commercial catchphrases that became part of our everyday vocabulary You still say some of these. Not because you remember the commercial. Because the phrase took hold sometime in the late 1980s and never left. […]
The most deadly cancers, broken down by gender Two million new cancer diagnoses were estimated in the US in 2025, with 618,120 estimated total cancer deaths. Those two numbers live in the same report, and […]
What pop music hits from foreign countries became hits in America? Ask yourself why “Dominique” was number one in America in December 1963. A Belgian nun recorded it for the girls at her convent; Philips […]
American cities with the highest and lowest credit scores Your credit score is supposed to reflect your financial behavior. In practice, it also reflects your ZIP code, your city’s unemployment rate, and whether the structural […]
’80s sitcom theme songs you still can’t get out of your head decades later The brain does not forget a theme song it heard 400 times before the age of 15. That is not nostalgia, […]
What guests secretly notice the moment they enter your home Nobody announces what they’re clocking when they walk through your front door. But they’re clocking things. Within the first few seconds of entering a space, […]
How health impacts your love life after 50 Nobody hands you a manual when you turn 50 that explains what is about to change in your relationship. Some of what changes is good. More time, […]
’80s arcades: How teenage social life centered around a pocketful of quarters The arcade was not primarily about the games. You could figure this out by watching what happened when someone ran out of quarters; […]
Is your partner still interested? The science of senior intimacy Something shifts in long-term relationships that most people don’t talk about openly enough. The forms of closeness change. What felt like one thing at 35 […]