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Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck In Our Heads?

Scientists don’t fully understand why earworms are so hard to shake. But certain songs are more likely than others to set up shop in our heads. And the propensity to catch them can depend on what you’ve recently listened to and what you’re doing. - The New York Times

The Movie Business Is Feeling – Perhaps Understandably – Apocalyptic These Days

"Apocalypse is not always world-historical. Our lives are full of personal apocalypses; our nations experience them repeatedly, often in times of great distress. We learn who we are, what we stand for and what really matters in apocalyptic times.” - The New York Times

Amid Multiple Allegations Of Sexual Abuse, Screen Adaptations Of Neil Gaiman’s Work Paused Or Canceled

The list is grim (not nearly as grim as the list of women who have accused the popular author, of course). Dead Boy Detectives: Canceled. Good Omens: Paused. And the Disney adaptation of smash hit The Graveyard Book? “Put on hold.” - The Guardian (UK)

Tito Jackson, Original Member Of The Jackson 5, Has Died At 70

“Jackson played guitar, sang and, of course, danced his way into homes worldwide as the Jackson 5 became an international sensation in the late ’60s and early ’70s, with a string of smashes hits that included four straight No. 1 hits.” He was touring as recently as last week. - Variety

Famous Feminist Harvard Square Mural At Risk

Joyce Kozloff’s homage to New England arts “features hundreds of interlocking hand-painted tiles containing scenes from New England’s landscape and motifs referencing the region’s history, like gravestones, weathervanes, sail boats, houses with steeply pitched roofs, and silhouettes of Indigenous individuals and European settlers.” - Hyperallergic

This Rip-Roarer Of A Farce Has Lasted For Ten Years On London’s West End

The Play That Goes Wrong “was first performed at The Old Red Lion, a 60-seat fringe theatre in Islington, London, with the writers not thinking it would go much further.” That was … not the correct take. - BBC

The Historian Who Understood Immediately That Putin’s Invasion Was A Threat To Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

“Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting each item and sending them to secret, secure locations away from the combat zone." - The Guardian (UK)

The Memes That Could Start – Or Perhaps End – Wars

“Digital disinformation is a growing shadow industry. It thrives because of the weak enforcement of content-moderation policies, the increasing influence of social-media figures as political intermediaries, and a regulatory environment that fails to hold tech companies accountable.” And it’s getting worse. - The Atlantic

Documentary Filmmakers Are Ready To Have The AI Discussion

Hm: “Rather than rejecting the use of generative AI outright, the group encourages consideration based in four overarching principles: the value of primary sources, transparency, legal considerations and ethical considerations of creating human simulations.” - The Guardian (UK)

AI Chatbots Aren’t Great For Much, But They Might Know This One Weird Trick

That trick is getting people who believe in conspiracy theories to find some exits out of their internet-driven rabbit holes. Importantly, recent “studies suggest that, contrary to the common belief that people 'down the rabbit hole' are beyond rescue, they can actually be brought back." - Nieman Lab

Disney And DirecTV End Their Dispute

At least for now, customers of satellite TV won’t be deprived of college football, The Bear on Hulu, or another rewatch of Inside Out 2. "The nearly two-week battle has been costly. Thousands of subscribers canceled their service during the blackout.” - Los Angeles Times

Was Last Night The Time For The Super Emmy To Make Its Return?

After all, who wouldn’t have enjoyed seeing The Bear face off against Shōgun, or The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki go up against True Detective’s Jodie Foster? - The New York Times

Mia Farrow Tests Positive For COVID, So An Associate Director Goes On Broadway For Her

The play - The Roommate - opened on Thursday with Farrow and Patti LuPone, but on Saturday, Farrow tested positive. Actor and associate director of The Roommate Marsha Mason went on, script in hand, on Sunday. - The New York Times

Somehow, Gillian Anderson Isn’t Tired Of Talking, Or Writing, About Sex

The actor “has become a curator, rather than an object, of sexual fantasies. Want, a new book released next week, is a collection of anonymous fantasies written by women from all over the world, selected and introduced by Anderson.” But - not to make a pun - why would she want to do this? - Slate

Shogun Takes Four More Emmys To Make Its Total A Tad Bit Staggering

Though The Bear also won quite a haul, and there were a few surprises, Shōgun snagged a record-breaking total of 18 Emmys over the two ceremonies. - The New York Times

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