8. Culture & Curiosity!

Artists deserve clarity about the economics of music streaming. This site aims to increase transparency by sharing new data on the global streaming economy and breaking down the royalty system, the players, and the process.

Spotify paid $10 billion to the music industry last year, with $4.5 billion to publishers across 2023-24. So why are songwriters still struggling?

Sexus Botanicus, by Joanne Anton, is a lovely exploration of the surprising habits of plants and their pollinators.

The findings offer a crucial cross-check for previous Hubble Space Telescope measurements of the universe's mysterious expansion

After two decades in Japan, one Canadian man shares some differences between life there and in his home country. Ron Reid, who is in his forties, gre…

The company, which hosted Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and others, called the event “business as usual”

A group of Grammy-nominated songwriters including Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon, and RAYE will not attend or perform at Spotify’s Songwriter Of The Year Grammy party, which is currently scheduled for Jan. 28 ahead of the 2025 Grammy Awards on Feb. 2. According to Billboard, Allen (“Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Adore You” by Harry Styles, and “greedy” by Tate McRae) and Dillon (“10,000 Hours” by Dan + Shay, “Lies Lies Lies” by Morgan Wallen and “Am I Okay?” by Megan Moroney) are citing Spotify’s treatment of songwriters as the reason for their decision not to attend. This means that four out of the five Songwriter Of The Year-nominated artists will not be at the party. The fifth, Edgar Barrera, has not commented on the matter yet.

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Flat Earthers visited Antarctica for the first time and discovered, to their surprise, that our planet is actually round.

As fashion campaigners demand ‘degrowth’ for an industry responsible for 10 per cent of global pollution, Helen Coffey talks to pioneering designers, activists and academics about whether we’ve officially shopped till we drop

The ancient Egyptians are known for their extraordinary works of art and architecture, yet, experts are also interested in the gaping voids they left behind.Indeed, deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza, there exists a massive, sealed space which, though empty, continues to fascinate archaeologists....

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

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From the first daguerreotypes of Paris and London to early images of America's booming cities, these incredible black-and-white photos show what the world looked like in the 1800s...

There's no better way to spend the month of October than marathoning some spine-chilling horror movies. Happy Halloween!

Hens try to hatch golf balls, whales get beached. Getting things wrong seems to play a fundamental role in life on Earth

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Selecting a Linux distribution can be daunting but when you finally find the one, you stick with it. Pop!_OS has been my go-to for a long time. Here's why.

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Dutch artist’s 17th-century work said to have inspired tableau that has offended Christian and conservative critics