In the winter of 1900, six-year-old Nicolas Slonimsky was introduced to the world of popular Russian ditties. “Little bird, what did you do? I drank vodka, so did you,” he would warble to enchanted ...

While the federal inquiry into foreign interference is on a break, Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue and Canadian MPs of all stripes should take the opportunity to travel to Toronto to see ...

For a couple months leading up to Christmas, we’re all infected with a pernicious scourge: earworms. Sounds like a bloodsucking parasite, but “earworm” (which comes from a translation of the German ...

There are many events so far in 2026 that could reasonably have been predicted, but perhaps one which couldn’t is a Hackaday scribe in Europe unexpectedly finding herself with a constant earworm from ...

, and there it is again - that fragment of a song, looping endlessly with no off switch in sight. Most people know exactly what this feels like. An earworm, also described as sticky music or stuck ...

The DJ, widely known for his "United State of Pop" mixes, has taken on an even bigger task: soundtracking the Olympics. By Brennan Carley Though rampant speculation has suggested British artists like ...

Two of the year’s most ubiquitous smashes, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” only pop up in split-second form. When asked how much “Call Me Maybe” will be incorporated into ...