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In the new Disney+ documentary series "The Beatles Anthology," a 1991 interview is presented in which the then-surviving Beatles describe secretly spiking the tea served to engineer Geoff Emerick and producer George Martin with "uppers" in order to ...

Uploaded to YouTube on Christmas Eve were "some old tunes" by Boards of Canada, dated to 1985-1996--before their first studio album. Fans starved of new releases are delighted; the consensus is that it's an authentic set, with some justified paranoia ...

David Bowie, the English singer, songwriter and everything else, would have been 79 today. We still need heroes. His daughter, Lexi Jones, posted a tribute: "Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya." A treat: Bowie's excellent one-sentence ...

An AT&T customer traveling internationally racked up $19,500 in data charges over two days -- roughly $110 per minute, or $6,500 per hour. According to a post on Reddit's r/ATT forum, the customer had removed AT&T's $12-per-day International Day Pass ...

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers the equivalent of $50,000 to publish a literature review that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and pointed the finger at fat and cholesterol instead. According to UCSF researchers who ...

On January 1, everything published in 1930 entered the U.S. public domain. According to Standard Ebooks, the volunteer-run project prepared 20 new free ebooks to celebrate, including some major titles: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, William ...

Polymarket is refusing to settle approximately $10.5 million in bets on whether the U.S. would invade Venezuela, arguing that the military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro doesn't count as an "invasion." According to the Financial Times, the ...

A group of Buddhist monks are currently participating in a 2,300 mile "Walk for Peace" as they make their way on foot from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. While the crowds who have come out to see them along their journey have been ...

If you need a few moments of soothing meditation (and let's be honest, who couldn't use some quieting of the mind right about now?), stop what you're doing and take a listen to the beautiful music that the duo Jack and Dad have been making and ...

Venture just outside Leiden in the Netherlands, and you'll spot a gigantic 115-foot-tall orange human figure looming beside the highway. The giant sits mysteriously, partially swallowed by a glass building. This eye-catching sculpture serves as the ...