Anniversaries Get Larger at Round Numbers. This One Was Larger for a Different Reason.
Commemorations scale with the roundness of the number. This one scaled with actuarial tables instead, and…
Category: Culture
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A Form With Rules, Suddenly Being Played at Full Speed
The diss record is a form with unwritten rules, one of which is an interval between…
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A Number One That Does Not Prove What It Is Being Used to Prove
A chart position measures how many people played a song. Whether a format’s institutions will carry…
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Seven of Them, and Not One Can Be Sold for More Than a Dollar
Seven statuettes went to one film on Sunday, and a winner may not sell one without…
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What the Winners List Cannot Record
A fourth Album of the Year is a countable fact that will read the same in…
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Slow Clothes: Fashion Tries On a Conscience
The industry that invented the season is being asked to invent durability. Between the greenwash and…