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Martin Short Performs Raunchy Tune at David Letterman’s Netflix Event

For the 22 years that David Letterman hosted The Late Show, Paul Shaffer served as his band leader, musical director and trusty sidekick. But Martin Short delivered a pretty hilarious run for that latter title by appearing opposite Letterman dozens of times. Short guesses that it was “definitely in the 50s” while Letterman and his team counted at least 40, plus all the random times he would show up to cover for another guest who canceled at the last minute. The Late Show team made it pretty easy on Short to turn up because, in a way, it was like family to him since Shaffer has been one of his best friends since they met in 1972. The trio put their chemistry on full display inside Hollywood’s Montalban Theatre Thursday night for Netflix is a Joke Presents: This Better Be Funny With David Letterman. And it was. Letterman hosted Short in the lights at center stage for a 90-minute conversation capped by a single song performance featuring Shaffer at the piano, Short on the microphone …

Toyota changes its tune in ‘Haters Anthem’ ad for new EVs [Video]

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Toyota is apparently flipping the script by putting “EV haters” in its new electric SUVs to turn skeptics into believers. Widely considered to be an “EV hater” itself after years of dragging its feet, Toyota is suddenly promoting them in its new “Haters Anthem” ad campaign launched on Monday. The video centers on turning skeptics into believers by putting puppets that hate EVs in its new electric SUVs to convert them one by one. Toyota said the ad is designed to show that EVs can fit into any driver’s daily life, or in other words, “how going electric can feel simple, natural, and worth exploring. Advertisement – scroll for more content In a second video, Daniel, a real Toyota bZ driver who’s been a barista for eight years, shows how the electric SUV can be used for more than just getting from point A to point B. The 2026 Toyota bZ introduces Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capabilities, enabling you to power small appliances, electronics, a campsite, and more using a 110V outlet in the rear. Toyota upgraded …

Tune In To Tonight’s Fertilizer Debate: How Bad Will It Get?

Published by Jenni Sidey

LIVE NOW: https://t.co/YVe5id12RL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 1, 2026 *********************** As we covered earlier this week, Goldman Sachs analysts now say the fertilizer disruption is larger than expected, with nitrogen markets taking the brunt. Urea prices have risen 50% to 70% since the conflict began. Goldman’s Duffy Fischer wrote that “nitrogen fertilizer is the most impacted chemical chain,” adding that the scale of disruption is “greater than we originally expected.” And signs of improvement have yet to reveal themselves… As the U.S.–Iran conflict enters its seventh week, ZeroHedge, in partnership with the Macro Dirt Podcast, will host a debate tonight focused on the implications for agriculture, inflation, and global supply chains. The discussion features former Bridgewater head of commodities Alex Campbell, Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital, and is hosted by Tony Greer and Jared Dillian. Johnson appeared with Marc Faber and Adam Taggart on an Iran-focused ZeroHedge debate earlier this month and announced that his fund was loading up on fertilizer producers, arguing that even if Hormuz were to open today, he believes the supply …

Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

Published by José Betancourt

You can’t beat the market. That, at least, is the advice we all encounter early on when first we try our hand at investing. Homespun though it may sound, the idea has academic roots: the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as the economists call it, holds that the prices in any financial market already reflect all available information relevant to what’s being traded within them. In the case of the stock market, for example, everything known — or indeed, knowable — about the future prospects of a particular company is already incorporated into its stock price, or might as well be. If the EMH is true, then it must also be true that nobody can beat the market, no matter how deep their experience or developed their instinct for picking stocks. Nobel Laureate economist Eugene Fama, who’s done more than anyone alive to refine the EFM and keep it in circulation, appears as one of the interviewees in Tune Out the Noise, the Errol Morris-directed documentary above. So do a range of other figures, mostly septuagenarian and octogenarian, …

Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome it when you need to

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Your brain has a neurological trick for drowning out chaos olaser/Getty Images Recently, I was scrolling TikTok when my brain failed me. I watched a video of Donald Trump berating CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins for “not smiling”, after she questioned him on matters concerning sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And I scrolled past. I didn’t pause. I didn’t get angry. I didn’t consider the implications of a person – let alone a president – saying such insulting words to another human being. Yet I’m not a monster. Writing this column, I’ve reflected on those remarks, and found them abhorrent, unprofessional and sexist. My brain didn’t fail because I don’t care. It failed because of an evolutionarily useful neurological trait called habituation. Realising this made me want to find out exactly how it affects our lives and how to overcome it – and when we should. Habituation is the brain’s way of normalising our experience of the world so that we can get on with life. It’s an elegant neural shortcut. Without it, we couldn’t filter irrelevant …

Can’t stop humming that tune? Thank math.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While Super Bowl LX is over, the big game still echoes in the minds of many viewers. Not the Seattle Seahawks’ offensive coordination (or the New England Patriots’ lack thereof), mind you, but all those annoyingly catchy commercial jingles. It’s not your fault if a 30-second advertisement spot’s melodic hook continues to keep you up at night, however. Pop culture’s most successful earworms are rarely a fluke—they’re often carefully crafted to maximize memorability. Today, you can even pursue a Bachelor’s degree in commercial songwriting. The mathematical study of tones dates at least as far back as the 5th century BCE Pythagorean philosophers of ancient Greece, but there is still a lot to learn about the numbers behind the notes. At the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, computational mechanics researchers recently examined musical melodies from an algebraic standpoint and found that there is an unsung component to many popular tunes: symmetry. Their findings were presented at the 6th AMMCS-International …

Billy Idol on Oscar-Shortlisted Tune ‘Dying to Live’ From Doc About His Life

Published by Daniella Wilson

Billy Idol’s heyday may have been the 1980s, but he has never gone away. The English punk-turned-rock singer/songwriter — a three-time Grammy nominee who was a key part of the MTV-driven “Second British Invasion” of America, with hits including “Dancing with Myself,” “White Wedding,” “Cradle of Love,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “To Be a Lover” and a chart-topping cover of “Mony Mony” — is now 70, a grandfather and leading a much quieter life than he did during his hard-partying days. But his spiky blonde hair, trademark sneer and seductive voice are all still there. And the last five years have included as many wins for him as any such stretch. Indeed, since the darkest days of the pandemic, when “Dancing with Myself” experienced a resurgence in popularity (for obvious reasons), he has released two EPs (2021’s The Roadside and 2022’s The Cage) and a studio album (his first in 11 years, 2025’s Dream Into It); toured North America with old pal Joan Jett; and collaborated with ardent admirer Miley Cyrus on “Night Crawling,” a song on …

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