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- Straight Outta Compton’s Censorship Lesson
Document · 2015
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Coalition Against Censorship: quotes the 1989 FBI letter from Milt Ahlerich to Priority Records about N.W.A, which said it reflected "the entire law enforcement community."
- Streisand v. Adelman, Case SC077257: Docket (2003)
Court Filing · 2003
Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, mirrored by PlainSite
Los Angeles Superior Court docket, 2003, copied by PlainSite: records a judgment of dismissal in Streisand v. Adelman. A mirror of the docket, not the court's…
- Studies of Independence and Conformity: I. A Minority of One Against a Unanimous Majority
Peer-Reviewed Study · 1956
Solomon E. Asch
Across 123 critical subjects, Table 3 reports a mean error rate of 36.8% on critical judgments; 24% made no errors. Most critical responses remained independent, and…
- Study: Binaural Beats and Sustained Attention (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Robison et al.
2022 study: three experiments found strong evidence that binaural beats do not improve sustained attention.
- Study: Music Triggers Dopamine Release (Salimpoor 2011)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2011
Valorie N. Salimpoor; Mitchel Benovoy; Kevin Larcher; Alain Dagher; Robert J. Zatorre
Nature Neuroscience, 2011: brain scans of eight people showed music releases dopamine, the brain's reward chemical, both while anticipating and at the peak of a favorite…
- Substack: 5 Million Paid Subscriptions (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Substack
Substack, March 2025: announced five million paid subscriptions across its platform. That counts subscriptions, not unique people, and is the company's own figure.
- Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Cristin E. Kearns, Laura A. Schmidt, and Stanton A. Glantz
Internal documents indicate that the Sugar Research Foundation sponsored and influenced a 1965 review without disclosure of its role. The authors acknowledge that direct evidence the…
- Super Bowl LIX averages record audience of 127.7 million viewers
News Report · 2025
National Football League
NFL, February 2025: Super Bowl LIX drew a record average audience of 127.7 million viewers.
- Super Bowl LIX Makes TV History with Over 127 Million Viewers
Document · 2025
Nielsen
Nielsen, February 2025: 127.7 million viewers watched Super Bowl LIX, the largest audience in U.S. TV history.
- Supreme Court Docket: Powell v. SEC, No. 25-1100
Court Filing · 2026
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court docket: a challenge to the SEC's 'gag rule' on settlement denials, after the Ninth Circuit upheld the rule in August 2025. The Court…
- Supreme People’s Court’s Several Provisions on Restricting High Spending and Related Spending by Persons Subject to Enforcement
Government Record · 2015
Supreme People’s Court; China Law Translate
Translation of China's Supreme People's Court rules (2015): people who ignore court judgments can be barred from flights, soft-sleeper trains and other high spending. Targeted court…
- Syracuse Peace Council v. FCC (D.C. Cir. 1989)
Court Filing · 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit (Williams, J.)
Federal appeals court, February 1989: upheld the FCC's 1987 decision to stop enforcing the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to air contrasting views. The FCC had…
- Taylor Swift Endorses Harris and Drives Traffic to Vote.gov (2024)
News Report · 2024
CBS News
CBS News, September 2024: Swift endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The government's GSA said 405,999 people reached Vote.gov through her link in 24 hours. That…
- Taylor Swift’s 2018 Tennessee Endorsement and the Vote.org Registration Spike
News Report · 2018
CBS News
CBS News, October 2018: Taylor Swift endorsed Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper in Tennessee. Vote.org said about 105,000 people registered through its site in the next…
- Taylor Swift’s Open Letter to Apple Music (2015)
News Report · 2015
CBS News
CBS News, June 2015: Swift's open letter to Apple refusing to give Apple Music her album free during its three-month trial: "Please don't ask us to…
- Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” Video and Queerbaiting Criticism
News Report · 2019
Business Insider
Business Insider, 2019: critics accused Taylor Swift of queerbaiting with "You Need to Calm Down," and Swift's response.
- Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 202: Broadcast Ownership
Government Record · 1996
104th U.S. Congress
Congress, February 1996: removed the national cap on how many radio stations one company can own, while keeping local limits of 5 to 8 stations per…
- The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4: Responses to Al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults (1998 strikes)
Government Record · 2004
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4: some Republicans in Congress questioned the timing of the 1998 strikes. The Commission says officials based their advice on national…
- The Children of Men
Document · 1992
Estate of P.D. James; Greene & Heaton
The P.D. James estate's page for the novel The Children of Men (1992): no child has been born in 25 years.
- The CIA and the Media (Carl Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 1977)
News Report · 1977
Rolling Stone (Carl Bernstein)
Carl Bernstein's 1977 investigation into the CIA's relationships with American journalists. This is the source of the widely repeated figure of more than 400 journalists. The…
- The Country School of To-morrow
Document · 1913
Frederick T. Gates
Gates explicitly imagines rural people yielding with perfect docility to a molding hand. The passage concerns a visionary program for rural education and does not contain…
- The Gulf of Tonkin, the 1964 Incidents: Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1968)
Transcript · 1968
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
The 1968 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in which Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara defended the account of the August 1964 attacks as senators questioned whether…
- The Haunt Project: Infrasound and Electromagnetic Fields Study (2009)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2009
Christopher C. French; Usman Haque; Rosie Bunton-Stasyshyn; Robert Davis
The 2009 "Haunt" study: 79 people sat in a room with hidden infrasound and electromagnetic fields. Their strange sensations did not track the hidden signals, but…
- The Highest-Paid YouTube Stars of 2020
News Report · 2020
Maddie Berg / Forbes
Forbes estimated Ryan Kaji (Ryan's World) earned $29.5 million in one year, making him YouTube's top earner for 2020. Forbes's own estimate.