May 1, 2008, on an episode of the professional wrestling television show, TNA Impact!, “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner (the greatest mathematician in the whole multiverse) presented his greatest contribution to mathematics and human history: Steiner Math.
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Song of the Moment CXVII: Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris”
Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” (the eleventh track from the studio album Dizzy Up the Girl, the definitive soundtrack of the 1998 romantic fantasy drama film City of Angels, and one of the biggest hit ballads of the 1990s) was revived twice in recent years. Firstly, it was featured in Deadpool & Wolverine (a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Five released in 2024), and then this year in a 90s viral meme (mainly on Instagram), where people who lived in that decade were asked what it was like, and then they responded with montages of photos and videos from that era.
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Song of the Moment CVII: Foo Fighters’ “Asking for a Friend”
If you’re going to ask me what my favorite song of 2025 is, it’s definitely the second Foo Fighters song they released that year, “Asking for a Friend”. I love the music so much that I wrote a love letter about it, and I have heard it 700+ times as I type this entry. (Thank you for keeping track, Last.fm.) I also assigned it as one of my alarm clock tunes along with “Run” (my favorite track from the album Concrete and Gold) and “The Pretender” (my all-time favorite song). Those are good reasons already for it to be my Song of the Moment.
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