Music, the Sound of my Soul - Like a Rolling River and Stone

 Science Says This Bob Dylan Classic Is the Best Song Ever

When it comes to what makes one song "better" than another, definitive judgments can be hard to come by. After all, personal preference weighs heavily in what makes one melody more appealing than another; that said, there's a reason why certain artists and bands (like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac) continue to sell thousands of albums after decades on the charts.

But even if it's impossible to explain exactly why people love certain tunes, now scientific data is revealing the best songs of all time...and the identity of the musician at the very top of the list won't surprise his legions of devoted fans.

As Far Out magazine reported, data collected by statistician Henrik Franzonover years of analyzing critics' lists has named the most acclaimed songs in pop music history, and taking first place is the opening track from Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited: "Like a Rolling Stone."

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?

Some researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may explain a disturbing trend.

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous.

Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, Calif. A few years ago, though, he started to experience problems staying upright.

“If another dog came toward us, every single time I’d end up on the ground,” recalled Mr. Vickers, 69, a retired electrical engineer. “It seemed like I was falling every other month. It was kind of crazy.”

Chatbots Spread Falsehoods 35% of the time

Newsguard – “In August 2025, the 10 leading AI chatbots repeated false information on controversial news topics identified in NewsGuard’s False Claims Fingerprints database at nearly double the rate compared to one year ago, a NewsGuard audit released this week found. 

In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases

NBC News:

“In an interview with All Rise News on the MeidasTouch Network’s Legal AF, University of Michigan law professor Leah Litman explains why the article was so extraordinary and what it says about the Supreme Court and Trump’s attacks on the judiciary.”

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

The Register: “With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for?