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Blake, Wm. Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. 1779.

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After 31 years, Billy Joel will release a new single, “Turn the Lights Back On.”
The song, written with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector, features Joel's first lyrics since 2007.

“Turn the Lights Back On” debuts on February 1, available digitally and on limited edition 7” vinyl, along with a lyric video.

Joel's last pop album was 1993's River of Dreams, and he hinted at new material during his Madison Square Garden residency.

Billy Joel, last month: “I have good news. I have bad news. I’ll give you the bad news first. We don’t have anything new to play for you. The good news is you don’t have to sit through something you have no idea what it is. Although we’ve got a little something we’ve been working on you might hear sometime.”

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Blake, Wm. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 'But Martha Was Cumbered About Much Serving.' 1780.

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Big Tech companies like Alphabet Inc. and Meta are launching large-scale real estate projects near their headquarters.

Google’s 153-acre project includes over 7,000 homes and 300,000 square feet of retail space. Meta's “Zucktown” features 1,700 residential units, a hotel, and office spaces.

Amazon opts for a different approach with a $2 billion fund to support housing development in Arlington, Virginia, and other states.

The Atlanta Fed found that corporate landlords are far more likely to evict tenants or, at least, use the threat of eviction. “Some of the largest firms file eviction notices on a third of their properties in a year and have an 18 percent higher housing instability rate even after controlling for property and neighborhood characteristics,” the researchers wrote.

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Blake, Wm. Nurses Song. 1789.

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Middle schoolers are being bullied for not having Stanley tumbler cups.

13-year-old Dahlia wasn’t the popular girl at her Dallas middle school after she moved last year, but when she walked into school with her Stanley cup, all of a sudden she was no longer invisible.

Dahlia: “Every day when I get into school at like 7:45 a.m., everybody comes over to me like, ‘Oh my God, I like your Stanley!’ or ‘It’s so cool, I want a Stanley just like yours!’ It makes me feel like I’m famous and being swarmed by paparazzi. I wouldn’t say any of them are actually my friends. They only talk to me in the morning when I’m holding my Stanley.”

Madalyn, a 9-year-old who owns five Stanleys: “I’m, like, a little bit more popular now, and I’ve been getting more friends because of it.”

One mom spoke out in a viral TikTok: “On the second day back to school after Christmas break, she comes home… she’s just upset. Other girls in her grade got Stanleys for Christmas and they made sure to let her know that [hers] is not a real Stanley, that this is fake and it’s not as cool. Now, she doesn’t want to bring it to school and she doesn’t want to use it.”

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Blake, Wm. The Vision of Christ. 1821.

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A new blood test could accurately screen for Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear.

Nicholas Ashton, professor of neurochemistry: “What was impressive with these results is that the blood test was just as accurate as advanced testing like cerebrospinal fluid tests and brain scans at showing Alzheimer’s disease pathology in the brain.”

The test is highly accurate in identifying beta-amyloid and tau, key biomarkers of Alzheimer’s.

Preventive neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson: “This is actually the test that has, at this time, among the best available evidence for being one single test for Alzheimer’s... This study takes us one really powerful step closer to having that test, and the beauty of this study is it also looked at people before they had symptoms.”