Nikola Jokic‘s teammate, DeAndre Jordan, disclosed last week during his appearance on FanDuel’s Run It Back that if it’s not Siberian folk songs, then the Joker prefers Many Men by 50 Cent.

Irish folk songs are filled with wonderful, often sad, stories and tales of drinking and carousing. We've pulled together a Spotify playlist of the most popular as chosen by the public.

With all that in mind, here are three folk songs that will always remain thematically timeless. “The Times They Are A-Changin’” by Bob Dylan . The only constant in life is change.

The folk songs of people cannot be created in a day, a month, or a year. They must be evolved. Our people had to become rooted in the soil again.

This article was originally published with the title “ Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 331 No. 4 (November 2024), p. 74 doi:10. ...