Ripped from the Headlines: October 2020: This Week In Culture: Current Events Vocab for October 3–9, 2020

After years of legal battling, Led Zeppelin finally won the lawsuit that had been brought against them for allegedly stealing part of Stairway to Heaven. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case, meaning a lower court's decision that the tune did not infringe the copyright of Taurus, a 1968 song by Spirit, stands as the final ruling.

After renewing GLOW for a fourth season, Netflix pulled the plug. Citing the size of the cast and the physical nature of the show — which features a lot of wrestling — the network said that there's no way production can begin any time in the foreseeable future. Production had begun prior to the pandemic, but only one episode was shot. Teenage Bounty Hunters was also cancelled.

The Lakers beat the Heat in game 4 of the NBA finals, taking a 3–1 lead in the best of seven series. If they win one of the remaining two games, they will be the champions. While the rest of the Lakers did not play especially well, LeBron James and Anthony Davis shot 50% and played exceptional defense. Fluctuate comes from the Latin fluctus, meaning "wave."

This writer finds some similarities between parenting young children during the pandemic and Raised By Wolves, the new HBO show produced by Ridley Scott. The show tells the story of a couple of androids programmed to raise human children on another planet during an ongoing conflict between two groups of colonists. Immure literally means "to wall in" in Latin.

Two scientists, one French and one American, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Both are women, making this the fourth time that women have won one of the science prizes. Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier developed a technique for gene editing, known as CRISPR, that revolutionized the field of genetic engineering.

The production of Jurassic World: Dominion was stopped after some people on the set tested positive for coronavirus. They all tested negative soon after, but the production halted nonetheless and all the people in question began two weeks of quarantine. The film's release date had just been pushed to June 10 of 2022 by the studio a day before this announcement.

Instagram turned ten, and a lot has changed in that decade. While the app is among the most popular on the planet, others are now rival its popularity. To retain its appeal, the company is adding new features to make it more similar to TikTok, SnapChat, and other competitors. Shrews are little rodents similar to moles that are famous for being mean. But shrewd evolved over time to mean clever in a ruthless sort of way.

Fat Bear Week concluded in Alaska's Katmai Park, and Bear number 747 was proclaimed the winner based on votes cast by the public. 747 beat out Chunk to win the crown, and while he did not give a press conference after his victory, that may be because he was too busy catching salmon and foraging for berries.

Eddie Van Halen, founder and guitarist of the rock band Van Halen, died of cancer at 65. Van Halen was one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, and his extraordinary guitar technique — lightning fast and flamboyant, using his right hand to tap the strings and create shrieking harmonics and wails — made him one of the most influential and imitated musicians of all time.

Spike Lee gave a long interview in which he touched on a number of subjects, particularly the ways in which Black and Brown people kept New York City running during the pandemic. He also spoke about the President, Chadwick Boseman, and his recent films. Zeitgeist literally means "time ghost" in German; it's often used to describe something — often a work of art — that perfectly captures the mood or spirit of a particular time.