If you would prefer to look a little less like Paddington Bear on your everyday city outings, I also recommended Adidas’ Rain.Rdy City Jacket ($260) from this year’s Wish List. While our other recommendations are pretty formless, the Rain.Rdy is incredibly stylish, and the women’s version cinches at the waist to give you a shape.… Continue reading 5 Best Rain Jackets (2022): Cheap, Eco-Friendly, Hiking, and Running
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The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints at an even richer past. The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is teeming with dozens of fossils of ancient marine reptiles. That bone bed is so abundant and weird that researchers have been… Continue reading The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Everrati GT40 2023 First Drive: Fast, Furious
Any thoughts of fast-charging equalling practicality are erased, however, when you try to get into the thing. The “40” in the GT40’s name is a reference to how high it is off the ground: just 40 inches (just over 100 cm). It comes with high sills, in this case full of batteries, and a tiny… Continue reading Everrati GT40 2023 First Drive: Fast, Furious
These At-Home Skincare Tools Make Beauty Feel Accessible
Beauty feels beyond my reach. This isn’t about self-deprecation, I swear. I’m talking about accessing the tools that can help you feel beautiful. Facials and fillers and blowouts seem expensive and exclusive to celebrities and influencers. Like Ariel from The Little Mermaid, I want to be a part of that world, but my jaw dropped… Continue reading These At-Home Skincare Tools Make Beauty Feel Accessible
14 Best Sleep Gadgets and Apps (2022): Noise Machines, Blankets, Lights, and More
Somnox 2 for $599: Offering all the same features as the original in a more compact package with better battery life and an improved speaker, the Somnox 2 (6/10, WIRED Review) can help you drift off. The addition of Bluetooth streaming (iOS only for now) to listen to your own choice of content is also… Continue reading 14 Best Sleep Gadgets and Apps (2022): Noise Machines, Blankets, Lights, and More
An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, navigation system monitors reported this week that they’ve detected a rise in GPS disruptions in Russian cities, ever since Ukraine began mounting long-range drone attacks. Elsewhere, a lawsuit against Meta alleges that a lack of adequate hate-speech moderation on Facebook led to violence that exacerbated Ethiopia’s civil war. … Continue reading An Alleged Russian Smuggling Ring Was Uncovered in New Hampshire
Charge ’67 EV Review: Exclusive Style, Premium Price
Cross-breeds are all the rage in the dog world right now. There’s the cockapoo, springador, puggle and labsky; the morkie, chiweenie and whoodle. The idea of these “designer dogs” is you get a kind of genetic Goldilocks breed, with the best characteristics from both parents: the loving loyalty of a retriever, for example, with the fluffy… Continue reading Charge ’67 EV Review: Exclusive Style, Premium Price
No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk
Musk changed his tune this week after he alleged a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying his young son. Questions about the incident remain, and it’s not clear how an account tweeting aircraft location data publicly available via many sources could be linked to a car incident. But it was enough to provoke Musk to… Continue reading No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk
Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account was frozen and he was locked out. But across the world, leaders have tweeted in support of genocide and threatened violence, yet none of them have been banned from the platform. Less than six months… Continue reading Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
Picture the world 4.4°C hotter than preindustrial levels by the end of this century. That was one of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report predictions for scenarios with either unabated emissions rise or immediate climate action. But unless you’ve pored over climate models and understand the intricacy of tipping points to a tee, it’s unlikely that… Continue reading Storytelling Will Save the Earth