WIRED’s Picks for the 10 Books You Have to Read This Winter
Hello, you’ve reached the winter of our discontent. Or, well, the winter wherein we mark the one-year anniversary of Covid-19
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Your Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His Instagram
Known on Instagram as Dr. Miami, Salzhauer had amassed 90,000 followers. But in early 2015, Instagram shut down his account
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‘The Legend of Zelda,’ ‘Dinky,’ and a Bridge to My Daughter
When winter made its second pandemic appearance here in Montana, I found myself pining to relive my first experience with
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What You Lose When You Turn Into an Animal
So what’s a guy like Joe to do when he lands on his enfelined feet in Soul? The exact thing
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Why Do Exploding Barrels Make Video Games So Much More Fun?
Too often game worlds can feel like static backdrops for gameplay. But by incorporating elemental reactions, developers bring complexity and
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What ‘Hades’ Can Teach Us About Ancient Greek Masculinity
We can’t imagine that most, if any, men looked like kuoroi—Zag himself represents such an ideal. Kuoroi are more like
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The Bygone Glory of Blockbuster’s ‘Pokémon Snap’ Station
Courtesy of RealBreakingNate If you didn’t own Pokémon Snap, you could play a short demo of it on the Pokémon
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With ‘Discovery,’ ‘Star Trek’ Is Finally Moving Forward
In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew have been transported into
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Wikipedia Is Basically a Massive RPG
The first-ever edit to Wikipedia took place on January 15, 2001. Today, the online encyclopedia officially turns 20 years old,
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Why TikTok (and Everyone Else) Is Singing Sea Chanteys
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,
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