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 S28The 8 Best Heart Rate Monitors for Exercise and Fitness   If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThose days of getting a heart rate reading only when you visit your physician are truly a thing of the past. You don’t even have to spend big money or leave your home to get a sense of your heart rate during exercise or at rest.
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S2Katarzynki: Poland's famous gingerbread from Torun  The Polish city of Toruń is famous for being the birthplace of Nikolaus Copernicus – also known as Kopernik – the astronomer who, as we say in Poland, "stopped the Sun, and moved the Earth". But Kopernik is also the name of a company producing the town's famous Toruńskie pierniczki (Toruń gingerbread), which is celebrating its 260th anniversary this year.Many Polish sweets are named after people (a chocolate bar called Grzesiek, or Greg, is a great example), and a type of Toruń gingerbread called katarzynki is no exception. These spiced biscuits, which are covered in chocolate and shaped like a cloud, were most likely named after Katherine of Alexandria, a 4th-Century saint and martyr who is honoured in the Orthodox and Catholic church on 25 November. In Poland, "Katarzynki Day" is often celebrated by young men who wish to get married and is devoted to fortune telling and divination rituals to reveal the name of their future wives. (Women have "Andrzejki Day", or St Andrew's Day, on 30 November.)
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S3O.O.O. Messages for Everyday Life  Thank you for your text! I am out of energy and unable to respond to your very reasonable question about scheduling dinner this weekend. Although you sent a perfectly normal request, I am currently rotting in bed while scrolling on TikTok because every small interaction feels too exhausting. For immediate assistance, please reach out via TikTok direct message. Somehow I am still able to respond to correspondence there.Thank you for ringing the doorbell four times while attempting to drop off a package that requires a signature! Although I did order that package for myself, I panicked that a murderer was trying to break into my apartment and decided not to open the door. This irrational fear is likely related to the fact that I am currently on the couch bingeing “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” which is inexplicably my comfort watch when I am feeling overwhelmed by life. I have not left my apartment in twenty-seven hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding. I plan to not hide in the bathroom during your second attempt to deliver the package tomorrow.
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S4Justin Torres's Art of Exposure and Concealment  According to the author Justin Torres, "backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind." That explains why his first novel, "We the Animals," which is told from the shared perspective of three young brothers in upstate New York, unfolds not as a narrative but as a string of vignettes. The semi-autobiographical novel describes a family with not enough money or status to satisfy its hungers for food, dignity, safety, or belonging. The boys, born to a white mother and a Puerto Rican father, are halfway feral: their father, who has an explosive temper, disappears for days at a time; their mother works the overnight shift at a brewery. Parental love is abundant but expressed complexly, through touch, hard and soft, through delirious predawn meat loaves."We the Animals" came out in 2011, rocketing Torres, then in his early thirties, to literary stardom. He'd graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop the year before and would go on to Stanford, as a Stegner Fellow, and the University of California, Los Angeles, as a professor of writing. After the novel was published, the National Book Foundation put Torres on its "5 Under 35" list of fiction writers; Salon named him one of the sexiest men of the year. A film adaptation was released, in 2018, to quiet fanfare.
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S5The Best Home-Invasion Thriller of 2023 Brought Back an Underrated Genre  We’re living in an interesting era for horror movies. Over the past decade, filmmakers like Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, and Jennifer Kent have brought interesting new perspectives to the genre, while the creation of streaming services like Netflix and Shudder has made it easier for filmmakers to get their low-budget thrillers in front of more viewers. Never before has the horror field felt quite as diverse, experimental, or exciting.But no matter how — dare we say it — elevated the genre becomes, its fans will always be hungry for new versions of the cold-blooded, straightforward thrillers that have been the cornerstones of horror for decades. That’s where films like Sick come in. The underrated slasher doesn’t reinvent the wheel or do anything particularly out of the box. It’s a bare-bones, by-the-numbers home invasion movie that’ll remind you why certain formulas don’t always need to be broken.
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S6Iconic, Abandoned Stone Walls In New England Contain A Hidden Secret  Natural scientists have been working to quantify this phenomenon, which is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China. The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets, and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere — a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils.
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S7Marvel Is Doing Everything Right to Save the MCU in 2024 -- But Is It Enough?  2023 has been a year of a few highs and many lows for Marvel Studios. While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Loki Season 2 both received plenty of praise, Secret Invasion, The Marvels, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania all produced lackluster results. Secret Invasion and Quantumania, in particular, received some of the worst criticisms of any Marvel Cinematic Universe titles to date (and for good reason). December, meanwhile, has seen one of Marvel’s most turbulent years end with the unorthodox release of What If…? Season 2 and the studio officially parting ways with Kang the Conqueror actor Jonathan Majors.Heading into 2024, Marvel seems fully committed to adopting a less-is-more approach. The studio is set to release an uncharacteristically small number of new titles and seems intent on righting the increasingly directionless ship that has been the MCU these past few years. But can the studio’s 2024 slate actually get the MCU back on track? Right now, the answer to that question seems to be both “yes” and “no.”
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S810 Years Ago, an Incredible Sci-Fi Movie Predicted a Life-Changing Technology  Imagine a perfect partner: One who always texts back, listens, and remembers even the most insignificant details about your life.The cherry on top? If you’re tired or need space, you can switch them off. That’s the appeal of AI programs created for connection, and it’s hardly surprising people are falling in love with them.In the Oscar-winning movie Her (released a decade ago in December 2013) director Spike Jonze explores this complex relationship between humans and AI in poignant detail. In the film, lonely and introverted writer Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is going through a painful divorce when he upgrades his operating system to an advanced AI (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), which names itself Samantha. Aside from not having a body, Samantha is completely lifelike. She learns, grows, expresses emotion, and creates art. By all accounts, she’s as sentient as Theodore, and the two of them quickly form an emotional connection that evolves into a deep love affair.
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S9Did Marvel Just Casually Put an End to Its Messy Multiverse Saga?  The Marvel Cinematic Universe just spent three long years deeply entrenched in the multiverse, and not every attempt has been successful. Now, in 2023, the lasting legacy of the Multiverse Saga basically amounts to a few movies, Loki, and the ongoing animated anthology What If...? Technically, the entire arc could still come to a crescendo in the next Avengers movie, but the apparently untitled crossover movie is currently such an unknown that we wouldn’t bet on it. Avengers 5 could still be Kang Dynasty or even Secret Wars, but it could just as easily wind up being Avengers: Return of Thanos.
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S10The Best Post-Apocalypse Games of 2023 Reveal an Exciting New Trend  Countless catastrophes have followed the Wasteland’s nuclear winter since Interplay brought the post-apocalypse to gaming. In 35 years, we’ve seen Fallout’s Cold War vision of irradiated landscapes and collapsed cities, The Last of Us’ fungal zombie pandemic, and Horizon Zero Dawn’s turning climate disaster into robot apocalypse. Recently, Saltsea Chronicles and Jusant felt anthropogenic climate change — not nuclear bombs or zombie hordes — would end the world as we know it.That scenario feels hard to dispute when climate change dominates the headlines, our communities, industries, and darkest nightmares. COP28 announced the beginning of the end of fossil fuels, but 2023 ends with record-high temperature rises and fossil fuel emissions.
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S1165 Cheap Things on Amazon That Are Amazeballs  Contrary to what you might see on social media, you don’t have to spend a fortune or dedicate hours to improve your daily life. Whether you’re gearing up for a camping trip or redecorating your home, bringing a spark of joy into your life doesn’t have to cost a lot. Take a look at these amazing wallet-friendly gadgets, and you’ll instantly understand why. No matter where life takes you, this collapsible water bottle keeps you hydrated. Its watertight seal prevents spills, and when you're finished sipping and ready to go, simply collapse it down and stash it in the side pocket of your bag. That way, you'll use less plastic and drink more water throughout the day.
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S122023's Gutsiest Movies Revealed an Eye-Opening Trend  What happens when directors beloved for their films of male camaraderie turn a critical eye back on themselves?2023 was the year that dudes didn’t rock. In fact, it was the year that dudes found themselves being mercilessly held accountable in a slew of movies that took an astonishingly clear-eyed view of the actions of men in power. Whether it was the atomic angst of Oppenheimer, the banal evil of Killers of the Flower Moon, the impotent fury of Napoleon, or the capitalistic pressures of Ferrari, the dudes, in other words, were not all right. But the most interesting thing about these movies being made about how dudes didn’t rock, were that they were mostly being made by “dudes rock” directors. Let me explain.
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S13'Dune's Timeliest Sci-Fi Concept Is Missing From the Movies for a Crucial Reason  The future of 10,191 in Dune is lacking in one thing you see in a lot of far-future science fiction: computers. Frank Herbert’s sci-fi saga takes place in the distant aftermath of a massive conflict between “thinking machines” and humans called the Butlerian Jihad, which ended with humanity outlawing all forms of artificial intelligence. In the absence of computers and AI, humans stepped in, leading to a profession of super-intelligent people known as the Mentats.But here’s the thing: Most screen adaptations of Dune downplay the Mentats a bit, including Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming movie, Dune: Part Two. During CCXP 2023 earlier this month, Villeneuve explained why, beyond Thufir Hawat (Stephen McKinley Henderson), you don’t see a ton of Mentats in either of his Dune films. Here’s what that is, and how a third Dune movie might fix it.
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S14How to Find All Underdark Entrances In 'Baldur's Gate 3'  Beneath the world in Act I of Baldur’s Gate 3 lies an intricate cave system known as the Underdark. While you might otherwise avoid underground locales because of their spooky nature, it would behoove you to know how to navigate the Underdark to complete both side and main quests in Baldur’s Gate 3. Here’s a guide on where each of the Underdark’s four entrances are and Underdark has four discoverable entrances in Act I. Here are their locations and how to access them.
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S15Preparing for Your Next Career Move  Thinking about your next career move can feel daunting, but there are ways to cope. Our first chart, “Mapping Your Past to Plan Your Future,” helps you ask important questions about your life. For example, does the job or career you want meet your needs? Why? And how? Knowing your negotiables (and nonnegotiables) can help you evaluate opportunities that offer different directions.
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S16S17S18S19S20S21S22S23Champagne stoppers in space: How cork will protect the next spacecraft to visit the Moon  The space age has brought the world many cutting-edge gadgets and innovative new materials – from super-strong alloys and memory foam to freeze dried foods and the sensors in your mobile phone camera. Advanced technologies such as these have helped Nasa and its fellow space agencies push ever further into the vastness of outer space. So, it might be something of a surprise to see the next era of space exploration relying on a much humbler substance as humans aim to return to the Moon and even beyond to Mars – cork.This ancient material – which is harvested from the bark of trees that grow around the Mediterranean – is probably most familiar as stoppers in wine and champagne bottles. But its extraordinary properties has seen it used in crucial bits of space rocket hardware and it could come to play an even greater role in years to come.
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