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 S5Editor's Note: In another 2003 study of beta-blockers for cardiac disease and hypertension, telling patients that treatment side effects might include erectile dysfunction (ED) led to a doubling of patients reporting this problem compared with those not given information about ED risk. S7'Dune 3' Probably Won't Arrive For At Least 5 Years -- And It Shouldn't   There is an “expectation” that Denis Villeneuve will direct Dune Messiah. But let’s not mark our calendars yet.The story of Paul Atreides will end in darkness. Or maybe not. If and when director Denis Villeneuve tackles Dune 3 — an adaption of the second novel in the series, Dune Messiah — the world of the Atreides and the Fremen will get even more chaotic than it is at the end of Dune: Part Two. Then again, because of how much Villeneuve and co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts deviated from the original novel, it’s possible we don’t actually know what will happen in Dune 3 at all. Either way, using our spice-boosted prescience to accurately predict the arrival and shape of Dune 3 is foolish. Or, right now, it’s at least premature.
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S8The Gold Standard For Measuring Brain Activity Has Been Around For 100 Years  It is 10 years before the scientific community accepts Berger’s work, birthing the field of electroencephalography, or EEG for short.Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced the activity arises from within the brain and coins the term “electroencephalogram.”
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S1535 Years Ago, an Infamous Action Star Made His Wildest Sci-Fi Thriller  In the not-too-distant future, civilization has been destroyed by genocide, starvation, and plague, and chaos reigns in the wastelands surrounding the collapsed Brooklyn Bridge. As guerilla fighters battle amid the desolation, one woman, Pearl Prophet (Dayle Haddon) — who is also, for some reason, a robot — harbors a secret that could save humanity. As menacing baddies led by the ruthless Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) seek to exploit her to monopolize the production of the world-ravaging plague’s cure, a muscled mercenary named Gibson Rickenbacker is tasked with protecting her precious bounty.This is the well-worn premise to 1989’s not-quite-classic sci-fi Cyborg, a bargain bin action dystopia taking its cues from The Terminator and Mad Max. Cyborg boasts vivid production design, the kind of God-awful music later associated with PS1 horror games, and all manner of bizarre eccentricities (why are many characters named after musical instrument manufacturers?). Turning 35 this month, this brazen B-movie remains something of a minor cult classic as a relic of the schlock cinema boom of the late ’80s, when the VHS format breathed new life into martial arts action romps, horror sequels, and low-budget rip-offs.
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S3How Behavioral Science Can Help Us Find Meaning in Our Work  Cheri was 18 months into a two-year role as a child protection worker when I met her. I was assigned to do a ride out with her: eight hours together covering the area around a city somewhere in the United States South. Cheri was warm, open, and clearly brilliant at her job. She was, and for this I was very grateful, the kind of person I knew would make a summer’s day with no air-conditioning as fun as possible.The job is pretty much what you’d expect. Child Protection cases get flagged to a central call center, and the ones that seem especially serious get referred to a team for immediate examination. This team is made up of social workers like Cheri. Each one has around 30 cases at any one time and a period of a week or so to investigate them. There’s some desk work, but most of it involves driving to people’s houses without an appointment and asking them to let you in so you can, as far as they are concerned, assess whether their kids should be in foster care. When I got in the car with Cheri, she said, “I am so glad they sent you today: I’ve got three places out east that I can’t go to alone.” And off we went.
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Editor's Note: 911 dispatchers aren't being thanked for their service or told they can board flights before everyone else. They are just seen as regular call center staff. Given that it's difficult to magic up structural support and elevate the status of an entire profession, it seemed unlikely that something as basic as sharing stories could make a meaningful difference for these workers. But it was worth a try. S14A Geneticist Reveals What It Really Means to Have Viking DNA  In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with that of the 14th-century German Jews, finding many “matches.” These medieval individuals had DNA fragments shared with thousands of people who have uploaded their DNA sequences to an online database, the same way you share DNA fragments with your relatives.We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We understand how exciting it can be to find a genetic link to particular people who lived many generations ago. But these DNA matches aren’t the tight ties you may be imagining. Here’s how it works.
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S20S6Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Released the Most Underrated Racing Game in Nintendo History  When it comes to Nintendo racing games, Mario Kart reigns supreme. But while the company continues to pump out an endless parade of new games and expansions, many of us know deep down that a superior Nintendo racing experience exists.F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, which Nintendo recently added to its Switch Online collection, is what you've been missing. The Game Boy Advance racing sim is set in a purplish version of future Earth, but its pixel city vistas will excavate your oldest desires: to be free, to move fast, and with control. It's what I wanted when I was younger, when Maximum Velocity released in 2001, and it's what I want now, but don't have time to pursue — life so often gets in the way. But Maximum Velocity isn't worried about logistics. It makes pursuing desire feel instinctive.
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S1615 Years Ago, a Misguided Crime Game Pushed the Open-World Genre Forward  The Godfather 2 is widely regarded as one of the most important films ever made, a genuine masterpiece that’s been influential for decades. So how do you go about adapting that kind of film into a video game? Well, it turns out the answer is complicated. The Godfather 2 is a bizarre video game, an experience trying to ride the coattails of Grand Theft Auto’s success, but unwilling to truly do anything interesting with its source material. It’s a Frankenstein monster of two opposing halves: a story that’s a hackneyed retelling of The Godfather 2, juxtaposed against a surprisingly engaging open world crime experience.It’s important to note, of course, that this is a sequel to the first Godfather game, but the sequel’s biggest pitfall is that it tries to take more creative liberties with its narrative, and those changes generally don’t add much of anything. You play as an original character named Dominic, tasked with expanding the Corleone crime empire.
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S1310 Best Modern Star Trek Episodes For New Fans  From Discovery to Picard to Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds, there's a lot of New Star Trek to love.Seven years ago, in 2017, after a 12-year absence, the Star Trek franchise returned to TV. On Sept. 24, 2017, the two-episode debut of Star Trek: Discovery was risky, bold, and, up until it dropped, shrouded in secrecy and more than a little bit of behind-the-scenes drama.
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S17S19Liberals will have difficulty forming government after final Tasmanian results  Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne At the March 23 Tasmanian state election, the Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats, Labor ten, the Greens five, the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) three and independents three. This leaves the Liberals four short of the 18 needed for a majority.
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S4Editor's Note: If you can't find the perfect job somewhere else, often you can try to create a pretty good job where you are. A second strategy careers researchers have identified is what they call "job crafting." This entails reshaping your existing job to give you opportunities to develop and grow. S12These Creative Camera Tricks Are The Secret to Better Eclipse Pics  Despite the advantages of optical cameras, a smartphone’s strengths still make it a great way to capture the eclipse.As the Moon casts its shadow across the Earth during the upcoming solar eclipse, cameras of all kinds will turn skyward. While professional photographers with specialized equipment will aim to capture the perfect shot, others will reach for their smartphones to immortalize this moment.
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S1060 genius solutions to your stupid problems around the house  I'm a science fiction fan, and I thought that, by now, there would be robots available to handle all the annoying household problems. But here we are, still struggling with issues like drafty doors, rotting produce, and sock drawers in chaos. It's all good, though. After boldly going where no AI can, I found 45 solutions to various household issues — and they're all on Amazon. Nothing on this list is too expensive, but all of it is necessary if you want to prepare meals with ease, organize your closet, or create a comfier WFH environment.Put this draft stopper on the bottom of an exterior door to stop drafts, and you might be surprised at what else it stops. Bugs can't get past it, water will go another direction, and even sound can't get through. It's great for keeping the ruckus from your noisy roommates on the other side of the door, too. The unit is easy to install, comes in several colors to match your decor, and is easy to remove. Just cut it to fit, pull off the backing, and stick it on.
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S18Eclipses were once associated with the deaths of kings -- attempting to predict this played a key role in the birth of astronomy  Making interesting predictions is one of the hallmarks of successful science. When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity, an almost immediate test involved the prediction that in a solar eclipse, light from stars that would normally be behind the sun (and thus invisible) would be bent in such a way as to become visible just at the sun’s edges. In 1919, astronomer Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe, off the west coast of Africa, for the solar eclipse, where he managed to observe that exact bending of light. It was a spectacular confirmation.
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S9This Common Adaptation Could Be The Key To Happiness  Creating consistent positive habits in the face of all of life’s other demands is not a trivial request. When you deliver a university course that makes students happier, everybody wants to know what the secret is. What are your tips? What are your top ten recommendations? These are the most asked questions as if there is some quick, surefire path to happiness.
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S11Amazon Keeps Selling Out of These 55 Weird Things With Near-Perfect Reviews  Sometimes weird has a negative connotation but these delightfully unusual items with near-perfect reviews will definitely improve your home, car, and life in general. You need a way to create more closet space out of thin air? It’s here. Or how about a way to mop as you walk? Yep, there’s something to help. Just keep scrolling.Made of heavy-duty stainless steel, these meat claws are able to grab, lift, and shred everything from roasted turkey to smoked pork. They can also be used to grip other foods in the kitchen (like a watermelon). They’re safe to pop in the dishwasher for easy cleaning, too.
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S21S22S23Your child has been prescribed opioids: 7 ways to use them more safely  Imagine your teen has just had surgery. After a few days in hospital, it is time to go home, but their pain is still quite significant. The medical team suggests using acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil) first, but knowing that it might not be enough, they prescribe oxycodone as well. You accept the prescription because you want your child to be comfortable. But you worry, too, as you have read a lot about opioid misuse, addiction and the opioid crisis.
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S24The sun was born when a dense gas cloud collapsed, 4.6 billion years ago  While the upcoming total solar eclipse is a special moment to reflect on our place in the universe, scientists have been studying the birth of the sun and the formation of our solar system for a long time. Our solar system today is mainly composed of a central star — the sun — along with an inner solar system with rocky planets, and an outer solar system with gas and ice giant planets. However, it hasn’t always been that way.
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S25Big government, big trouble? Defending the future of Canada's climate policy  The costs of climate change are piling up, yet almost 70 per cent of Canadians oppose the recent increase in the federal carbon price.Carbon prices work because when fossil fuels cost more, people use less of them. Carbon pricing gives citizens a choice to reduce emissions or to pay the tax, whatever is cheaper. By not prescribing technologies, households are free in choosing the cheapest ways to reduce emissions, be it installing a smart thermostat, switching to a heat pump for their next home heating system or purchasing an electric vehicle as their next car.
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S26Embracing digital spaces: How older immigrants are navigating the infodemic  Occurring in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis was quietly escalating and unnoticed by many — an infodemic characterized by an overload of information, much of it misleading or false. Though concerns of an infodemic started before this time, and can occur with any issue or event, the phenomenon has become so widespread that the term was included into Merriam-Webster’s 2020 list of “words we are watching.” Indeed, since the onset of COVID-19, the public has been exposed to an overwhelming amount of information, often contradictory, about the virus, basic health and safety protocols, efficiency of vaccines, conspiracy theories and exaggerated sensationalist news clips.
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S27Fining big polluters can reduce environmental damage, but only if the fines match the crimes  Some of Canada’s biggest employers have a poor track record of abiding by environmental laws. When laws are broken corporate leaders don’t go to prison; instead, the company is fined. But the fines are rarely severe enough to scare them into changing their ways, let alone enough to make companies repair environmental damage or build a cleaner future.Everyone has seen the headlines over the years: Coal company Teck fined $60M for contaminating rivers in southeastern B.C., Manitoba paper mill fined $1M for leaking toxin into Saskatchewan River and Husky fined $3.8M for 2016 oil spill into North Saskatchewan River. The combined value of these three companies — Teck, Kraft Paper and Cenovus (Husky’s parent corporation) — is over $75 billion.
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S28How patients are using technology to kick-start a healthcare revolution  People navigating the healthcare system can feel like they’re trapped in a labyrinth. They fumble through dark passageways and blind alleys, hand outstretched and each step tentative. All the while, they fear the next corner will hide another monster — disease, injury, or financial ruin — or, perhaps as bad, another dead end.That’s how Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health, describes the reality many face in today’s healthcare system, a reality that can be especially dark for those living with a rare condition. But there are lights in the labyrinth: We aren’t alone. By connecting with and learning from each other, we can help each other better map the maze and find our way through it.
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S29S30S31S323 Keys of Persuasion, According to Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Daniel Kahnman  Daniel Kahneman, the Princeton University psychology professor credited with laying the foundation of behavioral science, died last month at the age of 90. Kahneman and his famed partner, Amos Tversky, uncovered a long list of cognitive biases that affect our thinking and decision-making. In 2011, about a decade after Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work, he published Thinking, Fast and Slow. I revisit it at least once a year because it's the best book on persuasion even though it doesn't have 'persuasion' or 'communication' in the title.Â
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S33Science Says These 10 Songs Are Guaranteed to Make You Really Happy--Right Now  We all want to be happy, but as we know, that's not always possible. A particularly rough day on the job, an argument with a co-worker or boss, an important assignment that doesn't go according to plan--these or any number of other negative things at work can send us to a very unhappy place.The good news is that research conducted by music psychologist Michael Bonshor at the University of Sheffield has found that certain songs can indeed take us from down in the dumps to a very happy place in the wink of an eye.
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S34The Neuroscience of Why Next Week's Total Solar Eclipse Will Make Us All Happier and More United  Given the state of the nation's politics and the near constant drumbeat of grim surveys about the state of our mental health, a whole lot of experts are frantically trying to figure out how to make Americans happier and more united. The eclipse will be visible across a wide arc of the United States on Monday, starting near Houston around 1pm local time and sweeping all the way up to Niagara Falls after 3pm. (The good folks at NASA have you covered if you need any details to make plans.) The event will of course be fascinating from a scientific perspective, but experts insist seeing the sun disappear also stirs up powerful emotions in humans.Â
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S35New Study Shows What's Driving Turnover Among Women In Tech Positions  Historically, women have faced significant obstacles in the predominantly male tech sector, from gender discrimination to a lack of representation in leadership positions. And new data shows that those obstacles have only increased amid the economic turmoil and shifting work culture of the past year.To explore the impact of the evolving tech workplace on women, expert technology adviser Ensono surveyed 1,500 female-identifying, full-time tech employees in the U.S., U.K., and India about their experiences and challenges at work.
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S36March, Markets? It's All Madness. Here's How to Come Out a Champ  Every year, March Madness brings back a chance to learn. Turns out it's the same lesson every year: Styles makes fights. What it means is this: When two forces meet -- forces with very different assets, ideas, and ways of operating -- anything is possible and, more profound, nothing can be counted on. No doubt, the lesson permeates college basketball's end-of-season tournament because every year teams that have never played each other in the regular season and know scant little about each other, suddenly meet. Teams can watch film and strategize, but it's impossible to accurately estimate how they'll respond to a completely foreign style until they actually meet it. That's when styles make fights. And who wins? Be it in college basketball or business, it's the leader and the team ready to adapt.The styles-make-fights lesson suggests that, no matter what your balance sheet as a team suggests, any force can beat any other force when the conditions change. The lesson is vital to business leaders because, as in sports, organizations have a predictable tendency to rely disproportionately on stats and strategy and to conclude that meatier means mightier. Case in point, all too often, a company's current market share, its cash position, the superiority of its technology, or even simply its years of having been on top are in and of themselves considered sufficient to assume it will continue to beat the competition. The college basketball equivalent is assuming that the school with the most trips historically to the Final Four or the biggest war chest for recruiting players and coaches alike is the shoo-in. If this were true, we wouldn't talk about Cinderella stories or blue-blood upsets, or call the whole thing madness.
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S37With Literally Zero Words, Taylor Swift Just Taught a Brilliant Lesson in Emotional Intelligence  I acknowledge: This is a bit of a trick question. Because while it's obviously hard to dig into everything Swift has ever said or written, she is the rare pop artist who has made a ton of money-;but who doesn't make a big deal about the fact that she's made a ton of money.In short, Swift connects with her core fans on so many levels: gender, age, culture, aspirations, relationships. Plus, whether you're into her music or not, she's objectively a very talented songwriter.
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S38S39S40S41Identity Thief Lived as a Different Man for 33 Years It's been a week since the world avoided a potentially catastrophic cyberattack. On March 29, Microsoft developer Andres Freund disclosed his discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils, a compression tool widely used in Linux distributions and thus countless computer systems worldwide. The backdoor was inserted into the open source tool by someone operating under the persona "Jia Tan" after years of patient work building a reputation as a trustworthy volunteer developer. Security experts believe Jia Tan is the work of a nation-state actor, with clues largely pointing to Russia, although definitive attribution for the attack is still outstanding.In early 2022, a hacker operating under the name "P4x" took down the internet of North Korea, after the country's hackers had targeted him. This week, WIRED revealed P4x's true identity as Alejandro Caceres, a 38-year-old Colombian American. Following his successful attack on North Korea, Caceres pitched the US military on a "special forces"-style offensive hacking team that would carry out operations similar to the one that made P4x famous. The Pentagon eventually declined, but Caceres has launched a startup, Hyperion Gray, and plans to further pursue his controversial approach to cyberwarfare.
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S42How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out The shadow of a total solar eclipse will cross some regions of Mexico, the United States, and Canada on April 8. The day will be obscured by a brief false night. The infrequency with which such a phenomenon occurs in that area makes it an anomalous event for the animals that live there. So far, most of the information on animal reactions to an eclipse is anecdotal, but there are scientific efforts to make systematic observations. NASA has a plan to increase our scientific understanding of how animals react to eclipsesâand to make that happen, it needs your help.In a total solar eclipse, the moon is positioned in alignment between the Earth and the sun. To view an eclipse, you need to be on the sunny side of the planet (where it's daytime) and be located directly in the path of the lunar shadow as it occurs. The alignment causes the moon's shadow to be cast on the planet's surface. That such an event occurs in the same place only once every 300 to 400 years does not imply, however, that the phenomenon is rare in general. A total solar eclipse occurs, on average, every 18 months somewhere. Many times it falls over the ocean; its audience is usually marine species.
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S43S44S45Best Privacy Browsers (2024): Brave, Safari, Ghostery, Firefox, DuckDuckGo Google's admission that, yes, it does track you while you're in Chrome's Incognito mode, is just the latest in a long line of unsettling revelations about just how keenly Big Tech keeps an eye on our movements every time we connect to the internet. Billions of data records will now be deleted as part of a settlement to a class action lawsuit brought against Google.As we've written before, Incognito mode and the equivalent modes offered by other browsers aren't as secure as you might think, particularly if you start signing into accounts like Google or Facebook. Your activities and searches as a logged-in user on large platforms can still be recorded, primarily to create advertising that's more accurately targeted toward your demographic.
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S46Creative Aurvana Ace 2 Review: These Solid-State Earbuds Sound Insane 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 WIREDFor those of us who can't stop listening to music on the go, the past decade has been a whirlwind. We've seen the rise of AirPodsâand the associated loss of the headphone jackâin addition to a vast array of microphone, noise-canceling, and other feature improvements that make listening on the go more convenient. One thing we haven't really seen? A big jump in audio quality.
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S477 Best Water Leak Detectors (2024): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors 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 WIREDWater plays an essential role in our homes, but it can also wreak havoc. Burst pipes, leaky toilets, and misbehaving appliances can really dampen your day. Around one in 50 insured homes files a claim related to water damage or freezing every year, according to the Insurance Information Institute, and the average cost of the property damage is about $11,000. The longer a leak goes undetected, the more damage it does, destroying furniture and decorations, spawning mold and fungi, and even threatening structural integrity.
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S4814 Best PlayStation VR2 Games to Play Right Now (2024) 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 WIREDSix years after Sony released its first virtual reality headset, we finally got our hands on the PS VR2. If you can wrap your head around spending more for an accessory than for the console itself, the headset is worth the wait. Sony got rid of the external processor boxes, upped the resolution, and added features like HDR support and advanced eye tracking. It's also really, really comfortableâalmost comfortable enough to make you forget that it's still wired.
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S49S50Claims of TikTok whistleblower may not add up  The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the app may be a national security threat has been shared publicly, in some cases because it remains classified. But one former TikTok employee turned whistleblower, who claims to have driven key news reporting and congressional concerns about the app, has now come forward.
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