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Oct 31, 2022 • 8min
Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos
The entrepreneur’s laundry list of ideas includes scrapping content moderation, charging subscription fees, and even branching out beyond social media.
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Oct 28, 2022 • 10min
Where Did Omicron Come From? Maybe Its First Host Was Mice
The Covid virus can infect many animal species. The variant that tore through human populations last winter may have previously circulated in rodents.
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Oct 27, 2022 • 8min
After the Flood, the Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Hurricane Ian unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in its wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.
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Oct 26, 2022 • 5min
Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites
Farmers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com.
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Oct 25, 2022 • 12min
Worried About Nuclear War? Consider the Micromorts
Calculating the likelihood of dying in a nuclear conflict sounds like an impossible task, but it could give us a whole new way to think about the risk. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Check back in tomorrow to hear more stories from WIRED.com.
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Oct 24, 2022 • 12min
The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps
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Oct 21, 2022 • 10min
Ukraine Could Never Afford to Bet on Starlink
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Oct 20, 2022 • 9min
War Is an Ecological Disaster—but Ukraine Can Build Back Greener
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Oct 19, 2022 • 9min
Ebola Is Back—and Vaccines Don’t Work Against It
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Oct 18, 2022 • 9min
If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon
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