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In the second episode of Netflix’s docuseries Trigger Warning, rapper Killer Mike meets with a group of Atlanta-area first graders who are eager to talk about what they want to be when they grow up. The answers are what they’ve seemingly been for decades—scientist, pediatrician, president—but Mike’s not here for aspirations. “You owe your parents…

Last summer, southern Florida nearly ran out of water. It wasn’t drought—actually, the opposite. The state got way too much rain, which flushed nutrients from over-fertilized farms into its canals and reservoirs. All the extra food led to a massive algal bloom, a skim of blue-green slime that smells like rotten eggs and poisons humans.…

At the SynDaver factory in Tampa, Florida, mad scientists are bringing bodies to life. Not Frankensteining the dead, but using a library of polymers to craft synthetic cadavers that twitch and bleed like real suffering humans. Hospitals and med schools use the fakes to teach anatomy and train surgeons, and the most lifelike model is…

The flood of trolling on Rotten Tomatoes started about a month ago. Weeks before the release of Captain Marvel, commenters on the site were already claiming the movie was garbage and that they had no intentions of seeing it. "Terrible movie hate it already!!!!!!" wrote one. "Not interested in seeing another SJW [Social Justice Warrior]…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost died. Evslin grew up on Kauai, a nub of a former volcano at the oldest end of the Hawaiian archipelago, but he was living on…

For nearly two decades, I met Stan Lee for lunch about once every month or two. In the 1990s and into the 2000s I was writing for Wizard magazine, which at the time was kind of a catch-all, 800-pound gorilla in the comics business. And Stan, as we all learned from his many MCU cameos,…

Click:China Flexographic Printing Machine Manufacturer Sometime in the next few days, a DHC-6 Twin Otter ski plane will circle the British Halley VI Antarctic base, look for the landing strip, and touch down on a floating ice shelf. Two plumbers, an electrician, and an engineer will grab their gear, check their satphone, and wave goodbye…

With the weekend behind us, it's time for another installment of The Monitor, WIRED's roundup of the latest in the world of culture, from box-office news to announcements about hot new trailers. In today's installment: Stranger Things readies for its third season; a new look at Godzilla: King of the Monsters surfaces; and Aquaman makes…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Forecasters expect Hurricane Harvey to make landfall late today as a major hurricane—the first to hit the United States since 2005. That’s scary enough. But even more troubling: It’s on target to strike a part of the Texas coast where the recent growth of the…

We asked five staffers to compile a list of their favorite books of all time. The results are deliciously, mind-expandingly eclectic. Peter Rubin, Platforms Editor:The first season of HBO's True Detective delivered one of pop culture's jaw-droppingest tracking shots—that helicopter!—but it also gave us perhaps the greatest meme ever to flow from Nietzsche's doctrine of…