Five Reasons Warren Zevon Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
Warren Zevon, one of the great singer-songwriters of his generation, has been eligible for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction since 1994 but had…
Rock Hall Boss Calls 2023 Nomination List Exciting and Fun
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame CEO Greg Harris said the nomination list for the class of 2023 was “exciting” and “fun,” and looked forward…
Skindred Song Goes Viral With TikTok Dance, Lead Singer Responds
The Welsh reggae metal band Skindred have a viral TikTok hit on their hands after their 2005 single “Nobody” recently caught fire with a dance…
Earth’s First Stable Dose of Oxygen Nearly Ended All Life
The world was an unrecognizable place more than 2.45 billion years ago. But for most of the tiny organisms that lived on the planet at…
‘The Last of Us’ Is All I Want to Talk About Right Now
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Around the…
A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?
“Something’s happened,” I told my wife. She is a veteran of watching me try to fix my body. I told her: Where before my brain…
What Would Earth’s Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere?
OK, a couple of quick points. This is just the surface temperature of the Earth. Since the light from the sun just hits the surface…
Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
In mid-2021, Gabor Cselle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch out ideas for new startups. On the first page, he wrote “T2” and began…
Joe Elliott Spent Most of Stadium Tour in ‘Total Isolation’
Joe Elliott said he spent most of the Stadium Tour with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett in “total isolation” as “the price of doing…
Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
The fear and trepidation over accidentally letting a secret slip is also hammered into lawmakers’ intelligence staffers, who handle the classified material as further protection…