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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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 31, 20228 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 28, 20229 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 27, 20228 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 26, 20224 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 25, 202211 min

The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps

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Oct 24, 202211 min

Ukraine Could Never Afford to Bet on Starlink

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Oct 21, 202210 min

War Is an Ecological Disaster—but Ukraine Can Build Back Greener

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Oct 20, 20229 min

Ebola Is Back—and Vaccines Don’t Work Against It

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Oct 19, 20228 min

If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon

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Oct 18, 20228 min

When Algorithms Promote Self-Harm, Who Is Held Responsible?

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Oct 17, 202212 min

Celsius Exchange Data Dump Is a Gift to Crypto Sleuths—and Thieves

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Oct 16, 202212 min

US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry

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Oct 13, 20228 min

Bam! NASA Says DART Really Clocked That Asteroid

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Oct 12, 20225 min

Hurricane Ian Destroyed Their Homes. Algorithms Sent Them Money

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Oct 11, 20226 min

The Fight to Cut Off the Crypto Fueling Russia’s Ukraine Invasion

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Oct 10, 20229 min

A Swatting Spree Is Terrorizing Schools Across the US

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Oct 7, 202210 min

The Psychological Impact of Consuming True Crime

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Oct 6, 20226 min

The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Forming Carbonate Crystals

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Oct 5, 20227 min

US Cities Are Recycling Trees and Poop to Make Compost

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Oct 4, 20227 min

Hurricane Ian Is a Warning From the Future

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Oct 3, 20227 min

How Bots Corrupted Advertising

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Sep 30, 20228 min

When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’?

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Sep 29, 20228 min

The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job

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Sep 28, 202211 min

Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It

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Sep 27, 20227 min

A Danish City Built Google Into Its Schools—Then Banned It

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Sep 26, 202210 min

US Lawmakers Push Tech Firms on Abortion Benefits for Gig Workers

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Sep 23, 20226 min

What Happens to Everything With Queen Elizabeth II’s Image?

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Sep 21, 20229 min

What Charles the ‘Activist King’ Means for the Climate

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Sep 20, 20229 min

How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease

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Sep 19, 20226 min

Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why

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Sep 16, 20229 min

A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Grocery Aisles. Will the US Bite?

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Sep 15, 20228 min

The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid

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Sep 13, 202212 min

How Does a Variant-Specific Covid Booster Work?

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Sep 12, 20226 min

It’s Time to Make Cities More Rural

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Sep 9, 202212 min

The Tricky Ethics of Being a Teacher on TikTok

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Sep 8, 202213 min

An Effort to ID Tulsa Race Massacre Victims Raises Privacy Issues

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Sep 7, 202210 min

‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love

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Sep 6, 20228 min

Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button

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Sep 2, 20228 min

For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else

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Sep 1, 20229 min

A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply Chain Chaos

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Aug 31, 202214 min

NASA Delays the Launch of Its Giant Moon-bound Rocket

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Aug 30, 20225 min

Their Photos Were Posted Online. Then They Were Bombed

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Aug 29, 20228 min

Humans Are Revisiting the Moon—and the Rules of Spacefaring

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Aug 26, 202210 min

Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened

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Aug 25, 202211 min

The Twitter Whistleblower Plays Right Into Elon Musk’s Hands

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Aug 24, 20226 min

These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

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Aug 23, 20226 min

Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy

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Aug 22, 20227 min

Europe’s Plan to Wean Itself off Russian Gas Just Might Work

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Aug 19, 20229 min

This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface

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Aug 18, 20229 min

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