Suzan Oslin

🚀 making #exoplanet exploration accessible while teaching about the conditions that make life on earth possible in #VR #data + #design @UXXRdesign

[Suzan Oslin @realityCheckGal]

Universal wisdom from @NASA

[NASA @NASA]

It’s okay if you don’t feel sparkly today. It's cool if you're not feeling it. Step back for a bit. There’s just one problem.

You already sparkle. Maybe you don’t see it, but others do. You belong, just like every star in this star cluster belongs.

[Suzan Oslin @realityCheckGal]

He tried to save his wife through the video game they loved—and nearly lost himself. Then he signed up to lead a fledgling team of gamers in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Brendan I. Koerner #WIRED #Backchannel video games, Esports, college, longreads https://t.co/OAOvgwOqKa

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Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

Matt Ribel #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, natural disasters, power grid, coronal mass ejection https://t.co/FCta8wS0oc

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A truly planetary politics would extend decisionmaking to animals, ecosystems, and potentially AI.

James Bridle #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Book Excerpt, animals, politics https://t.co/27H6yYEUeR

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In a queer vacation hot spot on Cape Cod, an ad hoc community proved that Americans can stifle large outbreaks—if they want to.

Maryn McKenna #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, COVID-19, Delta, public health, LGBTQ+ https://t.co/kdYQW8zJok

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A dispatch from the Amazon: A beloved leader was the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die of Covid—a loss entwined with her people’s fight for sovereignty.

Fábio Zuker #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, COVID-19, climate change, Ecology, nature, climate https://t.co/EoYCbjAoGD

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In a one-on-one interview with WIRED, the embattled president expresses clarity amidst the chaos.

Geoffrey Cain #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Ukraine, Russia, war, cyberwar, cybersecurity, technology, Social Media https://t.co/yYd3OomG4x

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He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradictions.

Jennifer Kahn #WIRED #Backchannel Cover Story, longreads, Thor, Marvel, Movies https://t.co/rgfgzGwhog

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The acerbic optimist thinks anxious people (like me) need to move on from Covid and start planning for the next vicious pathogen.

Steven Levy #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Bill Gates, vaccines, COVID-19, pandemics, public health https://t.co/HO3R34O7R0

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Crypto dreamers want to free us from Big Tech and exploitative capitalism—using only the blockchain, game theory, and code. What could possibly go wrong?

Gilad Edelman #WIRED #Backchannel Cover Story, longreads, Web3, Blockchain, cryptocurrency https://t.co/SEMZhlkNg5

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The Chinese company has become a fast-fashion juggernaut by appealing to budget-conscious Gen Zers. But its ultralow prices are hiding unacceptable costs.

Vauhini Vara #WIRED #Backchannel longreads https://t.co/CWTGrN9bre

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In her new science fiction book ‘The Memory Librarian,’ the artist and Afrofuturist icon creates an apocalyptic—and hopeful—vision of the future.

Mary Retta #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Books, Essay, science fiction https://t.co/rEYxUu6M9H

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Born from Alphabet's "moon shot" division, the startup aims to sell earbuds that can collect heaps of neural data—and uncover the mysteries of gray matter.

Steven Levy #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Neuroscience, Wearables, Sleep, Startups, medicine https://t.co/1uwjMyUOaF

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Don Cameron went all in on a trickle-down survival tactic. It could help save America’s agricultural heartland—even if he doesn’t survive the new water war.

Susie Cagle #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, California drought, flood, climate change https://t.co/bswq8IxXtf

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The users of the largest known child sex abuse site in history thought their bitcoins were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Andy Greenberg #WIRED #Backchannel Cover Story, longreads, dark web, cryptocurrency, bitcoin https://t.co/edhlodpARe

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It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon combined. It took 20 days for everything to crumble.

Paul Starobin #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine, Google, Yandex https://t.co/AFe0NlrGOo

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How one man came to rule political speech on Facebook, command one of the largest lobbies in DC, and guide Zuck through disaster—and straight into it.

Benjamin Wofford #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Facebook, The Facebook Papers, politics, elections https://t.co/ZfVMPPSaDs

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In 2018, an Uber autonomous vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian. In a WIRED exclusive, the human behind the wheel finally speaks.

Lauren Smiley #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Self-Driving Cars, Uber, Tesla https://t.co/L8q7CJDbMd

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Within the long history of telecommunication in nature, the web can be seen not as a mere tool, but as a living system.

Justin E. H. Smith #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, Book Excerpt, Ecology, Internet https://t.co/WrYmBAX5d2

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Born in a cowshed in India, Siddhant now works for Meta in California. But he hides his background as a Dalit and fears he can never reveal his true self.

Sonia Paul #WIRED #Backchannel longreads, india, discrimination, Meta, Silicon Valley https://t.co/1sB9UkR0R8