Transgender and gender-nonconforming people continue to fight for equal rights, despite persistent attacks from conservative lawmakers in the United States and abroad. While many members of the LGBTQ+ community might not feel safe at all, given recent events, trans women of color remain the most vulnerable to discrimination and violence. …
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Buying the best treadmill for your home gym is a big commitment. Even the more affordable models are pricey. They take up a lot of space, and if you’ve ever come across a busted belt or a broken screen, you know how frustrating they can be. That being said, having …
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As Crocodile Dundee always knew, there are knives and then there are knives. And there’s nothing more mannish than paying a lot for a hand-hewn tool that will serve you for life, and then telling everyone you meet about the majesty of said tool. Geoff Feder, the maker of this …
Read More »How to Buy a Bike Helmet (2025)
After more than a decade of study and design, Mips launched its first product, a proprietary helmet, in 2007. Soon after, Mips became what’s known as an “ingredient brand,” selling its technology to megabrands such as Giro, Smith, and Specialized. Hence, the now-ubiquitous little yellow logo. Are There Other Safety …
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It’s not easy keeping up with everything that’s written on the web, especially not if you’ve got a dozen open browser tabs vying for your attention. This is where read-it-later apps come in. These apps let you siphon off articles you want to get back to later, at a more …
Read More »A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms, ones that not only did not exist at an earlier stage of evolution but could not possibly have existed. From the soup of single-celled organisms that constituted life on Earth …
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Dell is in the middle of a transition. It has a new logo, and a new simplified approach to branding. The Dell 14 Plus is among the first laptop to launch to test the waters in this new era, which is seeing the end of subbrands like XPS and Inspiron. …
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My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early the next year. Everyone kept telling me, “Wait till you meet Bill and Andy,” referring to Atkinson and …
Read More »Best Backpacking Tents (2025), WIRED-Tested and Reviewed
Shopping for tents you’ll quickly find yourself immersed in a world of unfamiliar terms, trying to decipher what it means that a DFC pyramid has a welded bathtub floor. Here’s our guide to the terms you need to understand. Single/Double Walled: A double walled tent is the most common, consisting …
Read More »Tech Up Your Sourdough With These Upper-Crust Baking Gadgets
Controlling the temperature is also extremely helpful once you start making bread. SourHouse, which came out with the starter-coddling Goldie a few years back, just released the DoughBed ($280), a heated, happy place for dough to rise, if you can afford that hefty price. Sourdough loaves often have two separate …
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