by crissly | Sep 17, 2019 | Science, Science / Physics and Math
Speed climbing is a real sport. In fact, it will be one of three new climbing events in next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The goal is to scale a 15-meter wall and slap a timer button at the top before your opponent in an adjacent lane does. The wall has...
by crissly | Sep 16, 2019 | Culture, Culture / Culture News, Culture / Movies
Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s collection of all things pop culture. Today we’re celebrating J.J. Abrams’ huge deal with WarnerMedia and mourning the death of MoviePass. Join us, won’t you? The Cast for The Suicide...
by crissly | Sep 15, 2019 | Culture, Culture / Videogames
Competitive videogamer Billy Mitchell is threatening “legal recourse” against Guinness World Records and the Twin Galaxies scoreboard if they don’t retract “defamatory statements” against him and reinstate his expunged game score world...
by crissly | Sep 14, 2019 | Photo
The god Jupiter was a cheating punk. Always sleeping with mortals was he, and enshrouding himself with thick clouds so his wife wouldn’t know what he was up to. Except, ha! His wife Juno had the power to see through his fake atmosphere. Which, obviously, is why...
by crissly | Sep 13, 2019 | Security, Security / National Security
Bolton could be a divisive figure even among Republicans. Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning isolationist from Kentucky, danced on Bolton’s political grave on Tuesday afternoon during an impromptu conference call with reporters. But even he refuses to buy the...
