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Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data

While the eye is superior at perceiving sizes and ratios, the ear is better at detecting patterns that occur over *time*. Enter: sonification.

You probably know that ditching meat from your diet is healthier and better for the planet. But what if it were better for your wallet? Or schedule?

Millennials have gotten a bad rap. Graying Gen Xers are the ones who can't get their faces out of their screens.

Right now society has an epidemic of the opposite: too many people with a bulldog unwillingness to admit when they’re factually wrong.

The country desperately needs more egghead lawmakers. Right now, Capitol Hill has almost none.

Fidget spinners are a way to cope with our sedentary, deskbound lifestyles. They also have cognitive benefits. The post Your Fidget Spinner Is (Maybe) Making You Smarter appeared first on WIRED.

Fidget spinners are a way to cope with our sedentary, deskbound lifestyles. They also have cognitive benefits.

Coastal cities worldwide are pumping more than $280 billion a year into an Adaptation Economy, an amount increasing by more than 4 percent annually. The post Coastal Inundation Reveals the Upside of Climate Change appeared first on WIRED.

There are trillions of dollars of raw materials floating around up there inside asteroids. Who has the rights to harvest them?