The Best Juicers For Making Green Juices, Nut Milks and Smoothies
WIRED Recommends the best juicers – no longer a novelty device, they can handle everything from green juices to late night aperitifs.Continue Reading
2021-11-22
COVID travel restrictions have created new borders for migrants who want to visit home
Sopotnicki / Shutterstock In the early days of the pandemic, many countries closed their borders to stop the spread of COVID-19. International travel has continued to be limited with changing caveats, including “essential” travel only, restrictions on travellers from particular countries and vaccination “passports”. While a necessary public health measure,Continue Reading
2021-11-22
All the Good Early Black Friday Deals You Can Get Right Now
WIRED approved picks from Apple, Samsung, Shark and more are discounted ahead of Black FridayContinue Reading
2021-11-21
Covid: 4,181 new cases amid warning of ‘enormous burden’ on health system
A further 4,181 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the Republic, as the chief medical officer said the country still had time to reverse the trajectory of the disease. Dr Tony Holohan called on people to follow the public health advice and asked anyone eligible for a booster toContinue Reading
2021-11-21
All the (Actually) Good Early Deals in the Black Friday Sales
WIRED approved picks from Apple, Samsung, Shark and more are discounted ahead of Black FridayContinue Reading
2021-11-20
Black and Asian women are more likely to experience stillbirth or die during pregnancy: why and what can be done
wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock Adverse birth outcomes in England – which include stillborn babies, premature birth, low birth weight and the death of the mother during pregnancy or after birth – are closely linked to inequality. A report on maternal deaths in the UK has found that in comparison to white women, blackContinue Reading
2021-11-20
Refugees in the media: how the most commonly used images make viewers dehumanise them
When the Syrian refugee crisis began in 2011, the journeys of thousands of people fleeing their home country to cross the Mediterranean were widely documented in the media. But the public response was tepid until 2015, when a photograph of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach wasContinue Reading
2021-11-20
Hideouts, harbours and homes: how vikings may have owed their success to their encampments
Artist's impression of the viking camp established in 873 at Repton (Derbyshire, England). Compost Creative, Author provided For many years, archaeologists and historians have provided an increasingly informed insight into the dynamic world of the vikings, chipping away at the clichés of a crazed, capricious people preoccupied with beards andContinue Reading
2021-11-20
Modern warfare: ‘precision’ missiles will not stop civilian deaths – here’s why
Modern guided missiles and bombs are capable of incredible, almost science-fiction-like precision. To research my book, Reaper Force, about the lives of drone operators, I was allowed to watch RAF MQ-9 Reaper drones in real-time action in Syria. I sat with a three-person crew at a ground-control station in CreechContinue Reading
2021-11-19
Sleaze: why Boris Johnson is being reminded of the lurid scandals of 1990s Britain
Alamy/PA The “Teflon premier” has finally encountered something that may stick: the revival of a word first heard the last time a British Conservative government entered its second decade – but with a twist that’s very much of the age of Boris Johnson. “Sleaze” is squarely associated with the “shortContinue Reading
2021-11-19