Category: <span>Culture</span>

Culture, Culture / Culture News, WIRED25

WIRED25: Ghetto Gastro Sees Food as a Weapon

The tenets of Ghetto Gastro are as follows: Be the catalyst. Empower the community. And “vibes.” For Jon Gray, one-third…

Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Culture / Movies, Digital Culture

How ‘Cuties’ Got Caught in a Gamergate-Style Internet Clash

Even before Netflix released the French film Cuties in the United States, review sites were brimming with emotional audience judgements….

Culture, Culture / TV, Tv

What’s It Like to Be Canceled by Netflix?

When the talking-animal cartoon Tuca & Bertie debuted on Netflix in 2019, it was praised by many (including us) as…

community, Culture, Growth, skyscanner, sosv, Startups, Tips

How to build a scalable growth culture, according to Skyscanner’s former VP of growth

Yara Paoli talks about the five growth factors that companies can tap into to encourage a growth culture among employees….

Culture, Culture / Videogames

The Uncanny Escapism of ‘Flight Simulator 2020’

From a couple thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, real-world mapping data from Bing Maps unfurls from…

Culture, Culture / Culture Podcast

Horror Movies Seem to Really Hate the Suburbs

Hollywood movies usually depict the suburbs as a place of conformity and dark secrets. Horror author Grady Hendrix says this…

Culture, Culture / Culture News

The DNC Is the Best Zoom Meeting of 2020—So Far

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,…

Culture, Culture / Movies

‘Project Power’ Is a Secret Lesson About Science’s Dark Side

Evil gloating seldom contains a genuine science lesson. Mad scientists’ climactic rants are usually you-killed-my-daughter personal or science-shaped mumbo jumbo…

Culture, Culture / Culture Podcast

‘Ultima’ Fandom Is Still Going Strong

Over the past five years, Kenneth Kully has recorded more than 100 episodes of Spam Spam Spam Humbug, a podcast…

Culture, Culture / Culture Podcast

Technology Does Not Eliminate Cruelty

Science fiction author Arkady Martine holds a PhD in Byzantine history, which she puts to good use in her first…