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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 10.23.21   HAPPY HAUNTING! | 5-MINUTE READ How to Find a Halloween Costume in Another Bizarre Year BY MEDEA GIORDANO Should you match your mask? Can you thrift online? Here are our tips for buying or making costumes, including adaptable and accessible ones.   DOT PHYSICS | 7-MINUTE READ If Clouds Are Made of Water, How Do They Stay in the Air? BY RHETT ALLAIN Despite the conventional wisdom, they don't really float.   SPICE WORLD | 3-MINUTE READ With Dune, Frank Herbert Designed the Maxi Pad of the Future BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Don't tell him, but the legendary sci-fi writer came up with a pretty creative way to pull moisture away from you.   BUYING GUIDE | 10-MINUTE READ Considering a MacBook? Here Are Our Favorites BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU AND BRENDA STOLYAR Apple's laptops are expensive, and you'll have to make some hard choices to pick the right one. Let us help. GET WIRED Fall Sale: Get WIRED for just $10 $5. Get the print edition and exclusive subscriber-only content. You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.   SCRUB IN | 4-MINUTE READ EVE Online Gamers Role-Play as Covid-19 Researchers BY PAYAL DHAR A citizen science project based in this MMO space opera has saved scientists almost 500 years of mind-numbing data crunching.   IDEAS | 8-MINUTE READ How to Govern the Metaverse BY LUCY SPARROW To build healthy communities in virtual reality, we must move beyond automated penalties toward proactive forms of governance.   NEW ROOTS | 5-MINUTE READ This Prairie Grassland Project Collects Native Seeds BY KYLIE MOHR Young members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community are learning how to identify and save local grasses as part of an effort to restore the land.   PAY ATTENTION | 5-MINUTE READ Dystopia Is Upon Us. Are You Ready? BY COURTNEY COONROD From constant surveillance to algorithms that decide what we see, society is entering territory reserved for fictional dystopias. Here's how to push back.   Register for RE:WIRED Our free, two-day virtual event will bring together some of the world's top thinkers to discuss how tech is shaping our future. REGISTER NOW     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.