One night in London in 2010, Taylor Hawkins convinced Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor to join his band for an encore of super obscure Queen songs they'd never done live.
“He was just the kind of guy that could just make that shit happen…” rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
This week on 'Better Call Saul,' a flashback reveals Kim Wexler hasn't always been so innocent — and the episode sees her headed back down a dangerous road. Alan Sepinwall's recap rol.st/3a9gGDb
Growing up, identical twins Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak did just about everything in sync. Now, they've become parents together — on the same day, in the same hospital, within hours of each other. ❤️ 🙏g
Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron tells Rolling Stone that Taylor Hawkins had a "heart-to-heart" with Dave Grohl about his workload at the time.
The band disputes this. But an anonymous friend of Hawkins says the conversation was "freeing." MORE: rol.st/3wtZobf
Did you see the lunar eclipse this weekend? Pictures have been surfacing from around the world, but here's what it looked like from space:
📸:@AstroSamanthaaT
After decades of going all-out for the band he loved, Taylor Hawkins told multiple friends in the last year of his life he "couldn’t fucking do it anymore," that he needed to dial things back.
MORE: rol.st/3wtZobf
It took Luca Iaconi-Stewart five years to build this 1:60-scale jetliner out of manila folders and dabs of glue, but it's almost as complicated as the real Being 777, down to the retractable landing gear: wired.trib.al/eeuv43N (From 2014)
Border guards at the Poland-Ukraine border sang along with the Kalush Orchestra as the Eurovision winners launched an impromptu performance of ‘Stefania’, their winning song reut.rs/3szDUZi
Ukrainian forces say they have ended their "combat mission" in besieged Mariupol, as hundreds are evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant. cnn.it/3FQALcV
Pakistani Rana Muhammad Usman Saeed and Serbian Lazar Krstic were named winners at the paper plane world championship, held at Red Bull's Hangar-7 in Salzburg
From converting petrol mini-buses into electric vehicles at his workshop in Nigeria, entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo is now building battery-powered buses from scratch in a push to promote clean energy and curb pollution reut.rs/3PoMVy7
A local police department is praising a group of Good Samaritans in Florida after they bravely put themselves in harm's way to help a woman who suffered a health emergency while driving.
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The wives and mothers of the remaining Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant made a plea to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to help get the soldiers out before it is too late
A heavy sandstorm in Iraq, the latest of what Iraqis say is an unprecedented number to hit the country in recent weeks, closed some state schools and offices and halted flights at Baghdad International Airport reut.rs/3FOstCB
A closely watched Senate primary in Pennsylvania could be a pivotal race that may ultimately decide who runs the upper chamber next year reut.rs/3LjO1ba
Wall Street ended lower with energy stocks rallying and Tesla and other growth stocks losing ground after downbeat Chinese economic data added to worries about a global slowdown reut.rs/3wyPZiu
Two giant posters featuring a tribute to Peter Weir and Andrew Niccol's 1998 film 'The Truman Show' were unfurled for the 75th Cannes Film Festival at the Palais Des Festivals
Eclipse watchers gazed up as the Earth’s shadow fell over the moon, causing it to appear copper-red in a phenomenon some call a blood moon. Here’s what it looked like from Mexico City and New York City. nyti.ms/3wwId8X
We had mathematician Moon Duchin stop by to answer your math questions. Questions like, "When will I ever need to use this equation?" and "How the f*** did Mayans develop the concept of zero?"
This is WIRED's Math Support:
The suspect in Saturday's mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket that killed 10 people has been identified and arraigned on a first-degree murder charge. peoplem.ag/3wzGoIa
From @Breakingviews: So-called stablecoins play a pivotal role in crypto markets and traders use them to store idle cash and avoid the cost and inconvenience of moving dollars into and out of exchanges, @LiamWardProud explains reut.rs/3yVTaE3