I got a bunch of big questions this week: What’s next for Star Wars after Episode IX? Why has The Flash TV series gotten so dumb? And what happens when someone points out the Avengers are also probably murderers? Big answers to follow!
At exactly the same time Batman was becoming an obsessive, a new breed of enthusiast began its rise to prominence. For years they had lurked in the shadowy corners of popular culture, quietly pursuing their niche interests among themselves, keeping their heads down to avoid the inquisitive, judgmental gaze of the…
The trailer for the new movie Jurassic World was released today. It looks fun! But some science-minded folks are already pouncing on the dino-filled movie for inaccuracies.
Sploid reader Kimberly Nguyen has spotted this really neat video demonstrating how computer logic gates work using just strings and weights. "I'm an Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering major and I've never seen anything like this before!" Me neither. It's really clever.
Are you lacking in nerdy friends? It may be time to move.
I've seen many gloomy anti-bullying ads. This one uses humor and fear instead—and it may do the trick. The message: The nerds you're torturing today will probably end being your bosses tomorrow. And they won't forget any of the things you're doing to them.
Beer might come with some pretty brotastic connotations, but as with everything else in life, it's the nerds who really do it right. Because when the same passion that gave us NASA and Lord of the Rings is applied to booze, the results are phenomenal, delicious, and (most importantly) geeky as hell.
Neil Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first astronaut to ever set foot on the moon, and a man whose accomplishments were legendary and far-reaching—but he was also an irrepressible nerd in love with mathematics, science and engineering. This is his manifesto.
Greetings, post-apocalyptic postal service users! I heard you all are experiencing the "polar vortex," and there's some debate about whether it's a result of global warming, or proof that global warming is bunk, or whatever. As a person living in the future, I feel you all should know two things: 1) global warming is…
Periodically you have to ask this question again. Geeks aren't just running some of the world's biggest companies — they're also the heroes of mega-hit TV series like Big Bang Theory; and, in the post-Snowden world, they're international political subversives. So what the hell is a geek anymore?
How do you revive the Shit Girls Say meme that's dead not only because we all grew tired of it but because YouTube productivity assassins (aka movie makers) simply ran out of different types of people to make fun of? You reverse it and switch it into shit people would NEVER say. Like nerds thinking comic books and…
When a classic, obsessed, socially-dysfunctional nerd named Scott meets a new wave hipster nerd named Miles, there a clash as epic as any Dungeons & Dragons battle. This conflict is examined by directors Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews in Zero Charisma, out on video-on-demand today. Both directors were kind enough to…
The never ending argument on what defines a geek and what constitutes a nerd has seen graphs, rules and now a rap battle. Yes, a rap battle.
To be considered a true geek in today's geek friendly world, you can't just be smart. You have to dedicate yourself to the right movies and TV shows. You have to be curious about all kinds of computer and technology. You need to know which video games to play, which superhero to root for, which quotes actually matter.…
Andreas Goeldi is a German who just got an Android phone because his iPhone is going to get a "frosted" glass effect. The sign of the apocalypse when it comes to gadgets, he explains. The fact is that—except for Apple fanboys and fandroids—all phones are basically the same crap running the same apps.
San Diego Comic Con has wrapped up and E3 has been long over, which means two of the biggest "nerd" conventions are gone until next year. That's okay! If you've ever been to a convention like that, no matter how much fun you have or think it will be you'd know that going too often will take years off your life. But…
The former child star of Star Trek: The Next Generation has been interviewing his celebrity friends on a filthy old couch regularly used for pornography video shoots, the Internet has found. Users of beloved nerd site Reddit discovered Wil Wheaton has been using the same gross yellow sofa seen in many pornos.
The biggest event in the science-fiction, fantasy and comic book universes has ended, collapsing from supernova into black hole. Here are the best and worst, the winners and losers of the San Diego Comic-Con 2013. Or you can see all the news right here.
In this week’s “Postal Apocalypse,” you guys ask the tough questions about Game of Thrones, Avengers and cybernetic hand replacements, and I give you the hard answers, mostly because giving you soft answers sounds even dirtier. The mailbag is running low, so please don’t forget to send your questions to postman@io9.com
As an experiment, New York Times media columnist David Carr decided to gather a bunch of geeks at SXSW and ask them to tell jokes. This video is the result. It's left to you to decide how funny it is. [Vimeo via BoingBoing]
