Cheryl Eddy

First Teaser For AMC’s Martial Arts Drama Promises Swordplay, Intrigue

The teaser for Into the Badlands is here! Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer much more intel than what we already knew, except for a confirmation of the title, that swordplay will definitely have a major role, and a suggestion that the action will kick off in the antebellum American South. https://gizmodo.com/hong-kong-star-daniel-wu-tries-to-resurrect-martial-art-1673329907 That said, AMC did release…

After A Rough Start, Baby Rhino Is Now Winning At Life

Six-month-old one-horned rhino Jalada Prasad had a prance party in honor of his public debut Friday at Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata, India. Little dude had some rough early months after his mother was killed by poachers. But! He was rescued and nursed back to health, and now appears to be quite the peppy fella.…

Academy Museum Lands Rare Moon Shuttle Prop From 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added a feather into the cap of its under-construction museum by purchasing an iconic prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey: the Aries 1B Trans-Lunar Spherical Space Shuttle. According to Deadline, the price was a cool $344,000. The model is especially significant because not much remains from the…

Drone Sheepdog “Shep” Herds Its Flock From The Air

The future has come to the green hills of Ireland, where sheep farmer Paul Brennan has replaced the traditional canine helper with a drone. Get a look at “Shep” in action in the video below. (Trigger warning: “Yakety Sax” is apparently an integral part of 21st century farming.) [Via Neatorama, Tastefully Offensive]

Hugh Jackman Announces He’ll Only Play Wolverine “One Last Time”

Hugh Jackman took to his Instagram to announce that the third Wolverine movie (due in 2017) will be his final round playing the iconic character that made him a movie star. Can’t really blame him; the first X-Men movie came out in 2000, which means there’s a good chance he hasn’t eaten a carb in…

Opportunity Rover Has A Film Noir Moment In This Shadowy Shot From Mars

This shot shows the Opportunity rover in shadow on Mars, facing Endurance Crater. It was taken in 2004, the year Opportunity began exploring; since then, it’s completed the equivalent of a marathon across Martian terrain, discovering evidence of ancient water, and snapping memorable images galore. Image credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA

The Rock Makes A Kick-Ass Bambi In SNL‘s Live-Action Disney Parody

Disney’s been having great success with live-action remakes of its classic animated films. So why not cast, as Saturday Night Live did last night, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as everyone’s favorite deer … and reconfigure the story as an over-the-top action thriller, with plenty of puns and guns for all? WHAM BAM BAMBI!

The #VeryRealisticYA Hashtag Shows The Truth About Teen Adventures

Our new favorite hashtag is #VeryRealisticYA, which in addition to pointing out all that is ridiculous about the red-hot but not always relatable YA genre, happens to be gut-bustingly hilarious. (Even better: it was created by an actual teen writer!) Here are some of our favorites. And from the hashtag’s young creator, who wondered on…

Vintage Cover Art Suggests Future Laden With Guns, Space Suits For Dogs

Behold, the first-edition cover art for Fredric Brown’s 1951 Space on My Hands. The classic science-fiction short-story collection contains “Knock,” which begins with two of the most evocative sentences ever: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door …” Later editions of Space on My Hands…

Size matters: Elephants and whales are the only two animals that show up from space when tracked using “commercially available” resolutions. Satellite images have been used to prevent poaching, as well as to keep track of creatures that manage to be as elusive as they are enormous.

All Hail King Wallace As He Munches On His Iron Throne Made Of Carrots

Wallace the rabbit is already a budding YouTube celebrity, and now he’s the King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, and the happy owner of an Iron Throne carefully crafted from carrots. [Via Neatorama, Huffington Post]

Amanda Knox can finally breathe easy (again): the Italian Supreme Court just overturned her murder conviction. Knox, who spent four years in an Italian prison, was acquitted in 2011 of the 2007 killing of her roommate; in 2013, after she’d returned to the US, she was re-tried and sentenced in absentia to 28.5 years.

Regal Yet Goofy Chinstrap Penguin Welcomes You To Antarctica

In this remarkable shot taken January 20, 2015, a Chinstrap penguin offers a close-up look at the distinctive marking that gives the bird its moniker. The waddling creature was photographed near the town of Villa Las Estrellas on Antarctica’s King George Island. AP Photo by Natacha Pisarenko

Creepy Trailer Alert: “The Scariest Norwegian Film Ever” Has A Sequel

Director Pål Øie’s 2003 Dark Woods was voted “the scariest Norwegian film ever” by one of the country’s biggest tabloids. So it’s with no small fanfare that Dark Woods 2 is here, and thankfully has abandoned its predecessor’s reality TV framework for a much spookier setting: an abandoned hospital. Suggested double-feature, since the films look…

Archer Gang Gets “Dr. Shrinkered” On What Could Be Their Last Mission

Archer’s sixth season is almost over, with the first of a two-part finale seeing the blundering super spies and assorted hangers-on being miniaturized and injected into a comatose scientist. “Drastic Voyage: Part One” (blorp!) mixes high-stakes danger with goofy references … a classic Archer recipe for success. Spoilers. Seriously! We open, as almost always, at…

An FBI Profiler Explains The Psychology Of Breaking Bad‘s Walter White

In the latest episode of Vanity Fair’s “Psych of a Psycho” YouTube series (previous subjects include Game of Thrones’ “hideous and vile” juvenile criminal King Joffrey), host Candice DeLong, a former FBI profiler, breaks down the psychology of Breaking Bad’s Walter White. As anyone who’s seen the show can attest, Walter’s evolution from cancer-stricken chemistry…

Four Notorious Fugitives Who Were Caught — And One Who’s Still At Large

A fugitive can become a folk hero — or a desperate criminal whose acts become more terrifying the higher the stakes become. Sometimes, they can be both at once. Here, we present five different cases of men who managed to elude the law for years, even decades, before finally facing justice … or not. Eric…

The Only Dating Site You Need If You Believe In Ghosts And UFOs

So you’re on a date, and the conversation turns to ghosts and UFOs, and the other person flatly declares he or she doesn’t believe in that woo-woo crap. Awkward! But fear not — now there’s The Amazing Kreskin’s Supernatural Dating Society, aimed at making love matches ‘twixt paranormal enthusiasts. Kreskin did an interview with dating…

The Most Essential Piece Of Writing Advice Ever, From Brian K. Vaughan

Author Brian K. Vaughan took over the Panel Syndicate Twitter feed yesterday to answer questions. He shared info on his past and upcoming projects (including a “Y for yes” on whether there’s been movement on that Y: The Last Man adaptation!!), but he also dispensed a wise bit of writing advice. https://gizmodo.com/10-reasons-you-should-be-reading-brian-k-vaughan-s-sag-756300575 Also, he hasn’t…

We Want This Can Of Yeti Cave Air In Our Cabinet Of Curiosities

If the recent news that purported samples of “Yeti hair” were actually sourced from ordinary Himalayan brown bears is still bumming you out, here’s a novelty item to cheer you up: canned air from Azasskaya Cave, ground zero for Abominable Snowman sightings in Siberia. https://gizmodo.com/no-the-yeti-legend-was-not-inspired-by-a-prehistoric-b-1691670357 The region has, in the past, been known for using…