Keith Veronese, Author at Gizmodo

Spider-Man fights a child, the Avengers go to prison, and a G.I. Joe flashback!

This week in the world of cartoons, we revisit the era of the VHS tape on Regular Show, the Avengers release a few deadly prisoners, and Finn smooches with the Flame Princess. Tired of the Olympics already? I don’t blame you. To make up for the Michael Phelps love fest on television, I’m including a…

io9 Keith Veronese Aug 4

What is “blood doping,” and why does it matter?

Any time someone breaks a record, people inevitably bring up the possibility that they had some illegal enhancements. Just yesterday, gold medalist Ye Shiwen was accused of “blood doping” to improve her performance. You may be familiar with steroids and other drugs — but what on Earth is “blood doping?” And why would injecting yourself…

io9 Keith Veronese Aug 1

10 Revolting Foods That People Have Made in Prison

Prison food is notoriously terrible, and it’s not like you can go out to a drive-thru when you get hungry between meal-times. But prison inmates are famous for their amazing creativity — and when they’re not making shivs and other improvised weapons, they’re creating some truly bizarre food items. Here are 10 food items that…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 30

Hulk & Black Widow battle giant aliens while Jake & Finn go to Mars on Adventure Time

This week in the world of cartoons, we get the season finale of Iron Man: Armored Adventures, an episode that pits Iron Man and several guest stars against the deadly Makluans. We also get another team up on Ultimate Spider-Man, a diary shattering controversy on Regular Show, and everyone’s favorite synthetic humanoid, the Vision, appears…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 28

How Top 10‘s Zander Cannon fell in love with science

Zander Cannon is best known for his stellar artwork for Alan Moore’s Top 10, the story of a superhero police force handling day to day problems in Neopolis, where everyone has super powers. But over the years, Cannon has become involved with creating graphic novels about factual science subjects. Cannon and longtime collaborator Kevin Cannon…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 27

No, this isn’t the twin of our solar system — but it’s proof that our planetary orbits aren’t a “fluke”

Yet another piece of evidence that our world is not as unique as we feared: There’s a solar system out there that’s like ours in one extremely vital respect, according to a group of scientists from MIT and the University of California at Santa Cruz. The solar system, Kepler-30, has planets that travel along regularly…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 27

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye make the case for NASA’s future in Fight For Space

Do you miss the days of space shuttle launches? Do you want to see humans go back to the Moon, and even explore Mars, in your lifetime? Paul Hildebrandt does too. So he’s initiated a Kickstarter campaign to create Fight For Space: Exploring the Future of Manned Spaceflight, a documentary with a higher aim than…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 25

The Very Short History of the Rapture

We’ve all heard stories about the Rapture — when all the righteous people will be bodily lifted into Heaven, leaving everybody else to endure years of tribulation. It’s a popular idea, that appears in loads of books as well as movies. But where did this bizarre idea come from? https://gizmodo.com/all-of-the-awesomest-post-rapture-movies-5804268 It turns out the notion…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 25

10 Criminally Overlooked Characters in the Mass Effect Universe

The more you delve into the Mass Effect games, the less the story is just about Commander Shepard. Instead, you start to notice more and more of the personal lives and struggles of the non-player characters you meet along the way. A huge part of what makes Mass Effect such an addictive universe is the…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 24

A peek at what’s in store for the next season of Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 returns tonight — and at last, we’re going to get some resolution on that huge cliffhanger we’ve been waiting almost a year to unspool. Does anybody make it out alive, and how can they make a show about a warehouse that no longer exists? At Comic Con, we talked to Saul Rubinek (Artie)…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 23

Benjamin Franklin’s Fluid Theory of Electricity

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women wore many hats, with a lucky few spending their free time uncovering the mysteries of life and nature. Amidst time spent as…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 21

Spider-Man gets SHIELD Armor while Finn & Jake play Magic on Adventure Time

This week in the crazy world of cartoons, we see a very realistic glimpse into the world of table top card games on Adventure Time. Spider-Man gets a suit of armor and set of gadgets on Ultimate Spider-Man this week, and we get a glimpse upcoming Phineas and Ferb/Marvel Studios crossover scheduled for 2013 as…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 21

MMA Fighters Love Staph Infections

In the past two decades, mixed martial arts like UFC and Strikeforce have stolen the spotlight from boxing. And within these violent sports lies an even more dangerous threat — the unstoppable spread of skin infections, particularly Staphylococcus aureus, amongst fighters and training partners. What conditions and habits lead to the spread of these infections,…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 20

Bruce Wayne goes back to his detective roots, in Beware the Batman

Missing your Batman cartoon fix since the campy fun of Batman: Brave and the Bold ended this year on Cartoon Network? All is well — Beware the Batman will become a part of the DC Nation block in 2013. During San Diego Comic-Con we spoke with series producers Mitch Watson (Freakazoid) and Glen Murakami (Batman:…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 19

The CG-animated sequel to Starship Troopers is the closest to Heinlein’s vision yet

At last, 15 years later, there’s a true sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic Starship Troopers. We saw the whole film at San Diego Comic Con, and we’re happy to report that not only is it a close follow-up to the original film — it also uses CG animation to create something very close to…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 18

A Sing-Along With the Cast of Being Human — Plus Season 3 Hints!

Still stunned from the April season finale of Being Human? Rest easy — Being Human will be back this January with 13 new episodes. At San Diego Comic Con, we sat down with Sam Witwer (who plays the vampire Aidan Waite), Meaghan Rath (Sally Malik, the quasi-homeless ghost), and Sam Huntington (everyone’s favorite werewolf, Josh…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 18

Teen Titans Go! could be the silliest DC animated show yet

Did you enjoy the funny New Teen Titans shorts spread throughout the past few months of DC Nation on Saturday mornings? Then there’s good news — they’re getting their own full fledged series this fall. During San Diego Comic-Con, we sat down with Aaron Horvath (Animator on the criminally underrated Mad series) and Michael Jelenic…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 18

Would you spend $200,000 on this Todd McFarlane Spider-Man cover?

In the early 1990s, comic book sales approached a modern high, a high catapulted by an effort to capitalize on the collector’s market and often gimmicky events like the Death of Superman. The art for one of the most iconic pieces of this time, Todd McFarlane’s cover to Spider-Man #1, will be auctioned off in…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 15

The Incredibly Complicated Mythology of Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth

M. Night Shyamalan is back, with a new post-apocalyptic film called After Earth, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. And it sounds like Shyamalan and Smith have joined forces to concoct their most fiendishly complicated mythos yet — judging from the tidbits of worldbuilding we gleaned from the film’s Comic Con panel. In After Earth,…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 15

Will Syfy’s Defiance succeed in crossing over between television and gaming?

Syfy’s new show Defiance aims to combine a traditional TV show with an online gaming experience. And based on what we saw yesterday, Syfy might just pull it off. One part science fiction series, one part story about the melting pot of a burgeoning society, Defiance features seven alien species looking for asylum after a…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 14

Keith Veronese

Spider-Man fights a child, the Avengers go to prison, and a G.I. Joe flashback!

What is “blood doping,” and why does it matter?

10 Revolting Foods That People Have Made in Prison

Hulk & Black Widow battle giant aliens while Jake & Finn go to Mars on Adventure Time

How Top 10‘s Zander Cannon fell in love with science

No, this isn’t the twin of our solar system — but it’s proof that our planetary orbits aren’t a “fluke”

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye make the case for NASA’s future in Fight For Space

The Very Short History of the Rapture

10 Criminally Overlooked Characters in the Mass Effect Universe

A peek at what’s in store for the next season of Warehouse 13

Benjamin Franklin’s Fluid Theory of Electricity

Spider-Man gets SHIELD Armor while Finn & Jake play Magic on Adventure Time

MMA Fighters Love Staph Infections

Bruce Wayne goes back to his detective roots, in Beware the Batman

The CG-animated sequel to Starship Troopers is the closest to Heinlein’s vision yet

A Sing-Along With the Cast of Being Human — Plus Season 3 Hints!

Teen Titans Go! could be the silliest DC animated show yet

Would you spend $200,000 on this Todd McFarlane Spider-Man cover?

The Incredibly Complicated Mythology of Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth

Will Syfy’s Defiance succeed in crossing over between television and gaming?

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

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