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There Is A Wooden Zombie Lurking At The Bottom Of The Pacific Ocean

If you journey down to the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, you may run into Dudley, a creepy wooden mannequin who is starting to go to pieces on the ocean floor. But how did Dudley get all the way down there? Marine biologist Jackson Chu shared this video of Dudley and explains…

io9 Lauren Davis

Rick’s Beard Dies So Others May Live On The Walking Dead

The group has arrived at sunny Alexandria, the walls are high, the homes have electricity and running water, and the biggest threat there is Aidan the Douchebag. But there is a heavy price that must be paid in order to receive this sanctuary, and it is a price that can only be measured in facial…

io9 Rob Bricken

What Burger King’s Super-Disturbing Mascot Teaches Us About Creepiness

Back in the mid-2000s, Burger King had a really unnerving ad campaign where a man in a plastic Burger King mask breaks into people’s houses and watches them sleep. Over in the New Inquiry, Adam Kotsko uses the skin-crawling mascot, the King, as a jumping-off point to discuss the history of creepiness. Kotsko’s essay, an…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Will Lost In Space Ever Get Its Props?

Star Trek’s 50th anniversary in 2016 is already shaping up to be a huge event — but what about Lost in Space’s 50th birthday, coming this fall? Like Trek, Lost in Space was an important part of science fiction TV history. And Lost in Space had some seriously entertaining stories. So why doesn’t this show…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Let MIT Show You How To Be A Murderous Mary Poppins

Remember being enchanted as a kid when Mary Poppins poured out medicine of different colors from the same bottle? This video from MIT lets you pull the same “magic trick”! Only instead of medicine, it’s bleach. At first, I didn’t know why this video charmed me so much. It’s just cabbage water as a pH…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

First Footage Of Game of Thrones‘ Legendary Sand Snakes

Check out an exceedingly detailed featurette on Dornish weaponry, which also just so happens to introduce the first good look at the “Sand Snakes” — also known as Oberyn Martell’s daughters. This is marvelous. Tyene (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers), Obara (Keisha Castle-Hughes), and Nymeria Sand (Jessica Henwick) are the daughters of Oberyn Martell. And they are…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Last Man On Earth Manages To Make The Apocalypse Both Dark And Charming

Will Forte and the directors of The LEGO Movie have pulled off something really difficult — and really special — with their new show The Last Man on Earth. They have created a show about the madness and despair of living in the post-apocalypse while making it utterly watchable. Last night, we got a double…

io9 Lauren Davis

200 Skeletons Have Been Discovered Beneath A Supermarket In Paris

Archaeologists in Paris have found the skeletal remains of 200 individuals laid out neat rows in a communal grave. The site, once the cemetery of a hospital that operated from the 12th to 17th Century, is now a supermarket. The Monoprix Réaumur-Sébastopol supermarket called in archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Scientists Have Made Bullets Out Of Light

Light bullets are not the deadly things their names make them out to be. They are, however, decidedly weird. To make a light bullet, researchers have to make a pulse of laser light that is continuously re-focusing itself. The Solitary Wave When you turn on a flashlight, or even a laser beam, and shine it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox

One of the greatest conundrums to face humanity is the question of extraterrestrial life. Many explanations have been posited over the years to explain why we have yet to make first contact, some better than others. Here are seven of the weakest solutions to the vexing problem known as the Fermi Paradox. For those of…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Most Stunning And Clever Cosplay From Long Beach Comic Expo 2015!

The best cosplay isn’t just dress-up — it’s a performance, paying tribute to the characters and stories we love. And this cosplay from Long Beach Comic Expo is just brilliant, and super-accomplished. It’s the perfect thing for a dreary Monday morning. Here’s our favorite cosplay from Long Beach! Top image: Cosplay by @xfsista This cosplay…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We’ve Got Double The Clones In First Full Orphan Black Season 3 Trailer

Wow, there is a ton of stuff going on in the first full trailer for Orphan Black’s new season. Let’s settle in, see where everyone is, and take a look at our new set of clones. Spoilers ahead. So, right off the bat, we see that Sarah learns very quickly that Siobhan sold out Helena…

io9 Lauren Davis

Read A Brand-New Short Story By Stephen King

As the big-screen adaptation ofIt rumbles into existence with Cary Fukunaga at the helm, Stephen King’s been keeping busy. A new story by the author appears in the March 9th issue of The New Yorker. It’s a Western, and it’s all about justice (or injustice?), and you can read it here. Photo by Flickr user…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The Truth Behind The POWER/RANGERS Short, And How You Helped Save It

Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Solar Powered Groot Is Clever, But Also The Stuff Of Nightmares

It seems like perhaps the most obvious idea for a dancing Groot – just one of many that we’ve had since Guardians of the Galaxy came out. Watch the little twig that could wiggle about through the power of the Sun itself! But I don’t think anyone accounted for it looking so spectacularly scary too.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Vincent D’onofrio Is Looking Kingpin-y As Hell In First Daredevil Pic

The first look at Vincent D’onofrio as Wilson Fisk, the villain of Marvel and Netflix’s upcoming Daredevil TV show better known as the Kingpin, has arrived. Sure, the Kingpin is just a big, bulky, bald dude, but even in this still you can see the gravitas and presence D’Onofrio exudes as the crimelord. Marvel also…

Television Rob Bricken

The Transfixing Process By Which Soup Dumplings Are Filled With Soup

Soup dumplings are a food that are as impressive from a technical standpoint as they are from a taste one. Not only are they delicious, they also raise certain architectural questions: Particularly, just how did that soup get in there? Does the dumpling form a bowl, which is then covered and cooked? Is the soup…

io9 Ria Misra

This Week’s TV: Find Out What Darth Vader Was Up To Before A New Hope

The season finale of Star Wars Rebels airs tonight, and we get an appearance by none other than Darth Vader. Agents of SHIELD returns and things are looking…Inhuman. Plus, CSI launches a cybercrimes division, and we’ve got the latest clips from 12 Monkeys, Helix, and The Walking Dead. Tonight Gotham (8 PM, Fox) When Fish…

io9 Lauren Davis

Paramount To Turn Scifi Classic The Stars My Destination Into A Movie

Paramount is attempting to nail down the rights to The Stars My Destination, a super intense, space revenge novel that is pretty ripe for the big screen (if done correctly). Deadline is reporting that Paramount is in the process of acquiring the rights to Alfred Bester’s classic scifi novel The Stars My Destination. The story…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How Parisians Did “Guillotine Chic”

The Revolution and the Terror devastated French society, and then receded. In their place they left a weird, chaotic society with a very strange form of chic and an even stranger form of fashionable lady. The French Revolution was kickstarted by food shortages, but political change failed to supply people with bread. Wars against foreign…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

There Is A Wooden Zombie Lurking At The Bottom Of The Pacific Ocean

Rick’s Beard Dies So Others May Live On The Walking Dead

What Burger King’s Super-Disturbing Mascot Teaches Us About Creepiness

Will Lost In Space Ever Get Its Props?

Let MIT Show You How To Be A Murderous Mary Poppins

First Footage Of Game of Thrones‘ Legendary Sand Snakes

Last Man On Earth Manages To Make The Apocalypse Both Dark And Charming

200 Skeletons Have Been Discovered Beneath A Supermarket In Paris

How Scientists Have Made Bullets Out Of Light

The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox

The Most Stunning And Clever Cosplay From Long Beach Comic Expo 2015!

We’ve Got Double The Clones In First Full Orphan Black Season 3 Trailer

Read A Brand-New Short Story By Stephen King

The Truth Behind The POWER/RANGERS Short, And How You Helped Save It

This Solar Powered Groot Is Clever, But Also The Stuff Of Nightmares

Vincent D’onofrio Is Looking Kingpin-y As Hell In First Daredevil Pic

The Transfixing Process By Which Soup Dumplings Are Filled With Soup

This Week’s TV: Find Out What Darth Vader Was Up To Before A New Hope

Paramount To Turn Scifi Classic The Stars My Destination Into A Movie

How Parisians Did “Guillotine Chic”

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