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What Does It Mean When Someone Says “There Is No Such Thing As Cold”?

Perhaps you have heard that cold does not exist – that what we subjectively experience and describe as cold is, in fact, the absence of heat. But what does that mean, exactly? Joe Hanson explains this mind-bending concept in the latest episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-hottest-and-coldest-known-temperatures-in-1678816967

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Our Exclusive Preview Of Valiant’s Ivar, Timewalker #1 Continues Here!

The time-hopping adventures continue in part two of our exclusive preview of the entire first issue of Ivar, Timewalker #1! Part one is here if you missed it (along with an interview with writer Fred Van Lente), and part three will be up on Friday, but for now, things are about to get pirate-y for…

io9 Rob Bricken

Weirdest Shared Movie Universe Yet Includes Brain-Eaters, She-Creature

Legendary B-movie production house American International Pictures is back from the dead — sort of — thanks to Cinedigm, which is “launching a reinvention of [AIP] exploitation titles in a 10-picture project within a single movie universe.” Expect viking women, brain-eaters, and teenage cavemen. Above quote from Variety, which is reporting the news. Under the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Leading AI Experts Are Gathering To Improve The Turing Test

This coming weekend at Austin’s annual convention of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a group of AI experts will attend a workshop in hopes of hammering out a new-and-improved version of the Turing Test. The Turing Test, as a means to determine if a machine is truly thinking, is wholly inadequate in…

io9 George Dvorsky

Supernatural Manages To Have The 2 Most Annoying Female Characters On TV

In its 10th season, Supernatural’s new formula seems to consist of: 1) way lower stakes, as compared to the overarching plots of previous seasons, and 2) soap-operatic subplots involving Castiel and Crowley. To that end, the show has introduced the two most annoying female characters on television. Spoilers ahead… I know that’s a bold statement,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could This Be The Answer To Ceres’s Mysterious White Spot?

As Dawn slowly approaches Ceres, this dwarf planet’s inexplicable white spot is increasingly coming into focus. Thanks to xkcd’s Randall Munroe, we may finally have the answer. https://gizmodo.com/what-do-you-see-in-the-latest-images-of-ceres-1680561534 Seriously, though — what the hell is that thing? Here’s the latest clip from Dawn, in which you can see the spot at top left of Ceres.…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Does Mumps Cause Sterility in Adults?

Mumps is a disease that gives children fevers and big, comical hamster-faces. In adults, it can cause sterility. How does a childhood disease render someone infertile? Mumps is rarely dangerous, provided the sufferer gets it at the right age. In elementary-school-age children, it usually causes nothing more than a mild swelling of the face and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative Will Revolutionize Healthcare

During last night’s State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called for a new initiative to fund precision medicine. Here’s what the proposed initiative entails and what it could mean to your health. Here’s what the President had to say last night: I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome…

io9 George Dvorsky

Comic Publisher Milestone Media Is Coming Back, And That’s Awesome

Sorry, Secret Wars. In the inarguably best comic news of the week, original co-publisher Derek Dingle, along with writer/producer Reggie Hudlin and artist Denys Cowyn, is resurrecting the late Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone Media, best known as the home of beloved character Static Shock. Most comic fans know McDuffie’s name, and how he died in 2011…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Conan O’Brien Becomes An Animated Archer Character And Battles Mobsters

On a very special segment of Conan, late-night TV host Conan O’Brien didn’t just have the voice of Sterling Archer, H. Jon Benjamin, on his couch to promote the new season of Archer. He actually became an animated Archer-style character and got involved in the spy’s shoot-em-up hijinks. Conan actually translates pretty perfectly into a…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Gorgeous RPG Shadows of Esteren Gets A Whole New Occult Sourcebook

Shadows of Esteren is a tabletop fantasy RPG with some of the most gorgeous art and design we’ve ever seen. The upcoming Occultism book lets characters gain esoteric knowledge, but life is Esteren is plenty dangerous even when you know the unknowable. Billed as, “somewhere between Ravenloft, Game of Thrones and Call of Cthulhu,” Shadows…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

The Secrets Of Highly Efficient Napping

Not all naps are created equal. Some naps have been shown to rejuvenate where others boost creativity. What’s more, when you nap can be as important as how you nap. Here’s how to nap like a professional, nap-taking machine. Here’s how to nap like you MEAN IT. Photo Credit: Kevin O’Mara | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Controversial Bigfoot Enthusiast Invites You To Invest In His Search

One of the cryptozoology world’s most polarizing figures, Tom Biscardi, is planning an IPO to help fund his ongoing search for Bigfoot. Yep. You read that right, and no less an authority than The Wall Street Journal has the scoop on this, uh, unique investment opportunity. Mr. Biscardi and his partners hope to raise as…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

With The Return Of Captain Cold, The Flash May Have Hit Its Stride

Or choose another running metaphor! The Flash has picked up the pace. He’s gotten on track. The show has become sure-footed! It’s found its runner’s high! Whatever hackneyed way you want to say it, the fact is that “Revenge of the Rogues” was one of The Flash’s best episodes yet. Of course, it wasn’t perfect,…

io9 Rob Bricken

Scientists Recreate a Really Sad Greek Myth With Worms

This worm is in a Greek myth, and not the fun Greek myth where people get knocked up by rain. It’s in a depressing, ironic Greek myth that instructs people not to reach for the power of the gods. Ever heard of Tithonus? His story is one of the less popular Greek myths, and once…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch Brad Bird Play With Mondo’s Iron Giant Figure And Try Not To Cry

We’ve got an exclusive video of The Iron Giant director Brad Bird playing with Mondo’s Iron Giant Delux Figure. And the music combined with the Giant’s face is just… eep… we… mustn’t cry… Oh dear, here we go. The Iron Giant Deluxe Figure is absolutely insane and it will finally be available for pre-order tomorrow…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Terrifying “Living Fossil” Caught Off The Coast Of Australia

Frilled sharks have been around for 80 million years, but they are very rarely seen. So it was quite the event when one of these “living fossils” was snared in an Australian fishing net last week. According to a press release issued by the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association, the shark, named for its…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

10 Public Domain Characters That Are Overdue For A Reboot

Some older fictional characters turn up again and again and again: Count Dracula and his foes, Victor Frankenstein, Dorothy Gale and the denizens of Oz. But Western literature’s public domain is filled with excellent characters, many who deserve a bit more limelight. Top image: Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharaohs, via Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine.…

io9 Lauren Davis

From Lazarus Long To Capt. Jack Harkness: Bisexuality In Science Fiction

Why were there so many bisexual heroes in the 1970s (including Robert A. Heinlein’s Lazarus Long), and was bisexuality viewed as “futuristic”? More to the point, why did bi heroes mostly vanish throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and what brought them back? Erotic science fiction author and Circlet Press publisher Cecilia Tan explains. https://gizmodo.com/this-erotica-book-might-actually-be-the-years-most-dang-5969540 Tan…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Some Of The Most Surprising New Products That Came From NASA Research

A skin cream, an algae-based pet food, a hand-held cabin pressure monitor, speakers built with magnetized fluid and a machine designed to fix your golf swing. What do they all have in common? All of them were made using NASA research. Top image: A picture from the magnetic fluid research, conducted in the ’60s, now…

io9 Ria Misra

What Does It Mean When Someone Says “There Is No Such Thing As Cold”?

Our Exclusive Preview Of Valiant’s Ivar, Timewalker #1 Continues Here!

Weirdest Shared Movie Universe Yet Includes Brain-Eaters, She-Creature

Leading AI Experts Are Gathering To Improve The Turing Test

Supernatural Manages To Have The 2 Most Annoying Female Characters On TV

Could This Be The Answer To Ceres’s Mysterious White Spot?

How Does Mumps Cause Sterility in Adults?

How Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative Will Revolutionize Healthcare

Comic Publisher Milestone Media Is Coming Back, And That’s Awesome

Conan O’Brien Becomes An Animated Archer Character And Battles Mobsters

The Gorgeous RPG Shadows of Esteren Gets A Whole New Occult Sourcebook

The Secrets Of Highly Efficient Napping

Controversial Bigfoot Enthusiast Invites You To Invest In His Search

With The Return Of Captain Cold, The Flash May Have Hit Its Stride

Scientists Recreate a Really Sad Greek Myth With Worms

Watch Brad Bird Play With Mondo’s Iron Giant Figure And Try Not To Cry

Terrifying “Living Fossil” Caught Off The Coast Of Australia

10 Public Domain Characters That Are Overdue For A Reboot

From Lazarus Long To Capt. Jack Harkness: Bisexuality In Science Fiction

Some Of The Most Surprising New Products That Came From NASA Research

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Anker Prime Docking Station Hits Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Winds Down (14 Ports With 160W Output)

Google TV Streamer 4K Drops to an All-Time Low, Final Hours in Amazon Spring Sale to Turn Any TV Smart on a Budget

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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