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LSD Mystery Meat Case Will Remain “Unsolved” Say Police

Earlier this year, a family in Florida rushed to the hospital with bizarre symptoms. After eating broiled steak from Walmart, they had all started hallucinating and feeling sick. It turned out that their meat had been tainted with LSD. But where did it come from? Tampa Bay News reports that we may never know: Before…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Japan’s Hand-Drawn Animated Promo For Big Hero 6 Will Make You Weep

While most promos for movies use footage from the actual film, this Japanese promo for Big Hero 6 takes a different tack, using hand-drawn animation to highlight the emotional relationships at the center of the film. After watching this, I need a big Baymax hug. Comedian Tekken, who makes flipbook-style animated shorts, put together this…

io9 Lauren Davis

Reese Gets The Perfect Cover In A Clip From Today’s Person Of Interest

Person of Interest continues to be the best, most thought-provoking show on network television right now. And we’re absolutely dying to see how last week’s cliffhanger gets resolved. But meanwhile, here’s an exclusive clip from tonight’s episode in which Reese has finally found a way to watch the new number and play with guns. Here’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Is the Most Destructive Process on Earth

It reduces boulders to smears of ions. It dissolves and disintegrates the tallest mountains. Geologists call it “weathering.” It sounds harmless enough, but weathering is one of the most destructive forces on the face of the planet. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-slowest-and-most-destructive-process-on-ear-1646507947

io9 Annalee Newitz

Life in Space Affects Men’s And Women’s Health Very Differently

For the past three years, NASA scientists have been examining the differences between how male and female astronauts’ health is affected by spaceflight. The results are fascinating. Image credit: NASA/NSBRI Back in 2011, NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) — on the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences — assembled six…

io9 George Dvorsky

V/H/S: Viral Could Kill Found Footage Horror at Last

The third film in the V/H/S series is here: the jarring, wannabe-shocking V/H/S: Viral. It unleashes skateboarders, Satan, and a murderous magician — and a flicker of hope that the found-footage horror trend is finally on its way out. http://www.magnetreleasing.com/vhsviral/ Was anyone overjoyed to hear that the V/H/S series was becoming a trilogy? (Serious question:…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Supercut Of “I Am Groot” In 15 Different Languages—”Ich Bin Groot!”

Watch Groot deliver his classic line in Spanish, Hungarian, German, Italian, and Kazakh in this supercut of international Guardians of the Galaxy footage. Groot, adorable in any language, but kind of scary when screaming German. The clip is taken from the Guardians of the Galaxy DVD and Blur-Ray which is now available on Digital HD…

io9 Meredith Woerner

10 Dystopias That Are More Relevant Than Ever Before

Dystopias rule our imaginations today — just ask Katniss Everdeen. But the dystopias that speak most powerfully to our world weren’t necessarily created in the past decade. Here are 10 great dystopias that are more relevant to the real world than when they were first created. Note: We didn’t include 1984 or Brave New World…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Diana Biller

Humble Goes to the Hunger Games, Guardians of the Galaxy, More Deals

The latest Humble Audiobook Bundle includes, among other things, the Hunger Games Trilogy. https://www.humblebundle.com/books Two more good 2DS deals today, including one on the new crystal version. Crystal Red or Crystal Blue Nintendo 2DS Console ($100) | Target Red or Blue Nintendo 2DS Console w/ Mario Kart 7 ($100) | Target Big Hero 6 was…

io9 Shane Roberts

Comic Reveals Lost Chapter Of Interstellar, Filling In Dr. Mann’s Story

So what exactly did happen during Interstellar’s Lazarus mission? Director Christopher Nolan wrote a short comic revealing a crucial moment in Dr. Mann’s story. Naturally, expect spoilers below and in the comic. Wired teamed Nolan up with artist Sean Gordon Murphy to create the comic Absolute Zero as part of the Nolan-edited issue of Wired.…

io9 Lauren Davis

If This Is The New Fantastic Four Movie’s Plot… [Update!]

Fantastic Four reboot screenwriter Jeremy Slater has taken to Twitter to say this rumored plot synopsis is “100% bullshit.” Thank Galactus! If you want to know the horrors we’ve avoided, check out the original article below. Original article: A lengthy summary purported to be of Josh Trank’s movie reboot of the Fantastic Four has been…

io9 Rob Bricken

How The Search For Aliens Could Save Us From Environmental Collapse

It’s hard to assess the sustainability of our civilization when climate scientists and ecologists have nothing to compare ourselves to. Which is why we need to learn from the success — and potential failures — of distant alien civilizations. It’s an open question as to whether or not climate change poses an existential risk to…

io9 George Dvorsky

In The Dracula Dossier, Stoker’s Novel is a Redacted Coverup

Bram Stoker’s novel about a vampire lord coming to London was really the redacted case notes about a British Intelligence plan to recruit him. You can battle Dracula as a post-Cold War spy in a months-long RPG campaign with The Dracula Dossier. The Dracula Dossier is a really a pair of books. First, it’s a…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

The Saga Of The Infamous Spider-Woman Ass Comic Comes To An End

Hey, remember that comic where Spider-Woman has her ass thrust up in the air, which some people claimed made her look like she was presenting like a mandrill? Well, the issue of Spider-Woman #1 bearing the infamous variant cover arrives tomorrow, and Marvel has made one significant change… Well, that fixes everything. No more issues…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Disney Is Building A Gigantic Toy Story Hotel And It Looks Totally Rad

Now this is a great idea. We have absolutely no idea what Disney’s Toy Story-themed Shanghai hotel will look like on the inside, but we’re seriously hoping for a toy’s-eye view experience. The Disney Insider Blog has revealed the official concept art from a Toy Story Hotel that will be built in the new Disney…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Real Physics Phenomenon Would Make The Perfect Fictional Bomb

Ever heard of Wigner energy? It caused the worst nuclear disaster in British history. That’s because it works much better in fiction than in reality. Nuclear fission can cause energy to store up in ordinary material, until it suddenly explodes. This is what happened in 1957, when one of the piles at the Windscale nuclear…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

First CG Peanuts Trailer Feels Wrong, But Gets A Few Things Right

We don’t know where to stand on this CG animated Peanuts movie trailer. True, they got the Snoopy laugh down as well as the adorable Red Baron action. But then the clip breaks for a rockin’ music moment and we broke out into anxiety hives. This newly CG styled Peanuts movie (which is weird enough…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Blind Screech Owl Has Eyes That Are Impossible To Believe

Meet Zeus, a blind Western Screech Owl with eyes that look like a celestial scene captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The injured owl was recently discovered on a porch in Southern California after it flew into the wall of a house and hit his head. After a visit to the vet, the owl found…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Do You Feel About Peanuts In CGI?

Same Snoopy, same familiar “Linus and Lucy” theme music, but the look is a little bit different. Your old favorite cartoon, Peanuts, is hitting the big screen for the first time in 2015, and here’s the first trailer. How do you feel about the gang going 3D CGI? Yes, come this time next year, you’ll…

Movies Leslie Horn

Tell Us About The Worst Time You Broke Your Phone

There’s no piece of tech that goes more places with us or serves more purposes for us now than our phones. But sometimes having all that powerful technology shrunk down into the palm of your hand means just one thing: It’s all so, so much easier to break. Tell us now in the comments about…

io9 Ria Misra

LSD Mystery Meat Case Will Remain “Unsolved” Say Police

Japan’s Hand-Drawn Animated Promo For Big Hero 6 Will Make You Weep

Reese Gets The Perfect Cover In A Clip From Today’s Person Of Interest

This Is the Most Destructive Process on Earth

Life in Space Affects Men’s And Women’s Health Very Differently

V/H/S: Viral Could Kill Found Footage Horror at Last

Supercut Of “I Am Groot” In 15 Different Languages—”Ich Bin Groot!”

10 Dystopias That Are More Relevant Than Ever Before

Humble Goes to the Hunger Games, Guardians of the Galaxy, More Deals

Comic Reveals Lost Chapter Of Interstellar, Filling In Dr. Mann’s Story

If This Is The New Fantastic Four Movie’s Plot… [Update!]

How The Search For Aliens Could Save Us From Environmental Collapse

In The Dracula Dossier, Stoker’s Novel is a Redacted Coverup

The Saga Of The Infamous Spider-Woman Ass Comic Comes To An End

Disney Is Building A Gigantic Toy Story Hotel And It Looks Totally Rad

This Real Physics Phenomenon Would Make The Perfect Fictional Bomb

First CG Peanuts Trailer Feels Wrong, But Gets A Few Things Right

This Blind Screech Owl Has Eyes That Are Impossible To Believe

How Do You Feel About Peanuts In CGI?

Tell Us About The Worst Time You Broke Your Phone

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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

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

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