Who’s Ready For Another Bollywood Time Travel Movie?

Hrithik Roshan, the star of the awesome Krrish films, has just signed on to star in an unnamed time-travel movie, opposite Deepika Padukone. And the best news? It’s going to be directed by Nitya Mehra, who was assistant director on Life of Pi, Namesake and some other great films. No details yet about the movie’s…

Calculator Reveals All How Much Of Your Life You’ve Given To TV

Thanks to the website tiii.me, you can now add up every single hour of your life you’ve sacrificed to the all-powerful television. Just type in the name of the series, and let the website do the adding — it’s horrifying. Feel free to share your numbers in the comments.

Find The Closest National Park With This Handy Map

Looking to restore a little sense of wonder this weekend? Why not visit your nearest national park? The United States is home to 59 officially designated National Parks, the approximate locations of which appear on the map below. Using the mathematical concept of Voronoi tesselation, reddit user wouj divided the map into sections that can…

What Was the Best Cold Opening on a TV Show?

Most cold openings for TV shows are fairly routine: introduce main plot points, add a teaser and then fade to opening credits and commercial. Every so often, though, we encounter a cold opening that so rivets our attention that we know we’re in store for something special. Case in point, one of my favorites: The…

Al Gore’s Daughter Creating Comedy Series About Female Astronauts

Well, the headline kind of says it all, doesn’t it? Kristin Gore, writer for Futurama and Saturday Night Live and the offspring of former presidential candidate Al Gore, is creating Women in Space, a half-hour comedy series for HBO. It’s going to be about a group of lady astronauts on their journey to colonize another…

Bone Creator Jeff Smith’s New Webcomic Is A Fun Prehistoric Fantasy

Jeff Smith, creator of Bone and RASL, is releasing his latest comic, Tüki Saves the Humans, online. It’s about the first human to leave Africa—and the misadventures that happen along the way. Smith has the full first chapter of Tüki up on his website, and it already shows off so much of the masterful cartooning…

This Interactive Music Game Will Take Over Your Day

This musical interactive transforms your keyboard into an instrument, complete with accompanying animations. The game, which goes by the delightfully onomatopoeic name Patatap, is the work of Jono Brandel, of Google’s Data Arts Team, and composers Lullatone. But it’s not just a cool game, it’s also, Brandel explains in a post, designed to mimic the…

Exclusive Look Inside Dan Harmon’s Dungeons & Dragons Game, Harmonquest

The creator of Community, Dan Harmon, has been hosting a mashup podcast meets role-playing game with a collection of his friends. And now these hilarious podcasts have been animated, thanks to the series Harmonquest. And we have an exclusive look inside the fantasy world Harmon created. It’s like the Ricky Gervais Show, but with more…

All the People Who Were Frozen and Woke Up In the Future

Captain America, the hottest member of the Greatest Generation, is returning to the big screen this Friday. Steve Rogers may feel all alone in the modern world, but he’s not alone in fiction. Here’s a list of the greatest fictional characters who have been frozen, and woke to a strange new world. Philip J Fry…

NASA Is Working On An Implantable Surgical Robot For Space Missions

A nightmare scenario for astronauts on a future mission to Mars involves the sudden need to perform emergency surgery. In anticipation of this, researchers are currently developing a tiny robot that will accompany such missions — one that will perform delicate procedures inside the body. The robot, which is about the size of a fist,…

True Facts About the Octopus, Nature’s Most Intelligent Ink-Farter

In this, the latest installment in his outstanding “True Facts about _________” nature series, Ze Frank takes a hilariously perceptive look at one of our favorite animal subjects: the octopus. It’s the first “True Facts” Ze Frank has put out since last October, and it’s characteristically excellent. [Ze Frank]

The Agents of SHIELD Are Starting To Fall Apart. Thank Goodness.

Shows like Agents of SHIELD are always more interesting when people are doing terrible things and making big mistakes than when everybody is being a paragon. And thank goodness, this show finally has enough confidence to let its characters go off the deep end. Spoilers ahead… Early on, Agents of SHIELD suffered from being a…

A TARDIS Full of Doctor Who, Godfather Blu-rays, Amazon FireTV [Deals]

Hopefully your media bookshelf is bigger on the inside, because the Doctor Who Limited Edition Series 1-7 blu-ray gift set is finally back in stock, complete with an exclusive comic and a Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote. We don’t expect it to be around long. [Amazon] Update: It’s gone. Amazon’s long-rumored set top box is here.…

Here’s What Caused the Chile Megaquake and Tsunami

In her daily life, io9 writer Mika McKinnon is a geologist who studies disaster. Here she explains what really happened yesterday with that megaquake off the coast of Chile.

Gravity Would Be A Very Different Movie If Superman Stopped By

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this amazing “alternate scene” from Gravity in which the Man of Steel makes a guest appearance. You will not regret it. [Via Comic Book Movie]

The Captain America 2 Directors Explain How To Make Steve Rogers Dark

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the darkest of all the Marvel movies. But then how on EARTH did directors Anthony and Joe Russo manage to fit in the most ridiculous Captain America villain of all time, Batroc the leaper? In our exclusive interview, we go deep into the secrets of making Cap (and his…

The Guardians Of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Don’t Keep Very Good Records

An investigation conducted by the Energy Department has revealed that the National Nuclear Security Administration is failing to keep complete and accurate records on nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. The scathing 19-page report, available on the website of Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General, warns that the range of problems “may ultimately increase costs…

Hulu just scored rights to past seasons of great shows like “Brooklyn Nine Nine” and “The Mindy Project.” The deal includes NBCUniversal-produced shows that usually air on Fox.

Ask A Theoretical Physicist About What Goes On In Black Holes!

Chris Adami, a theoretical physicist and computational biologist, is here today to take our questions about what goes on in black holes, information theory, and his proposed solution to the black hole information paradox posed by Stephen Hawking. Adami is a professor of both Physics & Astronomy and of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan…

Scarlett Johansson Is A Superpowered Genius In The First Lucy Trailer

We’ve been waiting to see Scarlett Johansson gain superpowers and go on an ass-kicking spree in Luc Besson’s Lucy. Now the first trailer is here and it looks like the visual spectacle we’ve been hoping for. It seems the movie does rely on the pseudoscientific claim that human beings only use ten percent of their…