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In a future of lab-grown food, could you eat meat made of celebrities?

An alleged startup claims that it wants to make and sell “artisinal salami” made from celebrity tissue samples. Even if it’s a joke, it raises the question: What are the ethics of consuming lab-grown human meat? BiteLabs claims to be a biotech startup focused on cultivating and selling celebrity meat for human consumption. Perhaps taking…

io9 Lauren Davis

Recreation of Hook with the original Rufio is absolutely Bangarang

Dante Basco (Rufio) joined the Homemade Movies team to bring back his epic battle from Hook. And now if you’ll excuse us, we have to go watch Hook all over again. Created by Cinefix, the Homemade Movies YouTubes are slowly becoming one of our favorite things. It’s just so damn cute! https://gizmodo.com/a-shot-for-shot-live-action-recreation-of-the-family-gu-1481334531 Here’s the Hook…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The physical limit of trick shots in billiards

For anyone who has ever had their ass handed to them in a game of pool, take comfort knowing that in the end, physics beats everything. A physicist has calculated how many collisions it takes for billiards to be impossible without a supercomputer. It’s less than you think! Beginning pool players (or the hopelessly incompetent)…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A nutritional label that shows the serving sizes we’re really eating

The labels on the back of your food are about to get an update. The big change? Making serving sizes that reflect how people actually eat. The new label proposed today by the FDA has a couple new features on it: the print for the calorie counts and serving sizes is larger, nutrient totals are…

io9 Ria Misra

Ever had your mind blown by an egg?

The common guillemot is a bird with decidedly uncommon eggs. They’re shaped in such a way that when they roll, they do so not in a long, wide arc but a tight, uniform circle. But why would an egg do such a thing? Guillemots are seabirds, and they tend to congregate on the ledges of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Meet the three very bizarre choices to direct the new He-Man movie

The He-Man movie has been languishing in development hell for almost a decade now, and I don’t really know if that’s ever going to change, But just in case, Fox has tapped three potential directors for the theoretical film, and they are totally not who you’d expect. According to The Wrap, the three font-runners are:…

io9 Rob Bricken

Kevin Feige shoots down every Doctor Strange rumor!

Get a much closer look at Godzilla! Plus find out about filming for Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Bryan Singer talks time travel in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Plus another new Game of Thrones teaser. And the team that brought us Sleepy Hollow now presents Matador! Spoilers now! Top image: Godzilla…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Classic 90s RPG Mutant Chronicles Returns, with Demons and Megacorps

Mutant Chronicles and its blend of space mutants, megacorp technocracies, and bizarre demonic forces has been in developer limbo for years, but as this gallery of stunning Paul Bonner art shows, it’s ready to make a grand return. British publisher Modiphius Entertainment has taken control of the Mutant Chronicles license, reading the game’s long-awaited 3rd…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

GLaDOS explains the difference between fusion and fission for NASA

When NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted a spokes-AI to explain how fusion and fission work, they tapped GLaDOS, the science-loving antagonist from the Portal games. But once GLaDOS gets inside NASA, can anyone stop her? Ellen McLain, the actress who voices GLaDOS, reprises her role in this educational sketch for the education & public outreach…

io9 Lauren Davis

The cast of Frozen sings about the making of Frozen in real life

Kristen Bell (Anna), Josh Gad (Olaf), and Jonathan Groff (Kristoff) all got together in the real world to sing a little ditty about the making of Frozen. From here on out, all animated musical film actors should be forced to do a real life set, with the real life animators/professional dancers who created their characters.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Two Psychos At Once with Steven Soderbergh’s Trippy Movie Mashup

I have a confession to make. I’ve never seen Psycho. I’ve seen Rear Window. I’ve seen The Birds. I’ve even seen most of Bates Motel. But I have never ever in my whole life watched Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Tonight, I just might. Steven Soderbergh—who’s known for doing quirky things like publishing a list of everything he…

Movies Adam Clark Estes

Real life laser scientists photographed as B-movie heroes

We don’t see scientists portrayed as heroes very often in pop culture these days. Usually, scientists are the ones who unleash something terrible onto the world. But when photographer Robert Shults visited the Texas Petawatt Laser, one of the world’s most powerful lasers, he was determined to capture the heroism of science. At the Texas…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s why they call Earth ‘The Blue Marble’

The Caribbean country of Cuba appears at the top of this image, photographed last December by an Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station. Andros Island, part of the Bahamas, can be seen in the bottom of the frame. The surrounding waters are so beautifully aqua-colored as to appear unbelievable. See also: NASA’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

io9 is hiring: We’re looking for a few good researchers!

Are you just starting your career, and want to get your feet wet with a research job at io9? We’ve got three openings — two for contributing researchers who focus on culture and entertainment, and one for a half-time editorial fellow in the sciences who will do research, writing, and outreach in the science community.…

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Hero father paints Doctor Who Adventure Time mural for daughter’s wall

The creator of Wookie the Chew, and a multitude of additional wondrous works of art, James Hance, painted this on his daughter’s wall. We are so jealous. https://gizmodo.com/wookiee-the-chew-5627984 https://gizmodo.com/ups-little-old-couple-have-created-the-most-adorable-st-5887992 https://gizmodo.com/the-doctor-is-the-cheshire-cat-to-amy-ponds-alice-in-w-512177792 The mashup debuted first on his Facebook page: I’ve just finished an “Adventure Timey-Wimey” mural on my 9yr old daughter, Maddy’s room It’s 5ft x…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Amazingly, Supernatural finds our heartstrings again

Supernatural has reached a kind of emotional event horizon where the Winchesters are concerned. After so many repetitive tear-jerking conflicts, they’ve collapsed into a kind of drama singularity, from which no real emotion can escape. But last night’s episode still wrung a lot of pathos out of a couple of side characters. Spoilers ahead… Just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Brand New Art from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson!

Well here’s an unexpected surprise: Bill Watterson, long-retired creator of Calvin of Hobbes, was so impressed with Stripped – a new feature documentary that invites some of the biggest names in comics “to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newspapers die” – that he agreed to provide the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

One easy way to visualize numbers that are very big or very small

When numbers get either very, very large or very, very small, it’s hard to conceptualize exactly what they mean. But this vintage video is a simple guide to comprehending numerical extremes. Made back in 1977, the “Powers of 10” video was recommended by commenter OmegaUnlimited, after reading this piece on just how to comprehend incomprehensibly…

io9 Ria Misra

Once time travel becomes common, drunken assholes will abuse it

The problem with a revolutionary technology is what happens when it falls into the hands of the general public—including drunk people and their obnoxious friends. Ben Mallaby’s film Timeholes is just two minutes long, but that’s plenty of time for it to deliver its goofy send-up of time travel tropes. And it does a neat…

io9 Lauren Davis

Drop Everything – The Bald Eagle Cam is Back!

Will 2014 be the year you witness a baby bald eagle hatching live, on camera? NOT IF YOU LOOK AWAY, IT WON’T. Above: The female eagle flies from the nest as the male flies in (2/9/14) | Photo Credit: Berry Eagles Photo Gallery It’s that time of year again – the time of year when…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

In a future of lab-grown food, could you eat meat made of celebrities?

Recreation of Hook with the original Rufio is absolutely Bangarang

The physical limit of trick shots in billiards

A nutritional label that shows the serving sizes we’re really eating

Ever had your mind blown by an egg?

Meet the three very bizarre choices to direct the new He-Man movie

Kevin Feige shoots down every Doctor Strange rumor!

Classic 90s RPG Mutant Chronicles Returns, with Demons and Megacorps

GLaDOS explains the difference between fusion and fission for NASA

The cast of Frozen sings about the making of Frozen in real life

Watch Two Psychos At Once with Steven Soderbergh’s Trippy Movie Mashup

Real life laser scientists photographed as B-movie heroes

Here’s why they call Earth ‘The Blue Marble’

io9 is hiring: We’re looking for a few good researchers!

Hero father paints Doctor Who Adventure Time mural for daughter’s wall

Amazingly, Supernatural finds our heartstrings again

Brand New Art from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson!

One easy way to visualize numbers that are very big or very small

Once time travel becomes common, drunken assholes will abuse it

Drop Everything – The Bald Eagle Cam is Back!

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

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The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

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