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Is it wrong to use social media to talk about your illness?

Lisa Adams is a stay-at-home mom who maintains a personal blog about her years-long struggle with breast cancer. But last week, two writers — Bill and Emma Keller — wrote opinion pieces in the Guardian and New York Times criticizing Adams for being too public about her pain. The Kellers are a husband and wife,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Documentary trailer for Fantastic Four movie Marvel wanted to forget

In 1994, monster movie maker Roger Corman made a $2 million adaptation of The Fantastic Four, was never released in theaters for obvious reasons. But now the documentary DOOMED! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four will show you the lunacy that is this creation, and all the bananas behind-the-scenes goings on. Watch…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The impossible science of Godzilla’s gait

After a first look at one of the newest incarnations of Godzilla to walk the earth, one question kept popping up: how would Godzilla manage to walk on his rather small feet at all? https://gizmodo.com/toy-offers-best-look-at-the-brand-new-godzilla-design-y-1500166438 The question was first raised by commenter Captain Max and JINX, and then taken up by commenter Lizardman, who noted…

io9 Ria Misra

A map showing just how freaky this winter really is

Weather-wise, this has been a rather strange and memorable winter. A North American polar vortex and frigid Mars-like temperatures will do that. As this new NASA Earth Observatory map beautifully illustrates, it has been an anomalous winter, indeed. The map above shows land surface temperature anomalies in North America for January 1 to 7, 2014.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Peter Capaldi rides a horse in his pajamas on the set of Doctor Who

We still don’t know what Peter Capaldi will be wearing for his regular Twelfth Doctor duds, but in this video from the set, he’s been spotted wearing white pajamas while on horseback. Doctor Who TV has a couple of photographs from the set where you can actually see Capaldi in his costume, but they also…

Television Lauren Davis

Not chilly enough yet? Here are some of the world’s coldest settlements

The polar vortex has brought record-breaking temperatures to the US and Canada, but in some parts of the world, people regularly live with frigid temperatures that make 0°C look rather balmy. Here are some currently and formerly inhabited spots where a good coat and a set of longjohns are essential to life. Verkhoyansk, Sakha Republic,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

This creepy claymation ballet is like a Silly Symphony from Hell

The short film Eager begins as a slow dance of undead wraiths, but it eventually takes us to a claymation garden that seems pulled from a particularly nightmarish version of Alice in Wonderland, where the pansies have skull faces and the snap dragons are out to eat everyone else. NSFW for claymation breasts and phalluses.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch the ENTIRE history of Europe unfold before your very eyes

Perhaps no other landmass in the world has undergone as many political changes during the past 5,500 years than Europe. Thanks to the work of Groovy Historian, we can now visualize this evolution. Groovy Historian required 20 maps to chart this cartographic history; here’s a sampling: Circa 3,500 B.C Circa 500 BC: Circa 1,000 AD:…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Model Shows Exoplanets May Have Oceans and Continents

A new exoplanet model developed by Nicolas B. Cowan of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics and Dorian Abbot of the University of Chicago, has shown that some “super-earths” may resemble our planet a lot more than previously thought. According to the model, these planets may have oceans and continents. By definition,…

io9 Ron Miller

Anti-marijuana laws were based on racism, not science

Is marijuana’s beer-like buzz more damaging than what people get from hard liquor? Is there a scientific reason why this drug is deemed so dangerous and illegal? Nope. It turns out that marijuana prohibition laws in the 1930s were designed to prevent “darkies” from thinking “they’re as good as white men.” Over at The Fix,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Are you one of those people who thinks hot water is ice cold?

Some of you will not know what this headline means. Others will have stuck your hand (or your whole body) under a shower and felt as though you were in an ice bath for a millisecond before you realized you’d scalded yourself. For some people, sufficiently hot water will, for a moment, feel ice cold.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Fox’s Gotham TV series is going to be Batman: The High School Years

Were you hoping that Fox’s Batman prequel TV series Gotham would be a tough crime procedural set on the mean streets of Gotham City? Or were you hoping it would be about teenaged Batman, The Joker, Catwoman, Riddler, and the Penguin all hanging out together? Because it’s the latter. Sorry, I threw up in my…

Television Rob Bricken

That time scientists tried to use Pavlovian conditioning for sex

Can humans be conditioned the same way dogs are? And, if so, can they be conditioned to have a sexual response rather than a salivary one? You bet they can! Ivan Pavlov was a renowned physiologist who earned enduring fame by conditioning dogs to salivate at the sound of a buzzer. Pavlov sounded a buzzer…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Cover Reveal: The dark splendor of the new Alien universe comics

Excited for Dark Horse’s relaunch of their Alien, Predator and Alien Vs. Predator comics? What about the debut of Prometheus, and the universe all four titles will share? We’re thrilled to bring you this first, exclusive look at the jaw-dropping covers for all four first issues. Plus, we talked to Dark Horse editor-in-chief Scott Allie…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Michael Douglas is playing Hank Pym in Ant-Man!

Michael Douglas has officially signed on Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man. And now Marvel is revealing that he’s playing Hank Pym, which means Paul Rudd (the lead and younger Ant-Man of this story) is the other comic book iteration of this hero Scott Lang. But wait, there’s a twist. Spoilers ahead. Variety is reporting that Douglas is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A scale for the size of the universe, from quarks to quasars

Imagining the smallest of the small and the largest of the large in the universe can be a mind-bendingly difficult task. This awesome interactive graphic, that let’s you slide from an infinitesimally tiny strange quark all the way out to the gigantic Eridanus Supervoid hanging around near the ragged edges of our observable universe, makes…

io9 Ria Misra

New study dramatically changes where we believe aliens might live

A team of astrobiologists has redefined conventional notions of where life can exist within a solar system. They’ve suggested that life could exist inside planets with inhospitable surfaces. Dubbed “subsurface habitable zones,” this new definition of habitable zones means that alien life may be far more prevalent than we ever imagined. Typically, a solar system’s…

io9 George Dvorsky

Psychedelic new trailer for 17th century mind job A Field in England

From the creators of Kill List and Sightseers comes the psychotic horror show A Field in England. The premise is simple: a couple of guys (and an alchemist!!) are in a field looking for treasure, when everything goes straight to hell. Watch the new trailer now. Already praised by Martin Scorcese, the movie is loaded…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Robots shaped like African animals join the fight against poachers

In a future Serengeti, illegal poaching continues to deplete the wildlife population, but conservationists have extraordinary new tools to protect endangered animals: robots that take the forms of those animals to blend in with the wildlife and capture poachers. Artist Robert Chew’s Big Five series of illustrations imagine a network of wildlife rangers and the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Celebrate the VHS tape and the cheesy, awesome movies it gave us

Do you have a VCR? Then it’s time to dust it off, because if you still own one, then chances are you’re a fan of the format, as well as the weird, goofy direct-to-VHS titles of the ’80s. The new documentary Rewind This! is their ultimate tribute — plus, the movie actually comes out on…

io9 Rob Bricken

Is it wrong to use social media to talk about your illness?

Documentary trailer for Fantastic Four movie Marvel wanted to forget

The impossible science of Godzilla’s gait

A map showing just how freaky this winter really is

Peter Capaldi rides a horse in his pajamas on the set of Doctor Who

Not chilly enough yet? Here are some of the world’s coldest settlements

This creepy claymation ballet is like a Silly Symphony from Hell

Watch the ENTIRE history of Europe unfold before your very eyes

New Model Shows Exoplanets May Have Oceans and Continents

Anti-marijuana laws were based on racism, not science

Are you one of those people who thinks hot water is ice cold?

Fox’s Gotham TV series is going to be Batman: The High School Years

That time scientists tried to use Pavlovian conditioning for sex

Cover Reveal: The dark splendor of the new Alien universe comics

Michael Douglas is playing Hank Pym in Ant-Man!

A scale for the size of the universe, from quarks to quasars

New study dramatically changes where we believe aliens might live

Psychedelic new trailer for 17th century mind job A Field in England

Robots shaped like African animals join the fight against poachers

Celebrate the VHS tape and the cheesy, awesome movies it gave us

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