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Real-Life Scientists Select Their Favorite Scifi Films

Scientists from Harvard, MIT, University of California and various other institutions were polled by Popular Mechanics on their favorite scifi flicks, and the results may surprise you. Each scientist selected a film and explained why it was their favorite; for example Steven Schlozman, Harvard Medical School’s codirector of medical student education in psychiatry, singled out…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Netgear’s HDMI Dongle Is Your Storage-Friendly Answer to Chromecast

While Google’s Chromecast might seem poised become the quintessential universal streaming device, it’s taking a hell of a long time to get there. So in the meantime, Netgear’s new NeoMediacast dongleis picking up where Chromecast left off by offering streaming content with Micro SD storage capabilities—assuming you’re an Android user, that is. The Miracast-enabled dongle…

Television Ashley Feinberg

Is a ring of dark matter making the Earth heavier than it should be?

After measuring the orbits of GPS satellites, a geophysicist came the startling conclusion that the Earth is heavier than it’s supposed to be. The reason, he says, may be due to a halo of dark matter surrounding the Earth at the equator. During a recent talk at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, telecom…

io9 George Dvorsky

Watch the first 15 minutes of Syfy’s Helix right now

Remember the glory days of Lost when everything was a mystery and all the mysteries were awesome? You’ll feel the same magic by watching the great first 15 minutes of Syfy’s new virus thriller Helix here. Set in the icy Arctic, the show takes place one day at a time as a crew from the…

Television Meredith Woerner

How to psychologically treat a walking corpse

People with Cotard’s Delusion believe they’re on the wrong side of The Walking Dead TV series, meaning they think they’re actually dead. How is it possible to treat them? Can you “prove” to a patient that they’re still alive? In 1880, Doctor Jules Cotard had the first of a series of what I can imagine…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Dolby Vision Will Make Sure Your TV’s Colors and Brightness Are Right

From your home theater to the cineplex, Dolby has long been the industry standard for serious digital sound. If you’re not using Dolby’s proprietary tech, you’re playing games. With Dolby Vision tech, the company wants to do to make movies on your TV look as good as it makes them sound on your surround sound…

Television Mario Aguilar

The Second World War claims yet another victim

It ended nearly 70 years ago, but World War II has taken yet another life. An undetonated bomb dropped by Allied planes exploded in a German town on Friday, killing the driver of an excavator and wounding another 13 people. The explosion happened in an industrial area of Euskirchen near Bonn. As The Guardian writes,…

io9 George Dvorsky

It’s 2014 — does the term “geek” really have any meaning anymore?

Periodically you have to ask this question again. Geeks aren’t just running some of the world’s biggest companies — they’re also the heroes of mega-hit TV series like Big Bang Theory; and, in the post-Snowden world, they’re international political subversives. So what the hell is a geek anymore? Has the term “geek” just become a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Game of Thrones inspires English town to rename itself Kings Landing

Come February 17th, the crown city of Westeros is coming to England. The village of the already similar-soundingKings Langley will take the name of the fictional city for a week as part of a promotion for the Game of Thrones season 3 DVD and Blu-ray sets. Via The Watford Observer: An executive producer of the…

Television Rob Bricken

Who Invented the Rocketship?

The entire idea of traveling into space to other worlds can be given a specific date: January 7, 1610. It was on that evening Galileo Galilei first observed the satellites of Jupiter and realized that the planets were worlds just like our own. Until then, the heavens were thought to be no great distance from…

io9 Ron Miller

Is yet another major superhero joining the Man of Steel 2 cast?

An old Star Wars/Boba Fett rumor has gained new life. NBC’s made a questionable marketing decision for Revolution. Check out the first photo of the new actor who’s taking over a crucial role on Game of Thrones. Is the new show about The Flash featuring one of his most classic villains in its first episode?…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Dish App Puts a Hopper DVR Directly Into LG Smart TVs

The DISH hopper is probably the slickest DVR that’s ever been made. It’s so good that big TV corporations like CBS are suing DISH over it. Well now the Hopper is going to be even more convenient for owners of LG Smart TVs because the new Dish App builds a Hopper directly into the TV.…

Television Mario Aguilar

How to Traverse an Urban Snowscape

Winter storms continued to slam the Northeast today. Meanwhile, a record setting “polar vortex” embarked on its frigid march through the Midwestern United States.This photo, taken by AP photographer John Michillo on Friday, shows one enterprising New Yorker making the best of the year’s first major snowpocalypse. (A note to those Midwesterners facing subzero temperatures…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The short film “Symmetry” is an audio/visual palindrome

This is “Symmetry,” a clever seven-minute short by filmmaker Yann Pineill. As its title suggests, the first and second halves of the film are mirror images of one another – a creative decision that must have required considerable planning to be pulled off as seamlessly as it is here. To be clear, the second half…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Debunking this week’s hottest pot myths point-by-point

Earlier this week, heavyweight columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus weighed in on the debate over the recent legalization of marijuana in Colorado. Armed with reason and findings from several studies, Time’s Maia Szalavitz has served up a refreshing piece of debunkery that tackles their misinformed contentions head-on. Photo Credit: AP Writes Szalavitz, on the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First Kite trailer and clips are full of sexy exploding heads

Seems like you’re going to be watching a lot of movies about lethal young girls, featuring Samuel L. Jackson in supporting roles. Yesterday we glimpsed Barely Lethal, about a teen assassin trained by Jackson. Today, here’s a huge look at the anime adaptation Kite, about an abused girl who becomes a super-killer. With Jackson! This…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

National Geographic Bets on Science in Las Vegas

I recently spent two days on location in Las Vegas with certified mad men of science Jason Silva and Tim Shaw of the National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games and None of the Above. We were somewhere off US95, on the edge of the desert, when the cognitive illusions began to take hold. Day One: Brain…

io9 Jason Shankel

An experiment showed that hospital staff were ready to kill patients

The Milgram Experiment is infamous for showing that people, in a situation they didn’t fully understand, would shock another person to death if ordered to do so. But what if people did understand what they were doing? As it turns out, that could actually make things even worse. In 1966, the phone rang at Hofling…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A map of 19th Century shipping routes and nothing else

Nautical trade routes stretch like so many lengths of string in this arresting visualization of intercontinental commerce in the 1800s. The map that emerges highlights not only several continents and their busiest ports, but the various trade winds that cycle through the lower reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. The map is the work of Ben Schmidt,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism

Here for spreading far and wide is a graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation. Redditor Jasonp55 writes that he was practicing Graph Pad when he produced the chart above and discovered the “real” cause of autism: organic food. His tongue is obviously planted firmly in his cheek here, but the chart…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Real-Life Scientists Select Their Favorite Scifi Films

Netgear’s HDMI Dongle Is Your Storage-Friendly Answer to Chromecast

Is a ring of dark matter making the Earth heavier than it should be?

Watch the first 15 minutes of Syfy’s Helix right now

How to psychologically treat a walking corpse

Dolby Vision Will Make Sure Your TV’s Colors and Brightness Are Right

The Second World War claims yet another victim

It’s 2014 — does the term “geek” really have any meaning anymore?

Game of Thrones inspires English town to rename itself Kings Landing

Who Invented the Rocketship?

Is yet another major superhero joining the Man of Steel 2 cast?

Dish App Puts a Hopper DVR Directly Into LG Smart TVs

How to Traverse an Urban Snowscape

The short film “Symmetry” is an audio/visual palindrome

Debunking this week’s hottest pot myths point-by-point

First Kite trailer and clips are full of sexy exploding heads

National Geographic Bets on Science in Las Vegas

An experiment showed that hospital staff were ready to kill patients

A map of 19th Century shipping routes and nothing else

On correlation, causation, and the “real” cause of autism

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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