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Instead of Monsters University we could have had a Monsters Inc sequel

Before Monsters University was a collegiate twinkle in Pixar’s eye, Disney considered a Monsters Inc. sequel featuring not just Mike and Sulley, but Boo as well. In 2004, Disney started Circle 7 animation, a studio designed to create sequels to Disney-owned Pixar films. When relations between Pixar and Disney were less than sunny, Circle 7…

io9 Lauren Davis

The guinea pig that proved we have an internal combustion engine

Technically, it was Antoine Lavoisier that proved we have an internal combustion engine, but let’s give the guinea pig credit. It nearly froze in Lavoisier’s special calorimeter to prove something new about biophysics. In 1774, Joseph Priestley managed to get a hold of a pure sample of the gas we now call oxygen. At last,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Hank and Dean Venture dress up as X-Men’s Cyclops and Havok

Normally, Hank Venture doesn’t dress as any superhero other than Batman, but he’s making an exception in this piece by Josh Gowdy. See what other mashed-up hijinks Team Venture is getting up to. We’re not the only ones who are beyond thrilled that The Venture Bros. is finally back on the air. Venture mashups are…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

X-ray images of women in corsets show skeletons in a bind

With the 1908 volume of his treatise Le Corset, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell hoped to make clear the detrimental effects the then-current corset designs had on women’s health. To that end, he took X-ray images of women in their binding underthings. According to the Public Domain Review, O’Followell wasn’t looking to ban corsets entirely, but was…

io9 Lauren Davis

Will Smith won’t be back for the Independence Day sequel

Who will punch our aliens now? Independence Day director Roland Emmerich says that Will Smith is “too expensive” to appear in the sequel. Just yesterday, we were saying that it might be nice to see Smith sock an alien or two again, but in an interview with the NY Daily News, Emmerich says that Smith…

Movies Lauren Davis

Learn the fake science of reading faces with these phrenology diagrams

If you had lived in a time and place where phrenology was a popularly accepted science, would you have been considered a paragon of virtue or would the lumps on your head cast you as a jealous, avaricious lout? It’s both fascinating and disturbing to look through the diagrams from old phrenology texts. These come…

io9 Lauren Davis

These Are the Ten TV Shows That Pirates Like the Most

With the spring TV season drawing to a close (MAD MEN SEASON FINALE TOMORROW YOU GUYS!!), TorrentFreak has done the wonderful service of rounding up a top 10 list of the most torrented shows out there this time around. Can you guess number one? (You can definitely guess number one.) That’s right, Game of Thrones…

Television Eric Limer

Dreamlike Concept Images of Cities that Float High Above the Clouds

Have you ever dreamed of life aboard an aerial city, a place that hovers well above the ground? Take a gander at these imaginary cities, from artists who imagined a future that’s anything but grounded. The picture above is a work of ~aksu at DeviantArt. Ten Thousand Years From Now, illustration by Louis Biedermann (Odgen…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Cross-section photographs of bullets are strangely fascinating

Sabine Pearlman‘s photographs find beauty in the destructive engineering of ammunition with this series of cross-sections of bullets cartridges from a Swiss bunker. They reveal the complexity inside each case. This series, which consists of 900 specimens, was photographed inside a WWII bunker in Switzerland. Pearlman says that she is intrigued by the beautiful complexity…

io9 Lauren Davis

What World War Z could have looked like as a mockumentary

We knew that the World War Z film wasn’t going to be faithful to Max Brooks’ book, but what if the producers had gone in the opposite direction, shooting the movie as a Ken Burns-inspired mockumentary? https://gizmodo.com/world-war-z-fails-the-zombie-bite-test-524581393 Sleepy Skunk created this short for Film School Rejects, and while it doesn’t run with the concept as…

Movies Lauren Davis

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Destruction of the Wasteland Churches

A couple of kids go after some odd-looking creature draped in religious trappings. Is it an ideological battle or is this just a post-apocalyptic monster hunt? Let’s hear your stories. This by Sergi Brosa is titled “Wasteland Churches,” and Brosa insists that he’s not trying to make any sort of anti-religious commentary with it. What…

io9 Lauren Davis

Building the Animatronic Terror That Trounced a T-Rex

Jurassic Park III may not be your favorite movie in the series. But that doesn’t mean its effects weren’t fantastic. In fact, the somewhat random third entry in the series boasted the biggest animatronic ‘saur yet: the Spinosaurus. Stan Winston Studios recalls the details of that behemoth’s construction, and it’s wild to watch. Jurassic Park…

Movies Eric Limer

Transgenic silkworms spin glowing fluorescent silk

If your greatest problem with your silk clothes is that they don’t look impressive enough under black light, you’re in luck. Researchers in Japan have genetically engineered silkworms that spin silk that glows under fluorescent light. Top photo by 白石崖. The researchers, led by Tetsuya Iizuka and Toshiki Tamura of the National Institute of Agrobiological…

io9 Lauren Davis

A great episode of Continuum explores the fragility of memory

At first blush, last night’s Continuum didn’t seem like it was going to be anything special: a clichéd “designer drug” storyline wrapped in with some gang warfare. But instead, it warped into a really fascinating look at the ways in which your memory can play tricks on you — and how time travel can screw…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Arnold Schwarzenegger shuffles into tearjerker zombie film Maggie

Although it’s set during a zombie outbreak, the scale of the upcoming film Maggie sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from World War Z. It’s about a small farm family who helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her zombie infection. And it’s just nabbed itself an unlikely star. Written by John…

Movies Lauren Davis

Why Your DVR Hates the Last Few Seconds of Shows So Much

There’s nothing quite like missing the very last seconds of that show you so painstakingly DVRed. Especially if that show is a live sporting event, and you explicitly told the damned box to keep going for an hour or two afterwards. It shouldn’t have to be that way, though. And as Slate explains, there’s a…

Television Eric Limer

Can you tell real images of space from fake ones?

There is no small amount of artistry that goes into the stunning images of space we see on a regular basis, but can you tell the difference between authentic space porn and artists’ renderings of the cosmos? https://gizmodo.com/this-video-reveals-how-nasa-photoshops-hubbles-images-5785905 BuzzFeed put together this cosmic quiz, and you can see the image credits—as well as links to…

io9 Lauren Davis

FYI: Snakes can open doors

Think that a snake can’t follow you into the next room because you’ve shut the door? Think again. Julius, an albino Burmese python, figured out how to work her body onto door handles and get those suckers open. Julius’ owner, Jenner, explains that the snake made a bit of a habit of opening doors: Bored…

io9 Lauren Davis

William Fichtner is our new Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

We’ve seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set photos of Megan Fox as April O’Neil and the titular turtles in their mo-cap suits, but who will be wearing Shredder’s mask? William Fichtner is stepping up to the villainous plate. http://morningspoilers.io9.com/tmnt-set-photos-of-megan-fox-500889734 It was revealed last month that Fichtner would appear in the film as an iconic TMNT…

Movies Lauren Davis

The Greek gods play a wacky game to decide who will rule Olympus

When Max fills out an online personality test as a goof, the worst thing he expects to get is a computer virus. He doesn’t expect Hades, Greek god of the underworld, to show up in his living room—and he certainly expect Hades to be purple-skinned and four feet tall. Now Max is caught up in…

io9 Lauren Davis

Instead of Monsters University we could have had a Monsters Inc sequel

The guinea pig that proved we have an internal combustion engine

Hank and Dean Venture dress up as X-Men’s Cyclops and Havok

X-ray images of women in corsets show skeletons in a bind

Will Smith won’t be back for the Independence Day sequel

Learn the fake science of reading faces with these phrenology diagrams

These Are the Ten TV Shows That Pirates Like the Most

Dreamlike Concept Images of Cities that Float High Above the Clouds

Cross-section photographs of bullets are strangely fascinating

What World War Z could have looked like as a mockumentary

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Destruction of the Wasteland Churches

Building the Animatronic Terror That Trounced a T-Rex

Transgenic silkworms spin glowing fluorescent silk

A great episode of Continuum explores the fragility of memory

Arnold Schwarzenegger shuffles into tearjerker zombie film Maggie

Why Your DVR Hates the Last Few Seconds of Shows So Much

Can you tell real images of space from fake ones?

FYI: Snakes can open doors

William Fichtner is our new Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Greek gods play a wacky game to decide who will rule Olympus

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

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‘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

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