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Pretty Little Liars is secretly about the supernatural world

ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has become the teenage version of Desperate Housewives, full of backstabbing pretty people with an undercurrent of murder. Oh, and also? Vampires and other magical beings. A spinoff, Ravenswood, will deal with the Liars’ paranormal side. Entertainment Weekly has a ton of details about Ravenswood, which executive producer Joseph…

Television Annalee Newitz

Your first new rumored Star Wars: Episode VII cast member is…

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, according to Latino Review. There’s no telling if it’s true, if it’ll happen, or who the hell he’ll play if it all works out, but I think he does look like he could be Han and Leia’s kid if they want to go the Star Wars: The Next Generation route.

Movies Rob Bricken

What is Evolution?

A fantastic primer on descent with modification. The video comes from the folks at Stated Clearly, and features illustrations from nature cartoonist Rosemary Mosco‘s Bird and Moon comics. It’s cute, clever, and thorough – without being didactic. Good stuff. Via Joe Hanson, who has one bone to pick with the video.

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The fraud who worked with Einstein

Emil Rupp spent the late 1920s and early 1930s being lauded as the most impressive experimental physicist in the world. He managed to pull off experiments that no one else could. He worked with Einstein. And he’d made it all up. Emil Rupp was born in Germany in 1898; he had an interest in physics,…

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Matt Smith and David Tennant chat about Doctor Who‘s 50th birthday!

Joss Whedon reveals what Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch will bring to The Avengers 2, while Edgar Wright explains why he’s waited so long to make Ant-Man. Aaron Eckhart really wants you to know about the hardcore stick fighting in I, Frankenstein. Plus Karl Urban previews Fox’s new robot cop show Almost Human! Spoilers alive! Top…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

A Starry Night in the Valley of the Roses

Let us close out the weekend with this striking piece from artist Jemma Salume. Here’s hoping your week will be filled with beautiful fish and whale dreams. If you like this piece, be sure to check out the equally lovely items in Salume’s store. [via The Art of Animation]

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Profound and hilarious poetry written by arranging book spines

Nina Katchadourian borrows the words she uses for her unusual poetry from the spines of books. She arranges those spines, book upon book, so that they form brief poems that are often insightful and surprising. Katchadourian’s Sorted Book Project manages to become more than an experiment in medium. Her playful photographed poems are sometimes cleverly…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The clones come out of the closet on Orphan Black

When Dr. Leekie comes to town, things are not looking so good for our clones. The cops are closing in on their secret, and Alison has set her life to self-destruct. So Sarah and Alison wonder: What would happen if they came out of the clone closet? Spoilers ahead. Well, now Art and Angie know…

Television Lauren Davis

Eye-Poppingly Gorgeous Underground Stations from Around The World

The history of rapid-transit began 150 years ago, with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London in 1863. In the next century and a half, dozens of architects and engineers have worked on underground tunnels and stations. Some are abandoned now, but others are as good as new. Here are some of the most…

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Superpowers and hope fill first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe

Earlier today, we got a peek at the pilot script for Alfonso Cuarón’s J.J. Abrams-produced show Believe. Now, NBC has released the first trailer, giving us a look at Believe’s superpowered ten-year-old girl in action. https://gizmodo.com/the-pilot-script-for-alfonso-cuarons-believe-is-now-on-508722804 The setup of a superpowered being moving from town to town to avoid falling into the wrong hands is…

Trailers Lauren Davis

Carnivorous plant doesn’t have time for any of that junk DNA

In the human genome, only about 2% of our DNA are genes involved in coding the proteins essential to our existence. The other 98% is noncoding DNA, often called junk DNA because there’s no clear purpose for it. That name might seem a bit pejorative, but a new study of the bladderwort genome suggests it’s…

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Crowdfund a collection of Osamu Tezuka’s short manga and more

There are tons of great crowdfunding projects running this week, from tiny robot sculptures to a book by the Godfather of Anime. You can also crowdfund a short film about dinosaurs on the hunt, simple programmable robots, and much more. Top image from Osamu Tezuka’s The Crater. Limited Edition Translation of Osamu Tezuka’s “The Crater”…

io9 Lauren Davis

Sarah Connor needs to tell Doctor Who there’s no fate but what we make

Seriously, you know what would have been awesome on last night’s Doctor Who? If Sarah Connor had popped up, preferably the Lena Headey version, and told the Doctor and his friends there’s “no fate but what we make.” And then blown up the Great Intelligence with a pipe bomb or something. That’s not what happened,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s the supernova Johannes Kepler studied 400 years ago

These are the remnants of the last supernova known to explode in our galaxy whose light has reached Earth. It lit up the night sky in 1604 and attracted the attention of Johannes Kepler himself. But it’s only in the last couple of decades that we’ve developed the technology to understand exactly what kind of…

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The pilot script for Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe is now online

One of our most highly anticipated TV shows coming this fall is Believe, the Alfonso Cuarón-scripted series about a young girl with remarkable powers. Now it appears that the entire pilot script has popped up online. https://gizmodo.com/new-scifi-tv-shows-from-alfonso-cuaron-and-the-creators-498980519 J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot will be producing the series for NBC, with Cuarón directing. SpoilerTV spotted what looks…

Television Lauren Davis

The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman

In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply connected to his love of physics, representing an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of the world. Brain Pickings has a…

io9 Lauren Davis

What character are you embarrassed that you love?

We all have one: a character from an otherwise great piece of media who is obnoxious or horrible in some way. Is there a character that you don’t usually admit to liking? Confess your terrible character love here. We’ll understand. Up top is one of my characters that I love, and I’m horribly embarrassed about…

io9 Lauren Davis

State-of-the-art 19th-century torpedo was discovered by Navy dolphins

In the late 19th century, the Howell torpedo was an incredibly advanced piece of military equipment, a breakthrough device in the United States’ quest to achieve naval dominance. But only one surviving Howell torpedo was known to exist—until Navy dolphins nosed up another. The US Navy employs bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater military equipment that…

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Watch Aliens retold in 60 seconds of animated silliness

The latest 60-second Speedrun through a science fiction movie takes us through the action-packed mayhem of Aliens, from Jonesy to Ripley’s power loader. Those Xenomorphs are still vicious in this format, so watch out. [via MetaFilter]

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Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts

Kasia Jackowska’s Drawing Mathematics series takes an unusually adorable approach to illustrating mathematical concepts. The Pythagorean Theorem and Sierpinski triangles are conveyed through drawings of elephants, snakes, and deer. Jackowska created this series for a brochure published by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw. You can see the rest at her website.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Pretty Little Liars is secretly about the supernatural world

Your first new rumored Star Wars: Episode VII cast member is…

What is Evolution?

The fraud who worked with Einstein

Matt Smith and David Tennant chat about Doctor Who‘s 50th birthday!

A Starry Night in the Valley of the Roses

Profound and hilarious poetry written by arranging book spines

The clones come out of the closet on Orphan Black

Eye-Poppingly Gorgeous Underground Stations from Around The World

Superpowers and hope fill first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe

Carnivorous plant doesn’t have time for any of that junk DNA

Crowdfund a collection of Osamu Tezuka’s short manga and more

Sarah Connor needs to tell Doctor Who there’s no fate but what we make

Here’s the supernova Johannes Kepler studied 400 years ago

The pilot script for Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe is now online

The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman

What character are you embarrassed that you love?

State-of-the-art 19th-century torpedo was discovered by Navy dolphins

Watch Aliens retold in 60 seconds of animated silliness

Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts

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