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True facts about the baby echidna, the most adorable creature on Earth with a four-headed penis

Here now is the latest installment in Ze Frank’s always entertaining, occasionally scientifically accurate “facts about _______” nature series. To date, Frank has covered hedgehogs, anglerfish, and now baby echidnas, a.k.a. “puggles,” a.k.a. baby Max Rebo. https://gizmodo.com/indisputable-facts-about-the-hedgehog-mother-natures-5951361 https://gizmodo.com/true-facts-about-the-anglerfish-5971912 https://gizmodo.com/adorable-echidna-puggle-or-baby-max-rebo-you-be-the-ju-5955291 Warning: contains (censored) four-headed penises. Which you can read more about here (Warning: contains more uncensored…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 14 '13

Private Test Pilots to Fly First Commercial Crewed Space Flights for NASA

Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America’s capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil -– perhaps as early as 2015 -– which was totally lost following the forced shuttle shutdown. At a news briefing this week, NASA managers at…

io9 Ken Kremer - Universe Today Jan 14 '13

This Week’s TV: The Most Intriguing New Time Travel Show In Years

This week on television, there are eight new and returning TV shows — including the Canadian time travel show we’ve been talking about for months, Continuum, which is finally coming to American TV. There’s also the return of Syfy’s Being Human, and Archer! Katee Sackhoff is back on Star Wars: The Clone Wars! Plus there’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 14 '13

The New X-Men Are Entirely X-Women (or Maybe Vice Versa)

USA Today announced the line-up of Marvel NOW’s all-new X-Men comic (not to be confused with Marvel’s all-new Uncanny X-Men title or the all-new… er… All-New X-Men comic), and it turns out they’re not men at all! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa (/record scratch noise): However, with this new X-Men [writer Brian Wood] gets all the A-list X-women: The…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Jan 14 '13

The Brazilian Treehopper may be the strangest creature we’ve ever laid eyes on

Because holy crap, just look at that headgear. Everyone, meet Bocydium globulare. Better known as the Brazilian treehopper, B. globulare excels at living a solitary life, hanging out on the leaves of glory bushes, and head-sphering its way into your nightmares. The Brazilian treehopper is 100% real, but the image up top is of a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 14 '13

Anthony Mackie reveals Marvel’s high-flying plans for The Falcon in Captain America 2

Very little is known plotwise about Captain America’s sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But we do know that Steve Rogers will be interacting with a handful of classic Captain America characters, such as Bucky Barnes and the Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie. In a recent interview with AICN, Mackie revealed a few important details…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 14 '13

Gary Busey explains Hobbits, and the results are predictably insane

Famed actor/lunatic Gary Busey has taken time out of his busy schedule of yelling at invisible people to have a seat on a quiet, secluded hill, wear a tiny baseball cap, and tell us all about the tiny denizens of Middle-Earth known as Hobbits. I thought myself a bit of a Tolkien fan, but I’m…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 14 '13

Why you’ll never see a green star (but an alien might!)

If our eyes were just a little different, we might see green when looking up at our sun. Because they aren’t, we’ll never see a green star no matter where we look. However, alien eyes, when they come to our solar system — or if they’re already here! — might be able to see green…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 14 '13

Weather forecast calls for heavy rainfall, 50% chance of Batman

Because it’s the weather system Texas deserves, etc. Over at Newton Blog, Ross Pomeroy serves up a great example of misperceived random stimuli in the form of a 3-day rainfall forecast. The screenshot, he says, was captured by a friend working at Weather Nation, and comes from the Rapid Precision Mesoscale weather forecasting model. Tempting…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez Jan 14 '13

Rare ground-level photo of Hiroshima bombing found in former Japanese elementary school

One can only imagine what was going through the mind of the person who took this photo. Taken a mere two to five minutes after its detonation, it’s a ground-level perspective of the atomic explosion that decimated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The original print of the photograph recently surfaced in the archives at Honkawa…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 14 '13

Joss Whedon drops some intriguing S.H.I.E.L.D. hints and promises The Avengers 2 will go deeper!

J.J. Abrams explains why Star Trek Into Darkness had to be in 3D, despite his objections. Could some newly registered domain names hint at the new Batman movie? Jurassic Park IV is really happening — and it has a tentative release date in 2014. Plus John Noble talks the Fringe finale! Spoilers from here on…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jan 14 '13

Best of the Week: January 5-11, 2013

YOU THINK IT’S ROUGH NOW | Think the weather is crazy now? Just imagine what it looked like on Earth right after the mega-collision that formed the Moon. More details here. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-the-primordial-earth-looked-right-after-t-5974695 The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational https://gizmodo.com/the-12-cognitive-biases-that-prevent-you-from-being-rat-5974468 The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 14 '13

The Orion Nebula fires “bullets” the size of our solar system

The Orion Nebula, as the closest site of massive ongoing star formation to Earth, has long been one of the most intensely studied objects in the night sky. But it still holds mysteries, including these “bullets” emanating from its center. The so-called bullets are the blue regions in the above photograph, which was taken by…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 13 '13

Pike chokes to death on fish almost its own size, is an idiot

It’s easy to think gluttony is a uniquely human trait, that animals ruled by their baser instincts are at least equipped with an innate sense of just how much is too much. But one recently discovered pike begs to differ. The fish was found by Rene Spaargaren in the waters near his Dutch home. More…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 13 '13

Concept designs of battle-ready pathogens and blood cells would make for a fantastic video game

Sadly, Blood 48:14 isn’t a real video game. When illustrator and video game artist Nicholas Beales needed to come up with a game design idea for his school’s final year project, he turned to the human body for inspiration. He imagined a real-time strategy game in which the player controls microscopic pathogens as they attempt…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 13 '13

Clone Wars reminds us that R2-D2 is the unkillable hero of the Star Wars universe

Is it over? Is the D-Squad arc finally over? Clone Wars’ ill-fated team of astromechs (plus WAC and Gascon) had one last hurdle to jump before handing over that encryption chip, and this time there’s more than their lives (or Gascon’s sanity) at stake. That means it’s up to R2-D2 to make sure the Republic…

Television Lauren Davis Jan 13 '13

Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence

I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person’s entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son. My deepest condolences go out to him and the rest…

io9 Alex Stamos -- Artemis Internet Jan 13 '13

San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library

Books, who needs ’em? Libraries? Not anymore they don’t. The first public, bookless library is coming to San Antonio soon and, possibly, to a (dystopic?) future near you. The new book-free library, called “BiblioTech,” is intended to open in the fall and is part of a an entire bookless public library system planned for the…

Books & Comics Eric Limer Jan 13 '13

Crowdfund a documentary about science fiction’s forgotten visionaries and an animated adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Dagon”

Here are three intriguing film projects looking for a little crowdfunding boost: First is a documentary that uncovers the men and women who first thought up our favorite science fiction tropes, decades—and even centuries—ago. Next is an animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Dagon,” with a nightmarish vision. Last comes a film about a…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 13 '13

A Stylish and Whimsical Steampunk Short about the Wheel that Runs the World

Directed by John Roberts and written by Ryan Plato, The Wheel is a wonderfully stylized short film about a sibling rivalry with potentially apocalyptic consequences. Holster was raised to maintain the Wheel that keeps the world running, but his sister Ellie grew up jealous of her brother’s sense of purpose. Their story, told in metered…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 13 '13

True facts about the baby echidna, the most adorable creature on Earth with a four-headed penis

Private Test Pilots to Fly First Commercial Crewed Space Flights for NASA

This Week’s TV: The Most Intriguing New Time Travel Show In Years

The New X-Men Are Entirely X-Women (or Maybe Vice Versa)

The Brazilian Treehopper may be the strangest creature we’ve ever laid eyes on

Anthony Mackie reveals Marvel’s high-flying plans for The Falcon in Captain America 2

Gary Busey explains Hobbits, and the results are predictably insane

Why you’ll never see a green star (but an alien might!)

Weather forecast calls for heavy rainfall, 50% chance of Batman

Rare ground-level photo of Hiroshima bombing found in former Japanese elementary school

Joss Whedon drops some intriguing S.H.I.E.L.D. hints and promises The Avengers 2 will go deeper!

Best of the Week: January 5-11, 2013

The Orion Nebula fires “bullets” the size of our solar system

Pike chokes to death on fish almost its own size, is an idiot

Concept designs of battle-ready pathogens and blood cells would make for a fantastic video game

Clone Wars reminds us that R2-D2 is the unkillable hero of the Star Wars universe

Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence

San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library

Crowdfund a documentary about science fiction’s forgotten visionaries and an animated adaptation of Lovecraft’s “Dagon”

A Stylish and Whimsical Steampunk Short about the Wheel that Runs the World

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