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World’s first commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore

The prospect of growing crops in vertical farms directly inside of cities has been on the collective wish-list of environmentalists, sustainable developers, and futurists for quite some time now. And now it looks like it’s finally starting to happen. Land-strapped Singapore has opened its first vertical farm — an innovation that will increase the variety…

io9 George Dvorsky

Arrow shoots Deadshot fans through the heart

Deadshot is one of the coolest DC Comics characters of all time — a troubled loner who never misses with his trusty firearm, but never knows whom he can trust. The previews for last night’s episode of Arrow made Deadshot look like the main attraction — but he’s barely in the episode. We do get…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell

This disorienting room has “gravitational mystery spots” that will literally make you sick

The art installation seen here is named, menacingly but appropriately, Demon Hill #2. It is the work of LA-based artist Julian Hoeber, and to step inside it is to abandon sensations of balance, proprioception, and general physical stability — all thanks to some fiendish architectural trickery. According to the exhibit website: DH#2, a free-standing structure…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First clip proves that Manborg is the new Kickpuncher

We’ve already celebrated the greatness of Manborg, the bargain-basement tribute to classic 1980s science fiction movies. But here’s your first actual clip from the film, in which Manborg offers some wisdom: “It’s never too late… to be a hero.” The acting in this scene must be seen to be believed, including the randomly dubbed Asian…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

Humanity never had a “missing link” to apes

Our early human ancestors began to walk on two legs a couple of million years ago, abandoning their old life of swinging between tree branches and perching in the leafy forest canopies of Africa. Now, a new study suggests that this transition from the trees to the ground was a long one. It appears that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Using your 11-foot-beard as a nest for cats is history’s great unsung fashion trend

We’ve examined nineteenth century photographers’ obsessions with cats before, but these portraits are a whole other brand of ridiculousness. Behold Monsieur Louis Coulon, born in 1827, the owner of a 3.3-meter-long beard, and the progenitor of the “Hirsute Kitten Cathedral Look.” I wonder how his mighty mane smelled? https://gizmodo.com/even-in-the-1870s-humans-were-obsessed-with-ridiculous-5900334 It’s unclear why Coulon grew his…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This is one of the most impressive juggling routines we’ve ever seen

Stop what you’re doing. Watch this. Repeat after us: What the ever-loving what?! This footage comes from the 2012 Japan Juggling Festival, held this year in Tokyo. The wizard artist you’re watching is named Akihiro Yanai “Yanazo”, and he’s performing what is known as “contact juggling,” whereby a ball or ball is rolled, tossed, balanced…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What would a Random House/Penguin merger mean for science fiction and fantasy?

The latest shockwave to hit the publishing world is the news that Random House and Penguin could be merged by their respective parent companies. Instead of having the Big Six publishing companies, we could be down to the Big Five. What will this lead to (apart from John Scalzi’s joke that we could get a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Pentagon offers $2 million to the creator of the best autonomous rescue robot

DARPA, the Pentagon’s techno-happy think tank, has announced a contest to spur the development of robots that could lend a helping hand during an emergency. The competition involves several tracks — including one to program the software for a pre-existing humanoid bot, and one to create a robot that can take on any form. The…

io9 George Dvorsky

New image shows off Logan’s bone claws in The Wolverine

Director James Mangold is striving for a different kind of Wolverine film. In a new interview with Empire, he reveals that the The Wolverine will not be another prequel to Bryan Singer’s X-Men films. Even with the bone claws in the above image. Minor spoilers ahead… In an interview with the magazine, Mangold stated that…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What makes us see Jesus in a taco, or a human face on Mars?

Photographer Todd Terwilliger calls this picture “Skull Flower,” for reasons that should be obvious. Its resemblance to a human cranium is, of course, purely coincidental — yet the urge for our minds to register this plant as a piece of human anatomy is all but impossible to resist. But why? The one-word answer, as some…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Scientists discover living power cables made from bacteria

Three years ago, scientists discovered electric currents running through the seabed — but they had no idea what was causing it. But now, researchers from Denmark and the United States believe they have the answer: bacteria that function as living electric cables. In a remarkable case of biological engineering, scientists have confirmed that each tiny…

io9 George Dvorsky

10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies

You can’t do jump-scares in a book. There’s no computerized special effects, or actors covered with gruesome makeup and KY jelly. You can always put a book down for a few days. And yet, the creepy prose of horror’s greatest writers has the power to hold you trapped in a spell of terror that no…

Books & Comics Amanda Yesilbas and Charlie Jane Anders

Magician scares the masses by sneezing his head off his shoulders

We love a good magic trick, and magician on the street Rich Ferguson has the ultimate Halloween prank. Watch as Ferguson sneezes his head right off his shoulders to the horror of everyone around him. One up that, internet. [The Icebreaker via The Laughing Squid]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Amazing photos of death-defying birds’ nest hunters in Thailand

Reader Louis Schulz recently sent me a link to an incredible set of photos by Eric Valli, a French photographer and former cabinetmaker whose work has taken him all over the world visiting, among other places, the vertiginous and mind-bending world of “honey hunters” in the Himalayas. However, Louis specifically drew my attention to the…

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The Best/Worst Parts of the First Clip from That Awful Silicon Valley Reality Show

Bravo has released the first clip from Start-Ups, its parody-rife reality show about Silicon Valley. Here is the rundown of the short scene in which angel investor Dave McClure looks over a pitch from brother-sister disruptin’ duo Ben and Hermione (Hermione!) Way’s rip-roarin’ vaguely-purposed company, Ignite. It follows what we’ve come to know as Standard…

Television Leslie Horn

Massive Secrets of The Hobbit — Revealed!

This past spring, we, along with several other members of the press, were invited to Wellington to visit the set of The Hobbit, and at long last, we can reveal some of what we saw and learned, including more details on how Peter Jackson is expanding J.R.R. Tolkien’s original story, how Gandalf will spend his…

Movies Lauren Davis

Why is Lake Roopkund full of skeletons?

World War II was one of the first truly global wars, and soldiers in every country were told to be on the look-out for evidence of strange goings on. Even forest guards in Roopkund, India in 1942 were making long treks around the Himalayas and keeping their eyes peeled for anything sinister. One man, walking…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A short movie about an apocalypse inhabited by disembodied limbs

This is The Origin of Creatures, a bizarre 10-minute film by Floris Kaayk about a post-apocalyptic future where human beings have devolved into swarms of appendages. Here’s the synopsis and making-of this charmingly twisted short flick: The Origin of Creatures is based on one of the most well-known tales about collaboration, the Tower of Babel.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

How to eat a Triceratops in four easy steps

It was probably the most fearsome battle to ever take place in the animal kingdom: The super-apex predator Tyrannosaurus versus the heavily armored Triceratops. Based on the fossil records, paleontologists have known for quite some time that the two Cretaceous-era dinosaurs often went head-to-head. But given the triceratops’ extensive defenses, it has never been clear…

io9 George Dvorsky

World’s first commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore

Arrow shoots Deadshot fans through the heart

This disorienting room has “gravitational mystery spots” that will literally make you sick

First clip proves that Manborg is the new Kickpuncher

Humanity never had a “missing link” to apes

Using your 11-foot-beard as a nest for cats is history’s great unsung fashion trend

This is one of the most impressive juggling routines we’ve ever seen

What would a Random House/Penguin merger mean for science fiction and fantasy?

Pentagon offers $2 million to the creator of the best autonomous rescue robot

New image shows off Logan’s bone claws in The Wolverine

What makes us see Jesus in a taco, or a human face on Mars?

Scientists discover living power cables made from bacteria

10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies

Magician scares the masses by sneezing his head off his shoulders

Amazing photos of death-defying birds’ nest hunters in Thailand

The Best/Worst Parts of the First Clip from That Awful Silicon Valley Reality Show

Massive Secrets of The Hobbit — Revealed!

Why is Lake Roopkund full of skeletons?

A short movie about an apocalypse inhabited by disembodied limbs

How to eat a Triceratops in four easy steps

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

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