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Watch a PSA about CPR, by Splice director Vincenzo Natali, with zombies

How does one adequately convey the importance of CPR? If you’re the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, you recruit Cube, Splice, and future Neuromancer director Vincenzo Natali for a post-apocalyptic survival saga. With multiple twists, no less! [The Undeading via MeFi] https://gizmodo.com/first-concept-art-for-the-neuromancer-movie-5932374

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How Realistic Are All of James Bond’s Weapons and Gadgets?

When I was a wee pup, my favorite thing about James Bond movies were the scenes with Q. Back then, getting a peek behind the laboratory of insane gadgets and wild weapons was just as cool as killing bad guys in a tuxedo and sleeping with women without one. But how real were those movie-world…

Movies Casey Chan

We’ve finally figured out what these strange breast-shaped clouds mean!

Well, literally they mean “booby clouds,” but they also have a meaning for all weather-watchers out there. And it’s precisely the opposite of the meaning that most people think. These are mammatus clouds. The name means “breast clouds,” for obvious reasons. They form when the underside of a thundercloud, laden with ice crystals, cools the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Behold The Tomb of Lady K’abel, Maya Supreme Warrior And Holy Snake Lord

She sounds like the most badass woman to ever rule pre-colonial South America: Queen K’abel of the Maya, one of the greatest leaders of Classic Maya civilization. Archaelogists have known about her reign through plaques that commemorate her reign. But now, a research team working in Guatemala has finally discovered her tomb — including her…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Wreck-It-Ralph trailer shows what video games do in their time off

Wreck-It-Ralph is so much fun, we can hardly stand it. This brand new international trailer is loaded with new footage and scenes of squeaky CG characters being charming. Note how all of the townspeople from Ralph’s video game move around in an 8-bit manner. The attention to detail in this film is intense. Wreck-It-Ralph hits…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The Neighbors is more inoffensive than television static

Certain shows lend themselves to television recaps. There are those programs that are replete with subtle themes and internal mythology that are ripe for the internet scrutinizing. There are those ill-conceived dramas that aim for gravitas and elicit mirth by face-plant. (For example, I am so fucking excited for the next episode of 666 Park…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Supernatural is back — and OMG, Purgatory sure made Dean bitchy

It wouldn’t be a new season of Supernatural without plaid shirts and an even shaggier haircut for Sam. Nor would it be a new season if one of the Winchester brothers hadn’t spent the summer hiatus in a hellish other dimension while the other one “got a girl” as Dean so eloquently puts it in…

Television Annalee Newitz

How the catastrophe in Syria has turned into a disaster for science

The civil war in Syria is now well into its 18th month, and with it, it has now claimed the lives of over 30,000 people. And as if this conflict wasn’t tragic enough, the scope of the fighting has extended to the ancient city of Aleppo and its UNESCO designated world heritage sites. Sadly, reports…

io9 George Dvorsky

Share your worst nightmare, and get a full year of Nightmare Magazine

John Joseph Adams’ Nightmare Magazine is live on the web, and the first issue features horror fiction from Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, and more. If you’ve been lamenting the lack of great outlets presenting full-blown horror short stories, then this is a really welcome change. For now, you can read the spooky, moody “Property Condemned”…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Saturday, let your love of Star Wars take you to your local bookstore or library

We may debate whether they read or write in the Star Wars universe — but one thing’s for sure: the Star Wars tie-in books and novelizations have inspired countless people to start reading. There are so many Star Wars books and graphic novels now, it’s like a whole literary genre up to itself. https://gizmodo.com/can-anybody-in-the-star-wars-universe-read-and-write-a-5949064 So…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

I Paid Strangers $50 To Tie Me Up And Scare The Shit Out Of Me

I’m stuck in a cement hallway. The only light is from a collection of blinking TVs, scattered on the ground. I take a step forward, and so does a figure on the TV screens. It’s me. I’m watching myself… I try creeping forward until my bare foot lands on something cold and wet and feels…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral in less than 30 years

The past 27 years has seen a shocking reduction in the amount of coral cover in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — according to a new study, it’s down to half the size it was in 1985. This rather depressing analysis shows a drop of 50.7%, thanks to data gathered from more than 2,000 surveys of…

io9 Tim Barribeau

What’s it like to return to an ordinary life after saving Fairyland?

Catherynne M. Valente’s crowd-funded novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was an Internet sensation, and then became a New York Times bestseller. And now, at last, the sequel is out, and we’ve got the first three chapters, exclusively at io9! What happens to someone who’s been to Fairyland,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How the Real Atlantis was Drowned

Ever heard of the city of Helike? For a long time it was as lost (and considered as mythical) as the city of Atlantis. Then one day someone found a coin from Helike, and the search was on. Take a look at how people found the ancient city of Atlantis — on land. Atlantis was…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Who would win in a battle: Unicorns or Gray Goo?

Unicorns are incredibly potent magical creatures whose horns pack a lot of healing and transformative power. Meanwhile, gray goo is the nightmare scenario for nanotechnology, in which nanotech runs wild forever, turning all organic matter into more of itself. But if these two amazing phenomena collided, which one of them would win? You decide, in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What do fruits and vegetables look like inside an MRI? Short answer: “Whoa.”

Over at the blog Inside Insides, Andy Ellison of Boston University Medical School has been throwing the entire produce aisle inside a Philips 3 Tesla MRI, revealing the otherworldly realms that dwell inside common foods. Here’s but a small sampling of his many see-through delicacies, immortalized as GIFs — my favorite is the broccoli explosion.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Morphine and cocaine are yin and yang, when it comes to rewarding your brain

Morphine and cocaine both do a very good job of hitting the reward centers of your brain — but new research has shown that they do so in opposite ways. Up until now, most experts believed that opiates and stimulants used the same pathways to trigger the reward centers of your brain, making using the…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Can anybody in the Star Wars universe read and write? At all?

Over at Tor.com, Ryan Britt has a provocative analysis of Star Wars, based on a startling observation: Nobody in the galaxy far, far away seems to be able to read or write. It’s not just that we never see anybody reading a written text or writing anything down in any of the movies — they…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Adorable Dog Paintings Since They Invented Canine Poker

Brian Rubenacker creates amazing paintings of dogs as Star Wars characters, superheroes and other science fiction and fantasy icons. If you love dogs and escapist entertainment, then you should totally check out Rubenacker’s supercute artworks. We’ve got a selection below, but there’s also a ton over at Rubenacker’s Etsy Store — and these pictures are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Did you know that the Garden of Eden is somewhere in China?

It is, if you take Tse Tsan Tai’s 1914 quest to pinpoint the fabled manicured lawn of earthly delights at face value. Even though there have been numerous attempts to slap the Garden of Eden somewhere on the map, Chinese newspaperman and pro-democracy revolutionary Tse tossed Eden in the deserts of northwest China. Strange Maps…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watch a PSA about CPR, by Splice director Vincenzo Natali, with zombies

How Realistic Are All of James Bond’s Weapons and Gadgets?

We’ve finally figured out what these strange breast-shaped clouds mean!

Behold The Tomb of Lady K’abel, Maya Supreme Warrior And Holy Snake Lord

New Wreck-It-Ralph trailer shows what video games do in their time off

The Neighbors is more inoffensive than television static

Supernatural is back — and OMG, Purgatory sure made Dean bitchy

How the catastrophe in Syria has turned into a disaster for science

Share your worst nightmare, and get a full year of Nightmare Magazine

This Saturday, let your love of Star Wars take you to your local bookstore or library

I Paid Strangers $50 To Tie Me Up And Scare The Shit Out Of Me

The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral in less than 30 years

What’s it like to return to an ordinary life after saving Fairyland?

How the Real Atlantis was Drowned

Who would win in a battle: Unicorns or Gray Goo?

What do fruits and vegetables look like inside an MRI? Short answer: “Whoa.”

Morphine and cocaine are yin and yang, when it comes to rewarding your brain

Can anybody in the Star Wars universe read and write? At all?

The Most Adorable Dog Paintings Since They Invented Canine Poker

Did you know that the Garden of Eden is somewhere in China?

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘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

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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