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In this week’s comics, Walt Simonson draws Batman and xenomorphs

What comic book debuts are on the stands tomorrow? First off, DC Comics releases their new anti-superhero espionage book Team 7, which stars a motley selection of characters from across the DC and Wildstorm universes: As Superman emerges, so too does the world’s counter measures against him and his kind! Dinah Lance, Amanda Waller, Steve…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

And now, a cat sitting like a human. Y’know. Just thinkin’ about stuff.

Why? Because anthropomorphizing non-human animals is fun and useful. Yes, useful. There’s a reason humans love videos like this; after all, our tendency to project human qualities on animals stretches back well beyond the world’s first ridiculous cat photos. Some researchers even think that, without anthropomorphism, neither pet-keeping nor animal domestication would ever have been…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

Novelist Neal Stephenson wants to create a 20-kilometer space tower, which could inspire people to believe in innovation again — but also transform the way we travel in the air and into space. To this end, Stephenson has teamed up with structural engineer Keith Hjelmstad of Arizona State University in an effort to design and…

io9 George Dvorsky

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg

Some spiders can actually be kind of adorable. Others are surprisingly colorful. Male peacock spiders, like the one featured here beginning at 1:15, are both. They also bear a striking resemblance to Futurama’s John Zoidberg. The genus encompassing peacock spiders is known as Maratus, and is relatively new to science. First formally described in the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Have mathematicians finally discovered the hidden relationship between prime numbers?

Okay, math lovers, this is the one you’ve been waiting for: Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan is claiming to have found proof (divided into four separate studies with 500+ pages) of the so-called abc conjecture, a longstanding problem in number theory which predicts that a relationship exists between prime numbers. The tricky part?…

io9 George Dvorsky

Terra Nova wants you to figure out how the series should have ended

The Shannon family and the wailing baby dinosaur of Fox’s Terra Nova are long gone — but not forgotten. But even though Fox pulled the plug on this incredibly expensive time-traveling series, that doesn’t mean you have to be left feeling unsatisfied. Instead, Fox is starting a contest where Terra Nova fans can submit their…

Television Meredith Woerner

Watch me terrify myself with my own explosion

You know in movies when you know there is going to be a jump-scare, and then it happens, and you get scared anyway? This happens in less than two minutes in this video. In two minutes I make an explosion in a bottle, explain what’s going to happen, and then freak right out when it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

These action figures give Monsters Inc. a totally unnecessary gritty reboot

Because nothing needs an extreme reboot quite like a heartwarming Pixar flick, custom action figure designer Panzer Vargas has transformed the cast of Monsters Inc. into deranged loons. These will be the product of some fevered Disney exec who is concerned that Pixar films don’t appeal to enough demographics. [Via Toy Story 3 director Lee…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Can’t wait for Star Trek Into Darkness? Here are 2 new ultra-dark Trek spinoffs!

We still have to wait until next year to find out how dark Star Trek Into Darkness will actually be. Will this be… the darkest timeline? Will absolutely everybody have glued-on beards? It could happen. But in the meantime, there are two new Star Trek projects that will fill you with unspeakable darkness. First up,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Warehouse 13 keeps introducing women who are too awesome to live… and then not killing them off!

Last night’s Warehouse 13 was one of the show’s best ever episodes, presenting an ethical quandary with no straw man arguments and covering a ton of ground in the process. But the thing that jumped out at me most about “Endless Wonder” was probably just the fact that this show is in the habit of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

This is one rather trippy Punisher fan movie

Animator Luis Pelayo Junquera has taken one of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s most poignant Punisher tales — “Do Not Fall In New York City” — and transformed it into a dream-like short movie. This story sees Frank Castle not going up against his usual coterie of mafiosos, but a troubled soldier he knew from…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

South Korea will keep evolution in its high school textbooks!

Good news, everyone. In the battle over whether or not to include examples of evolution in South Korean textbooks, evolution has finally achieved a much-needed (if somewhat belated) victory. Back in June, a South Korean creationist campaign by the name of Society for Textbook Revise succeeded in getting specific examples of evolution (the Jurassic-era specimen…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What would it take for America to be optimistic again?

This has been an unusually depressing election campaign, even by recent American standards. The overwhelming emotion among our political classes and pundits appears to be bitterness, laced with weary fake-outrage. There’s been almost no attempt at even feigning optimism. No “Morning in America.” Hardly any sign of that happy can-do spirit. Are we just finally…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Terry Brooks’ fantasy series Shannara gets its own TV show. Take that, Game of Thrones !

Looks like HBO’s sexy Game of Thrones series will have a bit of competition — Terry Brooks’ long-running fantasy book series Shannara is getting its own TV show too! Variety is reporting that Brooks’ original Sword of Shannara trilogy will become the main basis for the TV show. The books, which have retained a massive…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Halo Effect: Why You Won’t Believe Your Heroes Have Flaws

Why are you constantly being taken in by saviors, leaders and friends who seem like they can do no wrong — until they let you down? Blame the Halo Effect. Turns out that once you’ve given someone a halo in one area, it’s almost impossible to fit him or her for a pair of horns…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This week’s Doctor Who totally wasted its chance to make feathered dinosaurs cool

We’re obviously big Doctor Who fans, and it’s no secret that we’ve got a thing for dinosaurs. But you know what else we love? Pedantry. Over on Dinosaur Tracking, Smithsonian’s Brian Switek serves up all three in a light-hearted critique of Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who, which featured dinosaurs quite prominently. (And in space, no…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Homemade Doctor Who chess set turns Matt Smith into a king, the TARDIS into a rook

It costs a pretty penny ($949 to be exact) but this cute Doctor Who chess set by Emmi Visser transforms the Eleventh Doctors exploits into a royal game of cosmic proportions. Here’s the full character list for all 32 pieces: Evil side: King: The Dreamlord Queen: Madam Kovarian Bishops: Silence Knights: Headless monks Rooks: Pandorica’s…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

How on Earth is the Buffyverse getting a male slayer?

Yesterday, our world was rocked by the revelation that there’s a new vampire slayer in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics — and he’s a man! A gay man, named Billy. Of course, it turns out that Billy isn’t actually a Slayer in the “chosen one” sense — he’s just a self-trained badass with no…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Placebo effect can be triggered by subliminal cues

Could a placebo work even if you’re not consciously aware of it? Scientists have always believed that placebo effects rely on your conscious expectations of what a pill or therapy is supposed to accomplish. But a new study suggests that your unconscious mind can play a key role in triggering a placebo effect. Could your…

io9 George Dvorsky

The most successful presidents could be the ones who exhibit psychopath-like traits

Everybody’s been rethinking psychopaths lately. Instead of thinking of psychopathy as a highly problematic and socially dangerous personality disorder, psychologists are increasingly coming to see it as an extremely complex set of characteristics that play an important role in human diversity and experience. And in fact, as a recent study from Emory University suggests, psychopathic…

io9 George Dvorsky

In this week’s comics, Walt Simonson draws Batman and xenomorphs

And now, a cat sitting like a human. Y’know. Just thinkin’ about stuff.

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg

Have mathematicians finally discovered the hidden relationship between prime numbers?

Terra Nova wants you to figure out how the series should have ended

Watch me terrify myself with my own explosion

These action figures give Monsters Inc. a totally unnecessary gritty reboot

Can’t wait for Star Trek Into Darkness? Here are 2 new ultra-dark Trek spinoffs!

Warehouse 13 keeps introducing women who are too awesome to live… and then not killing them off!

This is one rather trippy Punisher fan movie

South Korea will keep evolution in its high school textbooks!

What would it take for America to be optimistic again?

Terry Brooks’ fantasy series Shannara gets its own TV show. Take that, Game of Thrones !

The Halo Effect: Why You Won’t Believe Your Heroes Have Flaws

This week’s Doctor Who totally wasted its chance to make feathered dinosaurs cool

Homemade Doctor Who chess set turns Matt Smith into a king, the TARDIS into a rook

How on Earth is the Buffyverse getting a male slayer?

Placebo effect can be triggered by subliminal cues

The most successful presidents could be the ones who exhibit psychopath-like traits

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‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

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