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Is Reddit going to replace college for people who can’t afford higher education?

In the United States, many people can no longer afford to get a four-year college degree — even though most jobs that pay a middle-class salary require it. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project: A March 2012 study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 60%…

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Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines

Because of her weakened immune system, 16-year-old cancer patient Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem has spent many months over the past year recovering in isolation at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. While waiting for a suitable bone marrow donor and receiving subsequent treatments, Maga found herself missing her beloved cat Merry. The hospital stepped in and created “The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Pupil dilation could be “a subconscious indicator of sexuality”

Your pupils tend to dilate, or widen, when eyeing somebody that you find particularly attractive. Now, newly published research suggests that measuring pupil responses may be an effective way of assessing a person’s sexual orientation. Cornell Researchers Gerulf Fieger and Ritch C. Savin Williams summarize their findings in the latest issue of PLoS ONE: In…

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Deepest, Darkest Coming of Age Stories from Science Fiction and Fantasy

When it comes to discovering strange new worlds, there’s nothing like a young protagonist venturing out into a world where it feels like absolutely anything can happen. Many of science fiction and fantasy’s coolest stories are about coming of age — but coming of age, in the end, means losing your innocence and confronting the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Google street view is now available for NASA Kennedy Space Center

We promise today isn’t going to be all about space, but this was just too cool to pass up. NASA recently unveiled Google Street view for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in recognition of the launch center’s 50th anniversary. Comprising 6,000 panoramic views of the KSC facilities, this location is Google’s largest special collection…

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Bryan Singer claims his Battlestar Galactica movie can connect both BSG TV series

It’s been a long time since we had an update on the long-delayed Battlestar Galactica movie. And the latest bit of news is a whopper. Bryan Singer is claiming that his movie’s script, penned by John Orloff (Band of Brothers, Anonymous) will be able to fit in with both the 1978 original, and the reboot…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Behold a scene from the nonexistent Shaun of the Dead 1990s arcade game

For Gallery1988’s upcoming Crazy 4 Cult show in New York City, Aled Lewis has combined the classic Nineties beat-em-up game Streets of Rage with the mid-Aughts self-aware zombie flick Shaun of the Dead. 50 prints will be available at the show. Click on the lower-right to expand the entire image; note the weaponized vinyl and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Literary Devices, And Where You Can Find Them in Science Fiction

For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary devices” don’t just show up in classical drama and Anglo-Saxon poetry. They also show up in today’s science fiction.…

Movies Annalee Newitz

3 clips from ParaNorman show off the grotesque beauty of stop-motion zombies

You’ve seen plenty of ParaNorman featurettes and behind-the-scenes videos showing the wonder of creating a madcap supernatural adventure, using miniature sets and stop-motion animation. But what about actual footage? Three newly released clips gives you the first real taste of the creepy world which Norman and his friends live in. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-life-ghost-stories-that-inspired-the-stop-moti-5931571 And here are a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

An epic LEGO recreation of the Ringwraiths’ hunt for Hobbits

For a diorama depicting the Nazgûl hunting some hapless Hobbits, builder Xenomurphy transformed their moment of silent self-preservation into a full-blown nature scene. As Xenomurphy explains of this tableau: There is a certain artistic licence involved when I created a steep slope instead of the little hollow that Tolkien described in his book. But more…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The abbreviation “OMG” is almost 100 years old

The online abbreviation “OMG” may conjure images of hyper-caffeinated teenagers caterwauling over instant messenger about who puked at the homecoming dance, but OMG has a much more distinguished pedigree. Perhaps the first usage of “OMG” appeared in a 1917 correspondence from British Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill, wherein Fisher excitedly relayed the phrase…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A photograph of Curiosity during landing has been leaked!

A few hours ago, NASA’s HiRISE team announced that it had acquired an image of Curiosity during its epic descent to the Martian surface. That image was originally scheduled to be released at NASA’s morning press conference, scheduled for 9:00 am PT, but Spaceflight 101 and Discover magazine are reporting that the image of Curiosity…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Week’s TV: One of our favorite animated movies of all time gets a TV show!

One of the coolest animated films of all time is getting a weekly TV show — and here’s your first taste. Plus you can relive the amazing landing of Curiosity on Mars, with a TV special that gets up close and personal with high-quality reconstructions of every stage of the landing. Plus both Futurama and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Arrives Safely on Mars

NASA has done it. The largest and most sophisticated spacecraft ever sent to another planet has landed safely on the surface of Mars. We live-blogged Curiosity’s arrival, but for those of you who couldn’t watch it live, here’s what we saw during the most remarkable Mars landing in history. https://gizmodo.com/liveblogging-curiositys-arrival-on-mars-5932015 That’s not exaggeration, by the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Are we running out of time to kill Hitler via time travel?

Most people here have heard about the Grandfather Paradox. Most people here have also read at least one time-travel story in which people either take out or attempt to take out Hitler. But if we have one, can we possibly do the other? The Grandfather Paradox is as old as the concept of time travel.…

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Artwork from scrapped Nightwing cartoon shows off DC heroes, Legend of Korra style

Several years back, Legend of Korra director and artist Ki Hyun Ryu created character designs for an animated series starring Batman’s sidekick Dick Grayson, who usually goes by the crime-fighting moniker Nightwing. Even though this series never went anywhere — and Cartoon Network went with Young Justice instead — Ryu recently posted his concept art…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Perfect Hoodie for Your Next Attempt to Take the Iron Throne

Chadwick Dillon created this incredible Grey Knight hoodie a couple of months ago for his Etsy shop, but was flooded with so many requests that he couldn’t keep up with demand. Now all we can do is hope he’ll open up shop again and give us the armor we have so long desired. Or perhaps…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Hobbit trailer shows off a bit more Gandalf

The latest trailer for Peter Jackson’s Hobbit is similar to the first, but this one has a much more serious temperament, along with more footage of Gandalf and the forest of Mirkwood. This makes sense, as we’ve picked apart the earlier trailer and interviews and both Gandalf and the elves of Mirkwood have two character…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

This is easily the best lunar photograph of the 1800s

The landing of the Curiosity rover represents another inspiring jaunt humanity’s taken into the nearby reaches of our Solar System. But in the late 1800s, such fantastical expeditions were sequestered to Jules Verne novels, and starry-eyed spacefarers were forced to reconstruct our cosmic neighbors on Earth (and furnish them with bored, mustachioed security guards). http://io9.com/5931905/mars-curiosity-roundup…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Major casting updates for Doctor Who‘s Christmas Special, Robocop, and Once Upon a Time!

The Thor sequel is headed to Iceland. J.K. Simmons is up for a Spider-Man return. The star of another much-acclaimed HBO show turned down a role in Game of Thrones… but which one? Plus Supernatural, Grimm, and Vampire Diaries updates! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Looper. Thor: The Dark World Director Alan…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Is Reddit going to replace college for people who can’t afford higher education?

Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines

Pupil dilation could be “a subconscious indicator of sexuality”

Deepest, Darkest Coming of Age Stories from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Google street view is now available for NASA Kennedy Space Center

Bryan Singer claims his Battlestar Galactica movie can connect both BSG TV series

Behold a scene from the nonexistent Shaun of the Dead 1990s arcade game

10 Literary Devices, And Where You Can Find Them in Science Fiction

3 clips from ParaNorman show off the grotesque beauty of stop-motion zombies

An epic LEGO recreation of the Ringwraiths’ hunt for Hobbits

The abbreviation “OMG” is almost 100 years old

A photograph of Curiosity during landing has been leaked!

This Week’s TV: One of our favorite animated movies of all time gets a TV show!

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Arrives Safely on Mars

Are we running out of time to kill Hitler via time travel?

Artwork from scrapped Nightwing cartoon shows off DC heroes, Legend of Korra style

The Perfect Hoodie for Your Next Attempt to Take the Iron Throne

New Hobbit trailer shows off a bit more Gandalf

This is easily the best lunar photograph of the 1800s

Major casting updates for Doctor Who‘s Christmas Special, Robocop, and Once Upon a Time!

‘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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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