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Werewolf Lesbians in love! Behold the Jack and Diane trailer

Can lesbian werewolves ever find true happiness? We’ll find out soon enough, in Jack and Diane. The last we heard about this wildly experimental romance movie, Ellen Page was turning down the lead role while it languished in development purgatory. But now it’s back, with Juno Temple and Riley Keough starring. While the trailer for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Work, not gadgets, is keeping you disconnected from the real world

Over at the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal has a terrific essay about the problem with blaming gadgets for our inability to “unplug” from work. The issue isn’t that our gadgets are addictive, he argues. Instead, it’s that middle class professionals are tethered to their workplaces via their gadgets — often 24 hours per day. Blaming shiny…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Warehouse 13 shows us a world without the Warehouse

Sometimes, a great season opener not only launches some new storylines into motion and resolves cliffhangers — it also restates or clarifies the mission statement of the show. Such was the case with Warehouse 13’s “A New Hope,” which aired the other day. The show didn’t just pay off the huge “Warehouse gets destroyed” cliffhanger…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How Ancient Epics are Just Like Modern Social Networks

It’s not every day you run into a publication that uses statistics to argue ancient epics were based on fact, judging by their social networks — yet here we are. “Universal Properties of Mythological Networks” is a newly published article in the journal Europhysics Letters, and researchers Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna have described…

Books & Comics Tim Barribeau

Blake’s 7 Reboot Coming to U.S. Television?

The British show Blake’s 7 is one of those TV series that has a small cult following — but a huge impact on the history of science fiction television, with its morally gray, arc-based storytelling influencing a whole generation of creators. There’s been talk of a new Blake’s 7 series, either a reboot or a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Here is a live video stream of brown bears catching salmon. You’re welcome.

You hear that? That’s the sound of your afternoon plans evaporating. Alaska’s Katmai National Park has teamed up with explore.org to bring you live, high-definition footage of brown bears hunting for salmon at sites throughout the park, and it’s probably the coolest thing you’ll see today. “It takes a lot of time, a lot of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why Joseph Gordon-Levitt has the crappiest gun in Looper

Rian Johnson’s Looper doesn’t just have a clever use of time travel — it also has a complicated gangster society, with its own futuristic terminology. Including the movie’s title — Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character is a “looper,” which means he’s the lowest of the low, when it comes to these future gangsters. https://gizmodo.com/why-looper-could-be-the-most-well-thought-out-time-trav-5926757 We talked to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Your Chance to See the “Nazis in Space” Movie Iron Sky at Your Local Theater

We’ve been hearing about Iron Sky, the movie about a secret Nazi Moonbase, for years — but when will it come to your local theater? That’s up to you. A new website called Tugg is offering fans a chance to book screenings of Iron Sky and tons of other movies at their local theaters —…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Black Mirror will warp your mind a second time

Black Mirror was one of the most ambitious, haunting pieces of television we’ve seen in years — so it’s excellent news that we’re apparently getting three more hours of it. https://gizmodo.com/black-mirror-is-television-science-fiction-at-its-best-5876704 According to SFX, Channel 4 has commissioned a second year of Charlie Brooker’s audacious anthology program, comparing Brooker to Dennis Potter as well as…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Astonishingly Beautiful Pictures of Earth from Space

We’ve seen some absolutely stunning images of our planet from space before — but now, NASA and a slew of Facebook members have definitively chosen the best of all time. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Landsat series of Earth observation satellites, NASA asked the public to vote for the five best images out…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists finally figure out why the Pioneer probes appeared to defy the laws of physics

It was a mystery that threatened to overturn over a hundred years of scientific canon. How was it that both Pioneer spacecraft were traveling slower through space than predicted by physics? The answer, it turns out, had little to do with Newton or Einstein, and more to do with poorly thought out spacecraft design. Both…

io9 George Dvorsky

What if we had a planet instead of a Moon?

Our moon is a pretty big object. It’s big enough to be a respectable planet in its own right, if it were orbiting the sun instead of the Earth. (Actually, it is orbiting the sun in a nearly perfectly circular orbit, that the Earth only slightly perturbs… but that’s a topic for another day.) The…

io9 Ron Miller

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Faster than We’ve Ever Seen

It was just yesterday when we showed you what would happen if you got too close to a melting glacier in Greenland — a disturbing glimpse of what’s becoming a regular fixture in that part of the world. And now, as we find ourselves having to endure yet another scorchingly hot July, new data from…

io9 George Dvorsky

Biologists now say that red tide algal blooms could be the ‘killer of the ocean world’

Scientists have long known that so-called red tide phytoplankton is toxic to marine life, but new research from the University of Connecticut is suggesting that it’s actually far deadlier than we feared. Professor Hans Dam from the Department of Marine Sciences has sounded the alarm on the red tide, saying that it could have grave…

io9 George Dvorsky

Cops retrieve woman’s body from river — turns out to be a sex doll

What is it with people confusing sex toys for organic matter these days — and why does it keep happening in China? https://gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-chinese-mushroom-turns-out-to-be-an-ab-5919849 Eighteen policemen spent an hour struggling to recover the (very deflated) inflatable sex doll pictured up top from a river in China’s Shandong province, after mistaking it for a woman’s body. “Officials…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What Science Can Tell us About James Holmes’s Brain

As humans, it’s only natural for us to search for explanations in the face of senseless violence. So it’s no surprise that people have floated many weird and offensive theories to explain the tragic shootings late last week at a movie theatre in Colorado, that left 12 people dead and dozens more injured. http://gawker.com/5928324/is-james-holmes-a-nerd https://jezebel.com/lets-not-blame-the-aurora-shootings-on-james-holmes-not-5928571…

io9 George Dvorsky

Bioluminescent whales soar in the first beautiful trailer for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

Not one single word is spoken in the first ever trailer for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, which is perfect. Words could only have distracted from the insane beauty of this wildly theatrical magical realist movie. Fingers crossed, the boy and his tiger friend eventually come upon the carnivorous plants on the mystical floating islands…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Newly discovered deep-water fish are some of the strangest and nastiest creatures on Earth

National Geographic is reporting on how marine biologists working off the coast of New Zealand have pulled up a number of rare and unknown species of fish from more than a mile down. After taking a look at them, however, the scientists would probably do well to put them right back down where they found…

io9 George Dvorsky

The 50-Year History of NASA’s Revolutionary Sky Crane

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will set down on Mars, via a revolutionary landing system dubbed the “sky crane”. The idea is to lower the rover from the delivery spacecraft, as the latter hovers above the surface of Mars. Once the rover has landed, the delivery vehicle will touch down at a safe distance. The idea…

io9 Ron Miller

First images from Cloud Atlas show off the wild face implants of the future!

Feast your eyes on the very first images from the movie adaptation of David Mitchell’s time jumping novel Cloud Atlas. The movie features a massive cast of big name actors (Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant and more) playing multiple roles throughout time, from the 19th century to the future. Thanks to Entertainment Weekly we…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Werewolf Lesbians in love! Behold the Jack and Diane trailer

Work, not gadgets, is keeping you disconnected from the real world

Warehouse 13 shows us a world without the Warehouse

How Ancient Epics are Just Like Modern Social Networks

Blake’s 7 Reboot Coming to U.S. Television?

Here is a live video stream of brown bears catching salmon. You’re welcome.

Why Joseph Gordon-Levitt has the crappiest gun in Looper

Your Chance to See the “Nazis in Space” Movie Iron Sky at Your Local Theater

Black Mirror will warp your mind a second time

The Most Astonishingly Beautiful Pictures of Earth from Space

Scientists finally figure out why the Pioneer probes appeared to defy the laws of physics

What if we had a planet instead of a Moon?

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting Faster than We’ve Ever Seen

Biologists now say that red tide algal blooms could be the ‘killer of the ocean world’

Cops retrieve woman’s body from river — turns out to be a sex doll

What Science Can Tell us About James Holmes’s Brain

Bioluminescent whales soar in the first beautiful trailer for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

Newly discovered deep-water fish are some of the strangest and nastiest creatures on Earth

The 50-Year History of NASA’s Revolutionary Sky Crane

First images from Cloud Atlas show off the wild face implants of the future!

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

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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