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In Tunisia, people actually live in the abandoned set of The Phantom Menace

In The Phantom Menace, the Tatooine settlement of Mos Espa was where Anakin Skywalker — the immaculate antichrist of the Star Wars universe — built C-3PO and practiced his force lightning on stray womp rats. But in real life, the Mon Espa set — which is 40 kilometers from Tozeur, Tunisia, — is the home…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Casper Van Dien will be your Hell Cop, in The Pact

Starship Troopers roughneck Casper Van Dien stars in a new horror film, The Pact, which mashes up a conspiracy movie with a creepy ghost tale. Check out an exclusive look at this supernatural thriller, in select theaters Friday. Van Dien plays Creek, who’s called into help Caity Lotz find her missing sister, after she was…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Eureka does its best Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Yesterday’s Eureka entered the final season’s endgame, and Holly and Henry got put through hell once last time. But the latest setback for Dr. Martin could mean far more than just her death — because this time, all of Eureka could be destroyed. Spoilers ahead… “Mirror, Mirror” finds Holly taking up residence in Zane’s lab…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

A Short History of Gay and Lesbian Superheroes

Marvel Comics caused a stir recently with a high-profile same-sex wedding in Astonishing X-Men. But gay and lesbian superheroes have been around forever. Here’s a brief overview from Martin Eden, who recently published Spandex, a graphic novel about the first all-LGBT superhero team. All art is by Martin Eden, from Spandex. I’m no ‘professional expert’…

Books & Comics Martin Eden

Paleontologists now say all dinosaurs probably had feathers

A beautifully preserved fossil of a 150-million-year-old megalosaurus called Sciurumimus albersdoerferi has once again transformed our notions of what dinosaurs must have looked like. This newly discovered species shows that the early ancestors of all dinosaurs were feathered — and that’s a strong indication that feathers were a common characteristic of all dinosaurs that followed,…

io9 George Dvorsky

First Look at Item 47, the Short Film that Picks Up Where The Avengers Left Off

Check out the first image from Item 47, a 12-minute short film that’ll be on the Avengers DVDs… and premiering next week at San Diego Comic Con. Just as the Thor and Captain America DVDs featured ultra-short episodes, starring Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson, this will be a short stand-alone adventure. And we’ll get…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A Proposal for Detroit: Turn a blighted neighborhood into a giant zombie theme park

With so many of Detroit’s buildings abandoned, plans are underway to gradually move residents out of some neighborhoods entirely. But what is going to happen to all those neglected buildings? One group thinks it has the answer in the form of the ultimate zombie theme park. Z World Detroit, a “broad-based effort composed of like-minded,…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Making of a Modern Fable: Inside Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild isn’t like other movies you’ve seen lately. It’s a really wild and beautiful movie that manages to combine magical realism with an apocalyptic sense of doom, all seen through the eyes of a six-year-old girl. But how did something this strikingly beautiful and different emerge? How did a group of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

These stunning nebula images are actually created with lamp light

At first glance, these brilliant photos might appear to be shaky images of a distant nebula, but that’s just a clever illusion. Photographer Fabian Oefner actually created these images using fiberglass lamps, Photoshop, and a bit of ingenuity. Just last week, we featured Oefner’s trippy photos of ferrofluids, portraying a scientific phenomenon as abstract art.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Meet the Karate master who trained by fighting bulls with his bare hands

Yesterday we briefly examined the strange history of contemporary bear wrestling. But in the 1950s, Kyokushinkai Karate pioneer — and trainer of such luminaries as actor Sonny Chiba — Masutatsu Oyama took his training to insane man-versus-wild levels. How absurd did it get? Two words: bare-knuckle bullfights. When he wasn’t training by living as a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Learn odd and obscure words with this illustrated alphabet

From Acersecomic (a person whose hair has never been cut) to Zugzwang (a position in which any decision or move will result in problems), Project Twins’ A-Z of Unusual Words illustrates the English language’s forgotten vocabulary. These words probably won’t show up on the SAT, but they’re fun to learn nonetheless. You can buy a…

io9 Lauren Davis

In this week’s comics, it’s Batmen and Battlepugs

What first issues are in stores on the Fourth of July? Another Before Watchmen miniseries — Ozymandias, this time by Len Wein and Jae Lee. Other debuts tomorrow include DC Comics’ new He-Man series, Zak Penn’s superhero book Hero Worship, Joe Hill’s The Cape: 1969, and Steve Gerber’s final Man-Thing story in the Infernal Man-Thing…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Amazingly Disgusting Science of Cheese

Yes, The makers of probiotic yogurts have convinced people to love eating germs, for the health benefits. But what about cheese? Most cheeses are a bacteria ranch that keeps growing and evolving, right until the moment it dissolves in your stomach. How disgusting is cheese-making? Very. People always say that you don’t want to see…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Two men using metal detectors discover hoard of 50,000 Iron Age Celtic coins

Great news for all you hopeful amateur metal detectorists: Two men, who’d been searching the same field for nearly 30 years, have stumbled upon the largest hoard of Iron Age coins ever discovered in northern Europe. Inspired by legends that a local farmer once discovered silver coins on his land, the men unearthed the congealed…

io9 George Dvorsky

Does this Iron Man 3 concept art spoil Tony Stark’s new secret weapon?

Marvel is paving the way for some big Iron Man 3 announcements at Comic-Con — starting with this piece of concept art, which seems to hint at the popular Extremis storyline from the comics (which has been rumored for some time now). Take a look at this new art, posted over at the Avengers Facebook…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Will we ever learn to speak dolphin?

Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals, with an amazing ability to learn to understand our language. But as we gain more insights into their behaviour, we’re also coming to suspect that they might have their very own language — or at the very least a complex system for communicating with one another. A big question facing…

io9 George Dvorsky

Hufflepuffs show their house pride to the tune of Lady Gaga

Hufflepuff House doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves, but these hardworking, loyal, and true Hogwarts students show their Badger Pride with a little help from the folks at Not Literally. Watch them show off the yellow and black to their Lady Gaga-parodying tune “Sorted This Way.” [via The Mary Sue]

io9 Lauren Davis

Ghostbusters 3 refuses to die, gets whole new writing staff

Not content with just calling the forever-in-limbo Ghostbusters 3 movie a wash, Dan Aykroyd is spreading more rumors about this doomed project while he peddles his crystal head vodka wares. First Bill Murray has publicly attached himself and detached himself from the project (he didn’t like the script penned by the Year One writers Lee…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Stop calling it “The God Particle!”

We’ve heard the rumors. Now for the news physics nerds have been waiting for: the “official” discovery of the Higgs Boson. But something is gnawing at me like children on my lawn: this whole “God Particle” business. Don’t get me wrong. Science — and physics, in particular — is filled with bad naming conventions: The…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg

More Evidence that a Common Cat Parasite Could Increase Your Risk of Suicide

Toxoplasmosis, a common parasitic disease that’s transmitted through unwashed vegetables and cat feces, has long been suspected of altering human behavior. Though controversial, some scientists have speculated that there’s a correlation between the parasite and such things as schizophrenia and suicide. But now there’s fresh evidence that the disease could help drive women to kill…

io9 George Dvorsky

In Tunisia, people actually live in the abandoned set of The Phantom Menace

Casper Van Dien will be your Hell Cop, in The Pact

Eureka does its best Invasion of the Body Snatchers

A Short History of Gay and Lesbian Superheroes

Paleontologists now say all dinosaurs probably had feathers

First Look at Item 47, the Short Film that Picks Up Where The Avengers Left Off

A Proposal for Detroit: Turn a blighted neighborhood into a giant zombie theme park

The Making of a Modern Fable: Inside Beasts of the Southern Wild

These stunning nebula images are actually created with lamp light

Meet the Karate master who trained by fighting bulls with his bare hands

Learn odd and obscure words with this illustrated alphabet

In this week’s comics, it’s Batmen and Battlepugs

The Amazingly Disgusting Science of Cheese

Two men using metal detectors discover hoard of 50,000 Iron Age Celtic coins

Does this Iron Man 3 concept art spoil Tony Stark’s new secret weapon?

Will we ever learn to speak dolphin?

Hufflepuffs show their house pride to the tune of Lady Gaga

Ghostbusters 3 refuses to die, gets whole new writing staff

Stop calling it “The God Particle!”

More Evidence that a Common Cat Parasite Could Increase Your Risk of Suicide

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