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My Art Nouveau Vision of George R.R. Martin’s Fiery Sorceress, Melisandre

June is almost over, and when you flip your 2012 A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar to July, you’ll find Melisandre. My artwork for her is the focus of today’s exclusive process feature here at io9. How did the flame-loving sorceress from Asshai become the icon for the hottest month of the year? Read…

Television John Picacio

An Amazing 1920s Ghost Hunters Movie, Starring The Wire‘s McNulty

When we first heard about The Awakening, we weren’t that impressed. But then we saw this trailer which features Rebecca Hall running around calling people charlatans and exposing phony ghost seances. It looks amazing, plus Dominic West is in it. Let’s hope he gets drunk and crashes his car into a ghost. Here’s the synopsis:…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Technicolor ferrofluids are a magnetic acid trip

Oil, watercolors and nanoscale iron particles make for some of the most psychedelic imagery this side of an LSD trip — and we’ve got the hi-res macro photographs to prove it. “I really like using scientific phenomena in my work, because every one of us is surrounded by them in our daily lives,” Switzerland-based art…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What’s the future of having multiple personas online?

Everybody’s probably experimented, at one time or another, with creating alternate personas. After all, one of the big promises of the internet was always that you could reinvent yourself — and that different iterations of your “self” could coexist at the same time. The uses for alternate personas are almost as numerous as the number…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why do humans laugh?

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott explores the neurobiology of laughter in this wonderful short film about perception, communication and cognitive development. We rarely think about it, but laughter — whether it’s a quick smile or an uncontrollable giggle-fit — is tangled up with all of these things. Take a few minutes to enjoy this — it’s remarkable…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Low-Tech Geohacking Methods that Changed The World

Geohacking may well be the science of the 21st century — with ambitious schemes like turning the Sahara Desert into a forest being bandied about. But we’ve actually been terraforming our own planet for thousands of years — and some of the most low-tech geohacking methods have had the most profound effects on the planet.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

After you’ve defeated the alien invaders, the hard part begins

In “Sovereign,” the final act of Mac Rogers’ epic alien-bugs vs. humanity Honeycomb Trilogy of plays, we learn that rebuilding the world from the ashes is much harder than leading the resistance. What happens after you’ve won the battle for the post-apocalypse? I was thrilled by the trilogy’s middle chapter, “Blast Radius,” a production that…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern

A bizarre student film about the hidden number that exists between 3 and 4

This is The Secret Number, a psychological drama by filmmakers at the Savannah College of Art and Design. This film delves into a trippy topic — that is, a mathematician who believes he’s discovered an integer (“bleem”) between three and four that humans have yet to comprehend. It’s some enjoyably mind-warping stuff — here’s the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Deep sea ‘zombie worms’ consume bone by drilling with acid

Earlier this month we reported on the discovery of ‘phlegmy’ worms that feed on the bones of dead sea creatures. The biggest question? Exactly how they were able to accomplish this feat, given that they have no mouths or stomachs. But now there’s a new clue to this maritime mystery: They’re drilling through bone, using…

io9 George Dvorsky

Can you guess the subject of this photograph?

The most common guesses include a geode, a misshapen pomegranate, and a “period rock.” But all these guesses are wrong. Scientific American’s Becky Crew explains that this bizarre-looking specimen is actually a sea creature (Pyura chilensis, to be exact, but known less formally as a “sea squirt.”) It’s commonly found in the coastal waters of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What will the weather report look like during the apocalypse?

The short answer? Hotter than hell, with a chance of kaiju. The Richmond Board of Tourism really needs to update their pamphlets. [Via HighDef]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Would You Give Up Your Privacy to Live in Utopia?

It’s easy to invent a dystopian future — just take the worst aspects of the world around you, and ugly them up. But what about dreaming of a better world, or even a perfect society? Some of the noblest science fiction writers and futurists have imagined a future utopia, in which all of our problems…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders and David Reinecke

Watch an astronaut use LEGOs to make a square planet orbit a cylinder

See Don Pettit play with LEGOs! See him make sparks! See him make a block of styrofoam orbit a Van de Graaff generator like a little square planet! See it — and remember for the billionth time why nerds in space are awesome. There are a couple of things I like about this video. The…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This is what human cloning looked like in 1900

Around approximately 1900, Harmondsworth Magazine ran this tantalizingly absurd trick picture of a woman seemingly in eight places at once. Goodness, that’s a sight normally reserved for the fanciful hallows of the odeon! Explains the caption, “A ubiquitous young lady who can be in eight places at once — the victim of a photographic freak.”…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Friday’s Comic Con schedule includes Blomkamp’s new movie, Community and the Firefly Reunion

The Friday schedule for Comic-Con is out — and it’s jam-packed with so much awesome, we can’t take it. There’s Community, ParaNorman, Venture Bros., Dredd, the Firefly reunion, The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Looper, and a first look at Neill Blomkamp’s crazy new futuristic movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon. Plus EW is planning a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Fossils give hope that life can flourish on surprisingly primitive planets

How soon after a planet’s formation can animal life emerge? The answer to this question could influence how we search for life on other worlds, as well as the types of life we look for. Until recently, experts estimated that animals emerged on Earth around 555 million years ago, meaning that complex life can get…

io9 George Dvorsky

UK start-up will fly you to the moon for $150 million

The entire Apollo mission cost the U.S. government around $20 billion dollars — but if a U.K. start-up has its way, you could charter a trip for a flight around the Moon for the modest price of $150 million. In order to get you there, the company is looking to use tried-and-true technologies developed by…

io9 George Dvorsky

Cutest and Weirdest Spider-Man Fan Art!

Next Tuesday, we all get to see a brand new Spider-Man on the big screen, with the proper amount of spiky hair and dorky charm, thanks to Andrew Garfield. Spider-Man is the cutest superhero, with the fancy moves and banter — but his life is also hella weird, as we documented recently. https://gizmodo.com/10-memorable-occasions-spider-man-acted-like-a-nutjob-5921736 So to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Rob Dawson

What do real-life sea voyagers love about Firefly?

Life on a Firefly class vessel can be a lot like life at sea, which probably helps explain the show’s significant following throughout the world of ocean science. Over on Deep Sea News, marine biologist Miriam Goldstein educates us landlubbers on the top ten reasons those familiar with the ocean foster an especially deep love…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

Why is this 4,500 year-old purse covered with a hundred dog teeth?

Ladies, if you’re thinking of accessorizing and bringing back that retro look, you may be interested in a recent archaeological discovery made in Germany: Excavators working to uncover a Stone Age site near Leipzig have found a rather bizarrely ornamented purse – one that’s studded with a hundred dog teeth. And according to the archaeologists,…

io9 George Dvorsky

My Art Nouveau Vision of George R.R. Martin’s Fiery Sorceress, Melisandre

An Amazing 1920s Ghost Hunters Movie, Starring The Wire‘s McNulty

Technicolor ferrofluids are a magnetic acid trip

What’s the future of having multiple personas online?

Why do humans laugh?

Low-Tech Geohacking Methods that Changed The World

After you’ve defeated the alien invaders, the hard part begins

A bizarre student film about the hidden number that exists between 3 and 4

Deep sea ‘zombie worms’ consume bone by drilling with acid

Can you guess the subject of this photograph?

What will the weather report look like during the apocalypse?

Would You Give Up Your Privacy to Live in Utopia?

Watch an astronaut use LEGOs to make a square planet orbit a cylinder

This is what human cloning looked like in 1900

Friday’s Comic Con schedule includes Blomkamp’s new movie, Community and the Firefly Reunion

Fossils give hope that life can flourish on surprisingly primitive planets

UK start-up will fly you to the moon for $150 million

Cutest and Weirdest Spider-Man Fan Art!

What do real-life sea voyagers love about Firefly?

Why is this 4,500 year-old purse covered with a hundred dog teeth?

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