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Disappearing-Ink Books Motiviate Lazy Readers to Finish Fast

A new anthology of Latin authors, forthcoming from the Argentinean publishers Eterna Cadencia, is being printed in such a way that each book practically demands its readers full attention and investment. The publishers have identified a special ink that fades from sight after coming into contact with air and sunlight, cutting the life of an…

Books & Comics Molly Oswaks

And now, 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls strapped to a wall, screaming the subconscious of the internet

Like some sort of hellish oracle that evokes Minority Report by way of Hasbro, the art installation T,E.D. (Transformations, Emotional Deconstruction) corrals the inchoate hive mind of the internet and uses eighty yammering ursine dolls as a mouthpiece. This piece by Sean Hathaway and Carlos Severe Marcelin takes Teddy Ruxpin — that famous 1980s talking…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A New Record for the Highest Temperature We’ve Ever Created: A Whopping 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius

Guinness World Records has recognized Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as the device which has set a new standard for achieving the “Highest Man-Made Temperature”: a mind boggingly extreme 4 trillion degrees Celsius -– which is 250,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun. The heavy ion collider achieved this remarkable feat…

io9 George Dvorsky

Would people still believe in God after we made contact with aliens?

Mike Wall just got back from the SETICon II conference where he attended a panel discussion titled, “Would Discovering ET Destroy Earth’s Religions?” The panel was comprised of SETI wonks Doug Vakoch and Seth Shostak, along with award-winning Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. Not surprisingly, they collectively agreed that contact with an extraterrestrial…

io9 George Dvorsky

Concept art proves Barry Levinson’s The Bay will include one of your favorite internet gross-outs

Remember the tongue-eating parasite that grossed out the entire internet? We’ve been wondering if it was going to make an appearance in Rain Man director Barry Levinson’s new low-budget horror movie, The Bay — especially since The Bay went into production soon after that story went viral, and its original title was Isopod. (Which is…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

These vintage postcards would nowadays pass for threats by mail

The postcard today is primarily an atavistic vacation novelty, but prior generations used these paper rectangles to convey a whole host of emotions. That said, it’s not always clear what emotions the following postcards were meant to impart, but good gravy, are they sinister, weird, or weirdly sinister. I’m pretty sure all of them were…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A Joke from Every Single Episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in One Insane Video

One amazing fan compiled a single joke from every single episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 into one, glorious video. It’s amazing, fantastic and even has one great “MITCHELL” scream! It’s 14 wonderful minutes, and worth every second. So, which episode (or movie) is the very best MST3K? [via Topless Robot]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys’s Pinkie Pie a sex tape

This might be the absolute sickest of the ultra-disturbing hot diggedy demon My Little Pony shorts. Drawn in the style of John Kricfalusi’s Ren & Stimpy, this webseries has gone low before — we’ve seen FlutteryShy skin and hang all her woodland friends — but nothing, nothing is as disturbing as this Behind the Music…

Television Meredith Woerner

Beautiful Sketches That Turn into 3-D Illusions on the Page

Some of the most compelling optical illusions are often the simplest. Case in point: the drawings of Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki. With little more than a couple of sketchbooks, some pencils, and a little perspective, Hideyuki’s 2D drawings turn into a series of surreal, three-dimensional weirdfests. We’ve included a handful of our favorites from Hikeyuki’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How to Give People the Feeling of Déjà Vu

You’ve probably experienced the sensation of déjà vu — that eerie sense that you get when you know you have seen or done something before, even if you couldn’t have. It’s the closest we can come to experiencing a real-life time loop. https://gizmodo.com/lets-do-the-time-loop-again-and-again-5206173 How does your brain make things seem familiar when they aren’t? Let’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Gas cloud will collide with our galaxy’s black hole in 2013

Scientists have determined that a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of our galaxy — and the two will be close enough by mid-2013 to provide a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real time. This will give…

io9 Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about Jo Walton’s Among Others.

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In June, we read Jo Walton’s Nebula-winning novel Among Others. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Ever wonder what would happen if you jumped into a lake of lava?

Violently gushing lava bubbles, that’s what. Word around the internet is that unless you’re sporting a hyperalloy endoskeleton, chances are you’re not dense enough to actually sink into a pool of roiling magma. http://gawker.com/5866004/movies-show-death-by-lava-all-wrong This has to do with the fact that lava is more than three times as dense as water, and well over…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How Exactly Could a Squid ‘Inseminate’ Your Mouth?

The internet was shocked and astonished a couple weeks ago, when we all learned that a woman ate some parboiled squid — which managed to inseminate her mouth, because its spermataphores were still functioning. How could this happen? Danna Staaf from Squid a Day, who first brought this cringe-making phenomenon to light, explains the science…

io9 Danna Staaf

The world’s first DJ booth was majestically ridiculous

Decades before hip-hop deejays began mixing records in the South Bronx, French engineer Leon Gaumont was crossfading records using his fantastically flamboyant Chronophone. If you ever needed to rock a party Fantômas-style while pouring a flagon of champagne out for poor dead Jules Verne, this was your rig. But in all seriousness, this set-up was…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

New trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, the film that got him fired from Disney

Tim Burton’s latest movie, Frankenweenie, debuted first as a live action short 1984. It was Burton’s very last project at Disney Studios. Once the short was finished, the director was promptly fired by the Mouse House for wasting funds on a short that was deemed entirely too creepy for the kiddies. Burton went on to…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

BBC America’s Next Show: A Streetwise Operator Discovers She’s a Clone

Could BBC America come to be a serious rival for Syfy, when it comes to actual science fiction TV? The channel already took Doctor Who away from Syfy, and also featured some other great British imports like Outcasts. And now, BBC America is making more strides towards having its own original shows. The channel’s latest…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

How serious does an asteroid threat have to be before we take action?

NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program has revised the odds of asteroid 2011 AG5 hitting the Earth in 2040 to 1 in 500. While they describe this threat as “slight”, it got us thinking: Just how serious does the risk have to be, before we should do something about it? http://io9.com/5919539/nasa-downgrades-ag5-asteroid-threat-+-but-were-not-out-of-the-woods-yet The answer is not as straightforward…

io9 George Dvorsky

If this video doesn’t make your heart swell, there’s a decent chance you don’t have a heart

Here comes your daily dose of optimism. Filmmaker Michael Marantz has just released The Future is Ours, a rousing two-minute tribute to the people and companies pushing humanity forward. Full screen, HD, headphones if you’ve got ’em. Fair warning: this will, at a minimum, give you chills — but don’t be surprised if you feel…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First Ever MRI Video Shows Childbirth from the Inside

An international team of doctors and scientists announced in 2010 that it had recorded the world’s first video of childbirth using magnetic resonance imaging. Now, that footage has been released to the public. You have never seen childbirth like this. https://jezebel.com/groundbreaking-mri-shows-childbirth-from-the-inside-5708217 According to New Scientist, the team relied on a technique known as cinematic MRI…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Disappearing-Ink Books Motiviate Lazy Readers to Finish Fast

And now, 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls strapped to a wall, screaming the subconscious of the internet

A New Record for the Highest Temperature We’ve Ever Created: A Whopping 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius

Would people still believe in God after we made contact with aliens?

Concept art proves Barry Levinson’s The Bay will include one of your favorite internet gross-outs

These vintage postcards would nowadays pass for threats by mail

A Joke from Every Single Episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in One Insane Video

Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys’s Pinkie Pie a sex tape

Beautiful Sketches That Turn into 3-D Illusions on the Page

How to Give People the Feeling of Déjà Vu

Gas cloud will collide with our galaxy’s black hole in 2013

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about Jo Walton’s Among Others.

Ever wonder what would happen if you jumped into a lake of lava?

How Exactly Could a Squid ‘Inseminate’ Your Mouth?

The world’s first DJ booth was majestically ridiculous

New trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, the film that got him fired from Disney

BBC America’s Next Show: A Streetwise Operator Discovers She’s a Clone

How serious does an asteroid threat have to be before we take action?

If this video doesn’t make your heart swell, there’s a decent chance you don’t have a heart

First Ever MRI Video Shows Childbirth from the Inside

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘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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