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What Men in Black III Learned from the Second Film’s Mistakes

Barry Sonnenfeld has been making Men in Black movies for 15 years. We were lucky enough to talk to him one-on-one and find out the secrets of making a Men in Black movie. Including what Sonnenfeld learned from the much maligned second flick, why some MIB staples aren’t in the third film, and how the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Citizens, the 2012 Gawker Media Census is upon us. Take it and win a new iPad

It’s well established that you guys are as big of fans of Sci as you are of Fi—so it’s not too surprising that (according to last year’s census) when you shop, 76% of you are in the market for the latest tech. Hold on to your pennies just a little longer, because if you take…

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Dark Knight Rises fan art will be the instrument of your jubilation

The Dark Knight Rises won’t be out for another two months, but we can already consume masses of fan art for it. Fan-made posters will rise up and consume your eyeballs with a cleansing fire of awesomeness. Plus we found one cute animated GIF. Posters via Fuck Yeah The Dark Knight Rises. GIF via Fanpop.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This optical illusion can trick the eyes of almost all living things

Here’s an optical illusion that can confuse pretty much any creature with eyes. It’s a simple trick caused by a quirk in the way many animals (including humans) see contrasts. And it may explain the old adage of moths being drawn to flames. It’s no secret that bright objects seem to make colors around them…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

It’s The Walking Dead for kiddies!

Check out Walking Dead for children! Many moons ago, Jason Chan crafted a beautiful piece of artwork, so great it even inspired an io9 writing prompt contest. https://gizmodo.com/concept-art-writing-prompt-battle-on-the-zombie-playgr-5886235 Now that lovely piece of artwork has become a full-fledged video game project. Chan and the folks at Massive Black Productions are now creating an adorable children…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This tee is the ultimate tribute to redshirts

Nothing says “Bring Ensign Redshirt down to the planet with you” better than this macabre tee with its skull/Enterprise mashup design. I love that it looks like skater nerd wear. Also, you can wear it while reading John Scalzi’s new novel, Redshirts. This design comes from the fine folks who bring you Florida SuperCon, a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Researchers turn skin cells into healthy, beating heart tissue

For the first time ever, scientists have genetically transformed skin cells from heart failure patients into healthy, beating, “young” heart tissue. This is a fantastic achievement for the field of regenerative medicine. “We have shown that it’s possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Hipster X-Men were feared and loathed by humanity before it was cool

What if Wolverine worked as an artisanal maple syrup farmer who made side cash ironically fronting a Bryan Adams cover band with his single-monikered, flannel-wearing friends “Puck” and “Sasquatch?” Then he’d probably be hanging out with some of these X-Hipsters designed by Nate Bellegrade. It looks like Emma Frost plays the role of the strung-out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Orson Scott Card reveals secrets of the Ender’s Game movie. Plus Guillermo del Toro talks Pinocchio!

Orson Scott Card reveals the most difficult thing from his book to translate to the big screen. Guillermo del Toro talks possible casting for Pinocchio. Alan Ball reveals more details about Christopher Meloni’s True Blood vampire modernist. Plus, the sibling dynamic we’ll see in Thor 2, and Star Trek takes its first movie filming trip…

Television Alasdair Wilkins and Lauren Davis

A webcomic about Snowflame, a real DC Comics supervillain who gained his powers from cocaine

When it comes to obscure DC Comics supervillains, few are as celebrated as Snowflame, a Colombian bad guy who debuted (and died) in 1988’s New Guardians #2. What made Snowflame so memorable? Well, he was a crime lord who obtained superhuman powers from inhaling copious amounts of cocaine. Upon getting high as hell, Snowflame would…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Picture of the Day, May 22, 2012

DAWN IN THE CYLINDER | Concept artist Mikko Kinnunen created this amazing environment, showing the sun rising at one end of a massive cylindrical habitat. See more of his work on his site. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. You can also catch recent episodes of the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

When a vampire bootleg Mickey Mouse tried to invade Japan before World War II

Continuing right along with our unofficial exploration of all things simultaneously insane, horrific, and Disney-related comes “Toybox Series #3: Picture Book 1936,″ a 1934 Japanese propaganda cartoon by Komatsuzawa Hajime. https://gizmodo.com/vintage-disneyland-character-costumes-were-the-fabric-o-5912099 https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-mickey-mouse-gas-mask-from-world-war-ii-5888018 Like American propaganda of the era (1, 2), this animation also channeled Walt’s happy cartoon creations. Unlike those cartoons, this short featured Mickey…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Aliens recreated with puppets? Game over, man!

What better way to recreate the dark R-rated world of James Cameron’s bloody Aliens than with puppets! The Meat and Potato Theatre of Salt Lake City, Utah is putting on a puppet musical recreating Aliens. And we think that’s just spectacular. Here’s the information from their official website: “In a world…where singing puppets can’t hear…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A breathtaking excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel 2312

You may know Kim Stanley Robinson from magnificent works like the Mars Trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt. Now he’s back with a new novel called 2312, out today, which is about colonizing the solar system 300 years from now. But it’s also about a lot of other things, like art and family…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

This TED-Ed video contains one glaring mistake

Call me anal-retentive, but I find it more than a little ironic that a TED-Ed video about the importance of units, whole number place value, decimal place value, and fractions features an animation of apples being sold for 0.79 cents each (see 00:25). Not $0.79 each. Zero-point-seven-nine cents apiece. Either that’s a mistake, or those…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why we so desperately want Snow White and the Huntsman to be good

We need Snow White and the Huntsman to be good. It’s moved past mere desire to a full-on burning inflammation in our fantasy loins. Why? Perhaps it’s because what we’ve seen in the trailers so far looks pretty damn good. We were raised on Beastmaster, Willow, Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, but there’s been a fantasy…

Movies Meredith Woerner

On Eureka, computers are way too smart for their own good

Yesterday’s Eureka showed in two very different ways just how dangerous it can be for AI to become as smart and clever as humans. The first story had our heroes facing the ultimate disaster simulation, while the other story, well… Let’s just say that some pretty damn massive spoilers lie ahead! “Worst Case Scenario” has…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

Stanley Fish is perhaps most famous for chipping away at the idea that texts have real meanings and moral principles matter, with all his deconstruction-y lit-crittery. But now he’s causing a new stir, by claiming that spoilers don’t matter, and people who complain about spoilers aren’t really enjoying texts the right way. At least, that’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

These 100-foot phallic sculptures are not manmade

You can call them whatever you want — hoodoos, fairy chimneys, earth pyramids — but good luck changing people’s focus away from what the rock structures of Turkey’s coyly named “Love Valley” really look like. Your eyes do not deceive you; those are penises. Or, rather, natural geological features that look like penises. These undeniably…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

In 1929, the most important article in the history of zoology was published

This honor goes to the above blurb from Modern Mechanics magazine (click to enlarge), wherein naturalist Harry C. Ostrander foisted blatant pro-Babar propaganda upon an unsuspecting audience. Duplicitous trunked pretender! For more old-school taxonomic comedy, see J.W. Buel’s biological tableaus of humans being disemboweled by fauna of fin and foot. https://gizmodo.com/this-gruesome-1889-biology-book-outlined-the-many-ways-5907479 [Via Modern Mechanix]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What Men in Black III Learned from the Second Film’s Mistakes

Citizens, the 2012 Gawker Media Census is upon us. Take it and win a new iPad

Dark Knight Rises fan art will be the instrument of your jubilation

This optical illusion can trick the eyes of almost all living things

It’s The Walking Dead for kiddies!

This tee is the ultimate tribute to redshirts

Researchers turn skin cells into healthy, beating heart tissue

The Hipster X-Men were feared and loathed by humanity before it was cool

Orson Scott Card reveals secrets of the Ender’s Game movie. Plus Guillermo del Toro talks Pinocchio!

A webcomic about Snowflame, a real DC Comics supervillain who gained his powers from cocaine

Picture of the Day, May 22, 2012

When a vampire bootleg Mickey Mouse tried to invade Japan before World War II

Aliens recreated with puppets? Game over, man!

A breathtaking excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel 2312

This TED-Ed video contains one glaring mistake

Why we so desperately want Snow White and the Huntsman to be good

On Eureka, computers are way too smart for their own good

Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

These 100-foot phallic sculptures are not manmade

In 1929, the most important article in the history of zoology was published

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