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Adorable webcomic illustrates the Avengers’ difficulties with carrying Hawkeye into battle

Clint Barton is a spry guy, but without a magical levitating hammer or jet thrusters, he’s pretty much outclassed by his teammates. Comic artist Noelle Stevenson a.k.a. Ginger Haze (previously: 1, 2) has drawn up a delightful series of panels depicting the surly archer hitching a ride with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. I imagine there a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Hawkman starts a fight club, and Nick Fury outs an Avenger as a Skrull!

What cartoon clips are on deck this Saturday morning? Shapeshifters and identity theft are definitely the theme of this week’s batch of cartoons — Skrulls invade the Avengers, and a bear tries to assume Finn’s identity on Adventure Time. Also, the Iacon City relic saga continues on Transformers:Prime, as well as the pro-bending championships arc…

io9 Keith Veronese

Best of the Week: May 5-May 11, 2012

COSMIC RECKONING | Could this be what the end of our world will look like? Scientists who’ve studied four white dwarfs wreaking havoc on their surrounding planets think it might be. Find out more here. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-way-the-world-ends-5908570 Could this photograph change the future? https://gizmodo.com/could-this-photograph-change-the-future-5909151 A few weeks after Google announced the completion of their paradigm-warping technology…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could an IUD be the best emergency contraceptive around?

The use of intra-uterine devices (IUDs) never took off in the USA as contraceptives, the way they did in the rest of the world. But a new study might change that. Researchers tracked 35 years’ worth of data and found that the copper-T is not only an effective long-term birth control tool, but arguably the…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Vampire Diaries: A Wasted Moment of Clarity

There was a moment in last night’s Vampire Diaries when it really looked as though the show’s few remaining human characters were reaching a moment of decision. Something that could have propelled the show in a new and fascinating direction, in which they fight the real enemy. Sadly, as with any time people make decisions…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Just how much Alien stuff was there in Prometheus originally? A lot, says Damon Lindelof

Just how many elements of Alien were there in some earlier versions of the Prometheus script? Earlier this week, we talked to screenwriter Jon Spaihts, who says the basic storyline is the same but there’s “some truth” to the idea that his script started out as more of an Alien prequel than what Ridley Scott…

Movies Meredith Woerner

SPAM: Now with three kinds of pig!

The ingredients label for a can of Hormel’s SPAM with bacon — that non-perishable staple of survival kits the world over — lists “pork,” “ham” and “bacon.” Separately. In that order. So what the heck is the difference between the three? According to Wired’s Patrick Di Justo, when it comes to naming pig parts, it’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Knights of Badassdom still has no release date

People keep writing to us and begging for news about Knights of Badassdom, the movie about RPG nerds fighting actual monsters that stars Summer Glau and Peter Dinklage. So we asked around… and there’s no news. Basically, the movie still has no release date. We will definitely let you know when we hear any more…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Biff’s business card answers all of your burning Back To the Future questions

Tom Wilson, better known as the bully Biff from Back To the Future, gets asked a lot of questions about his legendary role. Instead of being uptight and refusing to talk about one of the greatest movie franchises of all time, he created this business card. Behold. And if you still have even more BTTF…

Movies Meredith Woerner

That Falling Skies Cliffhanger: “We wrote ourselves into a little bit of a corner”

Falling Skies threw a huge curveball in the last few minutes of its first season — the sort of weird out-of-nowhere turn of events that makes you wonder if you missed a few episodes. And now that the show is coming back for its second season June 17, the show’s cast and new showrunner admit…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could Helium-3 really solve Earth’s energy problems?

If you watched the movie Moon, you remember Helium-3 as the substance Sam Bell was sending back to Earth, during his onerous three year tenure on the Sarang lunar base. Helium-3 is not a piece of science fiction, but an isotope of helium that really could provide for all of our energy needs in the…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Psychedelic Japanese Cityscapes Of Decades Past

If older science fiction designs are any indicator, the city of today should look like a bundle of broken Christmas tree lights during the middle of a Peyote trip. Here’s a sampling of fantastic retrofuturistic metropolises and architecture by Japanese artists from the 1960s-1980s. Given our technological advances, there’s really no reason we shouldn’t all…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You’ve been warned.

Arachnophobes can usually take comfort in the fact that spiders are solitary creatures. The vast majority of the almost 40,000 known arachnid species have pretty miserable social skills, so they tend keep mostly to themselves. But there exists a small handful of around two dozen species — known collectively as “social spiders” — that get…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Is Chernobyl Diaries just the Ukrainian version of Hills Have Eyes?

Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli is venturing out of strict “found footage” horror with his new movie Chernobyl Diaries. But how scary is this movie actually going to be, in practice? Find out for yourself. We’ve got a massive collection of stills and clips from the movie. On the one hand, thus far the trailers and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Your commute is killing you

Everybody already knows that sitting at your desk all day is terrible for your health. But now it looks like the same thing is true for driving to and from work. A new study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine looked at more than 4,000 adults in Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, and indexed their…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Remember the time we bombed Mexico with German rockets?

Germany spent the end of the 1930s and half the 1940s inventing and perfecting missiles. They made so many, they still had a ton of them left over after the end of World War II. So of course, the leftover weapons were confiscated by the United States. And here’s one of the things we did…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Earth Looks Gorgeously Fragile in Infrared

Our planet looks very different, when viewed in infrared light from space. Astronaut Don Pettit shoots footage of huge swathes of our planet from the International Space Station — first using a regular camera, and then using a camera that films in infrared. Take a look at glowing red forests and strangely blue lakes. We…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Coolest Airship Pictures You’ve Ever Seen

Who doesn’t love airships? Dirigibles, zeppelins and aerostats. They’re just so stately and romantic — and, as it turns out, a completely impractical method of transport. To many of us, the airship instantly symbolizes the romance and wonder of past dreams of escaping gravity — and in many cases, the zepplin is also the infallible…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs

How to make decapitated Ned Stark dessert pops

Blogger Jennifer from Not Your Momma’s Cookie was so dismayed by the death of Eddard Stark that she immediately thought of a diabolical recipe. She admits, “After an immediate reaction of shock, sadness, and a little disgust (which I imagine was the point), I thought…it kind of looks like a cake pop. I realize this…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Fantasy Novels That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Everbody loves a good dark, horrible fantasy. A misanthopic adventure, in which everybody is morally compromised, and we all live and die in the dirt. But every now and then, it’s nice to read a fantasy novel in which people are, you know… good. So we decided to contact some of our favorite fantasy writers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Adorable webcomic illustrates the Avengers’ difficulties with carrying Hawkeye into battle

Hawkman starts a fight club, and Nick Fury outs an Avenger as a Skrull!

Best of the Week: May 5-May 11, 2012

Could an IUD be the best emergency contraceptive around?

Vampire Diaries: A Wasted Moment of Clarity

Just how much Alien stuff was there in Prometheus originally? A lot, says Damon Lindelof

SPAM: Now with three kinds of pig!

Knights of Badassdom still has no release date

Biff’s business card answers all of your burning Back To the Future questions

That Falling Skies Cliffhanger: “We wrote ourselves into a little bit of a corner”

Could Helium-3 really solve Earth’s energy problems?

The Psychedelic Japanese Cityscapes Of Decades Past

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You’ve been warned.

Is Chernobyl Diaries just the Ukrainian version of Hills Have Eyes?

Your commute is killing you

Remember the time we bombed Mexico with German rockets?

The Earth Looks Gorgeously Fragile in Infrared

The Coolest Airship Pictures You’ve Ever Seen

How to make decapitated Ned Stark dessert pops

Fantasy Novels That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

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

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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