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Chewing gum can mess with your mind

Teachers who make classes stop chewing gum might be right — it can mess with your mind, research suggests. As it turns out, walking and chewing gum at the same time might be more difficult than we ever suspected. Usually, trying to do more than one thing at once impairs at least one of those…

io9 Charles Choi

Gronk is a webcomic about a troublesome (but adorable) monster child

Katie Cook is a professional cartoonist with a strong sense of cuteness. When she’s not making Fraggle Rock comics or drawing the Avengers as cats, she’s working on her own webcomic, Gronk, about a sweet little monster and the geeky composer whose life she turns upside down. Dale is a composer for commercials and television…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

World’s deadliest golf course boasts land mines and man-bear-pigs

Along the DMZ, golf is not a sport for the faint of heart. The golf course at Camp Bonifas, just south of the Korean demilitarized zone, boasts just one hole, but what it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in hazards. Live land mines line the course, and bizarre animals stumble out…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Webcomic Guide to the Higgs Boson

If you’re still a little fuzzy on what the Higgs Boson is or why particle physicists are so keen on finding it, check out this video by PhD Comics creator Jorge Cham. Cham gets the low-down from CERN physicist, and conveys the significance of the Higgs Boson and the role of the Large Hadron Collider…

io9 Lauren Davis

Supergirl is grounded on Super Best Friends and Westeros is social studies fodder on South Park

Super Best Friends Forever returns this week, with Superman making a guest appearance and being a general party pooper. This week sees the first appearance of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Ultimate Spider-Man in SMC, Carol Ferris take on the helm of Star Sapphire, and an oddly nerdy interjection into the season finale of…

io9 Keith Veronese

This preview for a Japanese children’s movie will make your head explode

Behold the trailer for After School Midnighters, an upcoming Japanese kids’ movie about an anatomy model that comes to life at night to party his see-through ass off! I have no idea what occurs in this film, but I can dig it already. It’s like Slim Goodbody, if he discovered ayahuasca and show tunes! Here’s…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Watch The Ring’s creepy demon girl throw the first pitch at a Japanese baseball game

You remember the creepy little girl who crawled out of the TV and killed all of those people in The Ring, right? Well here she is throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game in Japan. Super fun idea, everyone. Yipes! [Via Twitch Film]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Stegobeetle is back, and he’s bigger and badder than ever

You remember stegobeetle, don’t you? Sure you do. Stegobeetle was the mean, green late-Jurassic-machine with a Volkswagon beetle for a body. https://gizmodo.com/bask-in-the-metallic-magnificence-of-stego-beetle-5896872 Well, apparently turning old VW bugs into stegosaurus torsos is something of a time-honored tradition. Featured up top is a sculpture — called Stegowagenvolkssaurus — which stands in North Kentucky University’s W. Frank…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

John Cusack’s Raven is Weak and Weary

We wanted to like John Cusack’s spin on Edgar Allan Poe as a sexy drunk crime-fighter. We desperately wanted this “Saw for people who’ve passed High School English” movie to reawaken our love for dark eyeliner and graveyard make-out sessions. Basically, we just wanted Goth back! But instead, we got… The Raven. A pile of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Lost Civilizations That Pioneered Skull Surgery

People have been punching holes in each other’s skulls, for medicinal purposes or magic, since at least the middle part of the Stone Age. Now, researchers have found what may be the first evidence this complex surgical operation took place in the lost civilizations in the Sahara and Nubia, too. The surgical procedure known as…

io9 Charles Choi

Dalek mysteriously materializes atop MIT computer science building

After CalTech pranksters adorned MIT with a runaway TARDIS a while back, it was only inevitable the Daleks would show up. And appear they did last week, atop MIT’s Stata Center — a lightning rod for pranks — which houses the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Check out the below photos to see…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Rhino cameras will help watch endangered giants

The Javan rhino is incredibly rare and endangered — and now we hope they’ll get safeguarded better than ever, following a quadrupling of cameras used to monitor the critically endangered giants. The World Wildlife Fund and the International Rhino Foundation recently donated 120 cameras to Ujung Kulon National Park in Indonesia. This brings the total…

io9 Charles Choi

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 11-30

We’re on the penultimate day of our countdown of the 100 albums every science fiction and fantasy fan must experience once in this lifetime. Or particular corner of the multiverse. Whatever! What tunes are lined up for this beautiful Friday? We’ve got devil horns, lightcycles, the pharaoh master of jazz, and John Carpenter by way…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Cyriaque Lamar

Could eating chocolate really kill your dog?

Most dog owners go into a panic if their pet makes a lunge for the candy bowl — but is this worry really necessary? Theobromine, a bitter chemical found in cocoa beans, is the molecule in chocolate tied to illnesses in canines. But how much theobromine is there in most chocolate? And how much theobromine…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Virus that Destroyed the Dutch Economy

Famously, the tulip speculation that happened in the late 1600s brought down the Dutch economy. But did you know that it wasn’t botany that brought down Holland, it was virology? The thing that sent speculators into despair wasn’t a flower, but a virus. Tulip speculation was rampant in Holland in the 1600s. Brought over from…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why does Joss Whedon always kill the characters we love?

Joss Whedon. He’s bloodthirstier than a hundred vampires. He’ll kill off characters just to make a point, or to supply a story beat, or just because his assistant didn’t get the right cream cheese for his bagel today. Why is he the grim reaper, and why do we continue supporting him in his murder spree?…

io9 Kristin M. Barton

Atheists can win your trust by appealing to secular authority

Everybody hates atheists. One recent study found that atheists are trusted about as much as rapists — or maybe even less. Why do people find atheists so untrustworthy? Maybe it’s because they don’t believe there’s an all-seeing judge monitoring their actions. Top image: Pond5/1@henrischmit Now new research has found that when you remind people of…

io9 Charles Choi

“Dinosaur-Killer” Asteroid Impacts Are Much More Common Than We Thought

Think the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was bad? Think again. Two newly published studies on tiny geological features called “spherules” suggest that impact events of this magnitude and greater have actually been commonplace throughout Earth’s early history. In fact, these brand new findings indicate that massive, “dinosaur-killer” asteroids were likely part of a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down?

A famous experiment was conducted in the late 1800s, in which a scientist wore glasses that showed him an upside down image of the world. After some time, he claimed he saw the world right side up. Scientists have been trying variations of this trick ever since. Never let an experimental scientist give you glasses.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Pottery shards were the first ever ticket stubs

Ever go to a college football game with nearly 80,000 crazy fans ready to tear the stands apart? Just imagine going to an event where players routinely died before your eyes, in a culture with a strictly stratified value of life — one where your life might be absolutely worthless to the person sitting next…

io9 Keith Veronese

Chewing gum can mess with your mind

Gronk is a webcomic about a troublesome (but adorable) monster child

World’s deadliest golf course boasts land mines and man-bear-pigs

The Webcomic Guide to the Higgs Boson

Supergirl is grounded on Super Best Friends and Westeros is social studies fodder on South Park

This preview for a Japanese children’s movie will make your head explode

Watch The Ring’s creepy demon girl throw the first pitch at a Japanese baseball game

Stegobeetle is back, and he’s bigger and badder than ever

John Cusack’s Raven is Weak and Weary

The Lost Civilizations That Pioneered Skull Surgery

Dalek mysteriously materializes atop MIT computer science building

Rhino cameras will help watch endangered giants

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 11-30

Could eating chocolate really kill your dog?

The Virus that Destroyed the Dutch Economy

Why does Joss Whedon always kill the characters we love?

Atheists can win your trust by appealing to secular authority

“Dinosaur-Killer” Asteroid Impacts Are Much More Common Than We Thought

Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down?

Pottery shards were the first ever ticket stubs

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Tests Letting You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

HBO’s Boss Has Yet to Be Approached About Partnering on ‘Doctor Who’

AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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