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io9 Roundup: April 1, 2012

THE BATTLE FOR THE IRON THRONE CONTINUES | Game of Thrones returns tonight. Grab your wineskin, curl up with your favorite direwolf, and enjoy. Red Keep at King’s Landing by Ted Nasmith, thanks to Andreas. Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps https://gizmodo.com/here-there-be-white-walkers-in-stylized-game-of-thrones-5897972 We’ve seen tons of attempts to map the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Watch how fairy tale characters get high on a very good Grimm

Good Grimm everyone! After a collection of less than stellar episodes of fractured fairy tales, incorporating old villains and giving Monroe something to pine after combined to make a pretty pleasing episode. Lots to like this week. Plus watch how fairy tales beasts get high! This weeks fairy crime didn’t have a super complicated mystery…

Television Meredith Woerner

Peeta transforms into an insufferable high school hipster heart throb in the new Detention trailer

We’ve got a seriously amazing collection of indies and shorts in this Sunday’s Cult Movie Worship. Check out the latest trailer for Joseph Kahn’s frenetic movie equivalent of a turducken, Detention, and see if you can point out every single movie cliché stuffed inside the next. Plus, we’ve got zombie-killing babies, a beautiful cyborg story…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The most sensitive weight scale ever can weigh individual protons

A new subatomic weight scale can measure masses as tiny as one yoctogram. Less than the mass of a proton, a yoctogram is equivalent to a billionth of a billionth of a millionth of a gram. A yoctogram is so tiny that it’s effectively the endpoint of the metric system – there aren’t any prefixes…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Dodos were always too dumb to live, even 4000 years ago

Well, “too dumb to live” might be an unfair characterization. But dodos are legendary for their complete lack of a survival instinct when it came to humans. Turns out humans weren’t the only threat they just never quite understood. Native to the island of Mauritius, dodos had evolved without fear of humans, because why would…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Watch the first full-length trailer for the Total Recall remake

The first full-length trailer for Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake is out, and it shows just how special effects-heavy this movie’s going to be. We get a good look at the notorious Total Recall chair, Colin Farrell’s supersoldier moves, the CG megacity, and some flying car action — all guest-starring a menacing Bryan Cranston and…

Trailers Lauren Davis

Ugliness is nature’s way of keeping species from interbreeding

Some species share the exact same territories, rely on the exact same resources, and are sufficiently closely related that they can easily interbreed. So why don’t these just merge into a single population? Because they simply don’t want to interbreed. Our current theories about biodiversity have trouble explaining just how a bunch of very closely…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Inflatable Portal turret scares off burglar [prank]

The sentry turrets from the Portal games are pretty adorable, but I wouldn’t be caught in its line of sight. After all, I don’t feel like getting gunned down with laser, no matter how heart-meltingly pathetic the shooter is. Apparently, a would-be burglar felt much the same way, turning tail at a toy turret. Edit:…

io9 Lauren Davis

Yoda doesn’t sound nearly as wise with proper syntax

Yoda’s peculiar syntax has become the universal symbol for wise advice, but would the long-eared Jedi sound nearly as profound if you switched around his word order? One Yoda fan (who, appropriately, calls himself “YodaFan”) took it upon him or herself to recut Yoda’s dialogue with more conventional syntax. [via The Mary Sue]

Movies Lauren Davis

Venice is sinking faster than we originally thought

Sadly, this is not an April Fool’s prank. We’ve long known that the city of Venice is slowly sinking into its own watery grave. While city officials thought they had halted Venice’s descent, it turns out that the city is still sinking — and five times faster than originally believed. While some coastal regions of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Gender-swapped Marvel villains conquer the universe with their feminine superpowers

We’ve seen gender-swapped superheroes, now the villains are getting in on the gender-bending act. Priscilla Tramontano takes some of the Marvel universe’s more fearsome male villains and gives them female form. https://gizmodo.com/gender-bent-justice-league-gets-a-comic-book-look-5876195 Following Rule 63 of the Internet, which states that for every character, an opposite-genedered character must also exist, Tramontano illustrates female versions of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

In the 19th century, it was common practice for American school children to learn geography by creating their own maps, painstakingly copying maps from existing atlases. The results are sometimes creative reinterpretations of the world’s geography. Although some students still draw maps today, map-drawing was especially popular in 19th-century schools (and especially girls’ schools) thanks…

io9 Lauren Davis

Roleplay a depressed cubicle drone in Existential Crisis and Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons has pit generations of roleplayers against powerful liches, acid-spewing dragons, and those gelatinous cubes. But no quest is more soul-crushing than the day-to-day horrors of office work. Roll to save against crippling depression. This sketch comes from the witty geeks at SMBC Theater, co-created by Zach Weiner of the webcomic Saturday Morning…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Game of Thrones scratches Lost‘s television mystery itch

Ever since Lost ended, taking with it our fan theories and a little bit of our naive optimism, we’ve seen TV show after TV show try to ape Lost’s mystery-hurling format. The Event, Alcatraz, and FlashForward all tried — and failed — to fire our brains and send us searching for tiny clues to piece…

Television Lauren Davis

Pulsar stars could be the perfect interstellar GPS system

When humanity sends spacecraft beyond our solar system, those starships will have to know exactly where they are at all times. A newly proposed cosmic GPS system can track a spacecraft’s location to within five kilometers anywhere in the galaxy. The secrets to this system are pulsars, a special type of neutron star that rotate…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Beanie Babies Hunger Games is a surprisingly faithful adaptation

If you haven’t seen The Hunger Games’ big-screen adaptation yet, then the Beanie Babies Hunger Games actually isn’t a half-bad substitute. See Rocket the Blue Jay take a stirring turn as Katniss Everbean, the District 12 tribute who teams up with Peeta (Quackers the Duck) to knock the stuffing out of the other tributes in…

Movies Lauren Davis

This weird optical illusion makes a moving spiral appear out of nowhere

It’s not unusual for optical illusions to create afterimages, ghostly reflections that show up after staring at something too long. This particular afterimage is a bit different. For one thing, it looks nothing like the original image. Also, it moves. Discovered by game designer Hjalmar Snoep, this optical illusion of lots of tiny interlocking spirals…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

T-Rex faces off against its greatest hypothetical foe: the 48-foot prehistoric snake

Somehow, the Smithsonian Channel has beaten Syfy at its own monster fighting game. They’ve pit the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex against the gigantic snake Titanoboa in a prehistoric grudge match, animated the possible outcomes for each carnivorous side. What I love is that the Smithsonian acknowledges that this is a crazy hypothetical battle. T-Rex and Titanoboa…

io9 Lauren Davis

What if Blade Runner was set in San Francisco?

The film Blade Runner had Harrison Ford replicant hunting though the dystopian streets of a futuristic Los Angeles. But Philip K. Dick’s original novella Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was set in the San Francisco Bay Area. So how would Blade Runner have looked if Ridley Scott had used San Francisco as his chief…

Movies Lauren Davis

Reddit’s new timeline feature takes us to the heat death of the universe

Wonder what’s going to be on the Internet in the years 2015, 2112, 3000, and beyond? Fortunately, the social bookmarking site reddit’s new timeline feature predicts the most popular links on the Internet through the heat death of the universe. Reddit’s goofy April Fool’s prank is to introduce a new “timeline” feature. But unlike Facebook’s…

io9 Lauren Davis

io9 Roundup: April 1, 2012

Watch how fairy tale characters get high on a very good Grimm

Peeta transforms into an insufferable high school hipster heart throb in the new Detention trailer

The most sensitive weight scale ever can weigh individual protons

Dodos were always too dumb to live, even 4000 years ago

Watch the first full-length trailer for the Total Recall remake

Ugliness is nature’s way of keeping species from interbreeding

Inflatable Portal turret scares off burglar [prank]

Yoda doesn’t sound nearly as wise with proper syntax

Venice is sinking faster than we originally thought

Gender-swapped Marvel villains conquer the universe with their feminine superpowers

Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

Roleplay a depressed cubicle drone in Existential Crisis and Dragons

How Game of Thrones scratches Lost‘s television mystery itch

Pulsar stars could be the perfect interstellar GPS system

Beanie Babies Hunger Games is a surprisingly faithful adaptation

This weird optical illusion makes a moving spiral appear out of nowhere

T-Rex faces off against its greatest hypothetical foe: the 48-foot prehistoric snake

What if Blade Runner was set in San Francisco?

Reddit’s new timeline feature takes us to the heat death of the universe

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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