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Battlestar Galactica, in four minutes as a 1990s roleplaying game

Did you miss out on Battlestar Galactica? Do you dream of watching all of the show’s drama, thrills, and frustrating scenes condensed into a four-minute piss take on 16-bit roleplaying games? College Humor has answered your prayers to the Lords of Kobol with this clever video. Beware! Spoilers out the wazoo! Hat tip to Zan.

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The bizarre story of where ancient Pompeii put its trash

As far as the people of ancient Pompeii were concerned, dead bodies and trash were basically the same thing, at least in terms of where they ended up. And that isn’t even the grossest place Pompeii put its trash. When archaeologists first started excavated the legendary Roman city back in the 19th century, they were…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Insane indie trailer asks: What if you could test for True Love?

Stop whatever you are doing and check out this trailer. What starts off as a dopey proposal slowly shifts into some highly terrifying couples psych experiments in the new teaser trailer for the Fabios. Watch it now. Click to view Brought to you by the same folks behind the wonderful Afterville ( Fabio Guaglione and…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The catchiest New Wave song (written by a doomsday cult) of all time

This is the 1980s toe-tapper “Cathy Don’t Go” (lyrics and en Español), an earworm New Wave number that almost certainly ripped off Survivor’s “Jackie Don’t Go.” Unlike Survivor’s ditty, “Cathy Don’t Go” was written by the evangelical doomsday cult The Family International about how the Antichrist is controlling us through barcodes. The music video will…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Everything you always wanted to know about the social behavior of wasps

Wasps are among the most fascinating creatures in the insect world. Their nests are incredible architectural achievements, which they often make by manufacturing their own paper out of leaves. Many of them live in vast hives, sometimes with multiple queens, while others are loner parasites who implant their eggs into other unwary insects. In this…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How the American Museum of Natural History will train the next generation of science teachers

It’s no secret that the U.S. education system is hurting, especially when it comes to science teachers. Public schools are chronically underfunded, and the most talented college graduates shy away from entering the teaching profession when its future seems so grim. But hope isn’t lost. A pioneering program at New York’s American Museum of Natural…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Behold, the Justice League of Japan that never was

Sure, we’ve seen a Japanese version of Spider-Man, but Wonder Woman artist Cliff Chiang has now created a Justice League straight out of 1970s anime and kaiju. According to Chiang, this concept art almost became a reality a few years back. DC Comics did something sort of like this with The Super Young Team, but…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Read an excerpt from a captivating new profile of Neil deGrasse Tyson

Featured in the latest issue of Playboy is a totally engrossing profile — written by The Loom‘s Carl Zimmer — on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium and one of the most highly regarded science communicators of our time. Included here is an excerpt from the beginning of the piece, but trust…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What lies outside Michael Biehn’s post-apocalyptic basement in The Divide?

We’ve called Xavier Gens’s The Divide the most disturbing end-of-the-world movie we’ve ever seen — and even now when we think about it, we feel like taking a shower. Check out this exclusive clip from the post apocalyptic hellhole, otherwise known as Michael Biehn’s basement. Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette and a few other end-of-the-world survivors…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How turtles sense Earth’s drifting magnetic field

Turtles are one of many species that use their sense of Earth’s magnetic field to navigate great distances. But the magnetic field is constantly drifting, and that can cause major confusion in such a long-lived species. Here’s their ingenious solution. Species like the loggerhead turtle show incredibly fine-tuned understanding of the Earth’s magnetic field. Born…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Can you identify the media used to create this art piece?

Back in November, we challenged you to guess the medium used to create these eye-catching images. Finnish artist Erno-Erik Raitanan had produced the series by cultivating bacteria samples on color negative film. At first glance, the image up top bears a striking resemblance to some of Raitanan’s “Bacteriograms,” but photographer Cliff Briggie created it using…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Falling Skies Photo Caption Winner!

You submitted hundreds and hundreds of captions for our exclusive first photo of Falling Skies season two. And then you voted for the best caption from among 10 finalists. Now, at last, the winner of our Falling Skies photo caption contest can be announced. You’ve chosen Thogar, who will henceforth be referred to as Thogar…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

There’s no tougher fighter than a castrated spider

Spider sex carries a very definite danger for male arachnids: genital loss. Spiders can actually lose their reproductive organs during intercourse, turning them into spider eunuchs. But, unlike humans, this “castration” actually turns the spiders into even more aggressive fighters. It’s all down to the unusual reproductive strategies of the spider species Nephilengys malabarensis. The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

What is it like to dine on a prehistoric beast?

If you’ve ever wanted to eat unicorn, then surely you’ve pondered the possibility of eating a real-life cryptid, the so-called living fossil known as the coelacanth. And you wouldn’t be the first – in fact, there’s a long history of adventurous eaters tasting this paleolithic creature’s flesh. Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about…

io9 Keith Veronese

Fruit flies become slightly superpowered in zero gravity

Fruit flies were the very first animals we sent into space, way back in 1947 — yet we’re still not done analyzing what happens to them in microgravity. We’ve known for a while that when in “zero-gravity,” flies walk more quickly than they do planetside. The only problem is that we don’t know if this…

io9 Tim Barribeau

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over

DC and Marvel have crossed over their superheroes officially on several occasions, but what about those times canny writers and illustrators snuck these titanic team-ups under the table? Here’s a bunch of times Marvel and DC creators stealthily transcended universes. 10.) Teen Titans torches the X-Men’s mansion In 2011, former X-Men writer Scott Lobdell was…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Here’s a beautiful fluid dynamics experiment that begins in your shower

The next time you’re in the shower, try pouring a steady stream of shampoo into an open, flattened palm. See how the thread loops and buckles as it comes into contact with your hand? Physicists who study fluid dynamics call this behavior “the rope-coiling effect;” it’s a physical property commonly observed in viscous fluids (like…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Omega Nebula is a galactic Rorschach test

These stars, though still shrouded in dust and hydrogen gas, are some of the youngest and most massive stars in the galaxy. They’re part of the Omega Nebula, which for 200 years has been a sort of cosmic inkblot test. Just about every astronomer who observes this nebula comes away with a different sense of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

A form of blindness where you can see everything, but recognize nothing

Most of us have had an experience like this: we turn our heads to the side in bed and see a strange shape. It has a weird line to it, and it’s an odd color, and it’s suspended in a strange way. We’re wary. We’re confused. Whatever we’re experiencing doesn’t ‘ring a bell,’ for us.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Evangelion 3.0 and 4.0 will complete the one anime series you absolutely need

If you have to limit yourself to one anime movie series in your life, or in the next week, Evangelion is one of your best options. The infamously complex post-apocalyptic anime series was rebooted in two incredible films, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone and Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, released over the past…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Battlestar Galactica, in four minutes as a 1990s roleplaying game

The bizarre story of where ancient Pompeii put its trash

Insane indie trailer asks: What if you could test for True Love?

The catchiest New Wave song (written by a doomsday cult) of all time

Everything you always wanted to know about the social behavior of wasps

How the American Museum of Natural History will train the next generation of science teachers

Behold, the Justice League of Japan that never was

Read an excerpt from a captivating new profile of Neil deGrasse Tyson

What lies outside Michael Biehn’s post-apocalyptic basement in The Divide?

How turtles sense Earth’s drifting magnetic field

Can you identify the media used to create this art piece?

Falling Skies Photo Caption Winner!

There’s no tougher fighter than a castrated spider

What is it like to dine on a prehistoric beast?

Fruit flies become slightly superpowered in zero gravity

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over

Here’s a beautiful fluid dynamics experiment that begins in your shower

The Omega Nebula is a galactic Rorschach test

A form of blindness where you can see everything, but recognize nothing

Evangelion 3.0 and 4.0 will complete the one anime series you absolutely need

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