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Famous optical illusion reveals your brain’s hidden reflexes, say scientsts

You’ve probably seen this optical illusion before, in which two lines of identical length appear to be different by adding opposite-facing arrows to them. It’s a very powerful effect – so much so that it overwhelms all other visual information. That’s the finding of researchers at the University of London, who in an experiment asked…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Ridley Scott: Streaming Movies Suck

Three-time Oscar-nominated director of many awesomesauce movies Ridley Scott penned a HuffPo article yesterday, detailing why streaming movies are still vastly inferior to physical media such as Blu-ray. Oh, yeah, Mr. Scott? You’re… you’re… absolutely right. Sigh. As much as we like our on-demand flick fix, Scott has a point. Namely, that we’re so quick…

Movies Brent Rose

Look Who’s The President in a World Without Warehouse 13‘s Pete Lattimer!

Apparently we have Agent Pete Lattimer to thank for President Obama — in the world where Pete was never born, John McCain is president! How did this happen? And what’s the town of Eureka like in the McCain universe? Spoilers ahead… I’m seriously confused as to how we end up with President John McCain just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Myth of Multiple Personality Disorder

Fiction has mined the idea of multiple personalities for centuries, but it was only in the 1970s that science followed suit. But many argue that “multiple personality disorder” is not a real psychological ailment. What exactly is the science behind this disorder, and does it even exist? How does it work for people who are…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

We were optimistic when the first trailer for The Lorax popped up (what with the heartstring yanking tunes from The Polyphonic Spree and the decidedly Seussian village). But the latest trailer is simply the last straw. This longer look at the adapted classic has “lifted away” any sort of morality or mood from the original…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Does stress cause U.S. Presidents to age faster and die younger?

Being the U.S. President is a stressful job — just look at how quickly our last few leaders have gone grey while in office. But is that stress enough to shorten their lifespans? A piece of research in this month’s Journal of the American Medical Association answers that question definitively. In the study, doctor Jay…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley: If publishers tell me which genre to write in, “I go to another publisher.”

Good news! Walter Mosley, best known for his Easy Rawlins novels, will be publishing more science fiction next year — he has a series of SF novellas coming from Tor, whom he describes as “THE science fiction publisher.” They’ll be packaged as one or more flipbooks. A new interview with Mosley in Associated Press is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Massive Stargate graph attempts to chart out every SG-1 story arc

The brave fans of Richard Dean Anderson (known to Gaters as Col. Jack O’Neill) are attempting to map out every single Stargate story arc in the 10 seasons Stargate SG-1 was on the air. Clearly this is a work in progress, as “200” and “Bad Guys” from Season 10 are missing. But we’ve got to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

John Carpenter’s music video for the Big Trouble in Little China theme song is hard to watch

We all know that Big Trouble in Little China is the best movie ever made (in which Kurt Russell is extremely confused). But did you know that director John Carpenter and his band the Coup DeVilles starred in a magnificent music video to accompany the flick? It’s true! I owe Jalopnik bon vivant Ray Wert…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Here are 10,000 reasons to be excited about deep-space exploration

Yesterday, NASA announced a milestone in the almost 22-year history of its Hubble Space Telescope: The 10,000th refereed scientific paper based on Hubble data has now been published, reinforcing that Hubble is one of the most successful astronomical experiments in human history. Many people will see this as an incredible achievement — a testament to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Read an exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Force, one of the best X-Men comics out there

All this week, we’ve been gearing up for the conclusion of the “Dark Angel Saga” storyline in Uncanny X-Force, one of the most rollicking X-comics to date. In this grand finale, author Rick Remender and illustrator Jerome Opeña take us to the mutant team’s last stand against Archangel, their erstwhile teammate who has been corrupted…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A beloved Supernatural character will return. Plus Michael Bay might really be doing Transformers 4!

Cobie Smulders reveals a seemingly unexpected detail about her Avengers character. Matt Smith talks the Doctor Who Christmas special. After Earth and The Host make some awesome casting additions. Plus why The Darkest Hour isn’t your average alien invasion movie. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Hunger Games. The Avengers How I…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How The Mythbusters Accidentally Punched a Six-Inch Cannonball Hole in a Minivan (Updated)

The cannonball was supposed to blast through an array of water barrels and a cinderblock wall. Supposed to. Instead it hit the wall, a hill, a house, and Jasbir Gill’s Toyota Sienna. Now do you see why they tell you not to try this at home? The accident occurred Tuesday afternoon at an Alameda County…

Television Andrew Tarantola

I Could Have Really Used This Children’s Book About Calculus In High School

The road to greatness starts at an early age, and a children’s book dedicated to introductory calculus will put your kid on the right path. Has a Nobel Prize winner ever credited Green Eggs and Ham for their success? Exactly. Written by Omi M. Inouye, a programmer and admitted average math student, Introductory Calculus For…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Picture of the Day: December 6, 2011

THE PINWHEEL COMES ALIVE | A beautiful image of M83, the Pinwheel Galaxy, showing what our own galaxy might look like from outside. Spitzer Space Telescope, via National Geographic. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Watch what happens to newly baptized babies when they’re held by possessed priests

You’ve seen the demon-stuffed trailer for the “found footage” movie The Devil Inside a new found footage horror flick. Now check out the first, incredibly brutal clip. Here’s the official run-down of this film, which has four times the amount of demons per possessed person): In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Greatest Bad TV Movie of The Year

My Future Boyfriend is one of those TV movies that’s so terrible, it’s practically a masterpiece. The story of a man from the year 3127 who travels back to 2011 to meet the author of a romance book, Future Boyfriend is almost rhapsodic in its illogic and cheesiness. It’s easily the best bad TV movie…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Today’s real-life example of a dark and terrible future

It’s the kind of thing you’d expect to happen in a really dystopian movie about a collapsed civilization. Yesterday, a Tennessee fire department drove out to a woman’s home and watched it burn to the ground because she hadn’t paid a $75 fire department fee. According to Firehouse.com: The South Fulton Fire Department made national…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Thor 2 loses its director. Time to start worrying about Asgard?

Bad news for our flaxen-haired champion of shirtlessness, Thor. Director Patty Jenkis (known for her work on Monster) has left the Marvel movie sequel Thor 2 over “creative differences.” This is the second director to leave this project — this is not good. Deadline is reporting that Jenkins has left Thor 2, but it’s not…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Weirdest Gift Ideas On The Internet

What do you get the person who has everything? Something insanely freaky. We have scoured the internet for the most insane gifts to give your friends who are impossible to find presents for. And what we found was simply amazing. Including two-headed ducklings, a vial of Barbie’s blood, and the creepy baby from David Lynch’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Famous optical illusion reveals your brain’s hidden reflexes, say scientsts

Ridley Scott: Streaming Movies Suck

Look Who’s The President in a World Without Warehouse 13‘s Pete Lattimer!

The Myth of Multiple Personality Disorder

The Lorax trailer! What the hell was that?

Does stress cause U.S. Presidents to age faster and die younger?

Words of Wisdom from Walter Mosley: If publishers tell me which genre to write in, “I go to another publisher.”

Massive Stargate graph attempts to chart out every SG-1 story arc

John Carpenter’s music video for the Big Trouble in Little China theme song is hard to watch

Here are 10,000 reasons to be excited about deep-space exploration

Read an exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Force, one of the best X-Men comics out there

A beloved Supernatural character will return. Plus Michael Bay might really be doing Transformers 4!

How The Mythbusters Accidentally Punched a Six-Inch Cannonball Hole in a Minivan (Updated)

I Could Have Really Used This Children’s Book About Calculus In High School

Picture of the Day: December 6, 2011

Watch what happens to newly baptized babies when they’re held by possessed priests

The Greatest Bad TV Movie of The Year

Today’s real-life example of a dark and terrible future

Thor 2 loses its director. Time to start worrying about Asgard?

The Weirdest Gift Ideas On The Internet

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