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Microcredit loans do help, but not in the way we thought

Microcredit institutes like Kiva claim to help small business in the developing world by offering small loans to people who aren’t able to get them through the normal channels. Their claim is that these tiny loans help the people who are the most impoverished grow their businesses, and substantially improve their lot. Microfinance expert Dean…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Darren Aronofosky is giving Noah’s Ark its very own gritty reboot. Plus see tons of Green Lantern’s ring constructs in a new video!

Neil Blomkamp adds another awesome actor to Elysium. How big a role does David Tennant have in Fright Night? Plus we may now know precisely when the second half of Doctor Who’s current season will air. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Green Lantern. Green Lantern Marc Guggenheim explains how he became a…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Will.i.am Forgets His Own Lyrics During Performance, Reads Them from Cellphone

Have you ever unwittingly memorized the lyrics to a Black Eyed Peas song? Of course you have—they’re too damn catchy not to remember! Which is why this video, of frontman will.i.am resorting to reading the words to his own song from a cellphone during a recent performance of “Don’t Stop the Party” on French TV,…

Television Matt Cherette

io9 Roundup: June 9, 2011

ROUGH JUSTICE | “Welcome Home,” concept art by Alex Broeckel via ConceptArt.org. https://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-have-the-predators-heat-vision-5810467 Will we ever have the Predator’s heat vision? Humans and most other animals are only able to see light in the visible spectrum. But what about infrared, which the alien in Predator famously uses to see prey approaching just by their heat…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First look at Shepard Fairey’s They Live Poster!

Tonight, the Alamo Drafthouse is hosting a special screening of John Carpenter’s They Live. Which means one thing: a new limited edition poster from Mondo! So here it is, the limited edition They Live poster created by the Shepard Fairey. A limited amount of posters will be available for sale tomorrow at MondoTees (follow @MondoNews…

Movies Meredith Woerner

End the prejudice against non-native species! Embrace the new nature.

Gardners and biologists often grumble about the ways non-native animals and plants have invaded a region, spoiling things for all the locals. Sometimes a non-native species can destroy an ecosystem — a common example is the introduction of rabbits to Australia, where they have no native predators. Sometimes, however, they are far more beneficial than…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Will we ever have the Predator’s heat vision?

Humans and most other animals are only able to see light in the visible spectrum. But what about infrared, which the alien in Predator famously uses to see prey approaching just by their heat signature. Why can’t we do that? Until now, nobody was entirely sure, and the basic answer really just boiled down to…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Why does nicotine help you lose weight?

Apart from its laundry list of negative consequences, smoking is known to do one or two good things for you — it’ll help you lose weight, and there’s some evidence it can prevent Parkinson’s. New research has picked apart just how nicotine helps keep you skinny, potentially opening the way to new weight loss techniques,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Does this Avengers set report reveal the movie’s bad guys?

Is there a secret Avengers-Stargate crossover? While we’re a bit dubious about the authenticity of this “set report” we did get a mighty chuckle from the Stargate on set references. Comic Book Movies picked up the tweets from one Twitter user named Lionheart3rd (whose twitter handle is longer active which could mean something). The source…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Did you hear about the time NBC tried to kill Community’s D&D episode?

“They [the studio and the network] were so upset about the crime of this episode having been written. The note session as a whole was preceded by a 45-minute period of them walking around the lot whispering to each other. They told me they would come up to my office and meet me privately. When…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Dense, sparkling ultra-diamonds could be the next superconductors

Carbon is one of the most versatile materials in the universe, forming everything from the graphite found in the pencils to hard, sparkling diamonds. But three new forms of carbon might make even the most breathtaking diamond look impossibly dull. As you might remember from middle school science class, diamonds are the hardest minerals in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

First Set Pics from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Is this your new gritty alien underworld?

Very little is known about Ridley Scott’s Alien-esque movie Prometheus (penned by Damon Lindelof, based on an old Aliens prequel script by Jon Spaihts). Until now. Could these be the first ever images from Scott’s mysterious production? Spoilers below…. While we’re still speculating on whether or not Prometheus will play with the Alien mythology created…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Urinating chimp uses awesomely disgusting strategy to get a snack

Some chimps and gorillas were given a long vertical tube with a peanut at the bottom. To reach the treat, the primates realized they had to add water to the tube…and one chimp came up with a uniquely gross solution. The basic experiment was meant to test the chimps’ ability to think strategically. The tube…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The story of the Monkey Shakespeare Simulator Project

There once was a noble project meant to recreate a famous hypothetical. Find out how many pages of Shakespeare monkeys actually could come up with in 10^35 pages. At this point an infinite number of monkeys, with their typewriters, have shown up in many different hypothetical situations. These brave, repetitive-stress-resistant simians were first called to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Disney pays Damon Lindelof a whopping sum to create the next Star Wars

Harry Potter is almost over, so what will the next big family-friendly blockbuster movie series be? Disney hopes that Lost writer Damon Lindelof has the next big science fiction idea. And it’s called 1952. Deadline is reporting that Disney has just made Lindelof a seven-figure deal to write and produce a “large-scale” scifi feature that…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Canadian meteorite has all the building blocks for life

The argument that life on Earth may have been seeded from the stars just received a major boost, as scientists have found the building blocks of life inside a meteorite that landed in British Columbia in 2000. The Tagish Lake meteorite landed in January of that year, a streaking fireball that burst into more than…

io9 Tim Barribeau

This homemade hoverbike is a real life Star Wars speeder

Australian engineer Chris Malloy has spent his spare money and time building a flying motorcycle he calls the Hoverbike. The Imperial Speeder Bike-like bike could reach 10,000 feet and fly 170 mph when finished. Read more about it, and check out more pictures, via Jalopnik! https://jalopnik.com/this-homemade-hoverbike-is-a-real-life-star-wars-speede-5810395

io9 Justin Hyde

Web Browser Found Hiding Inside the Simple Touch Nook

Well, well, well. Barnes and Noble’s Simple Touch Nook made no mention of having web browsing capabilities. But if you type any URL into its search bar, that web page will magically appear before your eyes. https://gizmodo.com/barnes-and-noble-simple-touch-nook-review-the-e-reader-5807381 Browsing isn’t really all that enjoyable, as it’s monochrome and requires you to wait for the E-Ink screen…

Books & Comics Adrian Covert

The Truth About How Suntanning Causes Cancer

You’ve heard the myths. If you get a tan, you won’t get skin cancer. If you use SPF 50 sunblock, you’re safe. Only people with light skin are prone to skin cancer. None of these are true. It’s suntan season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere, so you’d better get the facts. We’ve got the lowdown…

io9 Annalee Newitz and Robert T. Gonzalez

Want To know the secret of Super 8? Watch this footage!

Could this Dharma Initiative-flavored video be the greatest piece of viral marketing J.J. Abrams has ever created? Either way, it reveals the secrets at the heart of his new film, Super 8. Beware: Major spoilers! A few months ago, we brought you an exclusive Super 8 viral video, showing off scientists poking an unknown specimen.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Microcredit loans do help, but not in the way we thought

Darren Aronofosky is giving Noah’s Ark its very own gritty reboot. Plus see tons of Green Lantern’s ring constructs in a new video!

Will.i.am Forgets His Own Lyrics During Performance, Reads Them from Cellphone

io9 Roundup: June 9, 2011

First look at Shepard Fairey’s They Live Poster!

End the prejudice against non-native species! Embrace the new nature.

Will we ever have the Predator’s heat vision?

Why does nicotine help you lose weight?

Does this Avengers set report reveal the movie’s bad guys?

Did you hear about the time NBC tried to kill Community’s D&D episode?

Dense, sparkling ultra-diamonds could be the next superconductors

First Set Pics from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Is this your new gritty alien underworld?

Urinating chimp uses awesomely disgusting strategy to get a snack

The story of the Monkey Shakespeare Simulator Project

Disney pays Damon Lindelof a whopping sum to create the next Star Wars

Canadian meteorite has all the building blocks for life

This homemade hoverbike is a real life Star Wars speeder

Web Browser Found Hiding Inside the Simple Touch Nook

The Truth About How Suntanning Causes Cancer

Want To know the secret of Super 8? Watch this footage!

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