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Watch a declassified Air Force movie about the end of the world

Yesterday we featured the equal parts horrific and boring US government job application for “nuclear war survivor.” Today we’re taking a look at the United States Air Force film “The Power of Decision,” perhaps the only American military training movie to depict global nuclear annihilation. Cheerful stuff! https://gizmodo.com/a-job-application-for-restarting-the-human-race-after-t-5766500 In the film, none of the military…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why some people fill their tires with nitrogen

One of the many special products offered to car owners to allow them to get more bang for their buck is nitrogen gas to fill their tires. But tires are tires. As long as they’re not filled with gravel or anything that can explode, what difference could the gas inside them make? Supposedly, a lot.…

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5 clips from Nic Cage’s Drive Angry have convinced us to see this film. Drunk.

Still debating on whether or not you can stomach another Nic Cage movie? Well if Drive Angry’s gun sex/fight scene didn’t convince you, take a gander at the latest collection of Cage clips. http://io9.com/5738863/watch-nic-cage-have-gunfight-sex-in-this-insane-drive-angry-clip-[nsfw] They’re all stuffed with crazy topped with a sprinkling of uncomfortable Cage line-delivery. Warning: The last clip is NSFW. Drive Angry…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Visualization: How Netflix Beat Blockbuster

With news today that a group of investors has bid $290 million to buy Blockbuster out of bankruptcy, it seems like a prudent time to take a look at how its competitor, Netflix, left it in a cloud of digital dust. [SlashFilm]

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Tom Hardy talks about Bane’s wrestler mask. And is Kevin Costner joining Superman?

Tom Hardy describes his preparation to play Bane and whether he’ll be donning the rather…unique costume from the comics. And Kevin Costner might be up for a role in the new Superman reboot. Plus Kenneth Branagh explains the appeal of Thor, some familiar aliens are returning in Prometheus, Matt Smith teases Doctor Who’s new monsters,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Add Netflix Movies to Your Queue Quick and Easy

CueThat is a neat utility that lets you add movies to your Netflix queue from any webpage. Just install the extension (if you use Chrome or Firefox) or bookmarklet (any browser), and then you can highlight any movie title you come across, right click and hit “CueThat” (or click the bookmarklet link). However, if you…

Movies Adrian Covert

Outcasts shows us how the ”pull back to shocking reveal” thing is done

You didn’t see the ending of tonight’s Outcasts episode coming, did you? Now this is how you pan back to reveal that there’s a larger frame that almost nobody knows about — and it’s coming to ruin everyone’s day. Spoilers ahead… Holy hell, that caught me by surprise. Julius Berger continues to find ways to…

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Recharge your wonder at the mysteries of creation

Rediscover your capacity for amazement with the day’s greatest stories… Acid zits, laser peaches, and Dracula: the most inexplicable martial arts and ninjutsu techniques Most of us are familiar with standard ninja and kung fu attacks, but did you know that there’s a technique that conjures Dracula to vanquish your foes? According to trashy cinema,…

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Video game concept art is some of the greatest fantasy art today

We’re used to seeing video game concept art of spaceships and power armor that makes you want to drool — but lately some of the coolest fantasy art we’ve seen comes from video game concept art as well. Just check out these absolutely stunning new concept art images from Dark Souls, coming soon for Playstation…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Acid zits, laser peaches, and Dracula: the most inexplicable martial arts and ninjutsu techniques

Most of us are familiar with standard ninja and kung fu attacks, but did you know that there’s a technique that conjures Dracula to vanquish your foes? According to bargain bin cinema, martial arts allow you to do anything and everything you damn well please. I was looking through the io9 archives the other day,…

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Get into the io9 Book Club

We’ve been running the io9 Book Club for over a year now, and it’s been pretty awesome. Each month the io9 Book Club meets in the comments on the book club post, discusses the book for a couple of days, and then has a chance to chat with the author too. This week we’ll be…

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An intriguing glimpse of the woman who might invent faster-than-light travel

This clip from the short film c offers an evocative character sketch of a spaceship officer plunging into the unknown. I love the weird mood evoked by the effects and music, which suggest this film is as invested in its characters as its futuristic technologies. Writer/director Derek Van Gorder writes in to tell us: In…

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Prop auction offers Cylon blood, Iron Man’s legs, and Hulk heads

Propworx is hosting a seriously huge auction, selling off an incredible selection of memorabilia, including a couple of legs from Aliens’ Queen, Starship Troopers Hero Morita Rifle, a jar of Mr. Green’s blood, Hulk heads, BSG’s star-maps, Baltar’s Cylon testing kit, and more. Out of our way — we want to bid on Obadiah Stane’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Paleontologists discover what Neanderthal fashion looked like 44 thousand years ago

A Neanderthal burial site in Italy reveals hundreds of bird bones mixed in with those of our hominid cousins. The bones had the feathers scraped off, as though the Neanderthals had removed them on purpose – and the only plausible reason they would do that is to wear the feathers. It’s more evidence that Neanderthals…

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Jonathan Lethem psychoanalyzes They Live’s Ghouls

Just who are these weird people that you see when you put on the mysterious sunglasses in They Live? What do they want? More importantly, what do they mean? Novelist Jonathan Lethem investigates, in three excerpts from his new book analyzing They Live. Top image: They Live poster by Mark Palm. Lethem’s They Live book…

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A job application for restarting the human race after the nuclear apocalypse

In 1956, the US government issued this totally turgid employment application and list of job requirements for the federal position of Chief, Damage Assessment Division. What’s incredible about these documents is how mind-numbingly bureaucratic and jargon-filled they are. Essentially, it was the jobholder’s responsibility to not die in the nuclear blast and restructure society post-Judgment…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

CD3WD Archives the Information Necessary to Rebuild Society

The world economy has collapsed. There is no internet or Wikipedia. How do you rebuild society? CD3WD is a site built by programmer Alex Weir that’s meant to help spur the improvement of the infrastructure of third world nations by giving them first-world technology and knowledge for free. Everything from agriculture to technology is addressed…

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Ambidextrous people are easier to manipulate than right-handed people

About 90% of people use their right hand for almost all activities, while the remaining 10% is split between the left-handed and the ambidextrous, people who use either hand with equal comfort. But these “inconsistent-handers” pay a price for their ability to use either hand – a truly bizarre study has discovered that they’re much…

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First look at Detroit’s New RoboCop Statue

Last week, Detroit’s RoboCop statue reached its goal of $50,000 in fully crowd-sourced funding. We talked with the brains behind the Detroit Needs A RoboCop fundraiser, and got an early sneak peek at what this noble statue could look like — and it’s going to have suit details that were never shown on screen. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Get inspired by visions of the future from science fiction’s “second golden age”

This video, compiling classic science fiction art from the 1970s and 1980s, will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Watch the beautiful ballet of spaceships, planetoids, alien creatures and more. Here’s the official description for “Visions of the Future: A Journey Through Sci-Fi Art of the Second Golden Age of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Watch a declassified Air Force movie about the end of the world

Why some people fill their tires with nitrogen

5 clips from Nic Cage’s Drive Angry have convinced us to see this film. Drunk.

Visualization: How Netflix Beat Blockbuster

Tom Hardy talks about Bane’s wrestler mask. And is Kevin Costner joining Superman?

Add Netflix Movies to Your Queue Quick and Easy

Outcasts shows us how the ”pull back to shocking reveal” thing is done

Recharge your wonder at the mysteries of creation

Video game concept art is some of the greatest fantasy art today

Acid zits, laser peaches, and Dracula: the most inexplicable martial arts and ninjutsu techniques

Get into the io9 Book Club

An intriguing glimpse of the woman who might invent faster-than-light travel

Prop auction offers Cylon blood, Iron Man’s legs, and Hulk heads

Paleontologists discover what Neanderthal fashion looked like 44 thousand years ago

Jonathan Lethem psychoanalyzes They Live’s Ghouls

A job application for restarting the human race after the nuclear apocalypse

CD3WD Archives the Information Necessary to Rebuild Society

Ambidextrous people are easier to manipulate than right-handed people

First look at Detroit’s New RoboCop Statue

Get inspired by visions of the future from science fiction’s “second golden age”

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