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Spike Jonze’s suburban apocalypse music video

Arcade Fire collaborated with Spike Jonze to create this weird, moving portrait of suburban life slowly going to hell as the military rounds people up. I’ve never seen anyone successfully create a wistful apocalyptic tone the way Jonze does here. Arcade Fire’s indie rock soundscape perfectly compliments Jonze’s images of bored, innocently destructive teens in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is The Dark Knight Rises based on Doug Moench’s “Prey”?

Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film cranks into production early next year, and the rumors are flying like bats driven mad by a sonar belt. And now one site is claiming they know what Nolan’s story will be based on. Spoilers? For the past few days, the rumor mill has been claiming that Inception’s Tom Hardy…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First look at Karl Urban as the new Judge Dredd

The first ever image of Karl Urban as Mega City One’s lawman, Judge Dredd, has emerged, and it ticks all the boxes, including the helmet and the big gun. Can it erase the memories of Sylvester Stallone? Concept Artist Jock, who’s been hard at working creating amazing concept art, story boarding and designing new characters…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Massive plagues of rats swarm across India every fifty years

Twice a century, India is attacked by huge rat armies that devour crops in massive destructive waves and leave people without any food. Scientists long dismissed it as an urban myth…until they discovered that it really happens, and why. A massive bamboo forest covers about 26,000 square kilometers in a region encompassing northeastern India and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Next Too Fast Too Furious: Disney’s Hovercar Movie

Disney must still be huffing the fumes from the Tron Legacy cycles, because a Hovercar movie is in the works. The LA Times is reporting that Disney is working on a story about a young boy who enters an elite racing school, to become the world’s best hovercar racer. And then the hovercar racer gets…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Olivia Dunham becomes a superhero, on Fringe

There’s just one problem with swapping the Olivia Dunhams of two universes and embedding the “wrong” Olivia with the Fringe team of your alternate universe: She’ll kick so much ass, everybody will come to love and trust her. Spoilers ahead. The Walter Bishop of the other universe, aka Walternate, thought he could embed “our” universe’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Northwestern University tracks people using the movement of money

Check out this short film that illuminates the barriers between communities of people by tracking the movements of dollar bills. Last year Northwestern University students created a mobility map of the United States by tracking individual pieces of paper money. They used the site Where’s George, which allows people to enter serial numbers on bills,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Haunting conch shell trumpets played for the first time in over 3000 years

More than 3,000 years ago, an ancient Peruvian culture fashioned conch shells into instruments, creating sounds rarely heard in music. Back in 2001, archaeologists uncovered twenty of these marine shell trumpets at an archaeological site known as Chavín de Huántar. The instruments, known as pututus, were exquisitely carved and remarkably well-preserved. The mouthpieces are in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

New drug lets mice eat junk food and gain less weight

Researchers have discovered how to block the “hunger hormone” ghrelin in mice. But it might not do humans much good in its current form. Ghrelin is known to promote weight gain and stimulate appetite in mammals when activated by an enzyme called ghrelin O-acyltransferase, or GOAT. The research team created a peptide-based drug called GO-CoA-Tat,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Environmentalist cosplay in China

Pop culture fans may be slightly perplexed by the new even-more-extra-long Avatar collector’s edition DVD, but political protesters are getting more into James Cameron’s tale of the blue people’s eco-revolt. Is cosplay the future of political protest? In this picture, taken last weekend, a group of protestors in Taiwan protest the petrochemical industry by dressing…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman would have been based on Angelina Jolie?

For years, we’ve been wishing we could have seen Joss Whedon’s abortive movie, while Whedon has stayed mum on how he would have handled the Amazon Princess. Now Whedon’s explaining his take on Diana… and it’s not what we’d expected. Apparently the new issue of Entertainment Weekly contains an article about why we haven’t gotten…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

It’s A Trap! First trailer for Family Guy’s Return of the Jedi

The first trailer for Family Guy’s spoof of Return Of The Jedi is here, and it’s not a trap! Meg makes her big debut as the Sarlacc, and Peter is still kicking clone butt as Han. Watch it now. Click to view Out on DVD December 21st. [via THR]

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Tron Legacy trailers take us inside the story, plus amazing Green Lantern poster heads for the stars!

Two new Tron Legacy trailers give us the most detailed look yet at the film’s story. Green Lantern has a poster worthy of a cosmic superhero. The new Superman may well be an unknown. Time for spoilers…and why not? Tron Legacy Two new international trailers are out, both of which feature a much clearer focus…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

A history of zombies in America

The early success of AMC series Walking Dead confirms it: Though zombies have been hot for a while, they are now officially the new vampires. Why do Americans love zombies, and what does it say about us? World War Z fan art by Daniel LuVisi Though some of the greatest zombie stories in recent memory…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Someone’s making a movie called Steampunk Samurai Biker Chick? We’re in!

Right now, in Los Angeles, casting is taking place for a low-budget action movie called Steampunk Samurai Biker Chick. And it sounds like Mad Max crossed with Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. When can we see this movie? The casting call has gone out for Steampunk Samurai Biker Chick, to be directed by Jose Figueroa and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

What would happen if REAL teenagers went to Hogwarts

Ever curious what Hogwarts would be like if the kids didn’t have to spend most of their time fighting off the Dark Lord? We bet there would have been a lot more butter beer. And it would look like this. Here’s a previous videos the Outcasts did a while ago — it may be silly,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Energy drink consumption linked to increased risk of alcoholism

With the recent ban on alcohol/caffeine combo drink Four Loko in five states, the war on booze-filled energy drinks continues, bolstered by new research showing that heavy consumers are more likely to become alcoholics. Research published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research surveyed more than 1,000 students at a public university about their alcohol and…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Spine tingling trailer for mind bending scifi flick “Beyond the Black Rainbow”

I’ve been following this movie for a year because it looks incredible. At last a trailer has popped up online. Luckily it’s everything I hoped for and more! Here’s the synopsis: Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of 1983, Beyond The Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories…

Movies Quiet Earth

Want to work at an up-and-coming science fiction publisher? Night Shade Books is hiring!

Night Shade Books, publishers of Paolo Bacigalupi’s multi-award-winning The Windup Girl and many other great books, just put out an ad seeking a full-time editor. If you live in San Francisco (or can move there) and want to edit science fiction books for a living, this is a great opportunity. Details at the link. [Publishers…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Your genes may have very little to do with how you look

We already knew that creatures with very similar genomes, like humans and chimps, can be very different. Now it seems that creatures who look the same might have radically different genomes. Our post-human children may look like us after all. In a paper published today in Science, biologist France Denoeud and colleagues describe the strange…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Spike Jonze’s suburban apocalypse music video

Is The Dark Knight Rises based on Doug Moench’s “Prey”?

First look at Karl Urban as the new Judge Dredd

Massive plagues of rats swarm across India every fifty years

The Next Too Fast Too Furious: Disney’s Hovercar Movie

Olivia Dunham becomes a superhero, on Fringe

Northwestern University tracks people using the movement of money

Haunting conch shell trumpets played for the first time in over 3000 years

New drug lets mice eat junk food and gain less weight

Environmentalist cosplay in China

Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman would have been based on Angelina Jolie?

It’s A Trap! First trailer for Family Guy’s Return of the Jedi

New Tron Legacy trailers take us inside the story, plus amazing Green Lantern poster heads for the stars!

A history of zombies in America

Someone’s making a movie called Steampunk Samurai Biker Chick? We’re in!

What would happen if REAL teenagers went to Hogwarts

Energy drink consumption linked to increased risk of alcoholism

Spine tingling trailer for mind bending scifi flick “Beyond the Black Rainbow”

Want to work at an up-and-coming science fiction publisher? Night Shade Books is hiring!

Your genes may have very little to do with how you look

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