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Doctor Who DVD extras: Moffat explains the new Daleks, Smith sings the theme tune!

Check out three exclusive clips from the special features on the upcoming Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series DVD box set. Matt Smith sings the Doctor Who theme tune, and it turns out those redesigned Daleks have many secret weapons. So the clip above is the gag reel, featuring what really happens when the Doctor…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Millions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere had almost no oxygen

We all know how important carbon and oxygen are in the development of life on Earth. But millions of years ago, there wouldn’t have been enough oxygen for animals to exist. What changed? Between 750 and 580 million years ago, the Earth was almost entirely encased in thick glaciers and ice sheets. When the ice…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Giant prehistoric shrimp had the weirdest mouth of the Cambrian period

500 million years ago, the meter-long Anomalocaris roamed the Cambrian seas. Researchers once thought that Anomalocaris crushed trilobites with their teeth, but recent fossil analysis suggests something a lot stranger. When paleontologist James Hagadorn of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science noticed that Anomalocaris remains lacked fossilized digestive remains or feces, his team began…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

2011 Comic Con passes are on sale right now UPDATE

Tickets for the 2011 San Diego Comic Con were on sale. But the high volume of interested buyers crashed the website. Registration has now been pushed back to 11/8, when officials announce more details. Sorry everyone. [ SDCC]

io9 Meredith Woerner

This week’s TV: new Fringe, Eliza Dushku on BBT, and the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror!

Despite elections and baseball, television still rules. Fringe is back! There are robot uprisings galore! Plus guest spots: Eliza Dushku on Big Bang Theory, Timothy Dalton on Chuck, and Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Laurie in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. Today: There’s a new Scooby Doo – Mystery Inc. at 7 PM on the Cartoon…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A free mixtape of John Carpenter’s greatest soundtracks by Alan Howarth

What’s better than a mixtape of John Carpenter’s finest movie themes? How about a mixtape curated by his longtime musical collaborator Alan Howarth, who co-composed the soundtracks for Escape From New York, They Live, and Big Trouble in Little China? Howarth made this mix for electronic music magazine Resident Advisor‘s Halloween podcast. The tracklist isn’t…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

SNL screens the missing Back To The Future audition tapes, including Al Pacino as Doc

Watch the “never-before-seen” Back To The Future audition tapes, featuring Al Pacino, Eddie Murphy, Prince, Robin Williams, Pee Wee and more. But beware: world’s scariest, most spot-on Alan Alda impression ahead… Thank you Saturday Night Live for putting that alternate Al Pacino casting in our minds. And goodness is there nothing Bill Hader can’t do?…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Winners of the 2010 World Fantasy Awards

The prestigious World Fantasy Awards for fantastic fiction were announced over the weekend at World Fantasy Con in Ohio. Here are the winners. Art by World Fantasy winner Charles Vess. This is a definitive list of the nominees and winners, first posted on Tor.com: NOVEL * WINNER: The City & The City by China Miéville…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Check out the first images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie

The first screenshots from The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn have hit the web. Check out Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis as the motion capture incarnations of boy reporter Tintin and boozy sea dog Captain Haddock, respectively. This film adaptation of Hergé’s comic serial, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and co-produced by…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The explosive that became a heart medicine

Nitroglycerin destroys lives by exploding, and saves them by stopping heart problems. How can it do both? Most moviegoers have watched a scene or two where nitroglycerin has been used to blow the doors off of a bank vault. They’ve also seen scenes in which a character with chest pains is urged to take their…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Mark Ruffalo is looking for the lighter side of the Hulk, and could Captain Kirk be the Flash?

The most comprehensive Green Lantern plot summary yet has hit the web… but can we trust it? The most famous X-Man might be cameoing in First Class. Time to celebrate All Spoils’ Day! Green Lantern: Here’s a complete synopsis of the movie, according to an anonymous 4Chan user: >Prologue in which Krona creates the yellow…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

The Walking Dead is ravenously good horror television

The Frank Darabont-directed series premiere of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead debuted tonight on AMC. This opening episode was a solid addition to the undead canon, and the show makes an excellent case for adapting serialized comics for television. Note: Given that this is a recap, it contains spoilers. As we noted in our spoiler-free…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The official Walking Dead series premiere discussion thread!

The Walking Dead premieres tonight at 10 PM EST on AMC. Use this thread for all your rambling, shambling discussions of Rick Grimes’ first adventure, and we’ll have a recap up later this evening. Please be aware that this thread contains spoilers — we’re going with the EST airdate this evening. Apologies, West Coast readers!

Television Cyriaque Lamar

India’s mosquito police scare the crap out of us

This week on cult worship, we’re paying homage to all things spooky. So check out the delightful webseries CO-OP OF THE DAMNED, new werewolf rock anthems, creepy futuristic bug police and a new vampire blood addict. “Lonely Lunch” Music Video Twitch Film has found the latest amazing scifi contribution from the Lost For Words director…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Must be the Season Of Disaster!!!

Welcome Children to the weekly (when I get to it) spooky recap of this week in io9. Enter if you have the guts to face the terror that is… Meh, actually aside from the header image it has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. If anything it’s rather Paul Verhoeven heavy. Which is a good…

io9 GarrisonDean

Dalek pumpkin wants to exterminate your candy

Here’s another incredible cyborg pumpkin to inspire your Halloween envy. A Doctor Who fan spent seven hours crafting a Dalek O’Lantern that will have the neighbors hiding behind the couch. And it’s just as impressive with the lights on. [Planet Gallifrey]

io9 Lauren Davis

Giant carbon buckyballs might have helped bring about life on Earth

Buckyballs are huge molecular conglomerations of carbon atoms in the shape of soccer balls, and it turns out space is absolutely teeming with them. It’s quite possible that life on Earth couldn’t have happened without these wonderfully-named buckyballs. If “buckyball” seems like an unusually silly name, even by scientific standards, at least know that it…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Foxtrot comes up with the scariest Halloween costume of all

In today’s Halloween Foxtrot, Jason Fox knows what keeps him awake at night. Maybe to give it broader appeal, he should give folks a preview of how Jar Jar’s tongue will look in 3D. [Foxtrot via reddit]

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

ESPN 3D Isn’t Making Any Money

Sports helped get HDTV into the mainstream. Fact. It was thought sports would do the same with 3D. Who wouldn’t want to see career-ending helmet-to-helmet hits in the third dimension? A lot of people, actually. ESPN 3D is a flop. We’re now halfway through ESPN’s one-year 3D trial run and nothing’s happening. Money’s certainly going…

Television Jack Loftus

Charles Yu shops with zombies at Wal-Mart

The author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe shares a surprising zombie story for Halloween. A pair of big box store employees find a zombie in their midst, but the encounter doesn’t go as expected. George Romero had his mall in Dawn of the Dead, and Yu has decided to place…

io9 Lauren Davis

Doctor Who DVD extras: Moffat explains the new Daleks, Smith sings the theme tune!

Millions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere had almost no oxygen

Giant prehistoric shrimp had the weirdest mouth of the Cambrian period

2011 Comic Con passes are on sale right now UPDATE

This week’s TV: new Fringe, Eliza Dushku on BBT, and the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror!

A free mixtape of John Carpenter’s greatest soundtracks by Alan Howarth

SNL screens the missing Back To The Future audition tapes, including Al Pacino as Doc

Winners of the 2010 World Fantasy Awards

Check out the first images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin movie

The explosive that became a heart medicine

Mark Ruffalo is looking for the lighter side of the Hulk, and could Captain Kirk be the Flash?

The Walking Dead is ravenously good horror television

The official Walking Dead series premiere discussion thread!

India’s mosquito police scare the crap out of us

Must be the Season Of Disaster!!!

Dalek pumpkin wants to exterminate your candy

Giant carbon buckyballs might have helped bring about life on Earth

Foxtrot comes up with the scariest Halloween costume of all

ESPN 3D Isn’t Making Any Money

Charles Yu shops with zombies at Wal-Mart

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

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