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Meet the Unarians, the most awesomely bad UFO cult ever

In the 1980s, the Unarius Academy of Science produced several public access films explaining their belief system, namely that aliens would visit Earth in 2001. These movies were no-budget masterworks. Gird yourself for the most superlative thing you’ll see today. The Unarius Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by the husband-and-wife team of Ernest…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Just You Try and Play Dominoes With Your Fancy Ebooks Now

It may be an ad for Arizona bookstore chain Bookmans, but by gum does it tickle my olfactory senses with imaginary whiffs of all those lovely books falling like dominoes. [Urlesque]

Books & Comics Kat Hannaford

Caprica has been ripped from our bleeding fingers

Troubled Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica has been nuked by Syfy. Not only will the show not be getting a second season, the remaining episodes of this season won’t be aired until next year. Syfy announced that the remaining episodes, starting with the one that would have aired next week, will be shown in early 2011.…

Television Annalee Newitz

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is now officially a legal authority

The wisdom of Spock has guided us all for years, but now it’s enshrined in Texas law. Ruling on the limits of police power, the Texas Supreme Court quoted from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Ruling in Robinson vs. Crown Cork Seal Company (PDF), Justice Don Willett writes: Appropriately weighty principles guide our…

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No Ordinary Family needs to put its heroes in real danger

Yesterday’s episode of No Ordinary Family offered an earthquake-producing superwoman, pregnancy-revealing urine, a ruthless businessman’s cold betrayal, and an innocent man’s life getting destroyed…and the Powell family barely suffered anything more than hurt feelings. Yeah, this is a problem. “No Ordinary Quake” was another tentative step in the right direction for this show. Each week,…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Meet your new alien overlords in the first Skyline clip

Get ready for some alien-on-human violence. The first clip from the Strause Brothers’ extraterrestrial horror film Skyline gives us a sneak peek at the extraterrestrial apocalypse. Here’s the official synopsis: Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Kraken of the Sea and of Our Trembling Fear

Why do we fear the giant squid? Brian Lam of ocean blog The Scuttlefish gets to the dark heart of kraken horror. In 1965, a Soviet Whaler watched an adult squid and sperm whale battle one another, but neither was victorious. The whale was found strangled, and the severed head of the squid was found…

io9 Brian Lam - The Scuttlefish

20 last minute science fiction Halloween costumes

We love Halloween, but we also realize that some readers lack the free time or emotional investment to build a lifesize Power Loader from Aliens. Here are 20 costumes that you can whip up by Halloween weekend. NOTE 1: Some of these costumes are more conceptual than material and thereby require a bit of dramatic…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Oakley wants you to invest $150 in your Tron 3D experience

Sunglasses maker Oakley wants to improve your 3D-viewing experience with their limited edition Tron glasses. They’re designed to eliminate the visual “crosstalk” during 3D viewing, but at $150, you better hope James Cameron keeps making movies. [OhGizmo! — thanks cljohnston108]

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Glee defangs Rocky Horror with cuteness

Last night Glee took us on a strange journey with their G-rated version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. While the cast struggled through the poorly written script, the music, dancing, costumes, and shout-outs were electrifying! The episode started off with a big-lipped bang that made us all want to cry, because we wanted to…

Television Meredith Woerner

Fart collecting and testicle mashing: The grossest jobs in science

Considering a career in science? You know, all those clean labs and shiny white coats? Well consider this: A lot of science jobs are more disgusting than all the Saw movies put together. We round up seven of the grossest. Beetle testicle crusher Do the size of your balls help you find a mate? To…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mind-reading machines could soon record your dreams

A new advance in recording and interpreting brain activity will open the door to machines that could record and play back your dreams. A research team writing in Nature has announced that it has developed a brain-machine interface capable of recording higher level brain activity. Moran Cerf and his team at UCLA have been able…

io9 Lauren Davis

Are you seeing patterns in numbers everywhere? You’re not crazy – it’s Benford’s Law.

Pick any large set of random data you like. Look at the first digit of all the numbers. You’re going to see a lot of ones. It’s not just a coincidence. It’s the law. Benford’s Law was discovered by Simon Newcomb, who was thumbing through a book of logarithmic tables. He noticed that the pages…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Science fiction and fantasy stories that can help you deal with death

Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter and this week’s Doctor Who crossover both served up poignant meditations on death. But fantastic stories often explore the darkest frontier of them all: Here are 12 other great stories to help you to cope with mortality. As Ray Bradbury writes in Fahrenheit 451: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies,…

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Margaret Atwood draws Twitter-based superheroes

What if Margaret Atwood gave up her career as a novelist and turned her attention to drawing superhero comics? She gives us a taste with her drawings of Twitter users as superpowered incarnations of their user names. It all began when Joel Topf — a nephrologist who Tweets as @kidney_boy — recommended Atwood’s Oryx and…

io9 Lauren Davis

This hyper-realistic hospital droid will console you in your last days

Meet the Actroid-F, an emotive android that’s being tested in some Japanese hospitals to observe patients and make them feel comfortable. Who wouldn’t be totally at ease with this happy mechanical mannequin leering over you? From October 14-15, the Tsukuba Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology showed off some of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

James Cameron releasing Avatar 2 in 2014, Avatar 3 in 2015

James Cameron’s made a deal to make the two more Avatar films with Fox. The sequels will be released December 2014 and December 2015, and Cameron will make these self-contained films with original Avatar producer Jon Landau. Said Cameron in a statement to the press: In the second and third films, which will be self…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Batman 3 becomes “The Dark Knight Rises” and kills Riddler rumors

Official Bat-news is breaking, moments after the rumors surrounding the auditions for Chris Nolan’s new female lead. We’ve got the official title, and the scoop on what’s really happening with The Riddler. https://gizmodo.com/christopher-nolan-auditioning-female-leads-for-batman-3-5674331 Hero Complex just broke the news from the director himself that the new Batman movie will officially be called The Dark Knight…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Sample fresh fiction from all over the world

The World SF Blog has started a Tuesday Fiction feature, showcasing stories from all over the world. First up: French author Aliette de Bodard’s fantasy story “Mélanie,” originally published in Realms of Fantasy magazine. Art by Gallegos. [World SF Blog]

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Christopher Nolan auditioning female leads for Batman 3

Christopher Nolan seems to be hard at work casting Batman 3. Just two weeks ago he nabbed Tom Hardy for his final Batman movie. And now he’s reportedly looking for a leading lady — but who will she play? https://gizmodo.com/tom-hardy-cast-in-chris-nolans-batman-3-5663102 Movie Hole is reporting that Nolan has quietly meeting actresses in their late 20s and…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Meet the Unarians, the most awesomely bad UFO cult ever

Just You Try and Play Dominoes With Your Fancy Ebooks Now

Caprica has been ripped from our bleeding fingers

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is now officially a legal authority

No Ordinary Family needs to put its heroes in real danger

Meet your new alien overlords in the first Skyline clip

Kraken of the Sea and of Our Trembling Fear

20 last minute science fiction Halloween costumes

Oakley wants you to invest $150 in your Tron 3D experience

Glee defangs Rocky Horror with cuteness

Fart collecting and testicle mashing: The grossest jobs in science

Mind-reading machines could soon record your dreams

Are you seeing patterns in numbers everywhere? You’re not crazy – it’s Benford’s Law.

Science fiction and fantasy stories that can help you deal with death

Margaret Atwood draws Twitter-based superheroes

This hyper-realistic hospital droid will console you in your last days

James Cameron releasing Avatar 2 in 2014, Avatar 3 in 2015

Batman 3 becomes “The Dark Knight Rises” and kills Riddler rumors

Sample fresh fiction from all over the world

Christopher Nolan auditioning female leads for Batman 3

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