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Iran’s flying boat squadron is right out of a James Bond film

Last week Iran unveiled it’s latest (and perhaps greatest) war machine: the open-cockpit flying boat. This terrible creation can command the sea and air and was likely built by a shadowy organization whose name is a sinister acrostic. From the terrifically snarky Economist: The new flying boats are armed with a “machine gun”, a mechanical…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Umbilical iPhones, cyborg tumors, and remote-controlled hearts: the man-machinery of Mio I-zawa

Artist Mio I-zawa’s writhing umbilical iPhone charger fills us with the kind of dread only a David Cronenberg or a Shinya Tsukamoto film can provide. Check out more of his cyborg doodads, like the bio-mechanical tumor and the walkable heart. Here are some more of I-zawa’s body-horrorific cyborg art. The Mechanical Tumor (2008) The External…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Brontides: the large booming noises from out of nowhere

Brontides, deep booming noises without any defined source, are audio cryptids. Have you heard one? Some people call them Barisal Guns, because they are often heard in Barisal, near the Bay of Bengal. New Yorkers also hear them, although they call them Guns of Seneca, after Seneca Lake. Other people call them mistpouffers, or fog…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Death Race 2 trailer promises automobiles combusting, Danny Trejo

The trailer for the direct-to-DVD prequel to Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race has hit the web. The film tells the story of the famed driver Frankenstein’s rise to infamy and features scenes of Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames looking grizzled. The Death Race franchise ain’t high art, but it’s never done me wrong. The Corman…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is Emma Stone the new Mary Jane Watson?

That’s what the rumor is this weekend. Sony is said to be “imminently” offering the Zombieland star the role. This apparently leaves actresses Mia Wasikowska, Georgina Haig, Dianna Agron, and Dominique McElligot in the running to play Gwen Stacy. [Deadline]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

We ask Paul Cornell about Lex Luthor’s “death” in Action Comics and the British Batman

We recently chatted with Doctor Who scribe and DC Comics writer Paul Cornell about his plans for Lex Luthor, London’s premiere crimefighting force Knight and Squire, and what it’s like to work with Neil Gaiman. Cornell’s run on Action Comics has been a hoot and a half. With Superman pounding ground across the continental United…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Case 39 = Bridget Jones goes to Hell: The Ride

It’s a misnomer to call Case 39 a “movie.” No, Case 39 has more in common with amusement park simulators like Star Tours. It simulates the experience of adopting a demonic child by slowly draining the audience’s life force. Spoilers. Case 39 was filmed in 2006, was supposed to be released in the United States…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The short-lived glory days of nude psychotherapy

In 1967, psychologist Paul Bindrim introduced the world to the salubrious properties of naked psychotherapy. Despite the treatment’s somewhat lurid connotations and relative obscurity nowadays, nude psychotherapy did garner its share of press attention, professional consideration, and happy, naked adherents. Bindrim’s theories were inspired by the famed psychologist Abraham Maslow (you know, the fellow with…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Best TV on the Web this Week

We’ve got another awesome week of Internet TV coming at you. We’re most excited about HBO’s Bored To Death but won’t be offended if you get more of a kick out of Stiller and Meara. TV SHOWS Bored To Death: HBO isn’t known for posting episodes online, so it’s particularly tasty that the network decided…

Television Christina Bonnington

Wonderella is the superhero you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy

If Wonder Woman were crabby, selfish, and generally bad at her job, she’d be Wonderella, the boozy “heroine” of The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. She has mommy issues, tells dick jokes galore, rap battles Jesus Christ, and occasionally saves the day. The conceit behind Justin Pierce’s The Non-Adventures of Wonderella is simple: Dana Prince is the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Why does a yo-yo yo?

Find out about the interplay of forces that make a yo-yo bounce. Most of us have spent some time with the string of a yo-yo cutting off the circulation in one finger, trying to get a yo-yo to do tricks. Parents give yo-yos to their kids in fits of nostalgia, and end up regretting it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A manatee munitions factory takes flight

In Roland Tamayo’s paintings, sea creatures find themselves punked out with modern-day technologies, transforming them into the vehicles and weapons of the future. Take a leisurely cruise aboard a humpback sailboat, or face nature’s deadliest weapon: the shark jet. Tamayo’s paintings are currently on display at Gallery 1988. What I want to know is, did…

io9 Lauren Davis

Physicists put on their poker face

String theorists and particle physicists possess skills that also come in handy when playing poker, as it’s a game rife with probabilities and grueling mental calculations. Here, Jennifer Oulette of Cocktail Party Physics talks physicists who are also card sharks. Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her poker face today and for good reason. This morning the…

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5 lesser-known Wonder Woman powers that need to make a comeback

Warner Brothers announced yesterday that they’re making a new Wonder Woman TV series. Sure, she’ll have the lasso, the bracelets, and (hopefully) the invisible jet, but will she have the power to skateboard like a champ? Here are five of Wonder Woman’s superpowers that are all too frequently downplayed. They may be forgotten to time,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The South Edgemere Wasteland of New York City

In the 1920s, South Edgemere in Queens was a thriving summertime destination replete with bungalows and a boardwalk. Nowadays, these 20 or so unused blocks have been abandoned to seaside squatters and gangs of wild dogs. Nathan Kensinger ventured into this wide open space on the edge of New York City. He notes that the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

We’ve seen how things can go awry when we tinker with our planet, but geology is fairly resistant to short-term change. When we screw with ecosystems, however, the chain of effects can be long and extremely unpredictable. Ecosystems are tenuous webs of interconnected species. From the algae at the bottom of the food chain to…

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Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

io9 is home to the popular podcast, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is an interview/talk show hosted by John Joseph Adams, the editor of Lightspeed Magazine and numerous anthologies such as Wastelands and The Living Dead, along with author David Barr Kirtley, who has published short stories in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

Let Me In, the unusual story of a child vampire and the human boy she comes to love, is moody and quiet. It’s a movie whose horror slowly creeps up on you, leaving a profound feeling of disturbance behind. Set in the early 1980s in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the movie is visually swaddled in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

Warner Bros. wouldn’t go for Joss Whedon’s take on Wonder Woman, and the amazon princess’ movie has been stuck in development hell for a decade. But now Warners is developing Wonder Woman for television instead, with David E. Kelley. Yeah, the Ally McBeal guy. Kelley, of course, was also the creator of Chicago Hope, Picket…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

In honor of Banned Books Week, Geekosystem’s Susana Polo looks at 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned, or at least threatened with removal from libraries and schools. Including some major classics of the genre! These titles are among the most popular and beloved science fiction works of the last century. They’ve told…

io9 Susana Polo -- Geekosystem

Iran’s flying boat squadron is right out of a James Bond film

Umbilical iPhones, cyborg tumors, and remote-controlled hearts: the man-machinery of Mio I-zawa

Brontides: the large booming noises from out of nowhere

Death Race 2 trailer promises automobiles combusting, Danny Trejo

Is Emma Stone the new Mary Jane Watson?

We ask Paul Cornell about Lex Luthor’s “death” in Action Comics and the British Batman

Case 39 = Bridget Jones goes to Hell: The Ride

The short-lived glory days of nude psychotherapy

The Best TV on the Web this Week

Wonderella is the superhero you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy

Why does a yo-yo yo?

A manatee munitions factory takes flight

Physicists put on their poker face

5 lesser-known Wonder Woman powers that need to make a comeback

The South Edgemere Wasteland of New York City

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

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