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What if the Hardy Boys went to school with Mystery Inc?

John Allison’s latest webcomic Bad Machinery revolves around two rival groups of friends who solve supernatural mysteries. But amidst the soccer curses, toddler-eating beasts, and magic pencils, they have to survive grammar school. Bad Machinery is a follow-up to Allison’s earlier webcomics Scary Go Round and Bobbins. Like Allison’s earlier comics, Bad Machinery takes place…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Zack Snyder’s owl movie is a hoot (OH I WENT THERE)

Thanks to a title that was seemingly lifted from Finnegans Wake, I initially had no idea what Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole was about. But now I do. It’s about owls. Like, a metric shit-ton of owls. More precisely, it is about owls who are apparently committed to reenact Snyder’s sword-and-sandals blockbuster…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

How to fossilize yourself for future generations

Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails. There are all kinds of burial plans available to people. You can be buried in a plot, mummified in a mausoleum or cremated and shot…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Japanese Star Wars prints offer more tentacles

George Lucas was influenced by Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies — so what might Star Wars look like if it were set in feudal Japan? Artist Steve Bialik reimagines everyone from Admiral Ackbar to Boba Fett as a Japanese woodblock print. Bialik is currently offering prints from his “Ninja Star: Wars” series for sale — $15…

io9 Lauren Davis

The many meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s

What does “Uh(m)” mean? Professional linguists from a selection of highly respected international academic institutions have pondered the question in detail over the years, but now a new paper goes considerably further towards consolidating the answer(s). From Emanuel A. Schegloff, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles: “The underlying theme…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research

Kaiju woman maintains civilian surveillance in Tokyo

Tokyo officials have devised a novel approach to crime prevention: a giant unblinking she-golem that discreetly records citizen’s activities. Street crime in the Shinjuku has dropped 1000%, as the threat of Big Sister coming to life has scared away ne’er-do-wells. Actually, this massive inflatable sculpture is an advertisement for a Panasonic camera. The subject is…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Mad Scientist Smackdown: Sudden Death Edition!

If there’s one thing mad scientists know how to do, it’s change the rules. So we’re changing our Mad Scientist Smackdown around to give you four contests of scientific bugfuckery. Who will be Sunday’s ultimate victor? You decide! Here are your four contests. Tomorrow we’ll whittle them down to two, and then on Sunday, there’ll…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

And you thought Fringe couldn’t get any creepier…

Fringe has beamed some pretty ooky science onto your retinas over the past couple of years — but last night’s season premiere was likeliest to make your skin crawl. Turns out that both Walter Bishops like to experiment on Olivia. Spoilers ahead… There’s something so horrifying about the idea of someone losing their identity, which…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 2: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Humans can rearrange the shape of our planet almost as easily as the furniture in your living room (or the deck chairs on the Titanic). Of course, it doesn’t always work out as planned. A lot of Earth terraforming is a simple matter of moving water to places where there was no water, and moving…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

The most ludicrous depictions of evolution in science fiction history

At its best, science fiction can help people better understand science, explaining new ideas and theories in the context of a thrilling, gripping story. And then there are these 10 utterly ridiculous stories about evolution. 1. Star Trek There are a bunch of examples of Star Trek’s often dubious grasp on the basic tenets of…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins

How to attend Fantastic Fest without getting stuck in a coffin

Fantastic Fest in Austin has become the premiere US film festival for genre films. For opening night, they buried people alive. Now they’re unleashing dozens of new films, from thrillers to scifi. What are you missing at Fantastic Fest? From September 23rd through September 30th, genre movie fans gather at the Alamo Drafthouse and the…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

20 mad scientists who turned against their creations

The greatest mad scientists dabble in forces that… wait for it… man (or woman) was not meant to meddle with. And many of them live to regret it. Here are 20 mad scientists whose journeys ended in remorse and despair. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley) Pretty much the moment that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

“Sharktopus” is the “Inception” of giant monster movies

Tomorrow night, at last, you’ll be able to witness the glory that is Syfy original movie Sharktopus. We’ve seen it, and now I understand why this CGI monstrosity represents (awesomely) the end of culture as we know it. Shark + octopus + cybernetic implants + knives I don’t want to bore or spoil you with…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Titanium foam could make your bones as strong as Wolverine’s

It’s not quite an adamantium skeleton, but new titanium foam could revolutionize bone implants. The material can integrate with the patient’s natural bone, reducing the stress on both the original bone and the implant and making the overall skeleton stronger. Currently, bone implants use solid metal, most often titanium. These integrate well with the body’s…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How to build a brain with neural networks

When training a future robot overlord, you want it to learn to make complex decisions. No one likes an android whose only call is ‘shoot it.’ Neural networks allow problem solving, prioritizing, and hopefully mercy. There’s a midnight showing of the next Twilight movie in a theater on the other side of town, and you…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What’s Worth Watching on the Web this Week?

Clicker.com is back again with the definitive guide to this week’s Web programming. Nearly every broadcasting network is posting their premieres online shortly after they air now, but we’re most excited about Louis CK’s stand-up movie Hilarious. TV SHOWS The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret: Any Arrested Development fans in the house? David Cross…

Television Christina Bonnington

The thing I couldn’t say to Mr. Spock’s dad

Vonda McIntyre, author of beloved Star Trek novels like The Entropy Effect, tells us the story of how she met Spock’s dad – and what she was too embarrassed to tell him. Photo by Peter Meimon Despite having done quite a bit of media tie-in work, I haven’t been in the habit of attending media…

Books & Comics Vonda McIntyre

First look at Alicia Silverstone’s vampire comedy, from the director of Clueless

Do we really need another vampire movie? If it’s a ridiculous AbFab-style comedy from the director of Clueless, then maybe yes. Check out Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two beautiful vamps… who were turned by vampire queen Sigourney Weaver. Sadly, there are no pics of Weaver in this set, but the shots of Silverstone…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New “sizzle reel” shows the scale of The Walking Dead’s violence and desolation

We’ve never seen a television series like The Walking Dead, with its huge cinematic zombie battles and its darkly disturbing personal moments. Check out a new behind-the-scenes “sizzle reel” from the AMC series. The Walking Dead will be bringing some new footage to New York Comic Con, and will premiere on AMC next month.

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists prove that playing Beer Pong causes you to drink a lot of alcohol quickly

From the annals of “I didn’t need science to tell me that was true” we have yet another experiment undertaken purely because scientists like drinking games. To understand the true meaning of Beer Pong, a group of researchers substituted water for beer (which seems to me to undermine the integrity of the experimental conditions but…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What if the Hardy Boys went to school with Mystery Inc?

Zack Snyder’s owl movie is a hoot (OH I WENT THERE)

How to fossilize yourself for future generations

Japanese Star Wars prints offer more tentacles

The many meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s

Kaiju woman maintains civilian surveillance in Tokyo

Mad Scientist Smackdown: Sudden Death Edition!

And you thought Fringe couldn’t get any creepier…

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 2: The Law of Unintended Consequences

The most ludicrous depictions of evolution in science fiction history

How to attend Fantastic Fest without getting stuck in a coffin

20 mad scientists who turned against their creations

“Sharktopus” is the “Inception” of giant monster movies

Titanium foam could make your bones as strong as Wolverine’s

How to build a brain with neural networks

What’s Worth Watching on the Web this Week?

The thing I couldn’t say to Mr. Spock’s dad

First look at Alicia Silverstone’s vampire comedy, from the director of Clueless

New “sizzle reel” shows the scale of The Walking Dead’s violence and desolation

Scientists prove that playing Beer Pong causes you to drink a lot of alcohol quickly

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