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Play with True Blood’s Vampire King of Mississippi all night long!

You’ve seen the first few True Blood paper doll incarnations including an adorable LaLa rendering and a very naked Sam paper doll. Now check out the latest additions, including Baby Vamp Jessica and the King himself! https://gizmodo.com/dress-your-favorite-true-blooders-in-their-best-sparkly-5337859 Thanks to Andy Swist and Camp Blood for these designs. More dolls at Andy’s site.

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 7

Are you ready for an evil Paul Bunyan movie?

Like any normal human being, you’ve occasionally dreamt aloud, “Gee self, there really aren’t enough films that transform cherished Americana legends into killer psychopaths.” Well, the folks behind the upcoming horror flick Bunyan are making your dreams come true. Bunyan, which is slated for a 2011 release, is directed by Gary Jones and stars Joe…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 7

In the United States, you can buy happiness for $75,000 per year

Social scientists analyzing a massive study of Americans’ emotional well-being and their incomes have discovered how much money it takes to be happy, and it’s roughly $75,000. According to a release from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton analyzed over 450,000 responses to a daily survey of 1000…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 7

First reviews for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan flutter in

No one really knows what to think about director Darren Aronofsky’s genre-bending flick Black Swan. And neither do the first batch of festival reviews of the picture. Critics are calling it everything from Cronenberg-eque to something “approaching grand guignol.” Spoilers… The reviews are in on Black Swan, the film featuring a rapidly unraveling Natalie Portman…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 7

We want you to be an io9 intern this fall!

io9 is looking for interns who are obsessed with science fiction, science, and futurism. This internship is for fall, and lasts from late September until January. Applications are due Sept. 17. An intern works 10 hours per week. Day-to-day, the job involves seeking out story ideas and helping editors gather more data for stories they’re…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 7

Nebula creates perfect spiral around its star

This remarkable image seems to show a perfect spiral in space. It’s created by a neighboring star which is leaking dust and particles, forming a new nebula. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a pre-planetary nebula, designated IRAS 23166+1655, that’s orbiting the star LL Pegasi. Here’s Hubble’s explanation for what’s going on: The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 7

Is this your new Ripley for the Alien prequel?

Is this the new Ellen Ripley? Rumors are starting to spread over an interview that actress Gemma Arterton gave regarding Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel. Will Bond’s oil-coated Quantum of Solace conquest be playing the new Ripley? In an interview with the Sunday Times, Arterton revealed that she was meeting with Scott about the a role…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 7

All the Scott Pilgrim GIFs you’d ever need

Paul Robertson, the lead animator for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, has released oodles of frenetic GIFs from the video game. Check out Kim drumming, Ramona hammer-smashing, and Todd Ingram pulling a Tetsuo from Akira. You can find a whole lot more of these sprites at Robertson’s Livejournal here and here. [Via Super…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 7

Your new Doctor Who catchphrase: “Wibbly wobbly explodey wodey.”

Prepare to watch what might be the silliest Doctor Who skit since the 1980s classic “A Fix With Sontarans.” Yes, sillier than David Tennant on Extras. It’s Matt Smith and the exploding thingy, at the Proms! https://gizmodo.com/worst-doctor-who-spoof-ever-335413 The Proms, incidentally, aren’t something where high school students dress up and dance to a crappy band, then…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 7

Andrew Garfield talks Spider-Man and Never Let Me Go, plus a new gold standard for insane Doctor Who rumors

The new Peter Parker explains why Spider-Man speaks to him, plus how he approached his character in Never Let Me Go. We’ve also got the most blatantly untrue Doctor Who rumor ever, and an update on the Halo movie. Spoilerage! Spider-Man Reboot: New Peter Parker actor Andrew Garfield didn’t reveal any new details about the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 7

Black Swan Photos

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 7

Georges Méliès’ ice giant is still cinema’s coolest monster, almost 100 years later

In his 1912 silent film La Conquête du Pôle (“The Conquest of the Pole”), pioneering French director Georges Méliès introduced audiences to one of the most underrated monsters in movie history — the man-eating ice giant of the North Pole. The film, which is based on Jules Verne’s 1866 novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 6

Enemy Mine: the B-movie that is a parable for absolutely everything

1985’s Enemy Mine is a complex tapestry of heartwarming double-you-tee-eff. Dennis Quad is Willis Davidge, human fighter pilot who hates Draks. Lou Gosset Jr. plays Drak fighter pilot Jerry. Together they teach us to live, love, and laugh. On the surface, Enemy Mine is a mostly forgotten scifi flick with an asexual birth scene and…

io9 C.J. Silva Sep 6

We owe the existence of life on Earth to metals like copper and iron

The origin of life on Earth poses a basic paradox: basic biochemicals like nucleotides and catalysts like proteins need each other to exist, but one must have come first. We may now have an answer, thanks to the transition metals. In order to build complex catalysts like proteins or ribozymes, you first need biochemicals, which…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 6

The best 1970s science fiction music video that never was… until now!

The retro-science fiction music video for Coco Electrik’s Fire features crazy spinning planets, pyramids, spheres from outer space… and deliberately 1970s-looking special effects. The makers of the music video even ran it through a VHS machine for that faded look. According to a really fascinating article in Digital Arts Online, George Tsioutsias and Achilleas Gatsopoulos…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 6

Arctic Technology

Photographer Christian Houge‘s Arctic Technology series offers a look at large-scale scientific installations on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Arctic Technology by Christian Houge” />. As the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco describes the series, several examples of which you see here:There is an island located between Greenland and the North Pole called Spitsbergen or…

io9 Geoff Manaugh - BLDGBLOG Sep 6

A 3-D conversion we can get behind: Terry Gilliam wants Time Bandits 3-D

Here’s talk of a 3-D conversion that’s so curious and unasked for that it should definitely happen — Terry Gilliam wants to convert his 1981 dwarven time-travel flick Time Bandits into 3-D. Let’s make this a reality, folks. Here’s what Gilliam had to say about the proposed conversion: We are in discussions to make a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 6

The most epic and eclectic costumes from Dragon*Con 2010!

Doctor Who, Star Wars, and steampunk ruled the cosplay world at this year’s Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia. But the long weekend had a large mix of costumers of every age. Check out some of the best costumes we came across. There were quite a few female Daleks out and about, but this one took a…

io9 Mary Sep 6

Universal “constant” actually varies with time and space (which could help create a unified theory of physics)

The strength of the electromagnetic interaction, one of physics’s most fundamental constants, is actually very slowly changing, and has different values in different parts of the universe. This amazing find could help us find a grand unified theory of physics. Known as the fine-structure constant and generally represented with the Greek symbol α, this constant…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 6

Watch Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan give a “Doctor Who Masterclass”

Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and co-star Karen Gillan gave a “Doctor Who Masterclass” last week at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, and the video of the whole session is now online. [Media Guardian via BenWerd on Twitter]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 6

Play with True Blood’s Vampire King of Mississippi all night long!

Are you ready for an evil Paul Bunyan movie?

In the United States, you can buy happiness for $75,000 per year

First reviews for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan flutter in

We want you to be an io9 intern this fall!

Nebula creates perfect spiral around its star

Is this your new Ripley for the Alien prequel?

All the Scott Pilgrim GIFs you’d ever need

Your new Doctor Who catchphrase: “Wibbly wobbly explodey wodey.”

Andrew Garfield talks Spider-Man and Never Let Me Go, plus a new gold standard for insane Doctor Who rumors

Black Swan Photos

Georges Méliès’ ice giant is still cinema’s coolest monster, almost 100 years later

Enemy Mine: the B-movie that is a parable for absolutely everything

We owe the existence of life on Earth to metals like copper and iron

The best 1970s science fiction music video that never was… until now!

Arctic Technology

A 3-D conversion we can get behind: Terry Gilliam wants Time Bandits 3-D

The most epic and eclectic costumes from Dragon*Con 2010!

Universal “constant” actually varies with time and space (which could help create a unified theory of physics)

Watch Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan give a “Doctor Who Masterclass”

Two Songs We Really Wish Were the Anime Outros for ‘Steel Ball Run’

AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

Utah Is Giving Dr. AI the Power to Renew Drug Prescriptions

Here’s the Perfect Excuse to See ‘Project Hail Mary’ Again

US Airlines Are Hiking Bag Fees Amid Iran War Oil Crisis

This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch

‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 3 Could Have Done the ‘Voyager’ Sequel Episode of Robert Picardo’s Dreams

Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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