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Amanda Seyfried’s Red Riding Hood has horns!

Catherine Hardwicke’s gothic Red Riding Hood feature is busy filming in Toronto, and someone snapped these shots of the star, Amanda Seyfried, sporting an interesting set of horns. Is this werewolf fighting Red Riding Hood magically inclined? Here’s the latest synopsis: Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 3

Quantum computers could overturn Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

The uncertainty principle is at the foundation of quantum mechanics: You can measure a particle’s position or its velocity, but not both. Now it seems that quantum computer memory could let us violate this rule. The theoretical underpinnings of the uncertainty principle are, like most things to do with quantum mechanics, extremely difficult to follow…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 3

Inception characters try to explain their film, fail

Whether you loved or hated Chris Nolan’s Inception, undoubtedly you left with a few questions. Thankfully, a spoof version of the cast has reformed to answer all your questions. Usually these parodies are pretty cheesy, but this is actually hilarious. Click to view See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. [College Humor via…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 3

First “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” trailer shows off the goblins who live in your walls

The first trailer for the Guillermo del Toro-penned-and-produced horror flick Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark has hit the web. It’s like The Borrowers on crystal meth! Take a good long look at the pint-sized creatures who’re watching you sleep. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (not to be confused with Are You Afraid of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 3

The key to presenting religion in science fiction

People who are interested in seeing science fiction handle religion in a non-kludgey way should check out B.J. Keeton’s essay on the subject. Inspired by Eric James Stone’s “alien Mormons” story in the September Analog, Keeton derives some no-nonsense rules. After reading Keeton’s description of Stone’s story as well as the excerpt up at Analog,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Aug 3

Even more Batman 3 villain speculation! Plus Olivia Wilde’s revealing scene in Cowboys and Aliens…

Three actors Christopher Nolan knows very well are supposedly in contention for the Riddler…but will he be Batman’s only foe? One actor rules himself out as Superman. The X-Men: First Class director wishes Inception was just a dream. Spoilers away! Batman 3: A day may come when we have actual, verifiable news to report about…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 3

True Blood serves vampire burritos at their naked Enya BBQ

Everyone brought their A-game to last night’s True Blood, everyone. Questions were answered, light drinks were served, and Jason was finally back on his idiot A-Game. Small NSFW image. What a night! For the first time in a long time I felt like True Blood managed to keep all the plot points in the air…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 2

Why’s a slacker like Scott Pilgrim such a great hero?

Reviewing Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour is difficult given that the SP sextology’s one of most “either-you-get-it-or-you-don’t” series I’ve encountered. Which is a pity, as it’s a pop gem and Scott’s such an intriguingly crappy protagonist. We’re presently caught in the temporal nexus between the release of Finest Hour on July 20 and the debut of…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 2

Michael Caine explains the multiverse using glowing musical balls

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to explain alternate universes – preferably with glowy spheres that make musical notes when touched? This clip of Michael Caine as Mr. Destiny is the answer to your prayers! In Mr. Destiny, James Belushi is Larry Burrows, an ordinary shmoe stuck in a dead-end job, married…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 2

One brain scan could reveal whether you’re at risk of drug addiction

Having an impulsive personality means that you jump into situations without thinking through the consequences. Now scientists think they can see “impulsiveness” at work in the brain – and it looks a lot like potential drug addiction. In a study published over the weekend in Science, a group of researchers described an experiment where they…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 2

Take the same ethics poll that Manhattan Project scientists did 65 years ago

65 years ago, 250 scientists working on the Manhattan Project were asked how atomic weapons should be used in the war with Japan. Now you can take the same poll, and compare your answers with theirs. For the 65-year anniversary of the poll, whose results were published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, JF…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 2

Did Inception’s costume designer just give away the secret of the movie’s ending?

We all remain mystified by the ending of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. It’s the kind of mind-frak most directors only wish they could pull off. But did the movie’s costume designer just give away the secret of what really happens? Spoilers! New York Magazine’s Vulture blog noticed this telltale exchange in an interview with costume designer…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 2

Mars’s remarkable Bull’s-Eye Crater could hide underground ice

This unusual crater was photographed from 190 miles up by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Craters with multiple rims – the Bull’s-Eye Crater appears to have at least three – aren’t entirely unknown, although we’ve never found one before that’s so small. The ones we’ve previously discovered, such as the Moon’s Orientale Basin, are hundreds of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 2

The whimsical inner city airports that never came to pass

Your average metropolitan airport is on a desolate tract of land far from the city’s center. But that doesn’t mean past urban designers didn’t try to incorporate airfields into cities’ layouts. Here are some fanciful urban aerodromes of yore. John Ptak at Ptak Science Books has done a round-up of past urban airports. Some of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 2

Silicon melts when it gets colder…and that strange fact could revolutionize electronics

It seems like a basic fact of nature: solids melt into liquids as they get warmer. But a few materials melt as they cool down – and that fact could help us make better solar cells and computer chips. Retrograde melting is one of the most counterintuitive phenomena that nature has to offer. Why would…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 2

An incredible 1930s motorcycle that could have inspired Tron’s light cycles

This gorgeous, custom bike was originally built in 1936, and yet it looks remarkably like the ultra-futuristic light cycles we’re going to see in Tron: Legacy. We’ve got a gallery of this cyber-anachronistic bike, which has just been refurbished. The bike also reminds me a bit of Batman’s motorcycle in Dark Knight, though that bike…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 2

Seth Green on his new Star Wars series: “We won’t f—- it up.”

Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are hard at work on the third Robot Chicken Star Wars special, plus a whole new Star Wars series! They told us what to expect, including a joke that overlaps with Family Guy’s third special. https://gizmodo.com/lucas-says-yes-to-star-wars-sitcom-from-robot-chicken-t-5509984 We caught up to Green and Senreich last week, and they talked up the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 2

12,000 years of breeding has fundamentally changed your dog’s brain

Twelve millennia of selective breeding have created hundreds of distinct dog breeds, yet they’re still all one species – even a chihuahua and Great Dane could successfully interbreed. But all those physical changes have deeply altered how dogs’ brains work. Dogs with shorter snouts – in other words, the ones that are the most physically…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 2

Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova shoved back to Fall 2011

What is happening to Steven Spielberg’s time traveling dinosaur drama Terra Nova? First it’s pulled from the Comic Con line-up. Now it’s being pushed back to Fall 2011. A recent press release from Fox broke the news to everyone looking forward to the time-traveling TV series, that we’ll all have to wait another year. Why?…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 2

How to Hack an ATM—With Video!

Computer security expert Barnaby Jack recently demonstrated how to get an ATM to spit money for minutes on end. Jack purchased some ATMs online for his research, and says the tools required to hack them cost less than $100. According to Technology Review: After studying four different companies’ models, he said, “every ATM I’ve looked…

io9 Allison Bond - Discover Aug 2

Amanda Seyfried’s Red Riding Hood has horns!

Quantum computers could overturn Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

Inception characters try to explain their film, fail

First “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” trailer shows off the goblins who live in your walls

The key to presenting religion in science fiction

Even more Batman 3 villain speculation! Plus Olivia Wilde’s revealing scene in Cowboys and Aliens…

True Blood serves vampire burritos at their naked Enya BBQ

Why’s a slacker like Scott Pilgrim such a great hero?

Michael Caine explains the multiverse using glowing musical balls

One brain scan could reveal whether you’re at risk of drug addiction

Take the same ethics poll that Manhattan Project scientists did 65 years ago

Did Inception’s costume designer just give away the secret of the movie’s ending?

Mars’s remarkable Bull’s-Eye Crater could hide underground ice

The whimsical inner city airports that never came to pass

Silicon melts when it gets colder…and that strange fact could revolutionize electronics

An incredible 1930s motorcycle that could have inspired Tron’s light cycles

Seth Green on his new Star Wars series: “We won’t f—- it up.”

12,000 years of breeding has fundamentally changed your dog’s brain

Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova shoved back to Fall 2011

How to Hack an ATM—With Video!

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