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The Middleman Explains How You’re Being Brainwashed

Miss The Middleman, ABC Family’s show about an upstanding superhero and his apprentice Wendy? Me too. That’s why I dug up this clip of Middleman actor Matt Keeslar explaining just what’s wrong with The Lady And The Tramp, and by extension all stories about bad boys who “change.” True, this scene from The Last Days…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

U.S. Life On Mars Is Just As Skeezy With Dad As With Mom

Time-traveling cop Sam Tyler tries to bond with his dad, and it gets mistaken (understandably) for homoeroticism, in this clip from last night’s Life On Mars. You have to hand it to the American remake of Mars: first, when it remade the Sam-meets-his-mom episode, it came out and brought up the Oedipal thing. And now,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sexy Adventure Pulps That Leap Off the Page

Nothing like an adventure tale of sea monsters and lust to make you feel like the action is leaping off the page and straight into your credulous brain. Photographer Thomas Allen knows that too. He creates these images by carefully cutting book covers apart, posing them, then shooting the results to create a strange, dreamy…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

I Voted for the Lizard People Too!

Minnesota Public Radio has a great feature on contested ballots from the recent U.S. election. Here is everybody’s favorite, which opponents of liberal candidate Al Franken challenged as an “overvote” since the person voted for Franken AND wrote in a vote for Lizard People. [via MPR]

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Too busy building drooling over the aliens from Hunter Prey all week? Don’t worry, we’ve compiled a list of the best stories of the week, just for you. Highlights this week include talking to a vampire-hating drunk from True Blood, a closer look at a 2,900-year-old gravestone and details on how NASA wants us to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant

A man suffering from “locked in” syndrome, where a fully-conscious person is completely paralyzed except for some eyelid movements, is speaking again using a computer. Doctors report in Nature today that he’s using a brain implant to control speech synthesizing software with his mind. Though it is often difficult to tell when somebody with locked…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Saturn’s Atmosphere Is A Modern Art Sensation

This isn’t a newly-discovered Rothko painting or some kind of abstract masterpiece — it’s the atmosphere of Saturn, photographed four different times on the same day. The Cassini space probe used different filters to show the storms in the planet’s atmosphere in different lights. (The color is arbitrary, but gorgeous.) Click to enlarge. It reminds…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Full Frontal Avatar Alien Porn (Maybe NSFW)

More images from James Cameron’s Avatar have turned up online. One image is similar to the Jonay Bacallado concept art we showed you earlier today, but you can see the creature’s feet. (Extraterrestrial foot fetishists, rejoice!) And in another, racier, pic, our alien warrior goddess from the Na’vi tribe goes topless while riding along on…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Life On Mars Travels In Time And Continues For Four More Episodes

Somewhat lost in the midst of the bad Pushing Daisies news was the news that ABC’s time-traveling 1970s lovefest Life on Mars has been confirmed to move behind Lost when the latter show returns on January 21st, and has also picked up an order for an additional four episodes. These two moves make it increasingly…

Television Graeme McMillan

Which TV Shows Are You Actually Watching?

Pushing Daisies is falling off our screens, and many other promising science fiction shows are teetering on the edge of cancellation as well. Blame the Nielsen box, the most fail-ridden technology in history. The networks don’t actually know what you, the real people, are watching, but that doesn’t mean you don’t count. We’re curious —…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Twilight’s Hidden Morality Plays

When will mainstream media stop claiming there’s a “positive” message in the Twilight books that inspired the eponymous teen-bait movie? The Twilight book series is many things, but empowering it is not. The more you examine author Stephenie Meyer’s themes, the more obvious it becomes that her books are a thinly-veiled religious screed against teen…

Books & Comics Kaila Hale-Stern

Easter Eggs In Zack Snyder’s Insanely OCD Watchmen Trailer

The second Watchmen trailer arrived last week, and we’re blown away by the crazy OCD detail that goes into every scene. There have been plenty of comics-to-screen comparisons, but the footage is also littered with Easter eggs and little clues as to the direction of the movie. Spoilers ahead. While traveling down the hallway to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sci Fi Channel Wants to Guilt You Into Watching Crappy Climate Change Movie

As the water levels rise and threaten to cover the Earth, the Catholic Church contracts a father-and-son salvage team to retrieve an ancient, world-saving artifact before it falls into the hands of an evil tycoon. It sounds like the setup for an awesomely bad adventure pulp, but sadly it’s just Lost City Raiders, the latest…

io9 Lauren Davis

Meet The Wife That Han Solo Never Had

If ever there was proof that, despite his protestations, George Lucas really didn’t plan out the entire Star Wars saga in advance, it probably comes in the shape of the discovery that, in 1978, Lucas told co-writers that Han Solo wasn’t destined to end up with Princess Leia… because he was a married man. Married…

Movies Graeme McMillan

In India, Every SF Story Has A Happy Twist Ending

Even as futuristic tech, post-apocalyptic scenarios and alternate histories are gaining more mainstream cred in U.S. publishing, Indian science fiction authors still struggle in obscurity. Science fiction accounts for only about 2 percent of publishing in India, according to a new article, and authors complain of being marginalized. (One big problem? They all write in…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Blame Time Travel For Kirk’s Scarred Psyche

Click to viewBy now, you might have noticed that James Tiberius Kirk is, well… kind of a dirtbag in the new Star Trek movie. He trashes a gorgeous Corvette at age 11, and just gets more obnoxious from there on out. He’s not just cocky like ShatnerKirk, he’s actually irresponsible, where Shatner was sort of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Make Your Own Hellboy Gun

This is the Samaritan gun, the big-barreled shooter that Hellboy uses only after muttering “Ohhh crap.” When you’re fighting elementals or underworld devils, you’ll want one of these at your side. And now you can make one – out of paper. ToyCyte calls our attention to the amazing papercraft design for this gun, which isn’t…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Orangutans and Bonobos Make Art for Charity

Panbanisha is a prolific painter whose works have sold for hundreds of dollars. She also happens to be a bonobo, one of many apes learning language skills at the Great Ape Trust. To raise money for ape conservation work, the Trust is auctioning off paintings created by Panbanisha and the other ape artists-in-residence. Click through…

io9 Lauren Davis

Genetically-Engineered Cows Produce 20% More Milk

In a few years, dairy farmers will be able to order special genetically-modified cows that produce 20% more milk than common cows. Researchers in Argentina have developed a strain of cow that produces extra bovine growth hormone, which apparently leads to the greater milk production. [via SciDevNet]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Captain Marvel To Get Smart At Warners

It looks like The World’s Mightiest Mortal may be making the move to the big screen sooner than expected. Get Smart director Peter Segal has signed a three-year deal with Warner Bros, and is bringing the long-awaited Captain Marvel movie with him. But how soon will we actually hear the word “Shazam!” come back into…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Middleman Explains How You’re Being Brainwashed

U.S. Life On Mars Is Just As Skeezy With Dad As With Mom

Sexy Adventure Pulps That Leap Off the Page

I Voted for the Lizard People Too!

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant

Saturn’s Atmosphere Is A Modern Art Sensation

Full Frontal Avatar Alien Porn (Maybe NSFW)

Life On Mars Travels In Time And Continues For Four More Episodes

Which TV Shows Are You Actually Watching?

Twilight’s Hidden Morality Plays

Easter Eggs In Zack Snyder’s Insanely OCD Watchmen Trailer

Sci Fi Channel Wants to Guilt You Into Watching Crappy Climate Change Movie

Meet The Wife That Han Solo Never Had

In India, Every SF Story Has A Happy Twist Ending

Blame Time Travel For Kirk’s Scarred Psyche

Make Your Own Hellboy Gun

Orangutans and Bonobos Make Art for Charity

Genetically-Engineered Cows Produce 20% More Milk

Captain Marvel To Get Smart At Warners

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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