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Does the Full Moon Really Make People Crazy?

Tonight is the full moon, and according to several scientific studies that means you’re far more likely to be the victim of a crime or creamed in an accident. I’d always assumed it was an urban legend that the full moon coincided with a rise in human weirdness. But some scientists believe there is factual…

io9 Annalee Newitz

An Anarchic Publisher Spawns Books That Fight Authority

Why is Tor Books arguably the most successful science fiction publisher in the world? A new piece in Reason magazine offers two competing explanations. It’s because Tor publishes a lot of books that argue for individual freedom and against government. Or it’s because Tor avoids the editing-by-committee structure of most other publishers, and isn’t fussy…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Einstein Wants To “Deeply Excite” David Tennant In New Trailer

David Tennant dons his science spectacles as British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington and champions wisecracking Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity in the face of anti-German prejudice. The new BBC TV movie “Einstein and Eddington” is penned by Peter Moffat. The movie will air on November 22 on BBC Two.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Global Warming May Have Prevented Super Ice Age

Click to viewSeveral thousand years from now, sheets of ice will cover most of the globe, plunging the Earth into a semi-permanent ice age. At least, that was Mother Nature’s plan. But a new study suggests that global warming caused by carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere may have staved off the most extreme ice…

io9 Lauren Davis

What Star Wars Could’ve Looked Like, A Long Time Ago

Ever wondered what Star Wars was originally going to look like, back when Luke Skywalker still called himself Starkiller? These images from early storyboards for the 1977 movie let us glimpse a time when the Millennium Falcon was half the ship that we’ve come to know and love, Darth Vader wore mittens, and Star Wars…

Movies Graeme McMillan

5 Things I Learned About Women From The James Bond Books

Click to viewDid you know that James Bond has the power to turn lesbians straight? And that lesbians were only gay in the first place because they have the right to vote? We always knew the Bond movies were trashy exploitation fests, but it turns out they’re Gloria Steinem sit-ins compared to Ian Fleming’s original…

Books & Comics Liz Weinbl

Inspector Gadget Turns Ghostbuster – FAIL!

The people creating the new Inspector Gadget series have their franchises crossed. According to their new one-sheet, it’s a show about a “digital detective” who hunts ghosts. WTF? What happened to the evil Dr. Claw, and how can we stop this travesty before it starts? On the plus side, though, it looks like the Inspector…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Aliens Who Can’t Tell Fact From Fiction

When extraterrestrial life forms start monitoring our airwaves, they may get strange ideas about what life on Earth is like. They might think we’ve mastered faster-than-light travel, Laura Roslin is our president, or giant multi-colored puppets walk the streets of New York. In science fiction, aliens frequently mistake fiction for fact, with generally amusing consequences.…

Movies Lauren Davis

The Ultimate Treasure Trove of Human-Alien Love

If you can’t get enough of the scene in Galaxy of Terror where that lady does something nasty with a giant worm, then we’ve got a serious treat for you. There’s an entire fan community out there devoted to recreating the wonders of wormly ravishment, and they’ve stashed a bunch of their creations at a…

Movies Annalee Newitz

28 Somethings Later… But They Won’t Be Zombies

It looks like everything we know about the potential third film in the 28 Days Later series may be wrong, according to new comments from director Danny Boyle. Not only is the film unlikely to be called 28 Months Later, but those things lumbering around like the undead? Totally not zombies. What the hell is…

Movies Graeme McMillan

New Benjamin Button TV Spot Has Baby Brad Struggling With Wrinkles And Women

The latest TV spot for the world’s hottest backwards aging baby is out along with a glowing review from Variety. The back-and-forth around David Fincher’s flick is driving me a bit mad, we’ve heard reports of that BB is confusing and long winded, now we’re hearing that the flick deserves a basket full of Oscars.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

It’s North America – In Space!

Click to viewThe amusing thing about the North America Nebula, which looks vaguely like the North American continent, is that it was named back in the eighteenth century — when America was almost as exotic to Europeans as outer space itself. [via Strange Maps]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Simon Pegg’s Alien Comedy Starts At Comic-Con… Then It Gets Weirder

Simon “Scotty” Pegg is set to star in another science fiction movie, a comedy called Paul directed by Superbad helmer Greg Mottola. Pegg and frequent costar Nick Frost will play two slackers who go to San Diego Comic-Con and then decide to take a road trip to Area 51. There, they meet a small alien…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Del Toro Doing His Two Hobbit Movies in the Style of Matrix Sequels?

Guillermo “Pan’s Labyrinth” Del Toro is switching into high gear on his next project, a two-movie adaptation of The Hobbit. This novel is the prequel to Lord of the Rings, and tells the story of Frodo’s uncle Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit who helped slay a dragon. Though it’s not nearly as epic as LoTR in…

Movies Annalee Newitz

My Own Worst Enemy Canned — Christian Slater Now Free To Make “Alone In The Dark 3”

Poor Christian Slater, just when we were applauding his gainful employment on My Own Worst Enemy NBC has pulled the plug on his split personality show. No more shall we watch the character switcheroo from Henry to Edward, but more importantly now we’ll never know who killed his parents. Sources have told the trades that…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Clone And His Own Corpse Go On A Crazy Road Trip

Movies about cloning usually deal with some kind of identity crisis — it’s inherent in the subgenre — but few of them are as weird, or potentially as profound, as The Clone Returns To The Homeland, a new Japanese film that’s already being compared to Tarkovsky’s Solaris. The story of an astronaut who dies and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Coraline Featurettes Take You Inside Neil Gaiman’s Brain

Neil Gaiman’s had his hand in a lot of Hollywood pots of late. Last year, he co-wrote the screenplay for Beowulf and saw his book Stardust make it to the big screen. But perhaps his most promising film project to date is dark fairytale Coraline, currently getting the stop-motion treatment courtesy of Henry Selick, who…

Movies Lauren Davis

Giant, Deep Sea Sponges Evolved Fiber Optic Exoskeletons

Click to view This gigantic sea sponge has an exoskeleton made of glass rods, and each rod can grow up to a meter in length. In the deep sea, these massive sponges contain a menagerie of other tiny lifeforms, all dependent on their sea sponge hosts for something in short supply far under the water.…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

CEO of Hot Topic Apologizes To Pleather-Clad Twilight Fans

Today in ridiculous Twilight news The CEO of Hot Topic, yes seller of spiky dog collars and other angsty teen wares, has emailed the masses at Twilight fandom headquarters to apologize for ruining the Hot Topic Robert Pattinson Twilight signing in Chicago. Apparently she was afraid of another San Francisco mob scene (they gave out…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Rebel Pilots from Singapore Are on the March

These cool little guys look like super-deformed versions of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, or maybe a hipster Marvin the Martian. Called “rebel pilots,” they’re the latest design from Singapore toy company called Phu!, which is known for using recycled materials. Each rebel pilot comes snuggled in its own little recycled box, complete with a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Does the Full Moon Really Make People Crazy?

An Anarchic Publisher Spawns Books That Fight Authority

Einstein Wants To “Deeply Excite” David Tennant In New Trailer

Global Warming May Have Prevented Super Ice Age

What Star Wars Could’ve Looked Like, A Long Time Ago

5 Things I Learned About Women From The James Bond Books

Inspector Gadget Turns Ghostbuster – FAIL!

Aliens Who Can’t Tell Fact From Fiction

The Ultimate Treasure Trove of Human-Alien Love

28 Somethings Later… But They Won’t Be Zombies

New Benjamin Button TV Spot Has Baby Brad Struggling With Wrinkles And Women

It’s North America – In Space!

Simon Pegg’s Alien Comedy Starts At Comic-Con… Then It Gets Weirder

Del Toro Doing His Two Hobbit Movies in the Style of Matrix Sequels?

My Own Worst Enemy Canned — Christian Slater Now Free To Make “Alone In The Dark 3”

A Clone And His Own Corpse Go On A Crazy Road Trip

Coraline Featurettes Take You Inside Neil Gaiman’s Brain

Giant, Deep Sea Sponges Evolved Fiber Optic Exoskeletons

CEO of Hot Topic Apologizes To Pleather-Clad Twilight Fans

Rebel Pilots from Singapore Are on the March

Sonos Roam 2 Speaker Turns the Amazon Spring Sale into a Black Friday Moment, Now at Its Lowest Price

What Do You Mean Glen Powell Is Fox McCloud in the ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ Movie

This Winter Fly Is Doing Something Scientists Didn’t Think Was Possible

Acer’s Mac Mini M4 Docking Station Drops to an All-Time Low, Supporting Up to 8TB Storage

Sony Is Hiking PS5 Prices for the Second Time in Less Than a Year

This Amazon Smart Plug Deal in the Spring Sale Makes Alexa Smart Home Setup Almost Too Easy and Cheap

Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ Reboot Has Found Its Other Big Star

Anker’s 100W Power Bank Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year on Amazon, Packing 25,000mAh and 3 Ports

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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