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Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?

On the auction block at Bonham’s last week were two strange items: a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from the dawn of the universe (left), and two chunks of fossilized dinosaur poop (right). Which do you think sold for the most money? Weirdly, it was the dinosaur poop, a relatively common item among fossil hounds that normally…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

Here’s the moment where I decided I was actually getting to like brassy comedian Catherine Tate as the new traveling companion for Doctor Who’s quirky time-traveler. Yes, she’s not nearly as clever as Martha Jones, my number one hero, but that makes her heroics, when they happen, more exciting and suspenseful. I actually felt a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

Greetings, spoiler-freaks! We’ve trawled through the Internet and found out details about Iron Man 2 and Batman 3, and we’ve found an Indiana Jones TV spot with some new footage. And there are a bunch of new details (and some rumors) about the future of British time-traveling soap-com Doctor Who. We also dredged up more…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is It Right That the U.S. Government Spends More on the Digital TV Switch Than Literacy Education?

To be honest, I can’t say that I am surprised to hear that the government has allocated $1.5 billion to inform 17 million citizens about the digital TV transition. After all, those uninformed few would undoubtedly take up arms if they missed out on sports broadcasts and NBC’s Thursday lineup. However, I was a little…

Television Sean Fallon

Clubs of the Future with Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, and Crazy Outfits!

I dare you to name a movie sillier than Freejack, a gooftastic flick from 1992 with Mick Jagger as a futuristic bounty hunter (in the year 2009!) who grabs people from the past and sells their bodies to dead rich people whose minds are stored in a giant mainframe. Too bad he messes with race…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Terminator 4’s PG-13 Rating Will Mean More Dumb Explosions

First they gave us a sub-standard Teminator (T-X) that kicked 75% less ass than Terminator 2’s T-1000. Then they added Claire (Shopgirl) Danes to the equation, and the result, T3, was a poor person’s Terminator 2. The only thing that kept hope alive was the promise that Christian Bale would blow us all away as…

io9 Meredith Woerner

21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Click to viewEver since the first cheesy monster or goofy robot leered out from the cover of a pulpy magazine, science fiction has struggled to shake off a certain tinge of campiness. No matter how hard creators may try to tell cool stories, that slightly ironic silliness is always lurking just outside the frame. And…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Tremble and Cry Out — These Orgasm Weapons Are Unstoppable

What is the most devious and unstoppable weapon throughout space and time? No, it’s not the Doomsday Device or Death Star — it’s a weapon that delivers orgasms. Whether they mind-control you with lust or cripple you with knee-buckling climaxes, the orgasm-inducing weapon of the future will be powerful indeed. We’ve already told you about…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Are Spy Movies Science Fiction?

We don’t talk much about the cloak-and-dagger genre here at io9. We haven’t touched on the new James Bond movie, despite the scifi-sounding title (Quantum Of Solace.) We’ve barely even talked about Get Smart. (We did celebrate the history of James Bond’s scifi plots, including Moonraker’s fantastic space battle. But we’re up in the air…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

It’s All Super-Soldiers And Gods In Upcoming Marvel Movies

Between mecha-fighter Iron Man’s second movie, coming in April 30, 2010, and military-sponsored super-soldier Captain America, coming May 6, 2011, Marvel Comics’ upcoming movie slate has a very militaristic feel. But where’s the peaceful shrinking scientist Ant-Man, who communicates with ants? Apprently his movie’s on hold, so we can get Norse god Thor’s movie, directed…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Incoming! Earth’s Due for a Massive Comet Impact

It’s high time Earth got smacked with a comet. These firey globs of doom tend to come in cycles, raining down on our planet about once every 36 million years. Using a computer simulation of how our solar system moves through the Milky Way, astrobiologists at the UK’s Cardiff University found that we pass through…

io9 Michael Reilly

In the 1970s, You May Wear Your Phone – Thanks to Radiation! (1960)

All those vintage “How We’ll Live In The Future” articles rarely mentioned anything that could be construed as a cell phone. Microwave ovens, yes; online shopping, yes—but not the now ubiquitous cell phone. This 1960 ad for Radiation, Incorporated (yes, they’ve changed their name since then) is an exception—and it touches on GPS technology, too.…

io9 Lynn Peril

Zorg Gun on Mythbusters?

At the Maker Faire in San Mateo, California over the weekend, imaginative geeks came from all over the world to share their weird projects involving everything from robots to DiY helicopters. One project that got my attention was something mentioned by Adam “Mythbusters” Savage in a presentation he gave yesterday. Apparently, he’s been working for…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New America Revolts Against The USA

In the 22nd century, there’s a new America, on a new planet 50 light years away, and the colonists are planning another American Revolution. That’s the premise of the Sci Fi Channel’s next backdoor pilot, Revolution, which could make for an absorbing series, with challenging political issues and a hardscrabble alien planet. (Or it could…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

See Wall-E’s Robo-Love Story Unfold

New HD Wall-E pictures let you into the robot hero’s little metal heart. Among the new stills is a closer look into the decor of Wall-E’s bachelor pad, complete with stuffed large mouth bass, more frames of space-atrophied humans, and more clues as to how Wall-E copes with robot depression. Gallery after the jump. [Slashfilm]

io9 Meredith Woerner

It’s Like Prison Break… But In Space!

Warner Bros. has optioned a new movie called The Ditch — but its premise sounds a bit more promising than its title. Written by music-video/documentary producer Sascha Penn (Chapelle’s Block Party), The Ditch is about a prison on one of Jupiter’s moons, housing the worst of Earth’s criminals. A prison guard’s family is held hostage…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Curator Forced to Kill Out-of-Control Bio-Art Exhibit

Click to view The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Crystal Skull Will Be Kinkiest Indiana Jones Yet

Indiana Jones will have a bit of a crisis of confidence at the start of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, in which he’ll question his place in the universe. It’ll be a moving and tragic meditation on aging, worthy of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. How do I know…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Dark Knight Trailer Shows Why Batman Is Still The Best Superhero

Jesus may think that Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever, but those of us who don’t go ga-ga for goatees know better. This latest Dark Knight trailer shows exactly why Batman’s second adventure (yes, second, since those first few movies don’t count) will be the best superhero movie this summer. Hell, it might…

Movies Jason Chen

First Images From Cloverfield 2?

Some new viral marketing for the long-awaited (since January, anyway) Cloverfield 2 has trickled out — unless it’s just a red herring. A viral site released these underwater monster photos. Look closely and you can see crooked-legged monster/aliens running about on (what appears to be) the sea floor. The pictures accompanied a government-esque blacked out…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

Is It Right That the U.S. Government Spends More on the Digital TV Switch Than Literacy Education?

Clubs of the Future with Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, and Crazy Outfits!

Terminator 4’s PG-13 Rating Will Mean More Dumb Explosions

21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Tremble and Cry Out — These Orgasm Weapons Are Unstoppable

Are Spy Movies Science Fiction?

It’s All Super-Soldiers And Gods In Upcoming Marvel Movies

Incoming! Earth’s Due for a Massive Comet Impact

In the 1970s, You May Wear Your Phone – Thanks to Radiation! (1960)

Zorg Gun on Mythbusters?

New America Revolts Against The USA

See Wall-E’s Robo-Love Story Unfold

It’s Like Prison Break… But In Space!

Curator Forced to Kill Out-of-Control Bio-Art Exhibit

Crystal Skull Will Be Kinkiest Indiana Jones Yet

New Dark Knight Trailer Shows Why Batman Is Still The Best Superhero

First Images From Cloverfield 2?

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