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What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago?

Coal generates nearly half the electricity we use in the United States. We all depend on the fossilized remains of plants — but the vast majority of the coal in the ground comes from a single era, from 360 to 300 million years ago. What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago,…

io9 Tim Barribeau

How Aspirin and Ibuprofen Actually Work Inside Your Body

Poppin’ pills is a sorta magical, sorta scientific method in feeling better. When you get hurt? Pop pills. When you can’t sleep? Pop pills. When you want to get high? Pop pills. But how do those tiny little capsules actually work? This video explains how aspirin and ibuprofen makes your body feel less pain. The…

Tech News Casey Chan

Shooting Challenge: Heat

This weekend I went to Provincetown, MA for a wedding. This shot is taken in the morning at low tide. Olympus Stylus Tough – Jaclyn Breit 5D MarkIII ISO640 f/3.2 1/160 100mm Macro This shot came about on Sunday night. We decided to grill up some corn on the grill and as I was sitting…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Some polite Daleks left this on somebody’s door

They may want to exterminate you, but at least Daleks are decent enough to let you know they’ve come round and missed you. Redditor narfy claims the monstrous cyborgs left this calling card on the doorknob of her friend’s house yesterday morning. Almost makes you wish some Daleks would pay you a visit, doesn’t it?…

Television Robbie Gonzalez

Hide an Entire Rifle Inside Its Waterproof Stock

We’ve already showed you how to properly clean a rifle, but your first line of defense for keeping it in good working order is to just protect it from the elements. And that’s made extra easy with this collapsible version of the AR-7 rifle. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-clean-a-rifle-or-shotgun-faster-than-private-pyl-5919092 It’s actually been in production since 1959, but Henry Repeating…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The 10 Best Futurama Episodes

We’re beyond lucky to have Futurama back for a miraculous seventh season, after all the cancellation scares it’s had over the years. To celebrate the show’s uncanny survival, we’ve rounded up the 10 episodes where Futurama is at its most hilarious, most cosmic, most emotional, and most brilliant. Of course, this isn’t meant to be…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Chrome and Google Drive Are Coming to iOS

Google announced at day two of I/O that Chrome is finally coming to the iPhone and iPad. If you’ve been waiting for the browser you’ll be glad to know you can download it this afternoon. It’s the same Chrome you know and love, including tab sharing, password sync, and incognito mode. It works pretty much…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Louis CK Thinks the Next iPhone Will Be Invisibly Thin And Help You Masturbate Better

Louis CK, noted technology philosopher and independent funnyman, recently gave his thoughts about the iPhone and “the cloud” and it’s just as funny as you’d think. On the iPhone, Louis CK says it’s like having “a pencil that can suck your dick”. https://gizmodo.com/louis-c-k-hates-smartphones-and-so-should-you-5856742 But where it gets awesome—and yes, it gets more awesome than dick…

Tech News Casey Chan

Watch four clips of the magical water city from Beasts of the Southern Wild

Here’s a taste of Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance success story, Beasts of the Southern Wild. We’ve absolutely fallen in love with the water city dubbed “The Bathtub” and all of its seafood-eating citizens. Here’s the synopsis: Faced with her father’s fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Scientists See Star Blasting a Planet for the First Time Ever

Imagine you’re outside, walking happily on a beautiful sunny day. Suddenly, the light gets intense. You look up, and see a bright flash filling everything. Seconds later, a powerful wind starts pushing the clouds out of view at hypersonic speed. Buildings, trees, and people fly away, disintegrating into a billion pieces. Everything around you disappears…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Boba Fett shogun armor is made for chopping your way out of the Sarlacc Pit

Costume designer Allen Amis was so inspired by Clinton Felker’s samurai Star Wars art that he gave Felker’s illustrations of Boba Fett the full cosplay treatment. Click on the above picture for further detail. For a similar throwback armor, see this medieval Batman. Hat tip to Anabel! https://gizmodo.com/samurai-star-wars-characters-out-of-a-movie-too-awesom-5883772 https://gizmodo.com/medieval-batman-armor-turns-you-into-a-dark-knight-lit-5887246 Photo credit: James J.Barnett

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Google Play vs Apple iTunes: Who Wins?

Fortune writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt lays out an interesting argument in his latest piece: the most important competition between Apple and Google isn’t a hardware battle, or OS battle. Whoever wins this war could depend on who has the best digital content store. Obviously having killer apps is important, but no Google is banking on entertainment…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Strangest Wine Bottle In the World Is Also the Most Expensive One

It may look like a nuclear warhead or part of an exotic anti-matter weapon, but it’s actually a bottle of wine—a glass and metal cone containing 750 milliliters (25.3 fluid ounces) of the most expensive wine in the world sold directly from a winery. Made by Penfolds—an Australian vineyard—its name is 2004 Block 42 and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

You Can’t Beat the iPad Just by Losing Money

The most remarkable thing about Google’s Nexus 7 tablet can’t be found on its spec sheet. It won’t show up in any benchmark, and it has nothing to do with that zippy new operating system. If you want to know the true significance of the Nexus 7, all you need to look at is the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Thomas Edison’s car battery is back, and it’s better than ever

In 1901, Thomas Edison developed the recharcheable nickel-iron battery, a technology he hoped to see implemented in electric cars. But a slow rate of energy output and slower charging time saw it superseded by lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries in standard and electric cars alike. Now, more than a century after it was first developed, the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Google Glasses Aren’t Buyable Until 2014. Does that Mean Never?

BMX bikes! Skydiving! High fives! For everyone who was floored by the movie stunt-style debut of Google Glasses yesterday at day one of I/O, well, pump the brakes. They won’t even be consumer-ready until 2014, Sergey Brin told Bloomberg Television. Though devs were able to sign up for a pre-order of the explorer edition yesterday…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Try to Pretend You’re Not a Bad Date

You ask a girl out thinking you’re in for a cheap night of Netflix and second base. But she wants to go out! Take this quick survey and you could win a $100 gift card to AMC theaters. Make her buy the popcorn and you’re actually operating at a profit! To enter, email the final…

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How to cure a hangover — with science!

It’s Saturday night and your drunken conversation has turned to the subject of hangover cures. Unfortunately, this is also probably the time when you are least equipped to separate fact from fiction (and let’s face it, when it comes to talk of hangover prevention, the former is often in woefully short supply). Let the folks…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Do You Still Wear a Watch?

Watches are, for the most part, a redundant technology. We have digital timekeepers in front of our faces pretty much all the time. And yet, the watch still persists—because of tradition, an appreciation for fashion and design, or straight up novelty. So why do you have a watch on your wrist (if you have one…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What It’s Like To Fly A Top-Secret Spy Plane: A Live Conversation With A Badass Pilot

The SR-71 Blackbird remains an icon of American aerospace engineering to this day. Its speed and operating ceiling are unrivaled. However, it did not simply spring forth fully-formed from the head of “Kelly” Johnson—it spent years in development as the A-12 Oxcart being flown by an elite group of Air Force pilots. Colonel Ken “DUTCH…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

What caused the Great Coal Crash of 300 million years ago?

How Aspirin and Ibuprofen Actually Work Inside Your Body

Shooting Challenge: Heat

Some polite Daleks left this on somebody’s door

Hide an Entire Rifle Inside Its Waterproof Stock

The 10 Best Futurama Episodes

Chrome and Google Drive Are Coming to iOS

Louis CK Thinks the Next iPhone Will Be Invisibly Thin And Help You Masturbate Better

Watch four clips of the magical water city from Beasts of the Southern Wild

Scientists See Star Blasting a Planet for the First Time Ever

Boba Fett shogun armor is made for chopping your way out of the Sarlacc Pit

Google Play vs Apple iTunes: Who Wins?

The Strangest Wine Bottle In the World Is Also the Most Expensive One

You Can’t Beat the iPad Just by Losing Money

Thomas Edison’s car battery is back, and it’s better than ever

Google Glasses Aren’t Buyable Until 2014. Does that Mean Never?

Try to Pretend You’re Not a Bad Date

How to cure a hangover — with science!

Do You Still Wear a Watch?

What It’s Like To Fly A Top-Secret Spy Plane: A Live Conversation With A Badass Pilot

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