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Why are American heads getting bigger?

Americans shouldn’t let this go to their heads — but recent forensic research suggests that their heads are getting bigger. National Geographic recently reported the discovery that skulls of white Americans have significantly increased in size since 1825, allowing for a tennis ball’s worth of new brain. But why? Scientists are stumped. To make this…

io9 George Dvorsky

Everything you need to know about butts, farts, and Japanese water imps

Of all the ways to die, the most ignominious demise is having a kappa — or a Japanese demon — pull a magical orb out of one’s asshole. You can repel the beasts with a burst of powerful flatulence, but you must be certain that your fragrant blast is muscular enough to bowl them over…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Gross Piece of Crap May Be the Key to a New Technological Future

Look at this piece of disgusting crap. It looks like something you could find in a clogged bathroom sink drain after not cleaning it for a decade. But as gross as it looks, it may be the key to our technological future. It’s a living sponge. Or something like that. But it’s alive. Kind of.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

So Many Stones Fell in Last Night’s Freak Hail Storm, They Flooded This Denver Intersection

A Class 3 Kill-Storm tore through the greater Denver area last night, knocking down trees with heavy winds and rain, demolishing vehicle windshields with golf ball-sized hail, and no less than six separate tornado sightings. Welcome to June in our new globally warmed future! [Buzzfeed – Image: @CrazyJon85 / weather.com]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Apple’s New MacBook Air Wedge Design Patent Could Destroy Ultrabooks. Sigh.

Apple has been awarded a patent for the wedge design of the MacBook Air. The definition of the design is broad enough to cover many ultrabooks, extending Apple’s apparent ownership of black rectangles to thin, vaguely katana-like triangles. The design is defined by the solid lines in the patent drawings—the dotted lines are what Apple…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Most Adorable “Monster Martial Arts Training Montage” You’ll Watch This Week

Check out an exclusive clip from Saturday’s brand new episode of Kaijudo, the show about kids who fight using monsters. (Kaiju + Judo = Kaijudo. Geddit?) It’s surprisingly cute, especially when they all try to command the lethal firebird creature, using their energy gauntlets and soul power and stuff. I’m pretty much a sucker for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

These Space Orbit Videos Just Keep Getting More and More Amazing Every Single Time

I thought I was tired of these space videos, but this one feels quite different from the many ones I’ve seen before. It may be the way it’s framed and cropped, or the post-processing, or the whimsical Moby soundtrack, or everything combines, but it left me in awe once again. The video was created by…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Great Scott! It’s a Flux Capicator chest tattoo!

Yes, that is a real life Back to the Future Flux Capacitor tattoo. Now all he needs to do is get up to 88 Miles Per Hour and he can send those nipples back to the future! Well done. [Fuck Yeah Tattoos via Fashionably Geek]

Movies Meredith Woerner

The World’s Thinnest LTE Chip Will Make Your Next 4G LTE Device Less Fat

4G LTE devices are usually a bunch of fatties because the size of 4G LTE modules is ginormous (relatively, at least). Sometimes that tradeoff is too much! But it looks like things are a-changin’ because Sierra Wireless just introduced the world’s thinnest 4G LTE module at 2.5mm skinny. The anorexic AirPrime EM7700 will only work…

Tech News Casey Chan

America was bombed 1,000 times during World War II

Among the lesser known weapons used in World War II were airborne bombs, that drifted across the ocean like flying jellyfish. They were known as fugo, or fire balloons, and they were the only successful attack on the mainland United States. Top image: Steve Lacy/Flickr.com. Drifting across the skies above the Pacific Ocean, during 1944…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

An NYC Staircase a Giant Could Climb—And You Can Live In

The Mercedes House is a 30-story residential building under construction in New York City. With steps heading towards the sky, it’s the closest we’ve gotten to a real-life Stairway to Heaven yet. Conceived by Ten Arquitectos, it’s set to be open later this summer. The winding design bathes each of the 865 units in the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This is what 200 tons of sardine carcasses look like

Yes, you read that correctly — 200 TONS worth of dead sardines. That’s how many fish are believed to have washed ashore in Japan’s Isumi City since June 3rd. Even more disconcerting? Nobody’s really sure what’s causing the massive die-off. Some outlets are reporting that the fish died due to lack of oxygen; but while…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Hydroponics Island Lets You Secretly Grow All Kinds of Herbs In Your Kitchen

There is nothing like cooking or ‘baking’ with fresh ‘herbs’, but if you live in an apartment perched high above the city, you probably don’t have room for a garden. Unless you can find space for Peter Buley’s kitchen island which hides a secret hydroponics garden. Inside its lovely white-washed maple exterior you’ll find a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

We’re breaking our planet once and for all, warn scientists

A report just published in Nature by a group of 22 international scientists warns that human activity is quickly pushing the planet to a tipping point, after which time the Earth’s ecosystem will suffer a rapid and irreversible collapse. What’s worse: They suggest we’re nearly there. By using recent scientific theories, ecosystem modeling, and paleontological…

io9 George Dvorsky

Did You Know That You Can Hear the Big Bang Using Any Old Radio or TV?

Here’s a really cool science factoid: if you turn any old radio or TV that is not tuned to any station, a percentage of that white noise you hear is the sound of the Big Bang, the moment of the creation of the Universe. Here’s a cool video that explains it all.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How to Have a Near Death Experience

Nobody knows what happens to us after death — but plenty of people believe they’ve had a sneak peek. As doctors get better and better at resuscitating people who have reached death’s door, the number of people who report having a Near Death Experience (NDE) has gone way up. One in 20 people in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Lens Explained: Telephoto vs. Wide-Angle

Talking to a typical camera geek can be like trying to communicate with someone in a secret code. Sure, you understand “say cheese” and “smile for the birdie,” but when you’re on the hunt for new camera gear, you need to be able speak their language. That’s why Gizmodo has teamed up with Tamron to…

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America F*ck Yeah!

Here’s the Enterprise travelling the Hudson—from New Jersey to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City—while the NYPD guards it and the Statue of Liberty watches over the scene in a dramatic backdrop. [NASA]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Group of jumping spiders attacks people in India

If you were thinking of getting out of bed this morning, go ahead and think again. It seems that — in behavior previously unknown to any kind of arachnid — a group of spiders has been attacking people in India. A swarm of spiders began attacking people at a recent Hindu festival. The festival, held…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The World needs an International Asteroid Warning System

Here’s a hypothetical scenario: a mountainous asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. The world’s governments are scrambling to notify their citizens. What country (countries?) should take charge? Where should people turn for instructions on how best to prepare for the impending impact? How will notifications and updates be organized and distributed? As far as we know,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why are American heads getting bigger?

Everything you need to know about butts, farts, and Japanese water imps

This Gross Piece of Crap May Be the Key to a New Technological Future

So Many Stones Fell in Last Night’s Freak Hail Storm, They Flooded This Denver Intersection

Apple’s New MacBook Air Wedge Design Patent Could Destroy Ultrabooks. Sigh.

The Most Adorable “Monster Martial Arts Training Montage” You’ll Watch This Week

These Space Orbit Videos Just Keep Getting More and More Amazing Every Single Time

Great Scott! It’s a Flux Capicator chest tattoo!

The World’s Thinnest LTE Chip Will Make Your Next 4G LTE Device Less Fat

America was bombed 1,000 times during World War II

An NYC Staircase a Giant Could Climb—And You Can Live In

This is what 200 tons of sardine carcasses look like

Hydroponics Island Lets You Secretly Grow All Kinds of Herbs In Your Kitchen

We’re breaking our planet once and for all, warn scientists

Did You Know That You Can Hear the Big Bang Using Any Old Radio or TV?

How to Have a Near Death Experience

The Lens Explained: Telephoto vs. Wide-Angle

America F*ck Yeah!

Group of jumping spiders attacks people in India

The World needs an International Asteroid Warning System

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