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The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet

The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil. Godliness is often at odds with a web full of porn and piracy, but it’s usually the pot-clanging…

Tech News Sam Biddle & Katie J.M. Baker

10 Painful Insect Stings, as Measured by Science

Getting stung by a fire ant hurts. Getting stung by a tarantula hawk hurts much, much more. But how much more does it hurt, exactly? And where does something like a honey bee rank on the pain scale? For decades, answers to questions like these have been found by referencing the Schmidt pain index, a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

MacBook Pro Price Drop Signals Imminent Launch

Best Buy has put the MacBook Pro on sale: $100 off every model. If that’s not the clearest sign that the next generation MacBook Pro 2012 is around the corner—perhaps WWDC 2012 on June 11—I don’t know what is. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-generation-macbook-pro-2012-5884734 Most probably, the new beasts will have a new design with Retina-ish displays powered by…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Simple Bicycle Is Surprisingly Complicated to Manufacture

This 1945 documentary on the British Film Council’s Vimeo takes you step by step through the process of manufacturing a steel Raleigh bicycle. The old bikes you see hipsters riding down the street are much more likely to be ten speeds from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. But it’s pretty remarkable how refined bikes were…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How Private Is Your DNA?

Unlike the contents of your inbox, bank statement, or Facebook timeline, your DNA quite literally defines you. It’s strange, then, that in an age where sequencing the genome is becoming trivial, we don’t give a second thought about the privacy issues surrounding the chemicals that make us who we are. https://gizmodo.com/the-dna-sequencing-thumb-drive-5886524 In fact, most states…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

What to call those weird stairs that lead nowhere on the side of your building

I love this strange, meandering little video from 2009 about pieces of the urban landscape that appear to serve absolutely no function whatsoever. Artist Akasegawa Genpei decided to do an art project devoted them. He dubs these items “Thomassons,” and it’s worth watching his video to find out why. He’s also published an art book…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is This the Most Incompetent Photoshopped Propaganda Ever?

Look at this joke of an image. It’s so stupidly absurd that either the Chinese government photoshoppers didn’t really give a f*ck about it or they are the most incompetent Photoshop operators in the planet. It’s even more absurd when you consider the nature of the image: officials inspecting a landscaping project. Why did they…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A sneak peek at Enormous, a giant monster graphic novel from Image Comics

Courtesy of Image Comics, here’s a preview of Enormous, an upcoming graphic novel about massive fauna — such as creatures who appear to be mutated antelopes — suddenly appearing to grind civilization into paste. This 64-page oversized survival horror comic hits stores on July 5, and we’ve got an exclusive sneak peek. Here’s the rundown:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Lies You’ve Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch

You’ve probably heard of the “Pacific garbage patch,” also called the “trash vortex.” It’s a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Study Confirms That Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Really Do Go Together

How many times did you hear your parents yell at you to “turn down that racket” as you blasted songs from your speakers? Turns out, they had a few reasons—a new study has found that kids that spend a lot of time listening to loud music are more likely to smoke weed, binge drink, and…

Health Leslie Horn

Organize Your Life So You Can Actually Live It

Between work responsibilities and personal responsibilities, life can be incredibly stressful. Add to that all the bills you have to pay, and simply remembering to pay those bills, and it’s enough to get you daydreaming about fleeing the country to some remote island—not that you have time to daydream. You don’t just need a tool…

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This Is How the Navy Is Building Their New Nuclear Supercarrier Class

This is the Gerald R. Ford aircraft supercarrier. She will be the lead ship of the new class that will eventually replace the Nimitz-class supercarriers. She is also the first carrier to be entirely designed using three-dimensional modeling software. The video shows how Huntington Ingalls’s Newport News shipyard is building it, from keel-laying to launch.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Week’s TV: The Most Epic Game of Thrones Episode of All

This coming week’s episode of Game of Thrones could be one of the most lavish, insane spectacles ever put on television, and we’ve got all the details here. Other reasons not to throw out your television set: Awake’s finale features the meeting you never expected. Plus a brand new TV movie about a “Super Shark”…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer, composed entirely as old school video games

After releasing OK Computer, an album about technological malaise at the close of the 20th century, Radiohead released the spartan and sterile Kid A, an LP even more devoted to alienation. https://gizmodo.com/top-10-albums-every-self-respecting-science-fiction-fan-5906189 And in a charming retro turn, composer Quinton Sung has transformed Kid A’s dystopian soundscapes into the background music for an Atari game.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Unspeakable Tragedy: $320 Million of Cheese Destroyed in Italian Earthquake

On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage—and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least $320 million, have been destroyed. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-an-earthquake-5890488 The region, just north of the city of Bologna, is most famous for…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The first female aeronaut inspired the Mile High Club in 1784

You’d probably guess, if asked, that the first Mile High Club members were those dashing stunt pilots of the 1920s, who did things like play tennis on the wings of a plane. You’d be off by a century and a half. As soon as the very first woman took to the skies, people started having…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why Facebook’s Tanking Today

The stock is falling! The stock is falling! If you stopped following the Facebook IPOcalypse on Friday, it might be time to pull up another chair. FB has plummeted 12 percent as of this writing, with no signs of pulling out of its nosedive. Ruh roh. But don’t worry! There’s a perfectly good explanation for…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Baseball Gloves with MLB Players’ Twitter Handles Are So Very Useless

Because professional athletes use Twitter to communicate with their fans (somewhat true), follow hot girls (very true) and show off how interesting and well-rounded they are (rarely true), sports leagues have decided to use players’ Twitter handles as a gross promotion vehicle. It’s even invaded the teensiest of details: baseball batting gloves. https://gizmodo.com/nba-t-shirts-with-players-twitter-handles-are-so-very-s-5897800 How useless…

Tech News Casey Chan

Detailed Graphic Shows Every British Navy Ship Lost In World War II

I just love these old school visualizations: here are all the ships lost by the British Navy during World War II. Many of these were hunt down by Nazi U-Boats. It’s a staggering amount but it could have been a lot worse. Thankfully, the good guys cracked the Nazi Enigma encrypting machine and, as a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The vast, abandoned salt mines that lurk beneath Detroit

Over 1,000 feet beneath the city of Detroit is a 1,500 acre sprawl of tunnels created by salt miners at the turn of the twentieth century. Over at Environmental Graffiti, there’s a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Detroit as the great city of salt production. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, Detroit’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet

10 Painful Insect Stings, as Measured by Science

MacBook Pro Price Drop Signals Imminent Launch

The Simple Bicycle Is Surprisingly Complicated to Manufacture

How Private Is Your DNA?

What to call those weird stairs that lead nowhere on the side of your building

Is This the Most Incompetent Photoshopped Propaganda Ever?

A sneak peek at Enormous, a giant monster graphic novel from Image Comics

Lies You’ve Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch

Study Confirms That Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Really Do Go Together

Organize Your Life So You Can Actually Live It

This Is How the Navy Is Building Their New Nuclear Supercarrier Class

This Week’s TV: The Most Epic Game of Thrones Episode of All

Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer, composed entirely as old school video games

Unspeakable Tragedy: $320 Million of Cheese Destroyed in Italian Earthquake

The first female aeronaut inspired the Mile High Club in 1784

Why Facebook’s Tanking Today

Baseball Gloves with MLB Players’ Twitter Handles Are So Very Useless

Detailed Graphic Shows Every British Navy Ship Lost In World War II

The vast, abandoned salt mines that lurk beneath Detroit

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