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Nepal’s most mysterious language might soon disappear

Kusunda is one of the most enigmatic languages on the planet. This tongue from western Nepal looks nothing like any other language, and its strange structure baffles linguists. And there’s only one person left in Nepal who speaks it. Kusunda is an example of a language isolate, meaning a language with no known relative. Of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The genes behind human intelligence also made us vulnerable to autism

The exact genetic roots of autism are still being untangled, but we do know that the most common single-gene causes of the condition is Fragile X syndrome, in which errors on the X chromosome trip up normal neural development. Specifically, Fragile X syndrome prevents the production of a crucial protein known as FMRP. This particular…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Father Jumps Out of Moving Car to Save Baby Daughter From Getting Run Over

Watch this father as he jumps out of a moving car to save his baby daughter from being run over by other cars in this busy intersection of Wenzhou, a city in the east of China. It was quite the move. Apparently, the daughter managed to jump from the back to the front’s passenger seat,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch the first trailer for Revolution, the new post-apocalyptic show from J.J. Abrams and Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke

Here are the first scenes from Revolution, NBC’s new Monday night drama created by J.J. Abrams (Lost) and Eric Kripke (Supernatural). In this footage, a mysterious blackout knocks out the world’s power grid and renders all of civilization’s car batteries completely kaput. Some sort of über-electromagnetic pulse, perhaps? Anyway, the scenes then fast-forward 15 years.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Ten Baby Bears Celebrate Mother’s Day By Dancing the Conga

Some people thought that featuring the bizarre history of vibrators was in poor taste for Mother’s Day. Poor babies. No worries, here are ten ultra-cute, sugar-coma-inducing bear cubs dancing the conga. Happy Mother’s Day! https://gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-history-of-the-vibrator-from-cleopatras-an-5909857 Oh wait, they are licking each other’s heads. Is that bear incest? MOTHER’S DAY? RUINED AGAIN!

Tech News Jesus Diaz

There are few things goofier than the girl from The Ring, kaiju-sized

To promote the upcoming installment of The Ring saga, Sadako 3D, advertisers have been driving a giant version of scary videotape girl Sadako Yamamura around the Shibuya neighborhood in Tokyo. Behold a movie monster that has absolutely no business being the size of an ice cream truck. To get slightly autobiographical for a moment, years…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watching These 60,000 Dominos Fall Is an Intensely Satisfying Experience

A dude called Flippycat thought it would be a good idea to stack 60,000 dominos to make 60 big walls and then hit them to watch them fall. I can’t blame him. It’s a satisfying view to watch all that color fall. The montage took over a distance of 14 feet, taking 65.5 hours to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Final Reminder: Avengers Assemble! io9 Movie Meetup TODAY in San Francisco, 5/13 (note updated time!)

Last minute reminder! Today, 5/13, join your fellow io9ers in San Francisco for your first (or tenth) viewing of amazing flick The Avengers. Afterwards, we’ll stick around for drinks, food, and hanging out. Here are the details! MOVIE: The Avengers, AMC Metreon 16, 5:00 PM (UPDATED TIME!) Special Note: This is not a 3D show…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The entire first episode of Tron: Uprising is online (UPDATED)

In anticipation of the upcoming Tron: Legacy prequel cartoon Tron: Uprising, Disney has released the whole 30-minute first episode — “Beck’s Beginning” — online for free. The series premieres Thursday June 7 on Disney XD. Here’s a synopsis, and hat tip to Precious Roy: Beck is a young mechanic living in Argon City, a growing…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

All the Water On Earth

This is one amazing visualization by the U.S. Geological Survey: a picture that gives you a perfect idea of how much water there is on Earth compared to the solid materials that form its main body. It’s truly staggering: This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Genetically engineered viruses could someday make typing-powered gadgets possible

There have been quite a few efforts to harness people power, by putting specially designed energy harvesters in exercise machines, yo-yos, or right inside your shoes. But none of them have been quite as thin or just downright cool as a new device that uses a paper-thin electrode packed with viruses to turn mechanical energy…

io9 Julian Whitcrosse

Adobe Finally Decides to Fix its Own Broken Software

Remember when Adobe said the only way to fix a recently discovered Photoshop CS5.5 vulnerability was to upgrade to CS6? Thankfully, they’ve had a change of heart and are now working on a patch for all affected CS5.X applications. Apparently, the only push Adobe needed to do its job was the rage of the entire…

Tech News Michael Zhao

Innocent people may have been framed for murder…by bugs?

A couple of years ago, a 28-year-old man ran into trouble in the scenic Brenta River near Padova, Italy. Witnesses saw him struggling in the water; soon after, he drowned. When Stefano Vanin, a forensic scientist at the University of Huddersfield in Great Britain, analyzed the body, the unfortunate man showed no signs of injury…

io9 Julian Whitcrosse

Stupid Criminals Get Caught After Stupidest Facebook Mistake Yet

Just when I thought criminals with Facebook accounts can’t possibly be more stupid, another imbecile comes along and proves me wrong by robbing an internet cafe at gunpoint—after using one of the computers to log into Facebook and leaving his account open. It happened in the neighborhood of Calima, north of the city of Cali,…

Social Media Jesus Diaz

The birth of Scantrons, the bane of standardized testing

A series of one thousand ovals oriented on a delicate sheet of paper, often coming along with a 25-30 page test booklet full of multiple choice and devilish K-Type questions. Even if it’s been a decade since you darkened a classroom, a Scantron sheet can send chills up your spine. Scantron sheets grew in popularity…

io9 Keith Veronese

Photos of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Confirm How Bad This Movie Is Going to Be

TMZ has scored some photos of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. I don’t know what disgusts me more: the fact that a useless actor like Kutcher is playing Jobs or that they are milking Jobs figure already or that they got the characterization entirely wrong. https://gizmodo.com/that-ashton-kutcher-steve-jobs-movie-sounds-pretty-awfu-5902096 Actually, it’s all of the above, but the last…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This student film carries more of an emotional punch than most movies

This animation, Crayon Dragon, was made by California Institute of the Arts student Toniko Pantoja as a second-year project. Along with an absolutely lovely soundtrack and a fluid style that comes across as “Impressionist Don Bluth,” Pantoja weaves a poignant wordless narrative in all of three minutes. Here’s the synopsis for this stellar short —…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Finland’s brilliant plan for dealing with nuclear waste: pulling a Keyser Söze

After decades of planning and $12 billions of investment, the United States grand plan to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste in Nevada’s remote Yucca Mountain melted down in political rancor like… well, kind of like a nuclear plant melting down. The Obama Administration pulled the plug on funding the project without specifying any technical…

io9 Julian Whitcrosse

The harmonograph was the first art machine

Victorian parties were often enlivened by a simple device called a harmonograph. It used basic physics, a pencil, and a piece of paper, to produce a large variety of beautiful designs. The invention of this device is generally attributed to Professor Hugh Blackburn, a teacher of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. He studied how…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What if The Avengers and X-Men had a cartoon in the style of Ren & Stimpy?

Then chances are it would bear a resemblance to Junaid Chundriga’s short animation Disassembled, wherein the superheroes of the Marvel Universe all have tremendously lousy days. Now we know why the Silver Surfer didn’t get his own movie after the second Fantastic Four flick. Also, I want to see a cartoon where Groot is a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Nepal’s most mysterious language might soon disappear

The genes behind human intelligence also made us vulnerable to autism

Father Jumps Out of Moving Car to Save Baby Daughter From Getting Run Over

Watch the first trailer for Revolution, the new post-apocalyptic show from J.J. Abrams and Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke

Ten Baby Bears Celebrate Mother’s Day By Dancing the Conga

There are few things goofier than the girl from The Ring, kaiju-sized

Watching These 60,000 Dominos Fall Is an Intensely Satisfying Experience

Final Reminder: Avengers Assemble! io9 Movie Meetup TODAY in San Francisco, 5/13 (note updated time!)

The entire first episode of Tron: Uprising is online (UPDATED)

All the Water On Earth

Genetically engineered viruses could someday make typing-powered gadgets possible

Adobe Finally Decides to Fix its Own Broken Software

Innocent people may have been framed for murder…by bugs?

Stupid Criminals Get Caught After Stupidest Facebook Mistake Yet

The birth of Scantrons, the bane of standardized testing

Photos of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Confirm How Bad This Movie Is Going to Be

This student film carries more of an emotional punch than most movies

Finland’s brilliant plan for dealing with nuclear waste: pulling a Keyser Söze

The harmonograph was the first art machine

What if The Avengers and X-Men had a cartoon in the style of Ren & Stimpy?

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