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People with tattoos drink more alcohol than their friends, say researchers

Although tattoos and body piercings have gone mainstream, they still carry a connotation of risky behavior. And a new study suggests this stereotype is borne out in the drinking habits of those who modify their bodies: they drink more alcohol than their friends with undecorated skins. For four Saturday nights, ninety-nine undergraduate business students in…

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A flower that smells like poop and resembles vagina dentata

The rotten-meat-scented corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) may get all of the mainstream press, what with its flashy blooming parties that attract admirers from all across the globe. But on the botanical weirdness scale, it’s easily trumped by Hydnora africana, a parasitic flower found in southern Africa. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-disgusting-flower-in-the-world-is-about-to-blo-5795114 The Hydnora’s spherical flower grows on the roots…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

43 Avengers stills explode with lasers, jets, and latex

We’ve got a ton of eye-popping stills from The Avengers, which show off this movie’s sexy side. Seriously, this might be the prettiest Marvel movie of them all — and it didn’t even need a bunch of sepia toned shirtless WW2 soldiers to pull it off. Just shit-loads of explosions and ladies in latex!

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Pocket: Read it Later Goes Free, Bulks Up Features

If you’re thumbing through your Twitter feed and you stumble across an interesting article you don’t have enough time to read, you might forget about it if you don’t save it somewhere. Instapaper has long reigned supreme in this arena, but there’s a new kid on the block…sorta. Formerly known as Read It Later, the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Sun Just Had a 79,000 Mile Explosion

You might have had a peaceful day here, but up above, some serious solar violence just went down: an ejection of scorching plasma just erupted from the Sun. Enough to burn its away across ten Earths. The eruption is what’s known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, when the Sun’s magnetic fields force out…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

Behold the Electra 225, the world’s first time-traveling baby stroller

iam8bit is a Los Angeles gallery known for its cool, pop culture-themed shows. And the latest, a series of pieces on the theme “So You Created A Wormhole,” already has us excited. Here you can see a video for one of the pieces, a time traveling baby stroller (you know, for all those superintelligent alien…

io9 Annalee Newitz

If science is broken, how do we fix it?

An unsettling pattern has emerged in the world of peer-reviewed, scientific publishing. In the last decade, the rate at which articles are retracted (meaning the study was published, only to later be dubbed unfit for print — typically due to either deliberate misconduct or an honest scientific mistake) has increased in some journals by as…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Cure for Drug Abuse? Changing People’s Memories

Even after drug users kick the habit, there’s still the risk of relapse. And a big reason for this is fact that the person can still remember the pleasurable side of drug use. The solution might be to actually change the nature of those memories. Top image: Shutterstock.com That’s the idea behind new research coming…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

A Simple Scan Can Tell How Fat You’ll Get and How Much Sex You’ll Have

The world is full of delicious food and beautiful people, and sometimes it’s hard to turn down their respective charms. But now a team of researchers has used data from fMRI scans to successfully predict weight gain and sexual activity—and can tell if you’re likely to fall foul of temptation well in advance. Using functional…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Decisive Solution to Internet Spammers

Arctic Rising author Tobias Buckell has a new story in the first issue of a “multigenre fiction and comics magazine” called Fireside — and you can read the whole thing online at Wired. In “Press Enter to Execute,” a hired gun is taking a very radical approach to the people who flood your email inbox…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Gorgeous Twin Peaks-inspired art exhibit wants you to Fire Walk With Me

This is, excuse me, a damn fine Twin Peaks inspired art exhibit. Come celebrate the 20th anniversary of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with this horrifically gorgeous collection of Twin Peaks art! Artists from across the globe submitted their best paintings, prints, and sculptures of Bob, white horses, train dioramas and more.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Avengers DVD will include “at least” 30 minutes of deleted scenes

You might have heard that Joss Whedon’s original version of The Avengers was very different from what we’ll see in theaters — in particular, Whedon originally hit on Captain America as the viewpoint character. We would have seen a lot of Cap’s journey as he adjusts to life in the present day, and that would…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Everything You Need to Live on the Cheap After the Tax Man Cometh

So you left filing your taxes until the last minute, and it turns out that instead of getting a nice fat check in the mail in the coming months, you owe Uncle Sam quite a bit of coin. As a result it’s time to start pinching pennies and living on the cheap, including taking a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Samsung and Apple CEOs Will Meet and Hash Out Their Patent Woes

Is there a light at the end of the clusterfuck of a tunnel that is the industry-wide patent wars? According to Foss Patents, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung’s chief Gee-Sung Choi will supposedly meet in a San Francisco courtroom within the next 90 days to talk about a possible settlement. The two companies have…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan

Buckminster fullerene molecules, the naturally occurring spheres made up of 60 carbon atoms, have long been suspected to have biological benefits. Now, a study that set out to establish if they were toxic when administered orally has proven quite the opposite—they almost doubled the lifespan of the rats that they were fed to. The experiments,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This microbe could become the “off” switch for biological machines

In the Victorian era people marveled at what could be done by mixing and matching mechanical parts like the wheel, the magnet, the lever, and the piston. Today we mix and match biological parts like the gene, the enzyme, and the organ. Take a look at a new biological part that gives a microbe an…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What if Lars von Trier directed a Donald Duck movie?

As a completely depraved thought experiment, the Icelandic comedy troupe Mid-Island forced Disney’s cantankerous, pants-less mallard to conform to the gritty, hyper-spartan “Dogme 95” style pioneered by Danish directors like Lars von Trier. Although Mid-Island doesn’t stick to the no-frills Dogme 95 rulebook entirely, disturbing scenes of Gladstone Gander and Daisy Duck getting frisky and…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The most detailed picture yet of a star nursery birthing new suns

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was lifted into low Earth orbit and promptly turned its attention to the depths of space. Today, over 10,000 publications and almost 22 years later, Hubble continues to change the way we see and understand our Universe with images that are truly awesome in every sense of…

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Batman, virtual reality weirdness, and the Shadow hit comic shops Wednesday

What’s arriving at your neighborhood comic purveyor tomorrow? Let’s begin with some first issues. Garth Ennis of Preacher and The Boys fame kicks off a new Shadow series for Dynamite Entertainment. There’s also the 3 Story: Secret Files Of The Giant Man one-shot, which showcases Matt Kindt’s gargantuan character Craig Pressgang, and cartoonist Peter Bagge’s…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Print the News, Right In Your Home!

The introduction of broadcast radio caused some in the newspaper industry to fear that newspapers would soon become a thing of the past. After all, who would read the news when you could just turn on the radio for real-time updates? Newspapers had even more to fear in 1938 when radio thought it might compete…

Tech News Matt Novak

People with tattoos drink more alcohol than their friends, say researchers

A flower that smells like poop and resembles vagina dentata

43 Avengers stills explode with lasers, jets, and latex

Pocket: Read it Later Goes Free, Bulks Up Features

The Sun Just Had a 79,000 Mile Explosion

Behold the Electra 225, the world’s first time-traveling baby stroller

If science is broken, how do we fix it?

The Cure for Drug Abuse? Changing People’s Memories

A Simple Scan Can Tell How Fat You’ll Get and How Much Sex You’ll Have

A Decisive Solution to Internet Spammers

Gorgeous Twin Peaks-inspired art exhibit wants you to Fire Walk With Me

The Avengers DVD will include “at least” 30 minutes of deleted scenes

Everything You Need to Live on the Cheap After the Tax Man Cometh

Samsung and Apple CEOs Will Meet and Hash Out Their Patent Woes

Bucky Balls Could Double Your Lifespan

This microbe could become the “off” switch for biological machines

What if Lars von Trier directed a Donald Duck movie?

The most detailed picture yet of a star nursery birthing new suns

Batman, virtual reality weirdness, and the Shadow hit comic shops Wednesday

Print the News, Right In Your Home!

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