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Earth’s atmosphere has repeatedly been choked in a thick methane haze

2.5 billion years ago, the Sun was basically invisible from the Earth’s surface. Microbes in the oceans pumped methane into the atmosphere, creating a giant cloud of smog that covered the entire planet. Yes, the whole world turned into LA. If you were to visit Earth at most points in its history, it wouldn’t look…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Is the novelization of Back to the Future a literary masterpiece? Shockingly, no.

Today’s must-read Tumblr is “B to the F: The Novelization of Back to the Future,” in which one intrepid blogger does pretty much a page-by-page analysis of the Back to the Future tie-in novel, which was published before the movie came out. This turns out to be an interesting exercise for a couple of reasons:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Met Opera on Demand: Watch the Opera, Yes the Opera, On Your iPad

I know nothing about the Opera other than it’s a browser or that it’s the type of thing fancy people in fancy clothes who like fancy things fancy going to. But you know what? It’s pretty entertaining. Especially when you don’t have to get so fancy and can just watch it on your iPad, like…

Tech News Casey Chan

How The River‘s Shocking Comeback Changes Everything

If you haven’t been watching The River, then you missed a hell of a startling episode last week. Something absolutely huge happened, that turns the show’s entire setup on its side. It was the sort of event that most shows would have waited until their season finales to pull out — but The River has…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Pirate Bay Wants to Use Drones to Put Its Servers in the Sky

Here’s something that’s so crazy it might be considered genius: the Pirate Bay wants to move its servers—the same servers that draw the ire of the feds—up in the air by using GPS controlled drones. It’s a move to stay ahead of every organization that’s on the Pirate Bay’s tail. It’s also so crazy that…

Tech News Casey Chan

James Cameron says today’s ocean exploration is “piss poor.” He’s right.

James Cameron is unhappy with the present state of ocean exploration. He’s so unhappy that he’s taken it upon himself to spearhead an effort to return to Challenger Deep, the deepest known point in all the world’s oceans. In fact, he’s making the trip this week — and he’s making it alone. To clarify, Cameron…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Sending This Candle To a Watery Grave Is a Beautiful Way To Remember the Titanic

Haha, remember when that giant ocean liner sank taking the lives of over 1,500 people? It’s a good thing come April that will have happened 100 years ago because that makes it ok to sell tacky novelty tie-in products. Right? Right? Once you light the four wicks extending from each of the wax Titanic’s stacks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The best music video about invertebrates ever made

At last, invertebrates like clams, squids, and crabs have got their own indie rock anthem. If you love your spineless cousins of the sea, and don’t mind watching cute British guys jump around in their underwear singing about asexual reproduction, then this video from the Internauts will make your day. The song is entitled “Who…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch a series of seven brilliant lectures by Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman was obviously famous for his work as a physicist, but he’s also widely regarded as one of the most lucid and effective lecturers to ever address an audience. So renowned, so readily accessible were his presentations, that his introductory physics lectures (which he delivered to undergraduates at Caltech) have since been immortalized in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

In-App Ads Are Destroying Your Battery Life

You intuitively know that all of those applications running in the background on your phone are latently eating away at your battery’s charge, but a new study reveals that the main culprit isn’t any useful function. It’s location-pinging ads. The study, conducted by a team lead by Abhinav Pathak from Purdue University, analyzed the energy…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Apple’s Three Million New iPads Sold Show That the Future Is Here to Stay

Apple has just announced that they have sold three million new iPads since its release last Friday. It’s a staggering number. Clearly, they are unstoppable at this point. The future is here to stay, people. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-is-the-future-5506692 It’s truly impressive. It’s only one million below iPhone 4S-level numbers. Except the iPad costs a lot more money…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Easiest Way to Share Dropbox Folders Is with Your Facebook Friends

If you use Dropbox and Facebook, which is probably most of you, you can now easily share your Dropbox folders with your Facebook friends. Combining two frequently used things together either makes life easier or continues to prove that we’re all just living in Facebook’s world. To be honest, at this point the integration isn’t…

Social Media Casey Chan

How to Make Photographic Prints Without a Camera or Chemicals

Photojojo, peddlers of all things cool and photography related, have put together a how-to about creating prints without a camera or a chemicals. It’s much easier than you think. Follow along… You have a leftover box of photo paper from Photo 101, and it’s been taunting you from your shelf. You could swear you once…

Tech News Photojojo.com

What do you do when you find weird racism in old science fiction books?

Over at the Straight Dope messageboard, there’s a fascinating conversation about the perils of reading old books, especially science fiction novels, in which some very off-kilter racism is tossed out casually. The discussion kicks off with Cyril Kornbluth’s “The Marching Morons,” in which the main character just randomly hates Africans and African Americans — and…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A Rocking Table Covered in Ball Bearings Is More Entertaining Than Your TV

Who would have thought that thousands of ball bearings rolling back and forth on a rocking coffee table could be so utterly fascinating? With Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen’s Wave of Matter table in your living room, you won’t need a TV. The piece is like a horizontal version of those sand art picture frames,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This is maybe the weirdest map of North America ever printed

In the late 1800s, merchants in the city of Superior, Wisconsin needed a way to convince other companies that their fair hamlet deserved to be a national center of manufacturing and shipping. To advance their cause, the Superior business interests created this rare map of a skinless, naked giant splayed entirely over the North American…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The fact The Lorax is a hit and John Carter is a flop makes me want to stab everybody

Sometimes you can fool yourself there’s some justice to box office results. Movies like Green Lantern crash and movies like Inception rake in the bucks, and it feels like maybe there’s a supreme being out there, looking out for us. And then something like this happens: The Lorax is the year’s biggest hit thus far,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

io9’s March Movie Madness: Pick the worst science fiction movie ever made!

Is a race to the bottom! We’re so much closer to crowning the world’s work scifi flick of all time! This round The Phantom Menace faces that rotten 90s Godzilla picture. Plus Battlefield Earth goes up against the giant robot body full of tiny terrible people in Meet Dave. So far there’s already been a…

Movies Meredith Woerner & Alasdair Wilkins

Adapter Kit Lets Your Lego Bricks and Lincoln Logs Play Together

If you’ve ever wished your building sets like Lego, K’Nex, Tinker Toys, and even Lincoln Logs could all fit in with each other, this universal construction kit will make your dreams come true. That is, uh, if you’ve got a 3D printer handy. Seeing all of those unique hybrid building pieces all laid out is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Every Dating Site Should Be Like OK Go-pid

What is OK Go-pid? It’s the new dating service by OK Go, the band that makes the coolest, craziest, most absurd videos this side of Rick James. Actually, it’s a dating site for superfreaks. Watch their informercial! https://gizmodo.com/new-ok-go-awesome-video-is-full-of-awesome-dogs-5643044 And the fact is that it isn’t that crazy. It makes as much as sense as any…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Earth’s atmosphere has repeatedly been choked in a thick methane haze

Is the novelization of Back to the Future a literary masterpiece? Shockingly, no.

Met Opera on Demand: Watch the Opera, Yes the Opera, On Your iPad

How The River‘s Shocking Comeback Changes Everything

The Pirate Bay Wants to Use Drones to Put Its Servers in the Sky

James Cameron says today’s ocean exploration is “piss poor.” He’s right.

Sending This Candle To a Watery Grave Is a Beautiful Way To Remember the Titanic

The best music video about invertebrates ever made

Watch a series of seven brilliant lectures by Richard Feynman

In-App Ads Are Destroying Your Battery Life

Apple’s Three Million New iPads Sold Show That the Future Is Here to Stay

The Easiest Way to Share Dropbox Folders Is with Your Facebook Friends

How to Make Photographic Prints Without a Camera or Chemicals

What do you do when you find weird racism in old science fiction books?

A Rocking Table Covered in Ball Bearings Is More Entertaining Than Your TV

This is maybe the weirdest map of North America ever printed

The fact The Lorax is a hit and John Carter is a flop makes me want to stab everybody

io9’s March Movie Madness: Pick the worst science fiction movie ever made!

Adapter Kit Lets Your Lego Bricks and Lincoln Logs Play Together

Every Dating Site Should Be Like OK Go-pid

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