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Wyoming Wants Their Own Currency, a Draft, and a Freaking Aircraft Carrier In case of Doomsday

Breaking news: Politicians in Wyoming have way too much time on their hands. Having run out of things to whittle, State Rep. David Miller, R-Riverton, has introduced House Bill 85, which calls for a whole list of batshit crazy things. The bill, which passed an initial voice-vote, would create a state-run government continuity task force…

Tech News Brent Rose

To predict the future, just trust in your feelings

Well, that and know a lot about the subject of your predictions. That’s the idea behind new research coming out of Columbia, which claims people who trust their feelings are more likely to make accurate predictions than those who don’t. The researchers are calling this the “emotional oracle effect”, which seems like it was pretty…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

International Space Station Astronaut Builds Lego ISS Inside ISS

Watch International Space Station astronaut Satoshi Furukawa building a Lego model of the International Space Station inside the International Space Station. I wonder if there’s a minifig version of the International Space Station astronaut Satoshi Furukawa building a Lego model of the Lego International Space Station inside the Lego International Space Station. It took Furukawa…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Happy little mushroom farm takes urban agriculture indoors

What’s fabulous about this urban mushroom farm isn’t just that it produces 200 pounds of mushrooms in just a few weeks using recycled coffee grounds. It’s also that it’s small enough and attractive enough to sit in a lobby, a storefront, or any other public indoor space. This is the latest installation featured at the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Aging elephants are a bunch of rampaging hooligans

In my continuing efforts to highlight which members of the animal kingdom are just total jerks – looking at you, freeloading wolves! – I present the case of farm-raiding, crop-stealing elephants, and the young elephants who follow their bad example. https://gizmodo.com/science-proves-that-most-wolves-are-lazy-jerks-5845967 Crop stealing has become a very real problem for the farmers around Kenya’s Amboseli…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently returns to TV with three more holistic detective episodes

It’s been more than a year since the Dirk Gently pilot, loosely based on Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency books, but the detective is returning to television, with three new episodes from Misfits creator Howard Overman. The original Dirk Gently pilot aired in December 2010 (you can read our recap here), and BBC…

Television Lauren Davis

The street drug Love Boat comes in many brain-warping varieties

You see a YouTube video of a naked man refusing to give up as he fights off police officers for several minutes. The title mentions a drug called “Love Boat”, but with little of no detail of the ingredients in the drug. What is in this Love Boat that causes a fellow take off his…

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Kabuto slingshot from One Piece now a deadly reality

In the manga One Piece, the pirate sniper Usopp employs a number of weapons and gadgets, among them the Kabuto, a five-pronged slingshot that doubles as a spear. Now slingshot-building millionaire Jörg Sprave has made a Kabuto of his own, and is showing off its deadly powers. Even if you’re not a One Piece fan,…

io9 Lauren Davis

HTC One S Hands-On: Really Solid, Really Fast (UPDATED)

While the One X may be HTC’s beast of a flagship device, the One S is not far behind. It’s packing a new Snapdragon S4 processor into one of the most solidly built phones I’ve ever put my paws on. https://gizmodo.com/the-htc-one-x-hands-on-the-most-exciting-android-phone-5888402 First off, the One S is similar to the One X in many, many…

Tech News Brent Rose

The extinction of Neanderthals had nothing to do with us

The Neanderthals stand as the most famous example of a rival group of humans, evolutionary cousins who were wiped out by the expansion of our ancestors. But now it looks like Neanderthals were doomed long before ancient (modern) humans showed up. Our ancestors reached Europe, the main domain of the Neanderthals, about 40,000 years ago.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The HTC One X Hands-On: The Most Exciting Android Phone to Date (UPDATED)

HTC’s new flagship phone is an absolute monster. Quad-core 1.5GHz Tegra 3 processor, 4.7″ 720p Super LCD2, 8MP f2.0 camera with its own image processor. I got to spend a little time with this thing, and it’s the most excited I’ve been about a phone in a long time. HTC has been listening to feedback…

Tech News Brent Rose

Forget tonight’s Oscars, here are the Oscar predictions for the next five years

Never Too Early Movie Predictions takes its Oscar predictions very seriously, calling the nominees and winners of not just this year’s Oscars, but the Oscars through 2017. The short version: expect James Cameron to pick up a few statuettes for Battle Angel Alita. Like all good futurists, NTEMP knows that its predictions aren’t likely to…

Movies Lauren Davis

A stunning image of four galaxies smashed together in one tiny corner of the universe

When you see multiple galaxies right on top of each other, like in this image, it’s usually an optical illusion, and the galaxies are actually millions of light-years apart. That’s true of one of the galaxies in this photo…but only one. There are five galaxies in this image – the two bright spots of yellow…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Has Facebook Been Reading Your Text Messages? (UPDATED)

Let’s take a healthy sodium-dose here, but London’s Sunday Times is alleging that Facebook has admitted to reading users’ text messages. People at Facebook supposedly read the private SMS messages of users who downloaded the Facebook app on their smartphones. This was allegedly in preparation for Facebook launching their own messaging service, but it is…

Social Media Brent Rose

Watch a rare interview with the father of the Higgs boson

Almost 50 years ago, British physicist Peter Higgs first hypothesized the existence of the particle that bears his name. Now we’re on the verge of finding the Higgs boson, and Peter Higgs himself offers his own thoughts on it all. Generally speaking, the now retired Professor Higgs doesn’t give many interviews. But he was recently…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Ridley Scott may have explained the connection between Alien and Prometheus

Hungarian news sites are reporting that director Ridley Scott has explained the connection between the Alien movies and the prequel film Prometheus. There isn’t confirmation yet, but if the sites are to be believed, Guy Pearce is the key linking the films. Possible spoilers. Maybe. This still falls under the category of rumor at this…

Movies Lauren Davis

Sony’s Xperia P and U Are the Budget Little Brothers to That Gorgeous Xperia S

Given Sony already torpedoed its Xperia S back at CES, you can aaaaalmost forgive the now-lacking-in-Ericsson company for its lacklustre MWC showings. New Sony boss Kaz Hirai took to the stage to intro the Xperia P and Xperia U phones, which, as rumoured, are both dual-core phones with 8 and 5-megapixel cameras between ‘em. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-new-xperia-phones-hands-on-they-go-right-for-the-5873656…

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In the battle of puffer fish vs. laser pointer, we all win

It seems cats aren’t the only creatures with an affinity for chasing little red dots. This puffer fish just can’t resist chasing a laser around its tank. But if you try this home, please remember to dislodge your laser from your rifle before aiming it at the tank. We don’t want any puffer fish harmed…

io9 Lauren Davis

When they can’t get crimefighting work, superheroes turn to menial jobs

When times are tough, they affect everyone — even superheroes. In this photo series, superheroes and Disney characters find themselves destitute and in unexpected jobs — pumping gas, washing windows, and walking the streets. The point of Benjamin Bechet’s I am Winnie the Pooh photo series isn’t to comment on these characters; after all, Batman…

io9 Lauren Davis

How To Take Incredibly Badass Muzzle Flash Photos

Destin over at the Smarter Every Day video blog has done it again. This time he shows you gun-lovers how to take incredible photos of muzzle flashes. The rig he’s built has impeccable timing, and the results are amazing. This should go without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: don’t be stupid. Guns…

Tech News Brent Rose

Wyoming Wants Their Own Currency, a Draft, and a Freaking Aircraft Carrier In case of Doomsday

To predict the future, just trust in your feelings

International Space Station Astronaut Builds Lego ISS Inside ISS

Happy little mushroom farm takes urban agriculture indoors

Aging elephants are a bunch of rampaging hooligans

Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently returns to TV with three more holistic detective episodes

The street drug Love Boat comes in many brain-warping varieties

Kabuto slingshot from One Piece now a deadly reality

HTC One S Hands-On: Really Solid, Really Fast (UPDATED)

The extinction of Neanderthals had nothing to do with us

The HTC One X Hands-On: The Most Exciting Android Phone to Date (UPDATED)

Forget tonight’s Oscars, here are the Oscar predictions for the next five years

A stunning image of four galaxies smashed together in one tiny corner of the universe

Has Facebook Been Reading Your Text Messages? (UPDATED)

Watch a rare interview with the father of the Higgs boson

Ridley Scott may have explained the connection between Alien and Prometheus

Sony’s Xperia P and U Are the Budget Little Brothers to That Gorgeous Xperia S

In the battle of puffer fish vs. laser pointer, we all win

When they can’t get crimefighting work, superheroes turn to menial jobs

How To Take Incredibly Badass Muzzle Flash Photos

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