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Your Exclusive First Look at George R.R. Martin’s New Book Covers

Chances are, you’re all familiar with George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series at this point. Even if you haven’t read the books or seen the TV series, you know enough to mutter something about Ned Stark and honor, if the subject comes up. But have you read Martin’s other books? The…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Why this fish has teeth all over its body

This beautiful image of a skate fish embryo reveals something truly extraordinary about the scales on its body. As University of Cambridge biologist Andrew Gillis explains, they are, in fact, quite similar to human teeth. They’re even controlled by genes similar to those that control tooth growth in humans. You may never look at fish…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Adorable Tiny Plotter Draws Adorably Tiny Pics

Instead of being limited to only creating images on paper pulled through a sheet feeder, plotters can work on much larger canvases. And instead of costing thousands of dollars, the tiny Piccolo CNC-Bot can be yours for just $70. There is a considerable amount of assembly required to turn the included laser cut plastic pieces…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Fruit flies can cure themselves of intestinal parasites, with the power of alcohol

Fruit flies, the simple little things that buzz around the fruit you swore you’d eat and the jack-o-lantern you swore you’d throw out, can diagnose themselves with intestinal parasites — and drink alcohol until they’re all better again. Fruit flies really seem to have a bad time of it. They get constantly experimented on in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Turn water into 4 different deadly weapons, using just pencils and a battery

A simple childhood experiment, involving basic stuff that anyone could find around the house, provides you with a simple means to make both a chemical and physical weapon. Find out how to split ordinary water into two different dangerous gases, and cause two different explosions. Top image: Water and Fire, by Serg64/Shutterstock.com Would you believe…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Is How Apple Will Use Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper to Crush Competitive Apps

OS X Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper is ideally meant to warn users about potentially malicious apps sitting around the web. That’s a good thing! But Gatekeeper could also be interpreted as Apple heavily discouraging less savvy users from installing non-Mac App Store apps entirely. It’s one step away from turning the current app freedom on the…

Tech News Casey Chan

You Can Buy the Lumia 800 Now If You’re Rich and Very Stupid

The wonderful Lumia 800 is finally available in the US. Awesome. But only in a preposterous $900 bundle at the Microsoft Store. Guhhhhhhhh. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-confirms-lumia-800-coming-to-us-in-crazy-opulent-5882996 The bundle—which includes the phone, a few headsets, and a speaker—”officially” goes on sale February 26th, but apparently you can get it now if you “can’t wait.” We’ll let you know…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Air Pollution Linked to Cognitive Decline in Women

We’ve known for a long time that air pollution is bad for your body, including your heart. But now, we’re learning it might be messing up your brain, too. https://gizmodo.com/exposure-to-air-pollution-can-increase-your-risk-of-hea-5842367 Reasearchers on mice have already found a possible link between air pollution and memory problems, but now a similar correlation has been shown in women.…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Clik for iPhone and Android: Magically Control Any Web Browser from Your Phone

So you have a YouTube video on your phone but you want to watch it on a bigger screen. Do you open a web browser and find that video again? Guh. That would take too long. Instead, use Clik, an app that magically pushes YouTube videos from your phone on to any screen with a…

Tech News Casey Chan

The End of Mac

The latest Mac OS X is now just OS X. The “Mac” is now gone. It’s a clear declaration of intentions. The end of Macintosh—the desktop metaphor that reigned supreme for more than two decades—is near. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-more-iphone-like-than-ever-5885628 Not the MacBooks and the iMacs, no, but what defines them. Their software soul. Two more years and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Your Dog Could Help Create Groundbreaking Treatments for Cancer

If your beloved dog gets cancer, it could be a heartbreaking and scary event — but your dog’s misfortune could help save a lot of people’s lives down the road. A lot of the cutting edge of cancer research involves studying canine tumors and treating canine cancer aggressively — and humans could benefit quite a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Those nutty dudes from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are making an apocalyptic TV show

You may know Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim as the inscrutable masterminds behind Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, a surrealist comedy program that dove butt-first into the oubliette that is public access television. And this spring, the duo releases Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a gleefully deranged cinematic nugget about…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Electric cars could cause worse pollution than your gas guzzler

The electric (or even hybrid) car has been heralded as a way to help limit the amount of aerial pollution hitting the skies and our lungs, but a new study out of China has shown that they’re actually even worse than regular gas guzzlers. Top image: Asterix611 on Flickr The study in specific looked at…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Girl Falls on Her Face While Texting (During Live News Broadcast)

That thing you’re worried is going to happen to you ever single time you walk down the sidewalk while texting? It just happened. To someone else! Laugh away. We’re loath to make light of a woman falling down so severely that she has trouble getting up and attracts the attention of an entire crowd, but,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You Can Stream Hulu Plus on the Wii Now

Hulu Plus—home of the estimable Criterion Collection—is now available for streaming on the Wii. Hulu doesn’t have quite the streaming catalogue of Netflix, but it’s got a decent amount of current TV shows and movies, and of course those Criterion films. [Nintendo] https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-criterion-collection-is-coming-to-hulu-plus-5760958

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Man has heart attack while eating at The Heart Attack Grill

If you weigh over 350 pounds, you can eat at the Heart Attack Grill for free (according to the Las Vegas eatery’s slogan). But if you should keel over, gripping your chest in agony, while scarfing down a triple bypass burger (that’s what the monstrosity pictured up top is called), don’t expect any of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, Please Vaccinate Your Children

Yet another study has found no association between vaccines and autism. Mercury, the ingredient in vaccines suspected of causing learning disabilities, hasn’t been used to preserve the medicines since 2001. And since then, the incidence of autism has still increased. That’s what researchers found in a study published yesterday in the open access science journal…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Actually Have a Reason to Exist

Hollywood’s appetite for endless sequels shows no sign of slacking — Transformers 4 is coming! — and these films often feel like exercises in futility. Last week, we listed a ton of movie sequels in the pipeline that felt totally unnecessary. As in, nobody had walked out of the previous movie saying, “I can’t wait…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Ways In Which Aspirin Is and Is Not Effective Birth Control for Women

Prominent Rick Santorum Super PAC booster and probably insane kabillionaire Foster Friess created a kerfuffle today by saying that women should just put aspirin between their legs for contraception. No really, he did! But rather than dismiss him as a dangerous crackpot with a reckless anti-woman agenda, let’s examine his claim at face value. The…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Best Automatic Coffee Machine

Every time I’ve written that the coffeemaker on your kitchen counter is terrible, I was only partly trolling you. It’s true! Your cheap automatic coffee machine is ruining your coffee. But now there are a couple of new automagical machines you can easily buy in the US that are very, very good: Bonavita’s Automatic Coffee…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Your Exclusive First Look at George R.R. Martin’s New Book Covers

Why this fish has teeth all over its body

Adorable Tiny Plotter Draws Adorably Tiny Pics

Fruit flies can cure themselves of intestinal parasites, with the power of alcohol

Turn water into 4 different deadly weapons, using just pencils and a battery

This Is How Apple Will Use Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper to Crush Competitive Apps

You Can Buy the Lumia 800 Now If You’re Rich and Very Stupid

Air Pollution Linked to Cognitive Decline in Women

Clik for iPhone and Android: Magically Control Any Web Browser from Your Phone

The End of Mac

How Your Dog Could Help Create Groundbreaking Treatments for Cancer

Those nutty dudes from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are making an apocalyptic TV show

Electric cars could cause worse pollution than your gas guzzler

Girl Falls on Her Face While Texting (During Live News Broadcast)

You Can Stream Hulu Plus on the Wii Now

Man has heart attack while eating at The Heart Attack Grill

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, Please Vaccinate Your Children

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Actually Have a Reason to Exist

Ways In Which Aspirin Is and Is Not Effective Birth Control for Women

The Best Automatic Coffee Machine

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