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You Can Rent Disney Movies on YouTube Now

From classics like Alice in Wonderland to the Pixar hits and Pirates movies of today, Disney will eventually put up a lion’s share of its movies for rent on the digital boob tube, YouTube. There are only a handful of Disney movies on YouTube right now but hundreds more will join the rental list in…

Movies Casey Chan

A Thanksgiving Meal (in-a-pill)

Many Americans celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow will have a meal centered around Ben Franklin’s favorite bird — the turkey. But if this cartoon from the September 19, 1926 Ogden Standard-Examiner had proven prescient, the Thanksgiving meal of the 21st century would’ve been entirely pill-based. The turn of the 20th century brought a whole host of predictions…

Tech News Matt Novak

More MRSA Found in Supermarket Turkey

There are two new studies out that confirm, once again, that drug-resistant staph or MRSA – normally thought of as a problem in hospitals and out in everyday life, in schoolkids, sports teams, jails and gyms – is showing up in animals and in the meat those animals become. The strain of staph that shows…

Health Maryn McKenna - Wired

Ursula K. Le Guin writes a fable of Occupy Wall Street

If you’ve been wondering just what’s wrong with unemployed people, and why they won’t just go get a job, then Ursula K. Le Guin has some answers for you. In the time-honored tradition of fantasists and fabulists, she’s phrased her answers in the form of a fable. Her story “Ninety Nine Weeks: A Fairy Tale”…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Why flying on planes can make you sick – and how to stop it

If you’re about to fly somewhere for Thanksgiving, you’re probably dreading the possibility that you’ll catch a bug along the way. And you’re not alone. Many people report coming down with something in the days following an airplane flight. It’s not like we’re all lining up to lick the lavatory handles — so why can’t…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What makes a psychopath’s brain different?

There’s no neurological disorder quite as infamous as psychopathy, and yet figuring out exactly what goes on in a psychopath’s brain is extraordinarily difficult. We’ve now got an answer…and all it took was scanning the brains of forty medium-security prisoners. Specifically, the new findings come from brain imaging performed on forty inmates at a medium-security…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Which Airlines Are Most Likely to Get You Home Late During the Holidays?

I bet you’re traveling home for Thanksgiving today, aren’t you? A recent report by the Department of Transportation lists the airlines which suffered the worst delays and setbacks over the last year. I hope you’re not flying JetBlue or ExpressJet Atop the list is JetBlue, reporting only 77.8 percent of flights arriving on time. The…

Tech News Adrian Covert

You Can Now Print Your Photos Directly from Your Phone

Remember that time you captured that brilliant moment when the wind swept up all the leaves on Essex Street and made a little tornado between speeding taxicabs? Then you posted your masterpiece online in seconds causing a flutter of likes and comments amongst your friends and followers? But what if in addition to this blatant…

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Community has been secretly conjuring up Beetlejuice for the last 3 seasons

While out beloved Community continues to circle the network drain of uncertainty, here’s just one more reason why we will tirelessly support this amazing series. They’ve been secretly conjuring up Beetlejuice over the years. Watch the clips from “Communication Studies,” “Cooperative Calligraphy,” and “Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps,” and keep your eyes peeled for…

Television Meredith Woerner

Giant theremin appears in Melbourne. Australia now 67 percent spookier.

A 23-foot tall theremin has taken up residence in Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River. It makes the trademark disturbing woo-woo sounds you remember from 1950s science fiction movies, in response to anyone who moves or dances near it. In essence, you control it by dancing in its vicinity. Artist Robin Fox tells…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Portable Breast Cancer Detector Brings Checkups To the Patient

It doesn’t matter how advanced a breast cancer detection system is, it’s only effective if patients have access to it. So Nihon University has developed a portable unit that can be taken to those without access to a hospital. Using a technology known as the phase shift method, the handheld detector emits light with a…

Health Andrew Liszewski

This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches

Frozen Planet’s cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson have captured the formation of a brinicle for the first time ever. I didn’t know what a brinicle was until I saw this video. I just can’t believe this can happen. Brinicles are columns of ice that form under very calm ocean conditions, when there’s a big…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

One fifth of all mammals are bats. Here’s why.

Bats are everywhere, and they eat everything from fruit to blood. What keeps these small, furry fliers winning the natural selection game? A group of researchers tried to answer this question by studying the evolution of a particularly diverse group of bats. They discovered that the success of bats is all about body modification. Photo…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First Look at BlackBerry Playbook’s Massively Late Native Email, Calendar and Contacts

At yesterday’s BlackBerry Innovation Forum, RIM finally demoed its massively tardy native email, contacts and calendar apps. RIM expects the features to be in the PlayBook by February 17th—a full 10 months after it launched. The design of the apps looks pretty clean—which isn’t too much of a surprise, since what’s actually on the PlayBook…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Isn’t Coming ’til Next Month

Business Insider got word from Samsung that the Galaxy Nexus won’t be hitting US store shelves until December, but offered little explanation as to why, or when the phone might come out. Price is till unknown as well. [Business Insider via ZDnet]

Tech News Adrian Covert

New Star Wars art show is classy, retro-stylish, and generally brilliant

We’ve all seen so much Star Wars art that it’s easy to get jaded and think we’ve seen it all. But a group of creative, off-kilter artists can still find some new imagery in those far-away battles. Case in point: A group of artists is having a terrific new Star Wars art show called “These…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First images from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus play with the Alien mythology

Ridley Scott’s latest addition to the Alien series, Prometheus, had been shrouded in mystery, until now. A heap of movie images have appeared online — showing off new space costumes, giant set pieces and Michael Fassbender’s beautiful bleach blonde mane. The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a large feature on Ridley Scott’s new movie…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How to Make an Elevator Go Into Free Fall

Oh, this is great fun if you want to vomit your stomach out. If this trick is true, you can make an elevator go into free fall for five feet. It’s not a lot, but it’s a good kick. According to this woman, you can do it thanks to a mechanical glitch in units made…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Past Perfect at Gizmodo Gallery

Even though the very newest gadgets and gizmos are our lifeblood, we’re also in love with products that achieved perfection ages ago. We’re dedicating a section of Gizmodo Gallery to iconic product designs so excellent that history won’t forget them. It’s our job to cover technology’s persistant advances, sure, but there’s something gorgeous about the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How long would you survive in an airlock?

Many suspense and science fiction novels have characters locked in small, sealed rooms, waiting for rescue or looking for a way out. Find out how long a person would realistically have in a situation like this, and why oxygen deprivation is only half the problem. So you’ve got your character stuffed in an airlock. This…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

You Can Rent Disney Movies on YouTube Now

A Thanksgiving Meal (in-a-pill)

More MRSA Found in Supermarket Turkey

Ursula K. Le Guin writes a fable of Occupy Wall Street

Why flying on planes can make you sick – and how to stop it

What makes a psychopath’s brain different?

Which Airlines Are Most Likely to Get You Home Late During the Holidays?

You Can Now Print Your Photos Directly from Your Phone

Community has been secretly conjuring up Beetlejuice for the last 3 seasons

Giant theremin appears in Melbourne. Australia now 67 percent spookier.

Portable Breast Cancer Detector Brings Checkups To the Patient

This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches

One fifth of all mammals are bats. Here’s why.

First Look at BlackBerry Playbook’s Massively Late Native Email, Calendar and Contacts

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Isn’t Coming ’til Next Month

New Star Wars art show is classy, retro-stylish, and generally brilliant

First images from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus play with the Alien mythology

How to Make an Elevator Go Into Free Fall

Past Perfect at Gizmodo Gallery

How long would you survive in an airlock?

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