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Breakthrough: A new drug that could cure everything from colds to HIV

Our most powerful antibiotics can kill many different kinds of bacterial infections at once, but we’re still searching for a single all-purpose drug that kills viruses. We may have just discovered it. Technically speaking, any drug that is used to treat a virus is known as an antiviral, and we use them to treat HIV,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 20 '11

Bleeding Zombie Target Dummies: Essential Apocalypse Preparedness

Shooting paper targets will improve your aim, but they don’t quite capture the experience of emptying a shotgun into a zombie’s chest. Not like these lifelike—or should I say undeadlike—zombie targets that bleed like real flesh. It’s a little gruesome, I’ll admit that, but no one said the apocalypse was going to be a picnic.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 20 '11

What if the US highway system consisted entirely of subways instead?

Such is the scenario Australian designer Cameron Booth has dreamt up in two separate maps depicting both the U.S. Routes system and the U.S. Interstates as massive crisscrossing subway grids. For a somewhat similarly themed speculative geography project, see the effort to transform the entire globe into the New York City street grid. To witness…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 20 '11

Spend the Next 22 Minutes Mesmerized By This Near-Perpetual Motion Double Pendulum

YouTuber yamamo2 hasn’t created the world’s first perpetual motion machine with this high-performance double pendulum. But he did create a hypnotic way to lose 22 minutes of your life staring at your screen. There’s unfortunately no description on what makes the double pendulum so highly efficient, so we’re just going to assume it’s a mix…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liszewski Dec 20 '11

Ten catch phrases you swore you’d never use (and when you used them)

No matter how hard you struggle, these phrases worm their way into your consciousness. No matter how much you deny it, you let them back out. Here’s a list of ten phrases too good to not repeat. 10. “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” What it’s from: Wizard of Oz When you say it: Took the…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 20 '11

These Dark Knight Brake Light Decals Will Only Summon the Cops

They’ve been around for at least a year now, and all my research points to obscuring your brake lights as being very illegal. But I don’t care. This is the closest my hatchback will ever get to being the batmobile. For $7 this ‘kit’ is basically just a sheet of adhesive vinyl with three different…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 20 '11

Is this the synopsis for Alfonso Cuarón’s “Spaceman George Clooney” flick Gravity?

We’re still not sure what to make of director Alfonso Cuarón’s (Children of Men) next picture Gravity. But we do know that it stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock and deals with such jovial topics as isolation and death in space. Thankfully, this latest synopsis has us very excited. JoBlo has stumbled across what they…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 20 '11

You’ll Never Guess 2011’s Most Popular YouTube Video!

Just kidding, of course you will, because it’s Rebecca Black, and Rebecca Black is 2011’s most important entity across culture, politics, and the whole of the space-time continuum. But what else mattered in our cosmos, YouTube-wise? Let’s explore! Following Facebook and Google’s trend of highlighting a whole bunch of inane horse shit with the occasional…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 20 '11

Let’s visit the bar at the center of the Milky Way

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to order a drink there. It’s actually a gigantic, bar-shaped formation of stars found right at the center of our home galaxy. And it rotates like nothing else in the Milky Way. While we have known for about eighty years that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, figuring out…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 20 '11

Feds Tell Man To Stop Giving Away His Sperm for Free Online

A benevolent SF Bay man has gotten himself into quite a sticky mess with the government for running a free, ad-hoc sperm bank off his website. He’s already fathered 14 children with his donations and more are on the way. He thinks it’s charity, but now the feds wanna shut him down. The FDA has…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 20 '11

This Wednesday, Batman Incorporated returns, and Jim Henson’s unfilmed screenplay goes comic book!

Oodles of new, bizarre offerings are in comics shops tomorrow! Grant Morrison’s first run on Batman Inc. wraps up, a bunch of new 2000 AD stuff hits bookshelves, and one of Jim Henson’s unpublished existentialist scripts gets the graphic novel treatment. Hop to it! First Issues Grant Morrison wraps up his run on the first…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Dec 20 '11

Republicans Are Afraid the Iowa Caucus Might Get Hacked

The GOP believes hackers are targeting the Iowa caucus polling system to screw with results and mess with the Republicans. I wonder why! A video, supposedly posted by Anonymous, called their supporters to “peacefully shut down” the Iowa caucus because of the corrupt political system in the US. The GOP is afraid that the Iowa…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Dec 20 '11

Apple Spending Tons of Cash on Israeli Super Memory

Israeli financial paper Calcalist reports Apple has thrown down some serious stacks to acquire Anobit, a flash memory firm. But the purported $400-500 million (!) buyout isn’t just for any memory firm—Anobit says its memory’s faster and cheaper. Anobit makes NAND memory, which is used in things like flash drives and—more importantly here—solid state drives…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 20 '11

The Man Who Told the Internet He’d Come from the Future

What if someone from the future popped up in our timeline and started answering questions from people on internet message boards? That’s exactly what John Titor did in the late 1990s. Claiming he was sent from the future on a mission to retrieve an antique computer, he talked with thousands of people online and told…

io9 Keith Veronese Dec 20 '11

Classic Disney villains redrawn as steampunk baddies

What could be better than a steampunk Ursula with metal tentacles to carry her about? A steampunk Cruella de Vil, that’s what! Check out this wonderful collection of Disney villains and heroes, steampunk-style. All of these illustrations were created by the Deviant Artist MecaniqueFairy, who did such a wonderful job on these that we must…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 20 '11

This is probably the greatest kung fu battle of all time

We’ve seen a lot of madness from YouTube martial arts archiver Sardonicus, and this latest clip might just be the best thing he’s ever hit us with. In this clip from 1986’s The Young Taoism Fighter (also known as Miracle Fighters 4), the hero demonstrates his “Separate Body Style” to defeat his nemesis. Explains Sardonicus,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 20 '11

If You Like Lady Gaga, You Deserve To Be Phished

The poker-faced popstar Lady Gaga had her Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked yesterday — and then malicious links were sent to all her friends and followers. Serves them right for liking her music. Whoever sent out the messages tried their best to be convincing, by using the same language that Gaga herself uses. But the…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Dec 20 '11

What’s it like playing Tintin’s klutzy buddy? Nick Frost gives us the scoop

io9 recently caught up with actor Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), who plays the pratfall-prone Inspector Thomson in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. Frost filled us on the motion-capture process, potential upcoming projects with longtime collaborator Simon Pegg, and what it’s like to play a Thompson twin (and no, we’re not…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Dec 20 '11

Ice Cream Sandwich Coming To More Galaxy Devices Early 2012

Samsung has finally confirmed the release schedule for Ice Cream Sandwich on its Galaxy devices — and it should be landing on some phones in the first quarter of 2012. With the Nexus already packing Ice Cream Sandwich, it was always going to be a short wait. The Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note will…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 20 '11

Can you name the stages of human evolution in this circle of skulls?

Science tells us that humans evolved from more ape-like primates, but it’s not every day that so much evidence winds up in one place. The skull replicas on this table belong to a whole slew of distant human cousins and ancestors. Taken together, the contents of this table represent 4.5 million years of human evolution.…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Dec 20 '11

Breakthrough: A new drug that could cure everything from colds to HIV

Bleeding Zombie Target Dummies: Essential Apocalypse Preparedness

What if the US highway system consisted entirely of subways instead?

Spend the Next 22 Minutes Mesmerized By This Near-Perpetual Motion Double Pendulum

Ten catch phrases you swore you’d never use (and when you used them)

These Dark Knight Brake Light Decals Will Only Summon the Cops

Is this the synopsis for Alfonso Cuarón’s “Spaceman George Clooney” flick Gravity?

You’ll Never Guess 2011’s Most Popular YouTube Video!

Let’s visit the bar at the center of the Milky Way

Feds Tell Man To Stop Giving Away His Sperm for Free Online

This Wednesday, Batman Incorporated returns, and Jim Henson’s unfilmed screenplay goes comic book!

Republicans Are Afraid the Iowa Caucus Might Get Hacked

Apple Spending Tons of Cash on Israeli Super Memory

The Man Who Told the Internet He’d Come from the Future

Classic Disney villains redrawn as steampunk baddies

This is probably the greatest kung fu battle of all time

If You Like Lady Gaga, You Deserve To Be Phished

What’s it like playing Tintin’s klutzy buddy? Nick Frost gives us the scoop

Ice Cream Sandwich Coming To More Galaxy Devices Early 2012

Can you name the stages of human evolution in this circle of skulls?

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