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The sausage: an agent of xenophobia?

Dr. Keir Waddington, reader in History and Head of History and Welsh History at the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales, is in the process of examining the cultural position of the sausage. His recent paper : The Dangerous Sausage: Diet, Meat and Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Cultural and Social…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research May 28 '11

“Magick Chicks” sends mean girls to monster-hunting school

After getting expelled from their school for teenaged monsters, a trio of witches enrolls in an all-girl academy for monster hunters. To fit in, they’ll have to hide their witchy natures and contend with a telekinetic queen bee. Gisèle Lagacé has a storied career in webcomics, having collaborated with T Campbell on Cool Cat Studio…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis May 28 '11

Cyborg Eyeshadow For Digital Fashionistas

There are some things in fashion I will never fully understand. However, there’s something to be said about how a little bit of tech can be beautiful. So Lulin Ding’s Digitized Eyeshadow has me thinking “This is crazy but cool.” As Ding writes: I was interested in the way women wear eyeshadow and how most…

Tech News Kwame Opam May 28 '11

In The Virtual World, His Fiancée Never Died

“Obviously, I can’t bring people back to life,” Jon Jacobs recently told me. Obviously. It was morning when he told me that. He was on his way to work in Los Angeles, chatting with me on his cell phone. His wife, a singer named Cheri, was driving him to work that day. He and I…

io9 Stephen Totilo May 28 '11

Jeff Conaway, Babylon 5’s Zack Allan, passes away at 60

Actor Jeff Conaway, who was best known among scifi fans for his role as the affable Babylon 5 security officer Zack Allan (and the star of the 1983 fantasy series Wizards and Warriors), died yesterday at the age of 60. Like his fictional counterpart on Babylon 5, the actor had his struggles with substance abuse…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 28 '11

Lockheed Martin’s Security Networks Were Hacked

Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors, was hit hard by hackers this week who used falsified SecurID electronic tokens to gain access. The breach threatens the security of vital data on present and future military technology. Which, you know, sucks for us and our allies abroad who depend on Lockheed to help…

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam May 28 '11

Rubbernecking motorists enraptured by Russian crop circles

Crop circles recently appeared in a wheat field near the village of Znamensky outside of Krasnodar, Russia. These circles have captured the imaginations of motorists, bedazzled by visions of a spacefaring race that has zero respect for a staple crop. Here’s an amusingly garbled description of the incident from Real UFOs: According to a special…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 28 '11

This atomic bomb survival suit will make you want to hide in a fridge

In 1960, an enterprising inventor named Harold C. Tifft patented the “portable shield,” a device that would ostensibly protect its user from radioactive fallout until help arrived. Or if help arrived. You’re sporting your coffin on your back! Here’s how Tifft describes his ghoulish, anti-nuke carapace: In one specific embodiment, this invention contemplates a portable…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 28 '11

Meet the gremlins who haunt Katie Holmes’ house in the full “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” trailer

Not to be confused with that freaky Nickelodeon show, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is a Guillermo del Toro-penned-and-produced remake of a 1973 TV movie about wee, skittering monsters who harass an old mansion’s new tenants. This flick is directed by Troy Nixey, and Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes star. Don’t Be Afraid of…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar May 28 '11

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Dick Wiener’s Name Changery

It’s a long weekend. (Yeah!) What better way to kick it off than to watch some poor souls attempting to cope with terrible names from cruel, cruel parents? Good thing there’s Dick Weiner’s Name Changery, which provides the perfect remedy! The rest of the week’s top comedy videos can be seen over at SplitSider. This…

Tech News Splitsider May 28 '11

DeconGel Is Like Silly Putty for Radioactive Surfaces

Remember Silly Putty and how you could use it to lift and image from the Sunday comics? A blue goo from Hawaii wont lift ink, but it will peel radiation from contaminated surfaces. The blue goo is called DeconGel, a liquid that can be painted or sprayed on a contaminated surface. It hardens and traps…

Tech News Kelly May 27 '11

Great Moments in Autopen History

Minutes before midnight, after a landslide House vote of 250-153, President Obama signed legislation backing a four-year extension on the controversial USA PATRIOT Act. (Did you know that’s an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism? Now you do.) Yay, habeas corpus denials, warrantless searches and…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch May 27 '11

Best io9 Videos of the Week

MUTANT LOVE | Image from X-Men: First Class. Here are the best io9 videos of the week, for your Friday evening enjoyment. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-reason-why-a-clockwork-orange-was-so-disturbin-5806089 The Real Reason Why A Clockwork Orange Was So Disturbing Why was A Clockwork Orange such a controversial film when it originally came out? It’s not just because of all the sex…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 27 '11

When You’re a Sex Offender, Don’t Log into Facebook in the Apple Store Next to a Local Sheriff

It’s only natural that a criminal who’s banned from using the Internet is going to log on the first chance they get. But if you’re going to violate probation, you probably shouldn’t do so in public. Next to a sheriff. Such was the case when San Luis Obispo detectives allegedly spotted Robert McGuire, a convicted…

Tech News Max Behrman May 27 '11

Wearing sunglasses can save you from migraines

If you suffer frequent migraines, you probably already know that tinted lenses are your friend – but now we have scientific proof. Precision tinted lenses have been known for years to provide relief for migraine sufferers and people hit with certain reading difficulties, and now we have the fMRI scans to prove it. For some…

io9 Tim Barribeau May 27 '11

Vodafone’s Monster Truck Charges 2,000 Cellphones at Once

Don’t worry if your battery dies at a concert this summer. Just find Vodafone’s VIP recharging truck. It can charge 2,000 Vodafone handsets at the same time. The 44-ton truck will go on tour and hit 11 festivals this summer. This charging station on wheels provides the same power output as your household outlet and…

Tech News Kelly May 27 '11

The 19th century illustrator whose imagination fueled the work of H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft is famous for creating monsters so bizarre they are almost impossible to visualize. And yet he was inspired by many painters and visual artists. John Coulthart has a great article over at Tor.com about the artists Lovecraft adored, including Gustave Doré, whose woodcuts you can see in our gallery here. You can see…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 27 '11

What to Expect when Our Galaxy Collides With Andromeda

We only have five billion years left until the Milky Way galaxy crashes into Andromeda, our nearest neighbor. What will happen to us then? Because galactic collisions take place over millions or billions of years, the process isn’t well understood. That’s why scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have come up with an “Atlas…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 27 '11

The sausage: an agent of xenophobia?

“Magick Chicks” sends mean girls to monster-hunting school

Cyborg Eyeshadow For Digital Fashionistas

In The Virtual World, His Fiancée Never Died

Jeff Conaway, Babylon 5’s Zack Allan, passes away at 60

Lockheed Martin’s Security Networks Were Hacked

Rubbernecking motorists enraptured by Russian crop circles

This atomic bomb survival suit will make you want to hide in a fridge

Meet the gremlins who haunt Katie Holmes’ house in the full “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” trailer

Top Stories of the Week

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Dick Wiener’s Name Changery

DeconGel Is Like Silly Putty for Radioactive Surfaces

Great Moments in Autopen History

Best io9 Videos of the Week

When You’re a Sex Offender, Don’t Log into Facebook in the Apple Store Next to a Local Sheriff

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Wearing sunglasses can save you from migraines

Vodafone’s Monster Truck Charges 2,000 Cellphones at Once

The 19th century illustrator whose imagination fueled the work of H.P. Lovecraft

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