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James McAvoy Reprises His Role as Mr. Tumnus in a Bizarre Saturday Night Live Sketch

Did you even know that Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was played by James McAvoy? I did not. It was one of his first big film roles, apparently, and it helped to cement his career. Now, he’s back playing the faun in a very strange sketch on Saturday Night Live. This…

Movies Julie Muncy

Blue Origin Breaks Ground on Rocket Engine Factory in Huntsville, Alabama

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin has officially started construction on a Huntsville, Alabama facility that will produce engines for its New Glenn two-stage, partially reusable launch system, as well as the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur, Engadget reported. According to AL.com, the $200 million, 46-acre facility in Huntsville— sometimes called “Rocket…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

The Powerful Transgender Narrative in Steven Universe

Steven Universe has always been invested in queer representation. Rebecca Sugar and her team have worked to present the lives and loves of LGBTQ+ people in ways comprehensible to kids and palatable to censors, building a story about found family and the freedom to love who you want out of a space opera about sentient…

io9 Julie Muncy

Brazilian Mining Disaster Leaves Dozens Dead, Hundreds Missing After Waste Dam Collapses

Authorities said this weekend that the death toll from an industrial disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil in Minas Gerais state has climbed to at least 34, with some officials saying that the true toll could reach the hundreds, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. That’s a sharp increase from a prior count of 11 deaths…

Tech News Tom McKay

Measles Outbreak Worsens in Washington as Governor Declares State of Emergency

Dozens of people have been infected in a measles outbreak that is currently spreading throughout parts of the Pacific Northwest, prompting Washington Governor Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency in all counties on Friday. “Measles is a highly contagious disease that can be fatal in small children,” Inslee said in a statement Friday.…

Health Catie Keck

Gerard Way’s New Track For Umbrella Academy Is an Absolute Banger

If I had to be reborn as any person, I’d pick Gerard Way. Great writer? Great musician (if you’re a Millennial, anyway)? Dude is unstoppable lately. And the song he put out for the newest wave of Umbrella Academy promotion just totally rules. You might have heard some of the song in the new trailer…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Australia Continues to Fry Under Scorching Heat Waves

The second heat wave in two weeks in Southern Australia continued to punish the region, with temperatures in Melbourne hitting 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit (42.8C) on Friday afternoon, and the state of Tasmania struggling to deal with “30 uncontained fires,” according to the Guardian. Electrical blackouts lasting over two hours affected some 200,000 people in the…

Earth Science Tom McKay

The Lego Movie 2 Somehow Lives Up to Its Impossible Expectations

The first Lego Movie is so good there’s a chance you don’t remember just how good it was. Not only did it tell a smart, hilarious, original story with a wildly famous IP, but it was filled with heart, eventually revealing itself to be a deeper story of a boy and his father bonding and…

Movies Germain Lussier

CDC Warns Against Kissing, Snuggling Pet Hedgehogs Amid Salmonella Outbreak

It’s not every day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues an advisory about pet hedgehogs, but here we are. The CDC said Friday that it is currently investigating a Salmonella typhimurium outbreak that it believes may be tied to contact with these prickly critters, adding that you definitely shouldn’t be cuddling or smooching…

Health Catie Keck

This Video Runs Down the Fictional History of One of Star Wars‘ Most Recognizable Blasters

Okay, the most recognizable blaster in Star Wars is probably Han’s Blaster, the Dl-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol. But this is the second. The E-11 Blaster is wielded by heroes and villains alike, the standard-issue gun of Imperial Stormtroopers, part of a lineage of fictional weapons used by the Grand Army of the Republic before it…

Movies Julie Muncy

Report: Citizen Lab Targeted in Botched Sting After Researching Israeli Firm’s Ties to Saudi Arabia

“International undercover operatives” have been hounding members of the internet watchdog Citizen Lab, whose researchers helped reveal that an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm named NSO Group may have played a role in dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the hands of state-employed goons, the Associated Press reported Friday. According to the AP, at least twice…

Tech News Tom McKay

Wake Up, Oppy! NASA Sends New Commands to Mars Opportunity Rover

NASA’s beloved Mars rover Opportunity has been silent for months after getting swept up in an enormous dust storm on the Red Planet last summer, and NASA engineers have been pinging the rover to answer to no avail. Now, NASA says it will send new commands to the resilient explorer in hopes of making contact,…

Space & Spaceflight Catie Keck

A Sequel to Detective Pikachu Is Already in the Works

And the road to the Uncanny Valley will be marked by a procession of electrified cartoon mice. Detective Pikachu, a film about a talking Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, teaming up with a young man played by Justice Smith on a quest to find his missing father, comes out May 10. Apparently, Legendary Entertainment feels…

Movies Julie Muncy

Chris Pine Isn’t Sure Steve Trevor Will Be Back After Wonder Woman 1984

Chris Pine, one of the illustrious cabal of Chrises that dominates pop culture like a name-based Illuminati, isn’t entirely sure if he’s going to be doing more than just one more Wonder Woman movie. We know he’s appearing in Wonder Woman 1984, where his character Steve Trevor will be—somehow—thrust into the future to co-star, again,…

Movies Julie Muncy

Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven’t Been This Hot in 115,000 Years

The latest sign of just how screwed the Arctic is: moss that hasn’t seen the light of day in at least 40,000 years is tumbling out of ice caps on Canada’s Baffin Island thanks to increasingly balmy summers. Based on that and other lines of evidence, research published in Nature Communications on Friday suggests that…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Maybe Don’t Charge an E-Scooter If You Plan to Do Crimes

A man was reportedly arrested this week in connection with a recent bank robbery after his credit card that was used to rent a Jump e-scooter linked him to the scene of the crime. The Austin American-Statesman reported Friday that the incident occurred in Austin on Dec. 18, when a hooded man approached a bank…

Tech News Catie Keck

Tesla Was Fined Less Than the Cost of a Tesla

Remember Tesla’s production tent, the one it erected to help crank out Model 3s last year? Apparently, it didn’t sit well with California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the company now faces fines totaling nearly $30,000 over violations of labor laws. Business Insider reported Friday that Cal/OSHA inspected the assembly line known as…

Transportation Catie Keck

The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened

While we’re now able to look back and see, statistically, how the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the North American queer community, it’s impossible to quantify the impact that lost generation of lives could have had on the world had they lived. Leo Herrera’s The Fathers Project web series imagines a world in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Truly Rex-cellent Lego Movie 2 Spaceship, and More of The Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things good and plastic on the internet right now. This week: The Punisher gets his own Iron Man figure, Lego reveals a ludicrous new Lego Movie 2 set, and Jamie Lee Curtis gets her own incredibly kickass Halloween action figure. Check it out! The Lego…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Rampant Looks to Blend the Zombie and Period Epic Genres With Gory Delight

What happens when a bunch of zombies attack a medieval town full of sword-wielding warriors? You’re about to find out in Rampant. Rampant is a 2018 South Korean horror film directed by Kim Sung-hoon and produced by the studio that led the brilliant film Train to Busan. It had a small opening last year but…

Trailers Germain Lussier

James McAvoy Reprises His Role as Mr. Tumnus in a Bizarre Saturday Night Live Sketch

Blue Origin Breaks Ground on Rocket Engine Factory in Huntsville, Alabama

The Powerful Transgender Narrative in Steven Universe

Brazilian Mining Disaster Leaves Dozens Dead, Hundreds Missing After Waste Dam Collapses

Measles Outbreak Worsens in Washington as Governor Declares State of Emergency

Gerard Way’s New Track For Umbrella Academy Is an Absolute Banger

Australia Continues to Fry Under Scorching Heat Waves

The Lego Movie 2 Somehow Lives Up to Its Impossible Expectations

CDC Warns Against Kissing, Snuggling Pet Hedgehogs Amid Salmonella Outbreak

This Video Runs Down the Fictional History of One of Star Wars‘ Most Recognizable Blasters

Report: Citizen Lab Targeted in Botched Sting After Researching Israeli Firm’s Ties to Saudi Arabia

Wake Up, Oppy! NASA Sends New Commands to Mars Opportunity Rover

A Sequel to Detective Pikachu Is Already in the Works

Chris Pine Isn’t Sure Steve Trevor Will Be Back After Wonder Woman 1984

Ancient Plants Reveal Arctic Summers Haven’t Been This Hot in 115,000 Years

Maybe Don’t Charge an E-Scooter If You Plan to Do Crimes

Tesla Was Fined Less Than the Cost of a Tesla

The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened

A Truly Rex-cellent Lego Movie 2 Spaceship, and More of The Best Toys of the Week

Rampant Looks to Blend the Zombie and Period Epic Genres With Gory Delight

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