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Italians Have Been Getting Blitzed on Wine for a Very Long Time

When we think about wine in Italian history, we think of the booze-soaked bacchanalias of ancient Rome. But it turns out that Italians were using wine to get their drunk on long before that, as evidenced by an exciting new discovery of the region’s oldest vino near a Copper Age site in Sicily. It’s a…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

Daily Stormer Whack-A-Mole Begins Again: Neo-Nazi Site Resurfaces Then Moves Back to GoDaddy [Now in Albania]

Less than 24 hours after neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer returned to the web, its domain registrar, DreamHost, claimed Anonymous hit it with a DDoS attack that put its 400,000 websites offline. Then, after inciting an attack on DreamHost, Daily Stormer moved its domain registration back to GoDaddy the registrar that first booted the site…

Tech News Brian Patrick Byrne and Bryan Menegus

Your Guide to Flashpoint, the Flash Story Everyone Uses to Change Up the Universe

Flashpoint is one of the most important stories in DC Comics’ recent history. But bizarrely, it’s also become one most popular Flash stories to crop up in other media. There’s an animated film, it’s been part of the CW TV show, and now, it’s being set up as the story of the Flash movie. Here’s…

io9 James Whitbrook

Amazon’s Takeover of Whole Foods Begins on Monday With Discounted Baby Kale

The $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods only received a green light on Wednesday, but the company has already announced that the deal will be done on Monday, August 28th. In a PR statement that will inspire lovers of $6 asparagus water, Amazon says that it will immediately drop the notoriously high prices at the…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Common Antiseptic Chemical Can Harm Important Cell Function

There are many bad things to worry about. Be it climate change, diseases, rabid dogs or ticks, life is just chock full of worry. So, here’s another thing: virtually everything in your medicine cabinet. Sorry 🙁 Don’t freak out, because there’s not enough information to know how bad the chemical is, and well, the human…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

When Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, it was a blockbuster to end all other blockbusters—the most expensive movie of all time that actually lived up to its price tag. It was the kind of movie that, if it was made today, would have been the subject of thousands upon thousands of bullshit internet articles…

io9 Germain Lussier

Another Government Agency Has Purged References to Climate Change From Its Site

Data-tracking watchdog group, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), has reported dozens of instances where the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has deleted references to climate change from its site. As the name suggests, the NIEHS’ site links to research summaries detailing how the environment affects personal health. Since it began tracking changes to…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

Matt Reeves Clarifies The Batman‘s Place in the DC Movie Universe

It’s been a hell of a week for the DC movieverse—with the news that Warner Bros is also launching a banner for DC movies that are not part of the continuity of the DC Extended Universe. That news collided with a rumor about the future of The Batman last night, but director Matt Reeves has…

io9 James Whitbrook

World’s Luckiest Guy Has Incredibly Close Call While Filming a Lightning Storm

The intense flash of light and booming crack of thunder that follows a lightning strike can be exhilarating, but it’s best to observe both whilke safely inside your home. As Norway’s Daniel Modøl discovered while filming a storm from his deck, those unpredictable lightning bolts can strike anywhere, even 16-feet from where you’re standing. Modøl,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Court Orders DreamHost to Turn Over Info on Anti-Trump Site [Updated]

DreamHost must turn over some information about a website hosted on its platform that was used to plan a protest on President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, a DC judge ruled today. The Justice Department, which alleges that the site helped coordinate a riot, initially sought a massive amount of DreamHost data including the IP addresses…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

We Finally Know How Characters on Game of Thrones Keep Getting To the Wall So Fast

Season seven of Game of Thrones has been exciting and dreadfully sloppy in equal measure. Important character arcs are rushed, motivations are confusing, and reality has gone out the window in terms of how quickly characters move between locations—particularly the route from Dragonstone to the Wall. Jon made the journey to meet Daenerys in no…

io9 Avery Ellis

What Present-Day Hunter-Gatherers Can Tell Us About the Bacteria in Our Gut

The Hazda is a small group of hunter-gatherers living in the central Rift Valley of Tanzania, one of the few remaining groups of people left in the world who still collect the majority of their diet through foraged foods. Modernity has still managed to touch their lives, of course, but far less than it has…

Health Kristen V. Brown

This Probe Might Investigate the Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Biggest Moon

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is kind of like what you’d expect if Salvador Dali designed a planet. It has methane lakes, electrically charged sand, and allegedly, an ocean hiding under its crust. While the Cassini and Huygens spacecraft have revealed some of these mysteries to us, so many lingering questions about this weirdo moon remain.…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Big Trouble in Little China‘s Hero Returns to Fight a Hellish New Foe in Old Man Jack

We’ll never need a big-screen sequel or (PLEASE NO) reboot of Big Trouble in Little China, because John Carpenter’s goofy cult comedy is the perfect self-contained cinematic experience. But we welcome all non-movie works that celebrate the film’s characters and mythology—like the upcoming board game, and brand-new comic Old Man Jack. As the title, which…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

How Will the Game of Thrones TV Show Affect the Books?

Greetings from the future! Welcome to “Postal Apocalypse,” io9’s admittedly sporadic mail column by me, editor Rob Bricken. This week I’ve got a lot of Defenders questions (from one curious reader), a lot more Game of Thrones questions (from many curious readers), and I explain why you should only be slightly worried about the Captain…

io9 Rob Bricken

Hurricane Harvey Expected to Bring Catastrophic Flooding to Texas [Updated]

Tropical Storm Harvey is continuing to gain strength in the Gulf of Mexico, and meteorologists are now expecting this weather system to assume hurricane status by Friday. Texans are now battening down the hatches in preparation for high winds, extreme rains, and an unusually high risk of flooding. Harvey is currently a few hundred miles…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Watch Two of The Tick‘s Bad Guys Bitch at Each Other

As symbolic representations of good and evil, heroes and villains kind of need each other. So far, we’ve mostly seen a bunch of do-gooders in previews of The Tick, but a new clip from Amazon’s superhero satire reboot features two of the show’s villains doing a terrible job of working together. The ne’er-do-wells jawing at…

Television Evan Narcisse

Semi-Autonomous Cars Scare the Shit Out of Me

Last month, I was driving down the interstate, somewhere near the southern corner of Virginia, when a thunderstorm opened up above me. Suddenly, a wall of water appeared a hundred yards ahead. In a split second, I had zero visibility, a slick road, and a shitload of anxiety. So I let go of the wheel…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Has a Massive Tourist Problem

In September, China flicked the switch on the world’s largest radio telescope. The unusually large dish in an isolated area of Guizhou province needs radio silence to hone in on potential signs of alien life and distant pulsars, but researchers fear that a huge influx of tourists could be rendering the $180 million dish useless.…

Space & Spaceflight Rhett Jones

The Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Had Way Too Much Fun on Set

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 cast and crew had an inordinate amount of fun with one another working on the film. How are you supposed to make a movie in which a talking raccoon helps blow up a living planet if you’re not laughing…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Italians Have Been Getting Blitzed on Wine for a Very Long Time

Daily Stormer Whack-A-Mole Begins Again: Neo-Nazi Site Resurfaces Then Moves Back to GoDaddy [Now in Albania]

Your Guide to Flashpoint, the Flash Story Everyone Uses to Change Up the Universe

Amazon’s Takeover of Whole Foods Begins on Monday With Discounted Baby Kale

Common Antiseptic Chemical Can Harm Important Cell Function

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

Another Government Agency Has Purged References to Climate Change From Its Site

Matt Reeves Clarifies The Batman‘s Place in the DC Movie Universe

World’s Luckiest Guy Has Incredibly Close Call While Filming a Lightning Storm

Court Orders DreamHost to Turn Over Info on Anti-Trump Site [Updated]

We Finally Know How Characters on Game of Thrones Keep Getting To the Wall So Fast

What Present-Day Hunter-Gatherers Can Tell Us About the Bacteria in Our Gut

This Probe Might Investigate the Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Biggest Moon

Big Trouble in Little China‘s Hero Returns to Fight a Hellish New Foe in Old Man Jack

How Will the Game of Thrones TV Show Affect the Books?

Hurricane Harvey Expected to Bring Catastrophic Flooding to Texas [Updated]

Watch Two of The Tick‘s Bad Guys Bitch at Each Other

Semi-Autonomous Cars Scare the Shit Out of Me

The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Has a Massive Tourist Problem

The Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Had Way Too Much Fun on Set

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