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Please Calm Down: Coconut Oil Is Fine

Who doesn’t love logging on to the good old ‘net on a Friday morning to the headline “Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter.’” It’s got everything. Ah, you might think, my favorite health product is as bad as butter! Or you might even say to yourself, those coconut oil-huffing liberals are really…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

This Rogue Doctor Wants to Charge Women $100,000 For an Illegal Fertility Treatment

Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been born using a new technique requiring three genetic parents. The baby’s mother carried the genes for a fatal nervous system disorder called Leigh syndrome, but Zhang had been able to keep the disease from being…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

Holy Heck: Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion in Cash

Bloomberg News and others report that Amazon will buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. In cash! That breaks down to Jeff Bezos and company paying $42 per share for a chain of health food and lifestyle stores. In cash! Here’s a funny Twitter joke about that: Amazon confirmed the Bloomberg report just minutes after…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Mark Hamill Clarifies His Alarming Statement on Luke in The Last Jedi

Hey, so remember when Mark Hamill said that when he got the script for The Last Jedi and told director Rian Johnson that he “pretty much fundamentally disagree[d]” with “every choice” made for Luke? Well, he’d like to explain that a bit. Plus: More details on the Justice League reshoots, Deckard and Baby Gosling are…

io9 Gordon Jackson

My Uber Boycott Is Finally Paying Off

I’d like to say that I’ve never given Uber money, but that wouldn’t be true. Not exactly. I did give Uber money once, years ago, when I had no other option. The company promptly ripped me off, and I wasn’t surprised. Why not? I worked in the same office as Uber in its early days.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Robot Falls for a Scarecrow in This Charming Fable About Star-Crossed Love

Girl meets boy at a raucous music festival, and they fall in love as colorful debauchery rages around them. Kibwe Tavares’ short film Robot & Scarecrow would be a lovely if somewhat unremarkable tale of romance, except for the fact that the girl is literally a robot and the boy is actually a scarecrow. Further complicating…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Kevin Smith Is Currently Shooting a Horror Movie Called Killroy Was Here

Kevin Smith, the man behind cult comedies Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy, is making a new movie. However, it’s not one of the many potential projects fans of his have been anticipating—it’s a mostly new horror idea called Killroy Was Here. We say “mostly new” because it’s an adaptation of one of Smith’s previous ideas.…

Movies Germain Lussier

New Trailer for Okja Will Make You Want a Giant Happy Hippo Thing of Your Very Own

As far as I can tell, Okja will get a whole lot of mileage from one essential truth: don’t take things from little girls. Especially their magical cryptid animal friends. Directed by Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer), Okja will be debuting on Netflix at the end of June. This new trailer shows the friendship between Mija…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Archaeologists Uncover Secret Message On Bible-Era Pottery

Those who live vicariously through Indiana Jones will be glad to know that a team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered a cryptic message left on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard. The ink-on-clay piece of pottery—called an ostracon—was originally discovered in the 1960s, in a city west of the Dead Sea called Tel Arad. Now, using new…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

The Nerdiest Debate Ever May Finally Have a Winner

If you’re not a programmer, you’re probably not going to know this, but there’s a vicious rivalry lurking in the code of every app you use. If code isn’t written consistently—using either the tab or the space button to create indentations—the format can get all wonky, making it difficult for multiple authors to contribute to…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Ladies, I Know We’re All Wonder Woman, But Don’t Put Swords Down Your Dresses

One of the coolest visuals in Wonder Woman was when Diana went undercover at a German party to take down General Erich Ludendorff, concealing her Godkiller sword down the back of her dress. It was both sexy and badass, and it’s inspired some women to slide blades down their own ballgowns. Sure, it looks awesome.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Leaked Data Reveals Just How Freaking Expensive It Is to Put Spice Girls and Coldplay Songs in Crappy Movies

One of Hollywood’s top contract management firms was sent scrambling this week after informed of a breach involving a wealth of confidential and proprietary data. Contained in the leak was invaluable information about the earnings of some of the world’s biggest musical talent during the era of Now That’s What I Call Music! 45 through…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Watchmen‘s Iconic Smiley Face Button Almost Didn’t Happen

Doctor Manhattan’s naked blue body aside, there are few images that scream Watchmen louder than the Comedian’s bloody smiley face button. According to Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons, though, the button was a fluke that almost didn’t happen. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gibbons explains that the idea for the Comedian’s button came to…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Experiment With Chinese Satellite Demonstrates Quantum Weirdness Over Record Distances

Quantum mechanics is weird as hell, where the rules of the world you experience don’t apply. Even at distances a thousand kilometers apart, particles seem to be able to communicate with each other instantly, for example. Chinese scientists have subjected this idea to an extreme trial, testing what Albert Einstein has called “spooky action at…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Walking Around This Interactive Room Is a Nightmarish Drug Trip Without the Drugs

When you strap on a virtual reality headset, your body has a constant (heavy) reminder that what you’re seeing isn’t real. But what happens when virtual reality spills out into the real world? This tech-filled room is able to warp and bend reality making you feel like you’re tripping on drugs you don’t remember taking.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

8 Questions We Really Want Answered in The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Second Season

Even though there were some significant changes and additions, the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale followed the basic structure of Margaret Atwood’s classic novel, all the way through the end of Offred’s journey. That means next season will, for better or worse, show us a new chance to explore Gilead—and the world it inhabits.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

This Clever Camera Trick Lets You Photograph the Invisible World Around Us

When you rub your hands together to create friction and warmth, heat energy radiating off your hand creates air currents. They’re completely invisible to the human eye, but with a simple setup, it turns out your digital camera can reveal this invisible world around us. The technique is known as Schlieren photography, which YouTube’s Veritasium—aka…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

James Gunn Trolling a Fake Kevin Feige Is My Favorite Thing Today

Figuring out the secrets behind the latest superhero movies is one of the internet’s favorite past times. This week though, one Guardians of the Galaxy fan took things to a whole new level and paid the price by taking an epic troll. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn just posted a series of screencaps…

Movies Germain Lussier

Trump to Mayor of ‘Drowning’ Island: Don’t Worry About Sea Level Rise

Virginia’s Tangier Island is drowning. It’s accessible only by boat, besieged by both sinking land and rising sea, and has shrunk to one-third the size it was in 1850. On Wednesday, President Trump called its mayor, James Eskridge, to say not to worry about sea level rise. Shockingly, he agreed. Mayor Eskridge relayed their conversation…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

Which Show Is Crazier: Gotham or Legends of Tomorrow?

Ciao, my cherubic change-of-address forms! So many good questions this week. How the hell did Han Solo figure out Chewbacca’s name if Chewbacca himself can’t even say it? Did Wonder Woman actually need a man to save the day? Why wasn’t Captain America: Civil War called Avengers 3? All that and still more, packed into…

Television Rob Bricken

Please Calm Down: Coconut Oil Is Fine

This Rogue Doctor Wants to Charge Women $100,000 For an Illegal Fertility Treatment

Holy Heck: Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion in Cash

Mark Hamill Clarifies His Alarming Statement on Luke in The Last Jedi

My Uber Boycott Is Finally Paying Off

A Robot Falls for a Scarecrow in This Charming Fable About Star-Crossed Love

Kevin Smith Is Currently Shooting a Horror Movie Called Killroy Was Here

New Trailer for Okja Will Make You Want a Giant Happy Hippo Thing of Your Very Own

Archaeologists Uncover Secret Message On Bible-Era Pottery

The Nerdiest Debate Ever May Finally Have a Winner

Ladies, I Know We’re All Wonder Woman, But Don’t Put Swords Down Your Dresses

Leaked Data Reveals Just How Freaking Expensive It Is to Put Spice Girls and Coldplay Songs in Crappy Movies

Watchmen‘s Iconic Smiley Face Button Almost Didn’t Happen

Experiment With Chinese Satellite Demonstrates Quantum Weirdness Over Record Distances

Walking Around This Interactive Room Is a Nightmarish Drug Trip Without the Drugs

8 Questions We Really Want Answered in The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Second Season

This Clever Camera Trick Lets You Photograph the Invisible World Around Us

James Gunn Trolling a Fake Kevin Feige Is My Favorite Thing Today

Trump to Mayor of ‘Drowning’ Island: Don’t Worry About Sea Level Rise

Which Show Is Crazier: Gotham or Legends of Tomorrow?

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