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Here’s How Much Bubble Wrap You Need To Wrap A Giant Whale Heart

It’s not every day one stumbles upon a 400 pound whale heart, but when you do, you put that shit in a museum. Thankfully, that’s exactly what the folks at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) did when they uncovered a dead blue whale in Newfoundland back in 2014. Since then, biologist Jacqueline Miller and her…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

Will Your Summer Be Uncomfortably Hot?

It’s hot. It’s been hot. It’s going to be hot. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration just released its 2017 summer temperature outlook for the United States. And hopefully this won’t surprise you, but chances are that this summer will be hotter than average. The map might look confusing, at least it confused me at first,…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Mera’s Outfit in Aquaman Is Mermaid-y as Hell (UPDATED)

Director James Wan is currently in Australia filming his 2018 DC film, Aquaman, and he just revealed a brand new look at Mera, the Queen of Atlantis. It’s very iridescent, very colorful, and it looks like something a sporty mermaid might have in her wardrobe. Mera is being played by Amber Heard, and audiences will…

io9 Germain Lussier

Uber Doesn’t Want You to See This Document About Its Vast Data Surveillance System

The ever-expanding operations of Uber are defined by two interlocking and zealously guarded sets of information: the things the world-dominating ride-hailing company knows about you, and the things it doesn’t want you to know about it. Both kinds of secrets have been in play in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, as Ward…

Tech News Kashmir Hill

Adventure Time and Regular Show Will Cross Over in Their Own Comic

Adventure Time and Regular Show already both have their own ongoing comic series from Boom Studios imprint Kaboom. Now, they’re combining into a totally mathematical new creation: a special crossover comic book series beginning later this year. Announced through Entertainment Weekly today, Adventure Time/Regular Show—written by Conor McCreery with art from Mattia Di Meo—will see…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The Appalling Cost of Women’s Health Care Under the American Health Care Act

The details are far from final, but no matter which way you slice it, at this point it seems clear that if the American Health Care Act passes, millions of Americans will see good health care become far less accessible. Add to the list: women. After the bill passed in the House earlier this month,…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown

Can a Pill Make You More Moral?

It’s a reasonable goal to want everyone on Earth to be more moral. Maybe there’d be less suffering, and people would be happier or more prosperous. But what is morality? Are there any drugs that can make us more moral humans? Are they ready for us to debate about their use? Moral enhancers, be they…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Could a Facehugger Implant an Alien in Your Butt?

Salutations, my pensive postage meters. In honor of Prometheus 2: The Search for Michael Fassbender’s Severed Head’s Gold, I bring you an answer to the biggest mystery in the Alien universe. Plus, the best Game of Thrones episode, the age conundrums of both Gotham and the Star Wars prequels, and… (dun dun dunh) I know…

Movies Rob Bricken

Latest Trailer for The Mummy Confirms That Tom Cruise Will Have Monster-Fighting Superpowers

Universal’s hoping that its reboot of the Mummy franchise will be just the kind of hit that’ll sell the world on its shared universe of gods and monsters. The latest trailer for the movie shows just how different this take on the Mummy story will be. When Brendan Fraser took on the Mummy back in…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero

Juicero began in secret. The startup, a sort of Keurig for cold-pressed plant-water—which made headlines for the $120 million in venture capital it secured from the likes of Google and Kleiner-Perkins between 2013 and 2015, and again when it announced its wi-fi-connected countertop appliance would cost a jaw-dropping $700 on launch—intended to keep its business…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Goodbye and Good Riddance to Voat, Reddit’s Gross Clone

Three years ago, a website was created as a refuge for the communities deemed too hateful or toxic to exist on the lenient-to-a-fault social aggregator Reddit. That site was a knockoff called Voat which was identical in purpose and design, only its founding communities were groups like v/FatPeopleHate and the anti-black v/CoonTown. Last night one…

Tech News Avery Ellis

In the First Look at CW’s Black Lightning, a Retired Hero Returns to Kick Some Ass

Say hello to the latest member of the CW’s roster of comic book heroes: Jefferson Pierce. But as the first trailer for Black Lightning shows, there’s dark times ahead for the titular character, as he chooses to don his mask once again after giving up on being a superhero for his family. Released after the…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Which Astronaut Recently Got Fired From NASA for $1,600 in Fake Taxi Receipts?

Last December, an astronaut with NASA was fired for submitting over $1,600 in fake reimbursements for taxis they didn’t take. And strangely enough, we don’t know who it is. Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on the incident after reading about it in the…

Tech News Matt Novak

The First Trailer for Netflix’s Fantasy Film Okja Is All About Heartbreak and Evil Corporations

The first official trailer for Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja has everything. A superhippo, an evil corporation fronted by Tilda Swinton, and an important message about the power of love. Up until now, Netflix has been rather cagey about specific details regarding Okja, the latest film from the director of Snowpiercer and The Host that’s come across…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

A New Look at Proxima b‘s Potential Climate Offers Hope for Future Colonists

Ever since astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet less than five light years down the cosmic street, the question on every good space cadet’s mind has been whether or not we can colonize it. We’re not going to know if Proxima b is habitable until we can point some very powerful telescopes at…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Supernatural Is Crossing Over With Scooby Doo Next Season

I guess when you are fated to run until the end of time itself, at some point an animated crossover is a natural turn of events. Announced at the currently ongoing CW Upfronts presentation, the 13th season of Supernatural—unlucky for some, but clearly not the Winchesters—will feature an all-animated episode, which will involve Sam and…

Television James Whitbrook

Shameless FCC Votes to Charge Ahead on Plan to Kill the Open Internet

In a completely expected but still shitty move, the FCC voted today to move ahead with Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to roll back net neutrality rules enacted under the Open Internet Order of 2015. The commission will now consider Pai’s proposal, which would repeal the reclassification of broadband providers as “common carriers” (a little like…

Tech News Libby Watson

Surprise, a Dark Crystal Prequel Series Is Coming to Netflix

The last time we heard anything about a prequel to Jim Henson’s fantasy classic The Dark Crystal, it was in book form, not in Netflix original series form. But that has changed today, with the announcement of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It’ll run 10 episodes and yes, there will be puppets. Here’s the…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Hell Yeah, Mace Windu Is Getting His Own Comic Book

The Jedi Order’s supreme asskicker is coming to comics. Marvel has just announced Mace Windu will star in his own comic miniseries, set just after the outbreak of the Clone Wars—and we should probably expect some awesome action to boot. Announced on StarWars.com this morning, the very fancily titled Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic—Mace…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Cold War Nuclear Explosions Freakishly Impacted Space Weather

The overdrawn game of nuclear chicken between the USSR and the United States—now known as the Cold War—lasted about 45 years. While neither superpower ever deployed nukes on each others’ soil, high-altitude bomb testing caused a kerfuffle in Earth’s atmosphere. Though the conflict has (thankfully) long since ended, newly declassified information suggests it might have…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Here’s How Much Bubble Wrap You Need To Wrap A Giant Whale Heart

Will Your Summer Be Uncomfortably Hot?

Mera’s Outfit in Aquaman Is Mermaid-y as Hell (UPDATED)

Uber Doesn’t Want You to See This Document About Its Vast Data Surveillance System

Adventure Time and Regular Show Will Cross Over in Their Own Comic

The Appalling Cost of Women’s Health Care Under the American Health Care Act

Can a Pill Make You More Moral?

Could a Facehugger Implant an Alien in Your Butt?

Latest Trailer for The Mummy Confirms That Tom Cruise Will Have Monster-Fighting Superpowers

The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero

Goodbye and Good Riddance to Voat, Reddit’s Gross Clone

In the First Look at CW’s Black Lightning, a Retired Hero Returns to Kick Some Ass

Which Astronaut Recently Got Fired From NASA for $1,600 in Fake Taxi Receipts?

The First Trailer for Netflix’s Fantasy Film Okja Is All About Heartbreak and Evil Corporations

A New Look at Proxima b‘s Potential Climate Offers Hope for Future Colonists

Supernatural Is Crossing Over With Scooby Doo Next Season

Shameless FCC Votes to Charge Ahead on Plan to Kill the Open Internet

Surprise, a Dark Crystal Prequel Series Is Coming to Netflix

Hell Yeah, Mace Windu Is Getting His Own Comic Book

Cold War Nuclear Explosions Freakishly Impacted Space Weather

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