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‘Daddy, Can You Tell Me More About the Superheroes?’

I’d been waiting years for my daughter to show an organic interest in superheroes, video games, and the other stuff I write about as a professional nerd. It’s happening, at long last… but it’s taking us to some unexpectedly poignant places. It started, unsurprisingly, with Batman. While getting ready for bed more than a month…

io9 Evan Narcisse

A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History

First, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut, Hidden Figures—the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA—is number one at the box office. It’s raked in roughly $6o million so far, and counting. The inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan has…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Paul Dini Is Writing Harley Quinn Comics Again

Harleen Quinzel might just be the most famous example of a comic book icon who wasn’t actually made for the comics she stars in—but her co-creator, Paul Dini, has written several comics starring the character since she first debuted in Batman: The Animated Series over two decades ago. But now, Dini is returning to Harley…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Obama Will Let Chelsea Manning Out of Jail in May

President Barack Obama is commuting a bulk of the remaining prison sentence for Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst responsible for a major 2010 military leak, according to a New York Times report. Manning is scheduled to be released from federal custody on May 17 according to the report. The commutation appears to have occurred…

Tech News Michael Nunez

The Most Beautiful Shots in Disney Movies

We loved Disney movies as kids, but we might secretly love them even more after we’ve grown up. They’re almost always a fun ride, they almost always make our cold hearts feel something, and they almost always have a wonderful animation sequence that takes you to another place entirely. In fact, it’s those perfect frames…

Sploid Casey Chan

Scientists Can Now Sequence DNA With a Smartphone

It was not so long ago that sequencing even tiny snippets of DNA was a costly, cumbersome process that required access to a state-the-art lab. Today, we are inching close to putting a DNA sequencer in every pocket. This week, a team of researchers from UCLA and Sweden announced that they have built a microscope…

Health Kristen V. Brown

The CIA Just Dumped 12 Million Declassified Pages of Documents Online

After years of fighting with FOIA requesters, the CIA has finally uploaded over 12 million pages of documents to its website. While many of the documents have been declassified for some time, the pages were intentionally hard to access, and only available on a few computers sitting at the National Archives. But now, anyone can…

Tech News Matt Novak

Marvel’s Rogue One Comic Adaptation Will Include Material Not Seen in the Movie

It’s obvious at this point that there is enough Rogue One footage not seen in the film to basically make a completely different film… or, as the case may be, to include as bonus material in ancillary Rogue One products for years to come. It sounds like Marvel’s upcoming comic adaptation of the film might…

io9 James Whitbrook

Pizzagaters Invent Dumb New Conspiracy to Bolster Their Already Ridiculous Claims

Pizzagate’s days in the limelight are waning. Even Edgar Welch—the 28-year-old who entered Comet Ping Pong armed with several firearms to “investigate” the made-up child trafficking claims—has hardly been in the news lately. So it came time for Pizzagate’s trolls and true believers to invent a new conspiracy. And boy, is it ever dumb. The…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Testy in Oculus Lawsuit Grilling

DALLAS — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fired off some sick burns and engaged in a heated exchange with a lawyer while giving testimony in a blockbuster $2 billion lawsuit trial here in a northern district Federal courtroom on Tuesday. In the first time he’s ever testified in a trial, Zuckerberg was grilled by Zenimax lawyer…

Social Media William Turton

ABC Orders a Southern Gothic Pilot Loaded With Reba

American gothic gets a lot of play on TV and film. There’s last year’s mystery drama American Gothic, the upcoming horror film American Gothic, and the 1995 Sam Raimi-produced bug nut crazy TV show American Gothic. Southern gothic, the much more fun and fantastical localized form of the gothic genre, gets much less play. Outside of…

io9 Alex Cranz

Man Loses Seven Teeth After E-Cigarette Explodes in His Face

If you’re someone who occasionally puffs on electronic cigarettes, you should stop right now. Because when shit goes awry, it turns into a disgusting scene of blood, charred skin, and broken bones. An Idaho man claims he lost seven teeth and suffered second-degree burns to his cheek after his vaporizer pen exploded in his face.…

Gadgets Michael Nunez

The Very Cool Character Detail In All of Steven Universe‘s Music

Music is Steven Universe’s secret weapon—mainly because the show consistently cranks out some great, toe-tapping songs that are a highlight every time they show up. But the show’s musical excellence extends beyond its ability to offer a good tune: it connects music to characters in some profound, interesting ways. What Steven Universe does is assign…

io9 James Whitbrook

How Living Near the Starvation Point Can Extend Lifespan

Depriving ourselves of food to the point of near-starvation doesn’t sound very appealing, but it could prolong our lives and prevent the onset of age-related diseases. A combined analysis of two long-running studies shows that caloric restriction does indeed work in monkeys, hinting at its potential to work in humans. More research is needed before…

Health George Dvorsky

There Will Never Be a Better Scary-Clown Movie Title Than Clowntergeist

It’s a boom time for scary clowns: the It remake; Clown, the 2014 horror feature by Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Jon Watts; the rash of news stories reporting real-life menacing clown sightings; and this week’s inauguration. That’s already enough to keep you from the circus forever… but now comes Clowntergeist. Yeah, you read that title right. CLOWNTERGEIST.…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Hollywood’s Secret Republicans of the 1950s

These days, Hollywood has a reputation for being politically liberal. But you’d be surprised how many conservatives there are in Hollywood. Or, maybe you wouldn’t, if you remember that Hollywood is just like any other major industry in the US. But what about the secret Republicans of the 1950s? You can probably name a few…

Tech News Matt Novak

Drew Barrymore Devours Flesh in the Trailer For Santa Clarita Diet

Netflix’s new show, Santa Clarita Diet, looks really messed up. It stars Drew Barrymore as a real estate agent who dies, but not really. She’s undead, a zombie, and must survive on human flesh. However, she also wants to maintain her nice, suburban life with her kids and husband (Timothy Olyphant). Which means they’re all…

io9 Germain Lussier

A Fight Over a Sacred Mountaintop Will Shape the Future of Astronomy

For years, it seemed as if the future of the Thirty Meter Telescope was writ in the stars. The enormous, next-generation observatory would explore the birth of galaxies and seek signs of life on alien worlds from atop the dormant volcano of Mauna Kea, one of the best places on Earth to study the sky.…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Let’s Speculate Wildly About the Latest Rumored Game of Thrones Return

Part of the fun of each new season of Game of Thrones is that, as we’re beyond much of what has been told in the books, any new information is something we can speculate about. So get your fan theorizing ready as another very surprising character seems to be returning for season seven. The eagle-eyed…

io9 James Whitbrook

Watching a Computer Identify Objects in a Movie Trailer Is Entertaining as Hell

If a movie trailer distills a 2-hour film into its 3-minute essentials, what would it look like to distill movie trailer? Strangely, it would look a lot like object recognition software. Støj, a Copenhagen coding studio, ran the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street through an object-detection algorithm that identifies and labels everything on…

Sploid Sidney Fussell

‘Daddy, Can You Tell Me More About the Superheroes?’

A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History

Paul Dini Is Writing Harley Quinn Comics Again

Obama Will Let Chelsea Manning Out of Jail in May

The Most Beautiful Shots in Disney Movies

Scientists Can Now Sequence DNA With a Smartphone

The CIA Just Dumped 12 Million Declassified Pages of Documents Online

Marvel’s Rogue One Comic Adaptation Will Include Material Not Seen in the Movie

Pizzagaters Invent Dumb New Conspiracy to Bolster Their Already Ridiculous Claims

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Testy in Oculus Lawsuit Grilling

ABC Orders a Southern Gothic Pilot Loaded With Reba

Man Loses Seven Teeth After E-Cigarette Explodes in His Face

The Very Cool Character Detail In All of Steven Universe‘s Music

How Living Near the Starvation Point Can Extend Lifespan

There Will Never Be a Better Scary-Clown Movie Title Than Clowntergeist

Hollywood’s Secret Republicans of the 1950s

Drew Barrymore Devours Flesh in the Trailer For Santa Clarita Diet

A Fight Over a Sacred Mountaintop Will Shape the Future of Astronomy

Let’s Speculate Wildly About the Latest Rumored Game of Thrones Return

Watching a Computer Identify Objects in a Movie Trailer Is Entertaining as Hell

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