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The results are in: Teens are inhaling The Good Plant like never before. That’s according to a new report that showed high school students are more likely to say they’ve 420 blazed it in the past thirty days than engaged in binge drinking. To come up with the findings, Project Know—an addiction referral website—parsed survey…

Tech News William Turton

This Epic Gravity-Defying Fight Scene Was Made Possible With a Simple Camera Trick

This live-action, stop-motion fight scene makes it look like the filmmakers at Corridor Digital found a way to change the direction of gravity to help make their short film feel all the more epic. But an anti-gravity machine wasn’t the secret to how this entertaining video was shot. If you haven’t figured it out already,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

The New Director on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Has Been Revealed

When Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns for season four on September 20, there will be a new sheriff in town. Or, more specifically, a new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.—and he’ll be played by Jason O’Mara. O’Mara is probably best known for his roles on TV shows like Life on Mars and Terra Nova, but in the…

Television Germain Lussier

How Migrating Birds Can Soar To Such Great Heights

Migratory birds can glide over very long distances with minimal wing-flapping, thanks to their strategic use of rising warm air currents. A new study has found that the birds use two basic sensory cues, combined with reinforcement learning algorithms (RLA), to navigate this turbulent environment. These new computer simulations employ the same architecture that Google…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

Why the Last Woolly Mammoths on Earth Went Extinct

While the Sumerians were inventing writing over five thousand years ago, one of the last populations of woolly mammoths was making a desperate bid for survival on a remote Aleutian island. Now, we know how they died. Woolly mammoths started to vanish from Eurasia and North America toward the end of the last ice age…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

What a Giant Solar Flare Would Look Like Next to Earth

If a solar flare really took place that close to Earth, it would mean the end of days on our little planet. But seeing that flare erupt right next to us sure does show us just how powerful these things really are. This image of a particularly giant solar flare was created by the ESA.…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

We Know Where Things Start to Go Wrong In Guardians in the Galaxy Vol. 2

The movie is still almost a year away, but we’re still learning more about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. We already know who Star-Lord’s father is, why writer/director James Gunn picked that particular character, and more. Now, we also know how one of the film’s villains, Ayesha, gets mixed up with the team. At…

Movies Germain Lussier

On Wikipedia, Pokémon Go Is a Bigger Deal Than the Bible

My kids aren’t playing Pokémon Go yet, but the older one had heard enough about it that he started reading up about it. When I looked at the screen after he’d been on the computer, I encountered this incredible wall of text: The Wikipedia references for Pokémon Go, which has been available for less than…

Tech News Tom Scocca

Disney Is Remaking Splash With Channing Tatum, But Not How You’d Expect

Ron Howard’s hit 1984 comedy Splash is being remade, because of course it is. However, unlike the Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah original, there’s a twist—in this upcoming version, the mermaid is the man and the human is the woman. Deadline broke the news of the remake, which will be produced by Howard and his partner Brian…

io9 Germain Lussier

How Pixar Uses Music to Make Us Cry

It’s not as simple as just playing sad music over sad scenes. No, Pixar plays with our emotions through music, sending out contrasting messages through what we see and what we hear to tear at our feelings even more. Which means, mixing happy music over sad scenes is how Pixar really gets us. But to…

Sploid Casey Chan

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Sex Offenders From Playing Pokémon Go

What do Rio Olympians and New York state sex offenders have in common? Soon, neither will be playing Pokémon Go, or at least that’s the hope of Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a letter sent to Niantic CEO John Hanke, the developers of the massively popular game, Cuomo asked for help in having sex offenders barred…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Why Are Marvel’s X-Men Comics So Terrible Right Now?

I’ve given them time to ship out multiple story arcs, find their footing and sketch out whatever themes and big ideas they’re aiming for. But there’s no denying it any more: The X-Men line just isn’t exciting nowadays. For years, the X-Men books burned as the molten, superheated core of the Marvel Universe. Co-created by…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Way Before Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers Made This Chilling Short

Stranger Things might have made creators Ross and Matt Duffer household names, but the twin writer/directors have been working in speculative fiction for over a decade. Take, for instance, their short film Eater. Based on the Peter Crowther short story of the same name, Eater shares quite a few commonalities with Stranger Things: cops, children…

io9 Avery Ellis

This Is How Much Time Americans Spend Eating Each Day

Quick, how much time do you think you spent eating yesterday? What about the day before that? The USDA just wrapped up a big survey of current American eating trends. Of particular interest was its deep dive into the time we spend eating—and just how much of that time is also devoted to doing something…

Tech News Ria Misra

So Many Australians Are Claiming ‘Jedi’ as Their Religion That It’s Becoming a Problem

A battle over government, religion, and Star Wars is brewing in Australia. The country will hold their national census on August 9 and a group of people is begging their fellow citizens to not put “Jedi” down as their religion. Here’s the problem: On the 2011 census (it takes places every five years) 64,390 Australians…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Florida Zika Outbreak Is Looking Worse and Worse

This morning, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that 10 more people in Florida have contracted the Zika virus, likely through mosquito bites, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 14 cases. Citing the increase, the governor also asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mobilize an Emergency Response Team to help the…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

The Most Unhealthy Chain Restaurant Meals Are Obscenely Calorie Packed

The Center For Science in the Public Interest is here to once again ruin your unhealthy dinner plans with a new list shaming nine of the most calorie-packed meals available at chain restaurants across the US. If you’re thinking about starting a diet any time soon, avoid these for the love of all that is…

Health Andrew Liszewski

This Robot That Runs Entirely off a Neural Network is Creepy as Hell

This creep machine, called Alter, runs entirely off a neural network. That means all its incoherent and erratic movements are 100 percent free of any human control. It’s basically alive. Although Alter looks like it’s dressed up in some kind of Ex Machina cosplay, it’s underneath where all the interesting stuff is happening. Alter has…

Artificial Intelligence Darren Orf

Step Inside Guillermo del Toro’s Fantastic House of Horrors With Conan‘s Andy Richter

Starting today, lucky Guillermo del Toro fans who happen to be near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) can visit “At Home With Monsters,” a new exhibit of props, artwork, and other horror and scifi-related items that have inspired him over the years. For everyone else, there’s Conan. Specifically, there’s this five-minute video…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Repainting the Original Star Trek Enterprise Was an Intensely Time-Consuming Process

It’s one of the most recognizable props in pop culture history, so it’s only fitting that the Smithsonian recently spent almost two years restoring the USS Enterprise model used in the original Star Trek TV series. The paint work alone was a painstaking process, as detailed in this new behind-the-scenes look at the restoration. Sometime…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

Teens Love Weed

This Epic Gravity-Defying Fight Scene Was Made Possible With a Simple Camera Trick

The New Director on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Has Been Revealed

How Migrating Birds Can Soar To Such Great Heights

Why the Last Woolly Mammoths on Earth Went Extinct

What a Giant Solar Flare Would Look Like Next to Earth

We Know Where Things Start to Go Wrong In Guardians in the Galaxy Vol. 2

On Wikipedia, Pokémon Go Is a Bigger Deal Than the Bible

Disney Is Remaking Splash With Channing Tatum, But Not How You’d Expect

How Pixar Uses Music to Make Us Cry

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Sex Offenders From Playing Pokémon Go

Why Are Marvel’s X-Men Comics So Terrible Right Now?

Way Before Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers Made This Chilling Short

This Is How Much Time Americans Spend Eating Each Day

So Many Australians Are Claiming ‘Jedi’ as Their Religion That It’s Becoming a Problem

The Florida Zika Outbreak Is Looking Worse and Worse

The Most Unhealthy Chain Restaurant Meals Are Obscenely Calorie Packed

This Robot That Runs Entirely off a Neural Network is Creepy as Hell

Step Inside Guillermo del Toro’s Fantastic House of Horrors With Conan‘s Andy Richter

Repainting the Original Star Trek Enterprise Was an Intensely Time-Consuming Process

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