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This Is What Happened When Instagram Banned Certain Pro-Anorexia Words

In 2012, Instagram started moderating certain terms used by pro-anorexia groups, making it one of the more tightly moderated social media platforms. A group of Georgia Tech researchers decided to study if banning such words helped the communities using them. Instead, they found that it may make matters worse. Like many social media sites, the…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 9 '16

New Comedy Making History Sounds Like It’s From the Bill and Ted School of Time Travel

Time travel can be treated as a serious plot device; think Hulu’s 11.22.63. It can also be silly as hell, as in the Bill and Ted films or Hot Tub Time Machine. A new Fox pilot from the Last Man on Earth producers, Making History, sounds like it’ll hew to the latter classification. Here’s the…

Television Cheryl Eddy Mar 9 '16

Watching In the Mouth of Madness Too Many Times Might Actually Drive You Insane

In 1994, John Carpenter was several years removed from his last bona fide triumph—1988’s They Live—but he still hadn’t given up. (He’d sorta do that the next year, with Village of the Damned). His mindfuck extravaganza In the Mouth of Madness borrows heavily from H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, but it’s also its own bizarre…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 9 '16

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Is Up for a Major Award

We just got done telling you that The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is so much fun, it can cure your 2016 blues. But now this book is also a finalist for the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, too. What more do you need to hear? Charlie Jane Anders…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9 '16

The Eerily Powerful Gaze in Stanley Kubrick’s Films

It’s deeply unsettling when a character from films by Stanley Kubrick locks eyes with you through the fourth wall. They’re not entirely breaking the barrier but they do make it uneasy, like they know that we’re watching them. It’s a fairly common shot in his movies, which you’ll see in this video showing ‘The Kubrick…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 9 '16

By Crom, Here’s Some Bitchin’ New Conan the Barbarian Art

We can just never have enough Conan the Barbarian in our lives. Back in January, we brought you some new Conan art from legendary fantasy artist Brom, from the new role-playing game Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of. Now there’s a Kickstarter to make the game, and we’ve got some more incredible Conan art…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9 '16

More Than Half of All Calories Eaten in America Now Come from Processed Food

Americans are used to breaking down their foods into different groups—and to plenty of different opinions about just what that breakdown should look like. But there’s another category of food we haven’t been tracking, one that now makes up more than half of everything we eat. Instead of breaking down food into the more traditional…

Health Ria Misra Mar 9 '16

Firefighters Open Hydrant, Find It Stuffed With Fish

Some brave Canadian laddermen recently showed up to put out a grass fire, but their hoses weren’t getting any suction from the hydrant. Why? Because it was stuffed with fucking fish! No the fish weren’t literally fucking in the hydrant. It’s just the craziest damn thing that fish somehow ended up in the fire hydrant…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 9 '16

Watch 130-Year-Old Samurai Armor Get Restored to a Pristine and Fearsome State

Iki-ningyō are life-sized dolls that were primarily used in festivals and exhibitions in Japan. This one, which belongs to the Victoria and Albert Museum, is estimated to have been made around 1880, shortly after the samurai class was outlawed. The restoration process is a careful and complicated one that seeks to match as many of…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 9 '16

Chicago Man Charged with Felony for Jamming Cell Phones on a Train

People squawking on their phones on public transportation is annoying as hell. That’s why one Chicago man allegedly took it upon himself to jam fellow commuters’ cell phone signals as part of a morning ritual that lasted months. Now he’s a charged felon in jail, being held for a $10,000 bail. Dennis Nicholl, 63, is…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Mar 9 '16

Here Are the Greatest Moments From Last Night’s Agents of SHIELD Premiere

Last night’s Agents of SHIELD was mostly about moving all the pieces into position for the second half of the season. And the actual “case of the week” was meh. But there were some brilliant moments, that remind us why this show has become such an essential part of the Marvel Universe. Spoilers ahead… So…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9 '16

The First Uterus Transplant in the US Has Failed

A revolutionary procedure that gave hope to infertile American women was ultimately not successful. The first uterus to be transplanted in the US has been removed after two weeks, even after the patient appeared at a press conference Monday saying she hoped to get pregnant one day. The Cleveland Clinic announced today that the 26-year-old…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 9 '16

Gravitational Waves Explained to the Beat of ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ Sounds Awesome

Are you tired of hearing about how awesome it is that we’ve discovered gravitational waves? LIGO is so last month, right? Here’s something to make the topic seem fresh and wondrous again: a delightful a cappella parody music video, set to the tune of The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face,” by A Capella Science. A…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette Mar 9 '16

Of Kings and Prophets Is a Muddled Mess of Sex, Blood, and Religious Appeasement

In the beginning there was Saul. He was a pretty okay king who wanted to unite the 12 tribes of Israel into the kingdom of Judah. But then he went to the prophet Samuel, who spoke for their god, and Samuel said “lol you’re an okay king. Plz commit genocide. Thanks.” Like his Biblical counterpart,…

Television Alex Cranz Mar 9 '16

Man Who Stole Things From Children in the 1960s Ready to Give Things Back

I love time capsules. But I just had the strangest realization. When teachers have their students contribute items to time capsules, it’s kind of like stealing. I came to this bizarre realization while reading a story in Newsday with this opening paragraph (emphasis mine): In the past few weeks since a story about Richard Siegelman’s…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 9 '16

‘Living Lens’ Made From Stem Cells Could Treat Blindness

Scientists have used stem cells to cure blindness in rabbits—which could be incredible news for visually impaired people. Using human stem cells, researchers from Osaka University and Cardiff University created living tissue that could repair damaged lenses, retinas, and corneas, restoring the power of sight. Their findings were described today in the journal Nature. Mark…

Health Bryan Lufkin Mar 9 '16

Behold the Batman ’89 Comic That DC Rejected Because They Hate Joy

I mean, we’ve already had the (dearly missed) Batman ‘66. Why not homage another classic Batman adaptation with its own comic book series? Alas, somehow DC Comics said no to this fantastic pitch from Joe Quinones and Kate Leth based on the beloved 1989 Batman movie. Quinones revealed the failed pitch on his blog yesterday,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 9 '16

Google’s Chrome Music Lab Is Super Addictive

Google just combined music with its penchant for adorable animations. The result is called Chrome Music Labs, and it’s a tool to help kids learn about music and sound. But even if you’re not a youngster oblivious to the sonic world of beats, waves, and arpeggios, the site is still addictive as hell. Chrome Music…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 9 '16

How Cloud-Seeding Boosted California’s Latest El Niño Storms

Don’t be too quick to thank El Niño for the last wave of storms that blessed the West Coast with swamped reservoirs, replenished snowpack, and spectacular flaming palm trees. Turns out that El Niño had a little help—precipitation was increased by an estimated 15 percent thanks to cloud-seeding. According to the Los Angeles Times, LA’s…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 9 '16

Why Does English Have So Many Words That Mean the Same Damn Thing?

It’s because though English is a Germanic language (the grammar and core vocabulary comes from that), there are a lot of words that come from the Romance (Latin-based) languages too which was leaked into English when French-speaking Normans ruled England. That explains why there are a lot of twin words that mean the same thing…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 9 '16

This Is What Happened When Instagram Banned Certain Pro-Anorexia Words

New Comedy Making History Sounds Like It’s From the Bill and Ted School of Time Travel

Watching In the Mouth of Madness Too Many Times Might Actually Drive You Insane

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Is Up for a Major Award

The Eerily Powerful Gaze in Stanley Kubrick’s Films

By Crom, Here’s Some Bitchin’ New Conan the Barbarian Art

More Than Half of All Calories Eaten in America Now Come from Processed Food

Firefighters Open Hydrant, Find It Stuffed With Fish

Watch 130-Year-Old Samurai Armor Get Restored to a Pristine and Fearsome State

Chicago Man Charged with Felony for Jamming Cell Phones on a Train

Here Are the Greatest Moments From Last Night’s Agents of SHIELD Premiere

The First Uterus Transplant in the US Has Failed

Gravitational Waves Explained to the Beat of ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ Sounds Awesome

Of Kings and Prophets Is a Muddled Mess of Sex, Blood, and Religious Appeasement

Man Who Stole Things From Children in the 1960s Ready to Give Things Back

‘Living Lens’ Made From Stem Cells Could Treat Blindness

Behold the Batman ’89 Comic That DC Rejected Because They Hate Joy

Google’s Chrome Music Lab Is Super Addictive

How Cloud-Seeding Boosted California’s Latest El Niño Storms

Why Does English Have So Many Words That Mean the Same Damn Thing?

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