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Ta-Nehisi Coates Reveals The Early Concept Art of His Black Panther Comic

Today is apparently a day large enough to contain not one, but two different reveals for T’Challa, the Black Panther. In a column for the Atlantic, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has given us our first scintillating look at Brian Stelfreeze’s art for his Black Panther series, and Black Panther has never looked so good. Coates included…

Mork and Mindy Was One of the Most Unlikely Miracles in the History of Television

Groundbreaking sitcom Mork and Mindy was always doomed to fail. This weird comedy about an alien and his human pal reached a U.S. audience of 60 million viewers every week, and launched Robin Williams’ career. And then, it tanked. We talked to the show’s writers and director, who told us the fascinating story of the…

Paramount’s Adaptation of The Stars My Destination Finally Gets a Writer

We first heard that Alfred Bester’s intense The Stars My Destination was being made into a movie back in March. And it looks like Paramount and Disruption Entertainment are full-steam ahead, finally figuring out who has the chops to adapt this sucker. Deadline reports that David DiGilio (Traveler) has been picked to write the screenplay.…

Your Pet Desperately Needs This Astronaut-Inspired Backpack

“Who’s the greatest catstronaut in the United States? It’s you Champer-damper. It’s you!” That’s the song I would sing to my pet cat if I had a pet cat and carried it around in one of these amazing ventilated carrying cases from U-Pet. Each of the cases comes with three different options for your pet’s…

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Making of Mork and Mindy

For one year, Mork and Mindy was arguably the most successful science fiction TV show ever made. The comedy about an alien and his human best friend turned Robin Williams into a global sensation. How did this miracle happen, and why didn’t it last? To find out, I talked to the people who made the…

The Tech Community Still Can’t Figure Out Who Wrote This Book Making Fun of It

In June a handful of tech writers received a slim sendup of startup culture by an anonymous author. Six months later, still no one knows who wrote it. Now Iterating Grace has been published by an actual book publisher, so you can buy a copy, and perhaps even help solve the mystery. The very short…

Drop Dead Laughing at This Gloriously Gory Short Horror Comedy

In horror-comedy short Invaders, a pair of bickering robbers (played by Jordan Woods-Robinson and Ricky Wayne of The Walking Dead) cycle through a series of disguises before deciding to barge a stately home wielding axes and wearing Pilgrim masks. Bad move, guys. Baaaaad move. Props to writer-director Jason Kupfer, who looks to have set some…

How Scientists Study Wasp Stings Without Getting Stung 

Wasp researchers have come up with a cheap device that can be put together to measure how many times wasps sting. They found out that wasps sting a lot, especially if something already has wasp venom in it. The researchers wanted to see how viciously wasps would attack under different conditions, but didn’t want to…

Your Complete Guide to the Comic Book Heroes in Legends of Tomorrow

Legends of Tomorrow is hitting in a big way—we saw the awesome trailerlast week, and the current Arrow /Flash crossover is setting up this spin-off to those two shows. While some of the characters have appeared on TV already, some of the Legends are still strange and mysterious. Here’s our guide to who’s who! The…

Target is paying $39.4 million to banks and credit unions that lost money reimbursing fraudulent claims and otherwise cleaning up the mess made by the 2013 hack affecting 40 million customers. The big-box retailer already agreed to pay $10 million to customers affected by the data breach.

Japanese Spacecraft Reveals Our Home is a Lonely Outpost in the Darkness

Our home planet and its moon are but specks against the vast blackness of space in this image from the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2. The robotic explorer is currently flying past the Earth to redirect its trajectory into the main asteroid belt. The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft launched in December 2014, and is currently approaching the…

Inside America’s oldest hat factory

Bollman Hat Company, located in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, is America’s oldest hat factory. It first opened in 1868 and its machines are decades old and that all makes for a fascinating place with so much history. It’s really cool to see how the machines work since they all have their own specific tasks and weird way…

How Three Countries Being Engulfed By The Ocean May Relocate To Survive

Right now, world leaders in Paris are trying to stop climate change from altering the world inexorably. But for hundreds of thousands of people who live in some low-lying nations, it’s already late in the game. While climate change for most of us is an abstract concept, the people who live in these low-lying countries…

Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Black Panther In Captain America: Civil War

Next May, we’re getting more than just an epic showdown between Captain America and Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War. We’re being introduced to a key new character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther, and there’s some new info out about his role. There’s also a brand new look at the character, and…

7 of Yahoo’s Biggest Fuck Ups

Yahoo is considering selling off its core internet business, which includes Flickr, Tumblr, and of course, Yahoo.com. It’s not surprising that the company’s board is looking for an escape hatch: Yahoo is hurting, and the footfalls of this stumbling tech titan have been echoing for awhile now. The slow undoing of Yahoo is particularly painful…

Google Is Shutting Down My Beloved Songza 

When Google bought streaming playlist service Songza last year, a spokesman promised that “no immediate changes” to Songza were planned, which is like saying “we still need to figure out how to dismantle and absorb it.” Looks like Google figured it out: Songza isofficially shutting down on January 31, 2016. Most of Songza’s features have…

iZombie Shares the Unexpected Benefits of Stalking

I’m not saying being a stalker or a crazy jealous girlfriend is a good thing in real life, but, story-wise, it’s good for Liv to be a bit suspicious of Major as last night’s iZombie episode “The Hurt Stalker” proved. Spoilers… Instead of either a massive episode focusing on one of the season-long plotlines or…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Box Set Is a Thing of Pure Beauty

A sane person would say the best part of Marvel completing a series of movies is getting to see those movies. That person would be half right. The other great part is they get to release a big Blu-ray box set collecting all types of information about the movies. The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2…

This Is What Happens in a World Ruled by Broadband Monopolies

An entire town in northern Canadajust lost its internet. Not for a few minutes. Not even for a few hours. The area’s one and only internet service provider went out of business, and now the town of Stewart, British Columbia will be without internet for months. This is what happens when broadband monopolies rule the…

The Best Star Wars Books Are the X-Wing Novels. Fight Me.

The original Star Wars Expanded Universe novels are a mixed bunch, to say the least. There’s some good, some bad, and some mediocre. And while Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn saga usually gets the most attention, I am here to say that the best books are actually the X-Wing novels. Come at me. As usual for these…