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Behold the Dizzying Pedestrian Bridge Copenhagen Is Building Above Its Harbor

Cities can learn a lot from Copenhagen’s multimodal ways. But how about this inspiring piece of infrastructure from the Danish city: Instead of simply adding a frilly statue to mark its harbor’s entrance, this bridge incorporates housing and provides a stunning vista for tourists and residents alike. Copenhagen Gate is designed by Steven Holl Architects,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

What happens when an airplane hits a bird

Poor birdie. If you ever wondered what would happen if an airplane and a bird hit each other head on, here it is. It doesn’t end up exactly how you think it would. Well, it kind of does as in the bird loses but it is a little surprising in how high and straight the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Netflix and Marvel Know the Exact Ten Seconds Which Will Make Us Squeal

Last week, the Daredevil Twitter account had a short video of Luke’s taking over for Josie’s in Hell’s Kitchen. Now, Jessica Jones is getting in on the act. I guess if you need a lawyer in New York, and you’re the kind of girl who can punch through walls, this is the card you’ll eventually…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

What Did You Do While Slack Was Down?

Today the work chat program Slack suffered intermittent outage for hours, becoming a trending topic on Twitter as workers fought to remember alternative routes for communication. How did you survive without Slack? Slack is a great, slick program for communicating with teams of people that has come to dominate its field, especially in tech and…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Vandal Savage Strikes In The First Trailer for Legends of Tomorrow

We got the briefest of glimpses for Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year, when Oliver and Barry teamed up to recruit a team of time-travelling superheroes and villains. But now we’ve got our first offical look at the series, and it’s looking amazing. https://gizmodo.com/arrow-and-flash-recruit-a-new-team-in-this-legends-of-t-1704500587 There’s a mix of old and new footage in here, but…

Television Rob Bricken

This High-Speed Video of a Sneeze Reveals How Pandemics Spread

MIT scientists have captured high-speed video of phlegm being expelled during a sneeze. It’s as gross as you’d imagine. But learning more about how this mix of saliva and snot breaks into droplets, and spreads far and wide, could one day lead to better strategies for controlling the spread of disease outbreaks. Sneezing is a…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Want to See Angelina Jolie As the Bride of Frankenstein? You Aren’t Alone

Coming off a monster year at the box office, Universal Studios is hard at work developing their own monsters. Specifically, a huge universe based on Universal Monsters, which will start with The Mummy and expand from there. Now, in a new story at The Hollywood Reporter, they talk about the studio’s dream casting for the…

Movies Germain Lussier

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Weirdest “Experimental” Episode Yet!

Gravity Falls is airing its final episodes. Doctor Who is trying a strange experiment. The Walking Dead shambles off with a midseason finale, and the premiere of Regular Show: The Movie! All this, Gina Gershon, and more, on This Week’s TV! _______________________ Tonight Gotham (8PM, FOX) “Gordon confronts a suspect who is connected to Galavan,…

io9 Gordon Jackson

This Star Wars Expanded Universe Story Proves That Luke Is the Worst Jedi Master

Hello, and welcome to a nostalgic trip through the old Star Wars Expanded Universe. This time, I’m looking at the first EU books I ever read, Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy. Brace yourselves, because there’s a lot of stupid going on in here. Twenty-year-old spoilers follow. To this day, I remain shocked that third-grade…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

Steven Moffat Reveals the Nightmare Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special We Could Have Had

52 years ago today, Doctor Who aired for the very first time—and two years ago, it took over the world as it broadcast “The Day of the Doctor,” the show’s 50th anniversary special. But the celebration was, according to Steven Moffat, nearly a total disaster: and somehow almost didn’t star The Doctor at all. It…

Television James Whitbrook

The US Government is Being Sued for Losing a Critical JFK Assassination Film

The Zapruder film may be the most famous footage taken of the Kennedy assassination, but it’s not the only one. The “Nix Film” may be lesser known, but it’s no less important. It has been missing for decades, so the granddaughter of the photographer who captured the film is now suing the US government. She…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Your Least Favorite Aliens Character Could Star In the Upcoming Sequel

Some fans of James Cameron’s Aliens consider Newt the worst part of the movie: Her high-pitched scream, laughable dialogue, it can be painful. If you are one of these people, I have some potentially bad news: Newt might be the star of Neill Blomkamp’s Aliens sequel. Talking to Icons of Fright, Aliens star Michael Biehn…

Movies Germain Lussier

Will Our Descendants Survive the Destruction of the Universe?

Billions of years from now, the universe as we know it will cease to exist. The good news is, that gives us a lot of time to prepare, and maybe even figure out a way to cheat cosmic death. Here are some possible ways our descendants might survive a cosmological apocalypse. The Universe, like the…

io9 George Dvorsky

Awesome photo of a F-15 being refueled from the air fuel tankers perspective

What a view. Here’s a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling a F-15 in the air from the perspective of the air tanker. Actually, it’s almost like seeing the whole process from the perspective of the boom, as we see the probe arm reach into the receptacle. It’s such an awesome angle. The US Air Force says: A…

Sploid Casey Chan

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

Earlier this year, the Clean Power Plan pledged to cut US power plant carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2050. A new study says the US can do way better than that: reducing all greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent and running the country entirely on renewable energy by 2050. This most optimistic scenario is…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

10 Weird Facts You Never Knew About Your Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving food is a link to the past, a thing to be grateful for, and a way to keep your extended family from talking to you about politics or religion. But it has a weirder, wilder side to it. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about your favorite Thanksgiving dishes. 10) Sweet Potatoes Were…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Your Best Stories of Leaving Nightmare IT Jobs

We asked Gizmodo readers about exiting an awful IT job. Whether you quit in a blaze of glory or were laid off in ridiculous circumstances, these are your getting-the-hell-out stories. bigPixel wrote: This wasn’t really how I quit, but the underhanded method the company I worked for used to lay off a bunch of their…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Experts Try to Figure Out Apple’s Insane New Emojis

If you’ve seen the new additions Apple has made to its vast emoji repertoire, you may be a bit perturbed. Floating business man? Ominous hole? Boob-grab smiley face? These are just some of the strange new emojis we had our experts weigh in on. Contact the author at [email protected].

Tech News Rob Bricken

This Perfect Snowpiercer Poster Takes You All The Way To The Front of the Train

Snowpiercer, the action-packed 2014 dystopian drama, is jam-packed with evocative imagery. The train against the snowy countryside, the radically different cars on the train, as well as the battles that happen on it. Choosing a single moment for a poster is tough. Which is why artist JC Richard didn’t choose just one. His poster for…

Movies Germain Lussier

Stackable Chess Pieces Hide a Rolled Up Leather Board Inside

Humans have been designing portable versions of chess for almost as long as the game itself has been played. But few designs are as elegant, or as compact, as this set from Raw Studio that rolls into a tube—complete with 32 chess pieces—that’s just 16-inches long. The key to this set’s clever compact design are…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Behold the Dizzying Pedestrian Bridge Copenhagen Is Building Above Its Harbor

What happens when an airplane hits a bird

Netflix and Marvel Know the Exact Ten Seconds Which Will Make Us Squeal

What Did You Do While Slack Was Down?

Vandal Savage Strikes In The First Trailer for Legends of Tomorrow

This High-Speed Video of a Sneeze Reveals How Pandemics Spread

Want to See Angelina Jolie As the Bride of Frankenstein? You Aren’t Alone

This Week’s TV: Doctor Who‘s Weirdest “Experimental” Episode Yet!

This Star Wars Expanded Universe Story Proves That Luke Is the Worst Jedi Master

Steven Moffat Reveals the Nightmare Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special We Could Have Had

The US Government is Being Sued for Losing a Critical JFK Assassination Film

Your Least Favorite Aliens Character Could Star In the Upcoming Sequel

Will Our Descendants Survive the Destruction of the Universe?

Awesome photo of a F-15 being refueled from the air fuel tankers perspective

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

10 Weird Facts You Never Knew About Your Thanksgiving Dinner

Your Best Stories of Leaving Nightmare IT Jobs

Experts Try to Figure Out Apple’s Insane New Emojis

This Perfect Snowpiercer Poster Takes You All The Way To The Front of the Train

Stackable Chess Pieces Hide a Rolled Up Leather Board Inside

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