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Maybe Vodka Filtered Through Meteorites Will Actually Taste OK

Outer Space Vodka doesn’t actually come from outer space. It comes from Iowa, which is about as far as you can get from space without burrowing into the Earth’s core. But there are still compelling reasons to buy this vodka: firstly, the bottle, which is ideal for scaring small children or impromptu Halloween costumes; secondly,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Detonating Avalanches With Explosive Drones Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds

The concept of dropping sticks of primed dynamite from drones near a ski resort is guaranteed to give any OSHA inspectors second thoughts and a dry pen. But considering the way things are currently done, armed flying robots would be a serious safety improvement. Avalanche control—which, for the most part, means using explosives to safely…

Tech News Chris Mills

There’s Primordial Oxygen Leaking From Rosetta’s Comet

Comet 67P is full of surprises, from complex organic molecules to miniature space weather systems. Now, in an astronomical first, scientists have discovered molecular oxygen in the space rock’s tenuous atmosphere. And it may be a relic from the birth of the Solar System. “This is the most surprising discovery we have made so far,”…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Google’s Internet Balloons Are Floating Over to Indonesia

Google’s Project Loon is a grandoise project to bring internet to the third world via large party balloons. Last time we’d checked in, it was flying 20 balloons over Australia; now, it wants to put 20,000 over remote parts of Indonesia. In an announcement today, Google confirmed that it’s teaming up with three of Indonesia’s…

Tech News Chris Mills

GoPro’s Experimental Drone Footage Looks Pretty Damn Good

GoPro is developing a drone. That much we know; what we don’t is how much it will cost or what it’s like to fly. What we do know, however, is that the footage looks pretty darn great. In a YouTube video, GoPro has shown off some demo video from its prototype quadrotor. The emphasis is…

Gadgets Chris Mills

Carly Fiorina Blames Office Politics for Getting Canned from HP

In tonight’s GOP presidential debate, Carly Fiorina was asked about her disastrous tenure as HP’s CEO. Her response: She was fired due to office politics, not because she was bad at her job. Fiorina pointed out that Tom Perkins, the man who voted to fire her, had changed his tune and publicly stated that her…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

St. Louis’s Riverfront Was a Thriving Neighborhood Before the Arch Was Built

Today is the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Gateway Arch, one of the most striking and distinctive monuments in human history. But like all feats of engineering, the Arch came with a price—the obliteration of one of St. Louis’s oldest neighborhoods. I admit, as a native of St. Louis, I hadn’t thought much…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Casting News Raises Big Questions

We’re a little over a year and a half away from seeing the continuing adventures of Star Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2—and now, casting has begun on the sequel. First the good news. The Hollywood Reporter says that actress Pom Klementieff, pictured below, has joined…

Movies Germain Lussier

This Week’s Limitless Was Like a Horrific Acid Trip

Just in time for Halloween, last night’s Limitless was creepy, bizarre, disorienting and freakish. There were hallucinations galore, like bugs crawling under people’s skin, plus human faces devoid of eyes, noses, and mouths. Hey, I said I wanted this show to explore the crazy ass side effects of NZT. I got what I asked for.…

io9 Bryan Lufkin

Two Science Fiction Novels You Must Read to Deal with Election Season

The US presidential debates are eroding our souls, and the partisan mudslinging has only just begun. That’s why it’s time to escape into the world of the future, or alternate history, to see how truly twisted politics can get. Two new novels will take you there. Austin Grossman, author of the melancholy gamer novel YOU,…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The New Power Rangers Movie is Called What?!

The new, big-screen Power Rangers movie is beginning to take shape. Casting is being announced every few days and now we may have an idea what the film’s official title is. According to Collider, the new Power Rangers movie is called… Saban’s Power Rangers “Saban” as in Haim Saban, the series’ co-creator and owner. According…

Movies Germain Lussier

Awesome photo of a V-22 Osprey inside a rainbow

Just a perfect photo of a Marines MV-22 Osprey landing on the flight deck of the dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry. The timing is lovely because it’s landing right through a rainbow, making the color of the aircraft (or at least the part that’s inside the rainbow) just a little more shimmery and different.…

Sploid Casey Chan

On iZombie, Major Hits Rock Bottom. It Involves a Dog.

It was a low-key episode of iZombie last night. Which made every character’s miserable existence just that much more upsetting. But Major took home the gold for Hitting Rock Bottom in the Sadlympics. Spoilers ahead. The murder in “Even Cowgirls Get the Black and Blues” is pretty grim. In the sense that the twist—which only…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Mapping 16th Century Social Networks with Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Want to know whether Anne Boleyn knew Utopia author Thomas More? There was a time when that answer would have involved painstakingly combing through historical archives hunting for arcane clues. But now you can search a massive online digitized database and get the answer in a fraction of the time. “Not only that, you can…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

How to Watch Tonight’s GOP Debates (Besides Stoned)

Sure, some people might be watching the presidential debates in VR but to truly experience tonight’s GOP circus in Boulder, Colorado you should be rolling a doobie before you tune in. Here’s how. To watch, not roll a doobie. The third Republican debate will take place at the Coors Events Center on the campus of…

Television Alissa Walker

Watch a bridge get quickly and neatly demolished in this timelapse

This footage from a few years back shows a bridge in Bedfordshire, England getting demolished in less than 15 hours. Basically, a night’s work was all it took to vaporize a steel and concrete structure. It’s really neat to see the progression and to see all the machines working in tandem. It’s also just really…

Sploid Casey Chan

DIE, PIGs, DIE: Bad Initials Can’t Kill You After All

Do you have initials that spell out something bad, like PIG or DIE? For a while it looked like bad initials could literally kill you. The Theory of Bad Initials set the world abuzz, until someone noticed something off about the data. In 1999, a couple of scientiststook a look at California death certificates from…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet

Ken M has lurked since 2011, masterfully trolling comment sections across digital media. As his legend grows, let’s look at Ken M’s greatest hits and find out who is behind the comments. Ken M has achieved what few trolls can dare to dream of. He has his own dedicated subreddit, with 58k subscribers, /r/KenM. The…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Diane Duane’s Young Wizards Is The Fantasy Book Series Everyone Should Be Reading

Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series is a truly great fantasy universe. It’s so perfect, I actually don’t want anybody to adapt it for TV or movies. Instead, everybody should hunt these books down and experience their greatness firsthand. The series currently stands at nine books (a tenth is due out in February), plus a number…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta

Which Type of Candy is Scientifically the Best?

Halloween is nigh, which means it’s once again time to spend an agonizing twenty minutes in the snack aisle at your grocery store asking yourself a soul-searching question: Which type of candy should I buy? Unfortunately, it’s getting harder each passing year to sift through the deluge of Halloween-themed garbage confections — this year’s top…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Maybe Vodka Filtered Through Meteorites Will Actually Taste OK

Detonating Avalanches With Explosive Drones Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds

There’s Primordial Oxygen Leaking From Rosetta’s Comet

Google’s Internet Balloons Are Floating Over to Indonesia

GoPro’s Experimental Drone Footage Looks Pretty Damn Good

Carly Fiorina Blames Office Politics for Getting Canned from HP

St. Louis’s Riverfront Was a Thriving Neighborhood Before the Arch Was Built

The First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Casting News Raises Big Questions

This Week’s Limitless Was Like a Horrific Acid Trip

Two Science Fiction Novels You Must Read to Deal with Election Season

The New Power Rangers Movie is Called What?!

Awesome photo of a V-22 Osprey inside a rainbow

On iZombie, Major Hits Rock Bottom. It Involves a Dog.

Mapping 16th Century Social Networks with Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

How to Watch Tonight’s GOP Debates (Besides Stoned)

Watch a bridge get quickly and neatly demolished in this timelapse

DIE, PIGs, DIE: Bad Initials Can’t Kill You After All

Ken M Is The Most Epic Troll On The Internet

Diane Duane’s Young Wizards Is The Fantasy Book Series Everyone Should Be Reading

Which Type of Candy is Scientifically the Best?

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