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MTV’s Shannara Chronicles Gets Its PG-13 Game of Thrones On in a Massive New Trailer

So the folks at MTV released a giant, two-minute trailer at New York Comic Con for the upcoming fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles, based on the many, many bestselling novels by Terry Brooks. Much like the book series, I doubt anyone is going to accuse the Shannara show of overwhelming originality, but it still could…

io9 Rob Bricken

Coming Soon: A Movie About A World That’s Slowly Losing Its Gravity

Say what you want about Hollywood movies all being remakes and sequels. If a good idea comes across an executive’s desk, he or she is going to consider it, and that’s what happened with a script called Ascension. Ascension is a disaster movie set on a version of Earth that’s slowly losing its gravity. 20th…

Movies Germain Lussier

Watch how safety chaps prevent a chainsaw from cutting your leg

A chainsaw is one of the most dangerous single things on this planet. A roaring machine cycle of sharp teeth created to cut anything down. And if you add an idiot human to the mix, you’re just asking for blood and accidents. Luckily, a pair of safety chaps makes it so much safer. How can…

Sploid Casey Chan

These Are the American Cities That Could Be Buried Underwater by 2200

Rising sea-levels will someday put several American cities completely, or partially, underwater. Here are the U.S. cities that could be submerged by sea-levels in approximately 200 years—and what you can expect for your own city in the future. A new study published in PNAS looked at what we can expect for our cities if carbon…

Climate Change Ria Misra

Three Months After Learning To Ride A Mountain Bike, I Tackled The Best Trails In The World

My goal for this trip was “Don’t Die!” But, when you get the chance to ride the best trails in the world, with some of the best riders, what are you going to say? For me, it wasn’t going to be “no,” even though I wasn’t in shape and in no way a good enough…

Tech News Wes Siler

This Year’s Trashiest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

Halloween is the one time of year that most people actually cosplay. But making your own costume from scratch is actually a lot of work. So there’s a whole industry dedicated to making costumes for you… with mixed results. Here are the trashiest and most WTF costumes for 2015. I gotta admit, even though some…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Documentary About Sleep Paralysis Looks Absolutely Terrifying

The Nightmare takes on an issue that afflicts about 10% of the population, wherein night terrors feel very real. Humanity is afflicted by a myriad of sleep disorders. Conditions like narcolepsy and insomnia are commonly known, and have treatment options. Sleep paralysis is a much less talked about problem. Those with this condition can feel…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Once Upon a Time Reminds Us to Never Have Any Friends or Family

Welcome back to Once Upon a Time, where having friends and family is nothing but disappointment. Thanks for the upbeat message, “Siege Perilous.” Spoilers… Last season ended with Emma becoming the Dark One and Rumple in a coma. This season began by tossing Emma—and her annoying Storybrooke rescue troupe—to Camelot. Now, everyone’s back and six…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Watching this pianist play the piano makes it seem like the keys are melting

I always love watching Jason Pelsey play the piano from his perspective. It reminds me of how special music and art can be because even though I too have two arms and ten fingers, I cannot even come close to melting the keys of a piano like he does. It is totally frantic and powerful…

Sploid Casey Chan

How Bad Is It, Really, To Have Rivers Full of Coked-Up Eels?

This is no longer a purely theoretical question, thanks to the modern world. Giving a liberal dose of cocaine to an eel turns out to be far worse for the eel than it is for us. One study exposed silver eels, a common European eel that has recently dropped in numbers, to cocaine for about…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Salt Lake City Wants to Put Buildings In the Medians of Its Extra-Wide Streets

A few months ago I wrote about a proposal to fix the housing crisis in San Francisco by building skinny apartments in the medians of its streets. Little did I know this idea was already being prototyped in a place that has even bigger streets than San Francisco, due to the unique way it was…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Guardians of the Galaxy Cartoon Still Doesn’t Know What To Do With Its Most Underused Characters

In the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, James Gunn did a pretty spectacular job of fleshing out the five heroes of the team in relatively equal manner. But so far, the animated series is struggling a little more in this regard—when it gets it right, it’s every bit as fun as the movie. When it…

io9 James Whitbrook

Meet the Horror Fan Who Built (and Lives In!) an Incredible Replica of the Halloween House

Tucked into the woods near Hillsborough, North Carolina is a house that might look like a quaint Victorian to most. Horror fans will instantly recognize it, though: it’s a mind-blowingly exact replica of one of the genre’s most infamous dwellings: home base for Halloween boogeyman Michael Myers. This is no accident. It’s the home of…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Your Nightmare Stories of Working For a Tech Giant

We asked for your worst stories about working in a massive tech bureaucracy. From inept management to insane rules to meetings that lead to more meetings, you’ve been through a lot. Let’s clock in. OB1 wrote: Your company ID badge was also your attendance keeper. That’s right, if you were on a set 9-5pm schedule…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

How many shots from an assault rifle can a ceramic body armor plate take before breaking?

Can body armor stand up to an assault rifle? Can a ceramic plate not shatter against the bullets of an AR-15 and AK-47 hybrid weapon? Demolition Ranch investigated by shooting the crap out of the body armor to see how long it takes for a bullet to pierce and penetrate through. He used an ARAK-21…

Sploid Casey Chan

This is Why Some Newborn Babies Turn Half-Red

One out of every ten newborn infants displays a weird quirk of the human body called “harlequin sign.” It makes babies spontaneously turn parti-colored, especially when their tiny bodies heat up. Harlequin sign begins freaking parents out at two days after the child’s birth. When the parents, for a moment, lay their baby on his…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Everything You Need to Know About Earth-2 Before Tomorrow Night’s Episode of The Flash

The Flash’s first season was defined by its admirable embrace of some of the Flash’s strangest comic book concepts: the mystery of the Reverse Flash, time travel, the goofy Rogues, and yes, Gorilla Grodd. But its second season is tackling something altogether crazier—the DC comics multiverse. Here’s what you need to know going in. Welcome…

Television James Whitbrook

Here’s Where the Tallest Observation Decks In the World Will Be in 2020

A crop of new skyscrapers are coming due over the next five years–and with them, nine new observation decks that will be taller than any others ever built. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently released a study about observation decks that looks at how they’ve evolved over the last 120 years of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Zimbabwe Drops Charges Against Lion Murderer Walter Palmer

“All his papers were in order.” Zimbabwe has announced that it will not be charging American dentist Walter Palmer in the illegal killing of #CecilTheLion. The hunt’s guide, though, is being prosecuted. Palmer was the subject of social media outrage in July when he shot and wounded a famous lion just outside Hwange National Park.…

Tech News Wes Siler

Week’s TV: Robot Chicken Tackles DC Comics! And Arya Stark Comes to Doctor Who!

This week, we say goodbye to the beloved time-travel TV show Continuum. But also, Gotham follows up that shocking twist, Doctor Who features a Game of Thrones stalwart, and LEGO Star Wars takes us aboard the Falcon. It’s all happening in this week’s television! Tonight Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (7PM, CARTOON) “Fred switches places with the…

Television Gordon Jackson

MTV’s Shannara Chronicles Gets Its PG-13 Game of Thrones On in a Massive New Trailer

Coming Soon: A Movie About A World That’s Slowly Losing Its Gravity

Watch how safety chaps prevent a chainsaw from cutting your leg

These Are the American Cities That Could Be Buried Underwater by 2200

Three Months After Learning To Ride A Mountain Bike, I Tackled The Best Trails In The World

This Year’s Trashiest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

This Documentary About Sleep Paralysis Looks Absolutely Terrifying

Once Upon a Time Reminds Us to Never Have Any Friends or Family

Watching this pianist play the piano makes it seem like the keys are melting

How Bad Is It, Really, To Have Rivers Full of Coked-Up Eels?

Salt Lake City Wants to Put Buildings In the Medians of Its Extra-Wide Streets

The Guardians of the Galaxy Cartoon Still Doesn’t Know What To Do With Its Most Underused Characters

Meet the Horror Fan Who Built (and Lives In!) an Incredible Replica of the Halloween House

Your Nightmare Stories of Working For a Tech Giant

How many shots from an assault rifle can a ceramic body armor plate take before breaking?

This is Why Some Newborn Babies Turn Half-Red

Everything You Need to Know About Earth-2 Before Tomorrow Night’s Episode of The Flash

Here’s Where the Tallest Observation Decks In the World Will Be in 2020

Zimbabwe Drops Charges Against Lion Murderer Walter Palmer

Week’s TV: Robot Chicken Tackles DC Comics! And Arya Stark Comes to Doctor Who!

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