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Kids Will Happily Eat Anything Using a Pair of T-rex Chopsticks

How could anyone, young or old, be picky about what they eat when they’re chowing down on dinner using a pair of easy hinged chopsticks with a chomping T-rex head on one end? This brilliant alternative to a fork from Fred & Friends has a spring mechanism inside so even novice chopstick users can get…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Bryan Singer Confirms Talks Of Possible X-Men/Fantastic Four Crossover

When the casts of X-Men Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Deadpool, Gambit and The Wolverine all met on stage at San Diego Comic-Con, fans could see the writing on the wall. Despite years of rumors and denials, this was leading to a crossover. Now, we have a minor confirmation. Speaking to Yahoo, X-Men director Bryan Singer said…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Smithsonian Is Finally Getting Crowdfunding Right

On Monday the Smithsonian Institution launched a Kickstarter campaign to preserve astronaut Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit. Now with over $420,000 raised and a healthy 26 days left, the campaign is on track to easily exceed its $500,000 goal. But the Smithsonian’s road to crowdfunding success has been a long and bumpy one. Update: July…

Tech News Matt Novak

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Next week is going to be an absolute onslaught of tech—Oneplus Two, Moto X, and finally Windows 10. Before we’re consumed in all that gadget-y goodness, let’s take a look during the dying days of this week at some of the great software recently making all our smartphones even better. Android Pause Paste was one…

Tech News Darren Orf

People Mow Non-Native Plants, Inadvertently Spread West Nile Virus

It’s not always easy to find a way to help. Nearly every action has good and bad consequences—as people who mowed down non-native plants in mosquito basins found out. By clearing the plants, they helped increase the risk of spreading West Nile Virus. Find out how. The problem with West Nile Virus is it isn’t…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Updated Kepler Catalog Includes 521 New Possible Exoplanets

Earlier today, during the announcement of the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, researchers working on the Kepler mission released an updated catalog—which now includes 521 new candidate planets. Add that to the 4,175 already discovered by the space-based telescope. Above. An artist’s conception of habitable-zone planets with similarities to Earth: from left, Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, the…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Way Boa Constrictors Kill Is Even Creepier Than We Thought

Death by suffocation is nightmarish enough, but boa constrictors do something even more sinister: They cut off your blood supply. That’s the horrifying new discovery of Scott Boback from Dickinson College, whose latest research shows that the powerful squeeze of a boa constrictor halts blood and oxygen flow to the brain within seconds, rendering the…

Biology Maddie Stone

Grant Morrison Talks “Tofu Batman” And Making Heavy Metal Great Again

Since the Doom Patrol days, Grant Morrison has helped reshape superhero comics—and his recent Multiversity has been a fascinating experiment. But now, he’s taking on a new challenge as EIC of Heavy Metal, the venerable comics magazine. We talked to him about the future of comics. We caught up with Grant Morrison at San Diego…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

There Are Some Crazy Plans for How to Shoot Down a Drone

The increasing popularity of hobby drones poses myriad challenges to the skies, but as the Wall Street Journal reports, they’ve given rise to one that’s more surprising than any other: How do you take a drone down when you need to? Last week, hobby drones flying over a California wildfire prevented firefighters from being able…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Xiaomi’s Going to Start Uber-ing Smartphones to People

In another piece of evidence for the overwhelming argument for me to never leave my couch, Xiaomi announced that it’s going to partner up with Uber to hand-deliver smartphones. Yep, this couch is real comfortable. One full day before the Xiaomi Mi Note is available online (July 27), you’ll be able to tap a “Xiaomi”…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Five Best and Five Worst Demons to Get Possessed By

Getting possessed by a demon sounds horrible—all that contortionism probably leads to awful back problems. But some demonic possessions aren’t all that bad. A possession doesn’t have to be all spooky voices, matted hair and projectile vomiting, after all. Here are the five best and five worst demons to be possessed by. The Worst Demons…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Jurassic World Sequel Officially Announced For Summer 2018

With $1.5 billion and counting, the announcement of a sequel to Jurassic World was imminent. And now it’s official. Universal Pictures has selected June 22, 2018 as the U.S release date for a Jurassic World sequel. The film will be written by the first film’s director, Colin Trevorrow, and his writing partner Derek Connolly. Steven…

Movies Germain Lussier

Stunning video of Antarctica creates an unsettling mirrored world

At first, when you watch this video of perfectly pristine Antarctica, you can feel something off and even a little unsettling but you don’t know exactly what it is. It’s not until you realize that the world has been mirrored in perfect visual symmetry that you see what’s going on. The coolest thing is that…

Sploid Casey Chan

Pax 2 Vaporizer Review: It’s Like Smoking In the Future

Vindication is a glorious and complicated thing. When the original Pax vaporizer hit the market a few years ago, it promised to change how the world smoked. But with its finicky mouthpiece and penchant for clogging, that promise smoldered. Now, there’s the Pax 2—and holy shit is it a transformation. What Is It? The Pax…

Reviews Adam Clark Estes

New Evidence That Sending People to Prison Makes Crime Worse

There’s a saying that there’s nothing like going to prison to turn you into a criminal. But now, a new study offers evidence that this homily is statistically sound. Every year a person is kept in prison increases their odds of committing another crime when they are released. Over at Quartz, Allison Schrager explains the…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

This Map’s Red and Blue Regions Each Contain 5% of the World Population

The remaining 90%, of course, inhabit the regions colored white. (That’s how math works!) The map above was created by data cruncher Max Galka using QGIS, a free, open source, all-purpose mapping tool. According to him, the map is an amended version of another chart first created by redditor Ibisdigitalmedia. “The original map turned out…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Daughter’s Faith and Persistence Help Solve a 43-Year-Old Mystery

Amos Shook was in his mid-40s when he went missing February 19, 1972. His daughter, Pamela, was just 14 at the time of his disappearance, and her father’s fate haunted her over the years. In June, she urged authorities to reopen the case. This time, the results were swift and startling. Reports the Caldwell County,…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Converse Redesigned Its Iconic Chucks for the First Time in 98 Years

Some would consider it as sacrilegious as when Coke dabbled with its classic formula back in the 80s, but after 98 years Converse has updated its iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. On the outside they look nearly identical, but on the inside the Chuck II is actually far more comfy for your feet. Before you feel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This is the Most Earth-like Planet Ever Discovered

NASA’s Kepler Space telescope science team has just announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever. Meet Kepler 452-b, the very first apparently rocky planet that orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone. This artist’s concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the…

Tech News Maddie Stone

The Lady Vanished: The Mysterious 1926 Disappearance of Agatha Christie

She was the reigning queen of detective fiction’s Golden Age–but Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mystery remains her unsolved disappearance in 1926. On a chilly December evening, the 36-year-old Christie vanished from her English estate in Sunningdale, Berkshire. While the famed author reportedly left a note that claimed she had gone on vacation, the discovery of…

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Kids Will Happily Eat Anything Using a Pair of T-rex Chopsticks

Bryan Singer Confirms Talks Of Possible X-Men/Fantastic Four Crossover

The Smithsonian Is Finally Getting Crowdfunding Right

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

People Mow Non-Native Plants, Inadvertently Spread West Nile Virus

Updated Kepler Catalog Includes 521 New Possible Exoplanets

The Way Boa Constrictors Kill Is Even Creepier Than We Thought

Grant Morrison Talks “Tofu Batman” And Making Heavy Metal Great Again

There Are Some Crazy Plans for How to Shoot Down a Drone

Xiaomi’s Going to Start Uber-ing Smartphones to People

The Five Best and Five Worst Demons to Get Possessed By

Jurassic World Sequel Officially Announced For Summer 2018

Stunning video of Antarctica creates an unsettling mirrored world

Pax 2 Vaporizer Review: It’s Like Smoking In the Future

New Evidence That Sending People to Prison Makes Crime Worse

This Map’s Red and Blue Regions Each Contain 5% of the World Population

A Daughter’s Faith and Persistence Help Solve a 43-Year-Old Mystery

Converse Redesigned Its Iconic Chucks for the First Time in 98 Years

This is the Most Earth-like Planet Ever Discovered

The Lady Vanished: The Mysterious 1926 Disappearance of Agatha Christie

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