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Two Water Experts Are Here To Answer Your Questions About the Drought

The drought transforming the American West has people everywhere questioning their own water use. Why don’t we recycle more wastewater? What about desalination? Should we be #droughtshaming rich people to get them to conserve? And, most importantly—SHOULD I EAT ALMONDS? Get your water questions answered by our experts today. Joining us are Hadley and Peter…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Some People Can’t Conjure Mental Images. Are You One of Them?

Mentally count the windows in your home. Did you close your eyes? Visualize your house’s layout in your head? I did, when I tried this task. But some people, researchers have discovered, seem to be incapable of producing and holding such images in their mind’s eye. (They’re also perfectly capable of answering the window question.)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Which Future Are We Heading Towards: Mad Max Or Star Trek?

“As the 21st century unfolds, science fiction increasingly comes to seem like a realist rather than a speculative genre,” says one essay/book review in the L.A. Review of Books. It’s just one of a few great pieces up at the LARB site right now, about the choice of futures we face: Mad Max versus Star…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Apple Is Wrong to Pull Historical Games Featuring the Confederate Flag

The Confederate flag is a garbage flag that represents garbage ideas. But in an effort to purge the world of those garbage ideas, some companies are too quick to pull out the banhammer. Here’s one recent example: Apple has begun banning some games that feature the Confederate flag–even if that game is about the Civil…

Tech News Matt Novak

Roger Ebert’s Poignant Thoughts On Film Are Even Better When Animated

PBS Digital Studios’ Blank on Blank series, which takes interviews with interesting people and then animates them, is just a delight, and this interview with Roger Ebert is no exception. Ebert talks about his issues with film school, who has the biggest ego, and why his favorite love scenes aren’t about passion. This comes from…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch How Alligators Make Water Boil with Their Infrasound Mating Calls

This is amazing. During the breeding season, American alligators call for mates with a deep loud roar. It’s preceded by a pulse of infrasound that sets the water dancing. The phenomenon might create waves that help potential mates find the gators they like best. Or it could just be an accident, a side effect of…

Biology Diane Kelly

Here’s a Highly Rational, Totally Plausible Fix For Drought In Cities

One big myth about Los Angeles that keeps resurfacing during the drought is that LA is a desert. But that’s wrong—it gets quite a bit of rain every year. The key to preventing scarcity is rethinking how to use the water that gets delivered there naturally. And one simple idea around this concept might work…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Use Filta to Search the People You Follow on Twitter

If you’re looking for people with a specific set of skills or in a particular location then the list of folks you’re following on Twitter is a good place to start. Filta makes it easy for you to scour this list with a couple of clicks. It’s the kind of useful feature Twitter should have…

Gadgets David Nield

The 7 Stages of Falling Out of Love With Your Fandom

What happens when you stop loving a piece of entertainment that once could do no wrong? It’s one of the nastiest kinds of break-ups there is. Your love was pure and true. And then it was gone, and you were a wreck of yourself. How did it come to this? Here are the seven stages…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This giant hole water vortex will probably flush the world away

This is a crazy overhead view of a giant intake vortex at Denison Dam in Lake Texoma, one of the largest reservoirs in the US on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The water in the reservoir got a little bit too high, so it was drained like a bathtub. A giant bathtub, that is.…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Disturbing Case of Cannibalistic Serial Killer Albert Fish

Remember those dark nights from your childhood when you were afraid of the boogeyman? He never did leap out of your closet, but that doesn’t mean all monsters are make-believe. Meet Albert Fish: a real-life nightmare, who preyed upon children as if they were food. This turn-of-the-century cannibal was born in Washington D.C. on May…

Tech News Steven Casale - The Lineup

Dinosaurs Chomping on Play-Doh People Sounds Like a Really Great Game

In Jurassic Park, its sequels, and Jurassic World, there are plenty of people being eaten by dinosaurs. But the toys released alongside those Jurassic movies usually tip-toe around that ugly reality. Except for Play-Doh, who wholeheartedly encourages kids to make tiny plasticine people destined to be dino dinner. Awesome. That’s not exactly how Hasbro is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Mr. Robot Pilot Was So Popular They Renewed the Show Before It Aired

The pilot for the new hacker drama Mr. Robot was officially posted online a month ahead of the TV series premiere (which was last night on USA) and netizens have spoken: Mr. Robot is so popular, the cable network ordered season 2 before the first episode had hit airwaves. The pilot was watched by 2.6…

Commerce Bryan Lufkin

The All-Female Avengers Team Will Survive Secret Wars with a New Series

It seems like this is the week Marvel have decided to lift the lid on their “All-New” comics universe—and the latest new series announcement is indeed a welcome one. The A-Force, the first ever all-female Avengers group, will spin off of their Secret Wars miniseries and become a full part of the Marvel Universe. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-is-creating-the-first-ever-all-female-avengers-t-1684215923…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Taylor Swift Confirms 1989 Will Come to Apple Music

Taylor Swift and Apple Music have spent the last week embroiled in a passive-aggressive Tweetwar over artist payments on Apple’s upcoming streaming service. Apple caved to Swift’s demands on the weekend, and now the singer has made good, confirming that her latest album 1989 will be coming to Apple Music. That’s a big win for…

Tech News Chris Mills

Netflix Is About to Be Bigger Than ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox

Well, we saw this coming: The explosive, cord-cutting popularity of Netflix will finally torch the laurels of traditional broadcast television networks. Analysts predict that if Netflix were measured as a 24-hour station by Nielsen, it would have more viewers than ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox within the year. There is some fine print to that…

Television Adam Clark Estes

Man the New Windows 10 Background Is Annoying

We’re just a month away from the release of Windows 10, and to celebrate this momentous occasion for desktop software, Microsoft has released a video showing the ‘hero image’ that will grace your desktop backgrounds for years to come. I kind of hate it already. Microsoft went to great pains—a two-minute behind-the-scenes YouTube video—to explain…

Tech News Chris Mills

An R2-D2 BBQ Apron Really Just Sells Itself

The Fourth of July is just around the corner which means we’re officially at peak grilling season. And with a new Star Wars movie arriving later this year, there’s no better time to upgrade your grilling ensemble with an R2-D2 apron. Made from cotton-coated PVC it will keep hot grease splatters and BBQ sauce off…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Preschool Turns Into a Huge Puddle Playground When It Rains

Kids need to play—it’s simply how they learn. More and more, scientists who study early childhood development say that preschools and kindergartens are focusing on academics when they should be letting kids simply play. Not at this preschool in Japan. At Dai-Ichi preschool—located in Kumamoto, at the southern end of Japan—play is the main item…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Freaky Exoplanet Features a Massive Comet-like Tail

Astronomers have spotted a Neptune-sized planet with a rather unexpected feature—a comet-like tail that trails for millions of miles. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen before. The exoplanet, GJ 436b, is located approximately 33.1 light-years away and in orbit around the red dwarf,Gliese 436. At 2.5% the luminosity of our Sun, this star…

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Two Water Experts Are Here To Answer Your Questions About the Drought

Some People Can’t Conjure Mental Images. Are You One of Them?

Which Future Are We Heading Towards: Mad Max Or Star Trek?

Apple Is Wrong to Pull Historical Games Featuring the Confederate Flag

Roger Ebert’s Poignant Thoughts On Film Are Even Better When Animated

Watch How Alligators Make Water Boil with Their Infrasound Mating Calls

Here’s a Highly Rational, Totally Plausible Fix For Drought In Cities

Use Filta to Search the People You Follow on Twitter

The 7 Stages of Falling Out of Love With Your Fandom

This giant hole water vortex will probably flush the world away

The Disturbing Case of Cannibalistic Serial Killer Albert Fish

Dinosaurs Chomping on Play-Doh People Sounds Like a Really Great Game

The Mr. Robot Pilot Was So Popular They Renewed the Show Before It Aired

The All-Female Avengers Team Will Survive Secret Wars with a New Series

Taylor Swift Confirms 1989 Will Come to Apple Music

Netflix Is About to Be Bigger Than ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox

Man the New Windows 10 Background Is Annoying

An R2-D2 BBQ Apron Really Just Sells Itself

This Preschool Turns Into a Huge Puddle Playground When It Rains

This Freaky Exoplanet Features a Massive Comet-like Tail

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