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McDonald’s Has Created Brilliant Bike-Friendly Takeout Packaging

You can say what you want about McDonald’s food, but the one thing you can’t argue is the fast food giant’s mastery at marketing itself to an incredibly diverse demographic. The company is now even specifically targeting cyclists with some very clever bike-friendly takeout containers. McBike isn’t the most clever name for the new packaging…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch This Fish Perform One Of Nature’s Most Impressive Vanishing Acts

The slender filefish has evolved the ability to camouflage its body patterns and shape so effectively, it can render itself effectively invisible in a matter of seconds. At New Scientist, Agata Blaszczak-Boxe describes the findings of Justine Allen and her colleagues at Brown University, who have documented the fish’s disappearing act in the shallow waters…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Man Reunited With Message In a Bottle He Tossed Into the Sea In 1971

An Australian couple were vacationing in Scotland recently when they discovered a curious time capsule: A message in a bottle dated January 15, 1971. Amazingly, they were able to track down the teenager (now in his 50s) who first chucked it into the North Sea. The message was scrawled on a piece of paper inside…

Tech News Matt Novak

Here’s The First Teaser For Zombie Spinoff Fear The Walking Dead

The sixth season of The Walking Dead is still a ways off, but AMC’s spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead will be bringing more walkers to our TV screens in August. The first official teaser is out, and while it doesn’t give us any zombies, it still shows plenty of fear. That’s Frank Dillane’s character,…

Trailers Lauren Davis

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

Considering printer ink costs more than booze and even human blood, it’s no surprise everyone’s on the hunt for a cheaper alternative. And that includes researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology who’ve created an inkless printer that works by perforating special paper with thousands of microscopic holes. There’s a catch, though. You…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Even He-Man Has A Comic Book Multiverse Now

Multiverses! Don’t you know the key to comic book superstardom is an interconnected mess of alternate realities? Everyone has one, whether they’re tearing them up into a zillion pieces or slowly stitching them back together for the umpteenth time. The latest Comic to jump on the bandwagon? Why, He-Man, of course. Minor spoilers for DC’s…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Jurassic Zoo Might Be The Best Meme Ever

Every once in a while, pop culture combines with real life to produce a meme of truly epic proportions. The internet was made for #JurassicZoo, wherein animal wranglers take on their charges just like Chris Pratt in Jurassic World. In Jurassic World, Pratt’s character Owen Grady demonstrates a raptor-soothing move, legs spread, arms outstretched. I’m…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

What’s Stopping Us from Building Cities in Space? No, It’s Not Tech.

The US has a plan for Americans to live in space. In 2012, the National Research Council was commissioned by Congress to roadmap the future of human space exploration. Last June, the team published its findings in a massive report, which called for several action steps to be taken immediately. One year later, are we…

Space & Spaceflight Alissa Walker

Kepler-138b Is Now The Lightest Exoplanet Ever Discovered

For the first time ever, astronomers have measured the size and mass of an exoplanet smaller than Earth. A team of astronomers from Penn State, NASA Ames, the University of Chicago, and the SETI Institute have measured the mass of a Mars-sized exoplanet located 200 light-years away. That’s astonishing, particularly considering that this planet, called…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Lost Designer of This Classic 90s Pattern Has Finally Been Found

You know jazz. Even if you don’t know it you know it: A jagged oil-crayon scribble of teal, laced with a zig-zag of purple, found on paper cups and plates all over the country through the 1990s. Jazz has long had a cult following, but its designer had always been lost to the sands of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Excellent Android Projector You’ll Probably Never Use

I’ve always liked the idea of having a projector, but never actually owned one. It always seemed like too much work: Sure, projecting movies like in theaters would be sweet, but then I’d have to set it up all the time. Isn’t there a better way? Actually, yes: AT&T now carries a projector that’s also…

Reviews Sean Buckley

This Documentary Uses Science to See Who Loves the Hardest

Six adults (and one kid), one fMRI machine, five minutes to love someone (or something) as hard as possible. In The Love Competition, a short documentary first featured in McSweeney’s Wholphin #15, filmmaker Brent Hoff and Stanford University neuroscientists try to see which type of love makes the brain most active. Contestants — including a…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Cuba’s Finally Doing Something About Its Insanely Expensive Internet

Getting online is damn near impossible in Cuba—unless you’re very rich. That’s because the state-run run telecom company, Etecsa, has historically limited access and charges exorbitant fees for connectivity. Faced with growing international pressure, the company is finally going to add wifi hotspots and drop prices—but not by much. Internet in Cuba was expensive and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Pixar Has A Brand New Masterpiece: Inside Out Will Make You Smarter

The concept of Inside Out sounds unbearably twee, not to mention borrowed from the sitcom Herman’s Head. We’re seeing inside the head of a young girl, where each of her emotions is a cartoon, voiced by a comedian. But Inside Out is actually a brilliant movie about the beginning of wisdom. What follows contains minor…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Announcing the Sploid Short Film Festival

Welcome to the first edition of the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of great storytelling and awesome eye candy. We will select the best short films of 2015 in the next five months leading to a November award ceremony at Gawker Media’s theater on Fifth Avenue in New York. What is the Sploid Short…

Sploid Casey Chan

Should We Terraform a New Planet Or Fix Our Own?

Before we talk about terraforming another planet like Mars, we have to talk about Earth—and whether we should be spending our resources trying to save it, or moving on to another pale blue dot. It’s a grim debate that some scientists say it’s time to have. Terraform This We’ve been imagining how to create a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Watch As Waves Of Glowing Genes Build A Spine

Not only do you need all of your organs, you need them all in the proper proportion. How does one segment of the vertebra know how big to get compared to another? Now we can see the spine growing in incredible glowing waves. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) took a look at…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The 6 Craziest Kidnapping Schemes Of All Time

Being held for ransom sounds terrifying and grim — especially in this day and age, when terrorist groups often kidnap people to achieve political goals. But once upon a time, most kidnappers simply wanted to get rich. Stupidly, bizarrely rich. Here are the 6 craziest and most overcomplicated kidnap schemes. 1. The Lindbergh baby On…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

I Used The Final Oculus Rift. Here Are The Games Worth Playing.

I don’t know what the final Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will cost. The fact that it won’t come with its amazing motion controller makes me want to wait. But even with just an Xbox One gamepad, there are already mindblowing experiences to be had. Here are all of them. First, a note on the…

Tech News Sean Hollister

This Massive Batman Figure Looks Absolutely Amazing

Now that Batman: Arkham Knight, the latest Batman game from Rocksteady, is nearly here, everyone is showing off their gaming-inspired merchandise. Leading the charge is this fantastic 1/4 scale Batman from NECA, who looks immensely detailed, right down to his delicately sculpted Bat-butt. Wait, what? Coming in at 18” tall, the Arkham Knight Batman is…

Tech News James Whitbrook

McDonald’s Has Created Brilliant Bike-Friendly Takeout Packaging

Watch This Fish Perform One Of Nature’s Most Impressive Vanishing Acts

Man Reunited With Message In a Bottle He Tossed Into the Sea In 1971

Here’s The First Teaser For Zombie Spinoff Fear The Walking Dead

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

Even He-Man Has A Comic Book Multiverse Now

Jurassic Zoo Might Be The Best Meme Ever

What’s Stopping Us from Building Cities in Space? No, It’s Not Tech.

Kepler-138b Is Now The Lightest Exoplanet Ever Discovered

The Lost Designer of This Classic 90s Pattern Has Finally Been Found

The Excellent Android Projector You’ll Probably Never Use

This Documentary Uses Science to See Who Loves the Hardest

Cuba’s Finally Doing Something About Its Insanely Expensive Internet

Pixar Has A Brand New Masterpiece: Inside Out Will Make You Smarter

Announcing the Sploid Short Film Festival

Should We Terraform a New Planet Or Fix Our Own?

Watch As Waves Of Glowing Genes Build A Spine

The 6 Craziest Kidnapping Schemes Of All Time

I Used The Final Oculus Rift. Here Are The Games Worth Playing.

This Massive Batman Figure Looks Absolutely Amazing

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