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Awesome LED black hole water slide is like flying through a wormhole

The coolest water slide in the world and perhaps the universe is this black hole water slide in Bremerhaven, Germany’s Bad 1 Water Park. The slide starts off completely dark and then lights up with colorful LEDs throughout the journey that make it seem as if you’re traveling through some trippy wormhole or teleportation tunnel…

Sploid Casey Chan

Whatever Happened To One Of Game Of Thrones‘ Few Really Nice Characters?

Game of Thrones has a huge, sprawling cast. So it’s not surprising that some characters get lost between the cracks of the narrative. Including one character who’s actually really lovable and amazingly nice. The other day, you came up with some hilarious ideas. Spoilers ahead… We’re talking, of course, about Gendry. The nice blacksmith and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Papuan Tribe That Ate Brains Developed Resistance to Some Brain Diseases

The story of kuru, as classically told in biology textbooks, is a tragic one. The Fore population in Papua New Guinea ate the brains of their tribe members as an act of mourning, a ritual that allowed a misshapen protein to spread through the population. This caused the disease kuru, which killed as much as…

Health Sarah Zhang

I Got To Be A Mountain Hardwear Designer For A Day

Mountain Hardwear designs some of the most technically-advanced outdoors apparel and gear on the planet. I just got to spend a day working alongside their designers. This is what their process is like. The invitation was intriguing enough: “Come be a Mountain Hardwear designer for a day.” Having graduated with a design degree (albeit not…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr

Recalling Another Famous Prison Break As The Search Continues For NY Duo

Behold “the Texas Seven,” violent convicts who escaped from Texas’ maximum-security John B. Connally Unit Prison on Dec. 13, 2000. You thought “Have a nice day” (with racist drawing) was an odd note to leave behind? The Texas Seven’s missive was far more ominous: “You haven’t heard the last of us yet.” They were right.…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Watch The Oculus Rift Announcement Here, If You Missed It Before

Did you miss Oculus revealing the long-awaitedfinal consumer version of its amazing virtual reality headset when it was streaming live? You can watch a replay of the entire presentation right now. Just skip to 35 minutes, 15 seconds in the video below. Or click this link. [Twitch via Road to VR] Contact the author at…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Touching Photos Show A Baby Koala Clinging To Mom While She Has Surgery

A six-month-old koala named Phantom was allowed to hold on to his mother while she was being operated on to treat a collapsed lung. As the Courier Mail reports, the pair managed to survive after being hit by a car on a highway west of Brisbane. No bones were broken, but the mother, named Lizzy,…

io9 George Dvorsky

That Time a Young Girl’s Lemonade Stand Gave Her Neighbors Polio

This week police in Overton, Texas shut down two sisters (aged 7 and 8) who were operating an illicit lemonade stand. These kinds of stories have become an annual summertime tradition, complete with that cool and refreshing thanks Obama! subtext about government overreach. The part we seem to forget? America has always been at war…

Tech News Matt Novak

Jurassic World Director Talks About That Infamous Running-In-Heels Scene

Jurassic World, out tomorrow, is getting praise for its awesome dinosaur action. But it’s also getting a lot of criticism for its characters, especially the way it handles Bryce Dallas Howard. We talked to director Colin Trevorrow about how to make a monster movie in the Age of Sharktopus. Spoilers ahead… How do you deal…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

So, a 15-Year-Old Intern Discovered a New Planet

When I was 15, I spent a lot of time playing Nintendo 64 in a dark basement. Tom Wagg, on the other hand, discovered a new planet 1,000 lightyears away. The British planet-finder is 17 now. But two years ago, during an internship at Keele University, he found WASP-142b, a star-orbiting exoplanet whose existence took…

Space & Spaceflight Bryan Lufkin

Undying Love: Carl Tanzler’s Mummified Dream Girl

For one obsessed suitor, death and decaying flesh couldn’t keep him from his one true sweetheart. America has long been the land of fulfilling one’s hopes and dreams. Or visions, as was the case of a German transplant by the name of Carl Tanzler. Tanzler emigrated to Zephyrillis, Florida — his wife and two daughters…

Tech News Stephanie Almazan - The Lineup

How Much Steel Does It Take To Build a Floating Neighborhood?

Without much fanfare—and as quietly as a construction project can be—a new neighborhood is taking shape on the west edge of Manhattan. It’s the largest private real estate project the US has ever seen. But neither its size or cost are what make it interesting. We’re living in an age of gargantuan developments aimed at…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Recipient Of World’s First Successful Penis Transplant Is A Father-To-Be

In March, the recipient of the world’s first successful penis transplant was said to have “made a full recovery and… regained all function,” based on his ability to urinate, produce an erection, orgasm, and ejaculate with his recently grafted member. Now, his girlfriend is pregnant. Fully functional, indeed. Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

I Read This Mammoth Essay on Code To Make You 38 Thousand Times Smarter

Want to know enough about code that you don’t sound like a complete dunce? Bloomberg Businessweek has publisheda 38,000-word explainer/meditation/opus on coding called “What Is Code?” by programmer and writer Paul Ford. Here’s our TL;DR version. It is good! (“And thorough” – Maude Lebowski) But it’s SO long. Bloomberg takes a photo of your face…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Christopher Lee’s last message feels like a premonitory farewell

I’m a huge fan of Sir Christopher Lee. Not only did he have a wicked sense of humor and a great life philosophy, but he was a fantastic—and very underappreciated!—actor. After I saw his first film in Hammer’s Dracula series, he visited my childhood nightmares every day. He terrified me—and I loved every bit of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Tragedy Of The Gangster, The Gullible Girl, And The “Camera Gun”

It was December 1946, and 19-year-old Pearl Lusk was approached by a good-looking man in the Times Square subway station. He was a detective, he told the gullible lass, and he needed her help solving a case. Could she snap a photograph of a suspected thief with this unusual, uh, camera? As the vintage illustration…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Webcomic Nimona Is Getting An Animated Adaptation! Yes, Yes, Yes!

Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona is one of our all-time favorite webcomics, a genre-bending tale of a not-so-evil supervillain whose life is radically altered when a pushy, shapeshifting lady forces him to take her on as his sidekick. And now there’s going to be an animated version, from the director of Disney’s adorable short Feast. The Hollywood…

Movies Lauren Davis

Spielberg Finds A Way: 9 Uncanny Facts About The Making Of Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park changed movies forever, with its utterly believable computer-generated dinosaurs. But did you know they were originally going to use claymation instead? Just in time for Jurassic World, we’ve dug up nine fascinating facts about the making of the original Jurassic Park. Some other facts that didn’t make it into this video… Michael Crichton…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Abhimanyu Das

What’s The Best Way To Diversify Superhero Comics?

Greetings, folks. I know I promised you an extra-long “Postal Apocalypse” after last week’s absence, but I caught a mutant technovirus (head-cold) during my wasteland wanderings (plane travel). So here’s a regularly sized mailbag for your enjoyment — load me up with questions and I’ll owe you next week. Equal Rites Matt: Dear Mr. Postman,…

Movies Rob Bricken

He’s Probably Just Playing a Subway Simulator

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Tech News Alissa Walker

Awesome LED black hole water slide is like flying through a wormhole

Whatever Happened To One Of Game Of Thrones‘ Few Really Nice Characters?

Papuan Tribe That Ate Brains Developed Resistance to Some Brain Diseases

I Got To Be A Mountain Hardwear Designer For A Day

Recalling Another Famous Prison Break As The Search Continues For NY Duo

Watch The Oculus Rift Announcement Here, If You Missed It Before

Touching Photos Show A Baby Koala Clinging To Mom While She Has Surgery

That Time a Young Girl’s Lemonade Stand Gave Her Neighbors Polio

Jurassic World Director Talks About That Infamous Running-In-Heels Scene

So, a 15-Year-Old Intern Discovered a New Planet

Undying Love: Carl Tanzler’s Mummified Dream Girl

How Much Steel Does It Take To Build a Floating Neighborhood?

Recipient Of World’s First Successful Penis Transplant Is A Father-To-Be

I Read This Mammoth Essay on Code To Make You 38 Thousand Times Smarter

Christopher Lee’s last message feels like a premonitory farewell

The Tragedy Of The Gangster, The Gullible Girl, And The “Camera Gun”

Webcomic Nimona Is Getting An Animated Adaptation! Yes, Yes, Yes!

Spielberg Finds A Way: 9 Uncanny Facts About The Making Of Jurassic Park

What’s The Best Way To Diversify Superhero Comics?

He’s Probably Just Playing a Subway Simulator

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