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A (Mostly) Scientific Guide to Pot and the Munchies

Everybody knows it: Weed makes you hungry. Smoking a bowl sends you searching for snacks. Hitting a spliff leaves you craving all kinds of candy. Ripping a bong gives you the munchies. We don’t know why. Science is getting close though, especially after this week. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Woman First Walked On The Moon In 1957. Then She Tried To Stop Apollo 11

If you’re looking for a badass, retrofuturistic space heroine to brighten your afternoon, look no further. Short film Over the Moon is about the first woman who walked on the moon, her robot companion, and their attempt to prevent the 1969 moon landing. Over the Moon was directed by James Cunningham and brings to life…

io9 Lauren Davis

NASA satellite image shows record-breaking frozen Eastern US

NASA’s Terra satellite has captured an image of the current status of the Eastern United states, with “Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.” The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Ahoy, Techno-Utopian Mateys! There’s a Seasteading TV Show On the Way

A reality television show about seasteading, the movement to establish floating, self-sufficient cities in the ocean, is in the works. The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit founded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, sent out a casting call today urging all “experts and survivalists” with an interest in technocratic nautical world-building to sign on. I don’t…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

All The Broke-Ass Tech We Still Use Every Day

Not long ago, I asked you all to vent your rage about the most garbage why-the-hell-doesn’t-it-actually-work-worth-a-damn technology that you still find yourself having to use every goddamn day. Here’s our collective tech shit list. Web browsers: A popular one. Which browser in particular depends on who you’re talking to: For me it was Google Chrome:…

Tech News Eric Limer

11-Year-Old Schools DC About Female Heroes, So They Turn Her Into One

This is kind of awesome. Eleven-year-old Rowan Hansen wrote to DC Comics asking why there weren’t more female superheroes, and why the female heroes don’t wear more practical costumes. They responded with a drawing of Hansen as a superhero. Her response: Thanks, but that’s not what I asked for. Hansen, who appeared on the Today…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Starbucks Is Quitting CDs, and So Am I

Nearly two years ago, I bought a CD while waiting for a bucket-sized iced coffee, sweet with a splash of whole milk. It wasn’t a long wait, but it was long enough for me to spot the new Vampire Weekend album, remember I’d pirated their first two and hand my Starbucks gift card back to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Incredible Lego Diorama Shows How Boba Fett Escaped The Sarlacc Pit

There’s a lot to love about this brilliant Lego Star Wars diorama made by Dan Stoeffler – not just its humongous size, but its weirdly wonderful alternate take on how Boba Fett managed to survive the Sarlacc pit, in a daring tale of digestive acids, Jawas, and… Sarlacc moonshine? Header Image credit: Daniel Stoeffler. All…

Tech News James Whitbrook

How Much Longer Before Companies Start To Run Themselves?

Increasingly powerful AI is poised to threaten many well-established professions. A strong case can be made that no industry or job is safe — including the upper echelons of corporate governance. The era is fast approaching when companies will be able to operate with virtually no human intervention. Here’s how it will work. Illustration by…

io9 George Dvorsky

Turning the Alienware Alpha Into a Steam Machine

There’s nothing quite like the Alienware Alpha. For just $500, it’s a competent Windows gaming PC. But it should have been the flagship Steam Machine. The Alpha was designed to be a Linux game console with a gamepad good enough to replace a mouse and keyboard. As easy to use as PlayStation or Xbox, but…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Ser Pounce Returns In Outstanding Game Of Thrones Season 4 Bloopers

This newest collection of bloopers and flubs from the most recent season of Game of Thrones, but it has everything you’re looking for: flubbing lines, badass characters falling down, and, most of all, the one true king of Westeros, Ser Pounce. By all the old gods and the new, watch it now! https://gizmodo.com/even-white-walkers-screw-up-in-the-game-of-thrones-bloo-1611106915 [Via The…

io9 Rob Bricken

How Ghostbusters Filmed That Classic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Scene

The filmmakers behind Ghostbusters had a lot of challenges when it came to filming their climactic scene. For one thing, they had to make a giant marshmallow man dramatic and not simply silly. For another, they had to build and film a giant freaking marshmallow man. So how’d they do it? CineFix takes us behind…

io9 Lauren Davis

How the Search for Life on Mars Could Be Dooming Itself by Accident

When Curiosity goes looking for organic molecules in Mars’s solid surface, it vaporizes a rock sample and sniffs the gas that comes out. The plan could be going awry thanks to a pesky little mineral called jarosite. Jarosite releases an oxygen atom when it is heated up. Oxygen is very reactive, so it goes looking…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

The Sexual Spectrum Is Way More Complicated Than “Male” and “Female”

It is becoming more and more difficult to define sex in binary terms. Photo Credit: Tom Magliery | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Scientific investigations performed over the last several decades have repeatedly observed that the process of sex-determination is a complex process that can give rise to a variety of genetic, cellular, and ultimately sexual outcomes.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The CIA Once Ran Brothels And Dosed Unsuspecting Customers With LSD

For ten years during the Cold War, the CIA conducted mind-control experiments on unsuspecting San Franciscans. Dubbed Operation Midnight Climax, the program was packed with salacious details: a power-mad narcotics agent, a brothel equipped with two-way mirrors, and gallons of LSD. Top image: Surian Soosay/Flickr Operation Midnight Climax was one of a few operations involving…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Lenovo Joins the Malevolent Side of the Online Advertising Industry

On Wednesday evening, the news began to break on Twitter. Computer security analysts had discovered something nefarious about a piece of advertising software called Superfish, which comes pre-installed on cheap Lenovo laptops like the Yoga 2. Superfish was leaving the laptops wide open to takeover by malicious adversaries. And it was all being done to…

Privacy & Security Annalee Newitz

The Nebula Awards Shortlist Is Full Of New Names

Proof that recognition in science fiction and fantasy is open to newcomers: the latest raft of Nebula nominees includes a ton of new names. And at least one of them, Alaya Dawn Johnson, is on the ballot in a couple of categories. I checked a bunch of the names on this year’s Nebula ballot against…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mission Impossible 5 Shuts Down Production To Figure Out Ending

Christopher McQuarrie has shut down Mission Impossible 5 because the ending was, get this, impossible. Or something; we’re paraphrasing. But don’t worry, Mission Impossible 5 writers, we have some “thoughts.” THR is reporting that MI5 (which I just now realized RHYMES — or, at least, is assonantal) has shut down production in the middle of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Doctor Who Would Give Men Monkey Testicles

Serge Voronoff sold the early 20th century version of male enhancement – monkey testicles. No, we don’t mean the monkey testicles were ground up and put in food, or even swallowed whole. We mean Voronoff stapled them to a person’s body. In the 1920s, a rather open-minded group of men went to Voronoff in hopes…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Most Americans Wouldn’t Take a Trip to Space, Even If It Was Free

If you grew up during the space race of the 1960s, you probably thought that tourist flights into space would be common by now. Sadly, nobody is honeymooning on the moon just yet. But a new poll shows that most Americans actually have no desire to go to space — even if the trip was…

Tech News Matt Novak

A (Mostly) Scientific Guide to Pot and the Munchies

Woman First Walked On The Moon In 1957. Then She Tried To Stop Apollo 11

NASA satellite image shows record-breaking frozen Eastern US

Ahoy, Techno-Utopian Mateys! There’s a Seasteading TV Show On the Way

All The Broke-Ass Tech We Still Use Every Day

11-Year-Old Schools DC About Female Heroes, So They Turn Her Into One

Starbucks Is Quitting CDs, and So Am I

This Incredible Lego Diorama Shows How Boba Fett Escaped The Sarlacc Pit

How Much Longer Before Companies Start To Run Themselves?

Turning the Alienware Alpha Into a Steam Machine

Ser Pounce Returns In Outstanding Game Of Thrones Season 4 Bloopers

How Ghostbusters Filmed That Classic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Scene

How the Search for Life on Mars Could Be Dooming Itself by Accident

The Sexual Spectrum Is Way More Complicated Than “Male” and “Female”

The CIA Once Ran Brothels And Dosed Unsuspecting Customers With LSD

Lenovo Joins the Malevolent Side of the Online Advertising Industry

The Nebula Awards Shortlist Is Full Of New Names

Mission Impossible 5 Shuts Down Production To Figure Out Ending

The Doctor Who Would Give Men Monkey Testicles

Most Americans Wouldn’t Take a Trip to Space, Even If It Was Free

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