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Australia Banned A TV Episode Because It Said Spiders Weren’t Scary

Some kid’s show messages are universal: stranger danger, just say no, don’t climb into a tumble dryer, etc. Others are more specific to location. Enter Peppa Pig and the controversial-in-Australia message that “spiders are not to be feared.” Peppa Pig is a children’s show from the UK. As so many shows are, it’s been exported…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Chris Hadfield Explains His View Of Earth From Space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield made his name doing space-bound covers of David Bowie, but ever since returning to Earth, he’s been doing a stellar job of making us all jealous about his tenure in the ISS. In this interview with science video channel Veritasium, Hadfield describes his first spacewalk, which took place during the Southern…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Peter Kuper’s Spy Vs. Spy Comics Are A Work Of Heart-Rending Brilliance

We’ve loved the Spy vs. Spy comics in Mad Magazine forever — but for the last 17+ years, they’ve been the work of comics superstar Peter Kuper. And Kuper’s take on the two dueling spies is anarchic, and wonderful to behold. Top image via School Library Journal In an interview with Time Out, Kuper was…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Kick ass friends recreated all of Rambo for kick ass bachelor party

If you’ve had some fun blackout stories with the boys or had a crazy insane Hangover weekend for a bachelor party and thought that was fun, wait until you see this: a group of friends re-created the plot of Rambo for their friend Dana Saint’s bachelor party. It was awesome. I mean, seriously. Motorcycle chases,…

Sploid Casey Chan

Video: Beautiful bird feeds its young in glorious slow motion

Meal time! Artur Homan captured this footage of a beautiful and wildly colorful hoopoe bird feeding its young in slow motion. Shot in Poland, you can see multiple angles of the hoopoe mouth feeding the kid bird with a crunchy bug that it just swallows whole. Nature can be so gruesomely gorgeous. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan

Here’s A Way To Stop Drones Flying Over Your House, Without A Shotgun

All jokes about rednecks scoring themselves free Amazon parcels with their 12-gauge aside, drones, privacy, and private property post some thorny problems for America’s fast-growing quadrotor obsession. An opt-in, house-by-house permissions network could be an elegant solution. The ambition of NoFlyZone, a consortium of (small) drone manufacturers, is to create a nationwide database of homeowners…

Tech News Chris Mills

Last Night’s Originals Ended With Not One, But Two “Holy F–k” Moments

The Originals is spending a lot of its second season focusing on the ever-growing number of Mikaelsons, and not really giving enough screentime to Marcel, Josh, Aidan, Davina, and all the storylines about New Orleans magical politics. But at least the Mikaelsons can still surprise us, as this clip proves. Elijah spends rather a lot…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In the New Episode of Haphead, Things Get Really Dark

io9 is proud to be bringing you weekly installments of the indie scifi series Haphead, created by Jim Munroe, about a VR gamer living in a dystopian future Toronto. In the fourth installment of the series, Maxine tries to help her depressed dad, a former punk gone corporate. And that’s when things get creepy. If…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Rock and Bury It Forever (Hopefully)

What do we do with a problem like carbon dioxide? We want to remove the excess from our atmosphere, but how? In Iceland, geologists are burying the greenhouse gas with water, so that basic chemistry can turn it into solid rock inside what the New York Times calls “a geological soda machine.” Storing carbon dioxide…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Awesome animation is like a cross between Back to the Future and Tron

If this video doesn’t get you going, you’re dead inside and we can’t be friends. Florian Renner made this short animation, Retrowave, as an ode to the style of the 1980’s. It basically combines the worlds of Back to the Future and Tron by turning the DeLorean into a Light Cycle on The Grid. Not…

Sploid Casey Chan

Judge Lets NSA Continue Spying on US Citizens

A federal judge in the Northern District of California just ruledthat he can’t rule in a case accusing the NSA of spying on Americans. This lack of a ruling means the NSA may continue with its activities. But the really disappointing and weird part is how the judge justified his stance. The judge said the…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Tons of People Can’t Tweet Because Twitter Thinks We’re All Robots [It’s Fixed!]

Something at Twitter has gone horribly, hilariously wrong: The social media site has unceremoniously declared us all to be robots. Well, maybe not all of us, but more than a few folks on Gizmodo staff as well as dozens of users across the web. Affected users trying to Tweet from Twitter’s web client are being…

Tech News Sean Buckley

AMC Over The Internet For $20 a Month? Sign Me Up.

I’ve never paid for live television, and Sling TV wasn’t changing my mind. The $20-a-month app that streams live TV on the internet just didn’t have anything that interested me. But then, a bombshell: AMC is coming to Sling TV too. The Walking Dead. Mad Men. Better Call Saul. I could watch them when my…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Museums and Universities Are Using Forced Labor to Build in Abu Dhabi

The Guggenheim. The Louvre. NYU. All have signed on to build outposts on an island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. And according to a new report from Human Rights Watch today, the development where these institutions will be located is being built withforced labor. Saadiyat Island has been under construction since 2006, and it’s…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Shaking Off Scrubbed Launch, SpaceX Celebrates A Dragon Splashdown

Despite yet another delay in the launch of their first-ever deep space mission, SpaceX still had reason to celebrate today. After a month attached to the International Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth, splashing down with a load of scientific supplies. Top image: The Dragon in position for release. Credit: NASA/ESA/Sam Cristoforetti…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

You Can See an Endless Water Vortex Beneath This Floor

You walk into an empty room by the sea, to find a perfectly circular hole punched out of the concrete floor where a vortex of water swirls and crashes with perfect rhythm. It sounds like an optical illusion, but it’s real. It’s the latest work from artist Anish Kapoor. Kapoor’s art is always dreamlike, whether…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

One Simple Way to Protect Yourself in the Age of Password Dumps

In the last couple of hours three prominent social media accounts have been hacked: The Twitter accounts of Newsweekand Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, as well as the Facebook account of Delta Airlines. And there’s more. There were all those passwords published this morning too! A well-meaning security expert assembled 10 million previously-leaked passwords and released…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

A Woman Became Obese After a Poop Transplant

Scientists have known for a while that gut bacteria can play a profound role in the weight of mice. Now we have a case report in humans that is not entirely surprising: A woman gained 36 pounds and became obese in the 16 months after a fecal transplant. The 32-year-old woman had maintained an average…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Watch kids get grossed out by breakfast foods from around the world

Kids are cute and also hilariously picky eaters so they’re pretty perfect for this experiment by Cut Video that makes them eat different breakfast foods from all across the world. It’s fun to see how they react and also interesting to see what different countries eat for breakfast. The whole set up of the video…

Sploid Casey Chan

Have You Ever Bought Something and Pirated It?

Some people are morally opposed to pirating stuff on the internet. That is fair! (And law-abiding.) Then there are people who pirate stuff sometimes, and pay for stuff sometimes. This question is for you: Have you ever bought and pirated something? If so, why? Did you lose your Roseanne DVDs and decide the show wasn’t…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Australia Banned A TV Episode Because It Said Spiders Weren’t Scary

Chris Hadfield Explains His View Of Earth From Space

Peter Kuper’s Spy Vs. Spy Comics Are A Work Of Heart-Rending Brilliance

Kick ass friends recreated all of Rambo for kick ass bachelor party

Video: Beautiful bird feeds its young in glorious slow motion

Here’s A Way To Stop Drones Flying Over Your House, Without A Shotgun

Last Night’s Originals Ended With Not One, But Two “Holy F–k” Moments

In the New Episode of Haphead, Things Get Really Dark

How to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Rock and Bury It Forever (Hopefully)

Awesome animation is like a cross between Back to the Future and Tron

Judge Lets NSA Continue Spying on US Citizens

Tons of People Can’t Tweet Because Twitter Thinks We’re All Robots [It’s Fixed!]

AMC Over The Internet For $20 a Month? Sign Me Up.

Museums and Universities Are Using Forced Labor to Build in Abu Dhabi

Shaking Off Scrubbed Launch, SpaceX Celebrates A Dragon Splashdown

You Can See an Endless Water Vortex Beneath This Floor

One Simple Way to Protect Yourself in the Age of Password Dumps

A Woman Became Obese After a Poop Transplant

Watch kids get grossed out by breakfast foods from around the world

Have You Ever Bought Something and Pirated It?

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