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Can You Identify 20 Of The Most Common Birds in North America?

Add this picture quiz on common backyard birds to the list of things you never thought you’d care about but then actually became weirdly and unreasonably invested in once you tried them. What? Just me? I’ve never been one for Internet quizzes. I’ve also never been one for birdwatching, so I did terribly (8/20, bad…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 3 '15

Can You Guess a City By Its Transit Stops Alone?

Do you consider yourself a transit nerd? The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a doozy of a challenge for you: A quiz that asks you to name a US city based on a map of its public transportation system. The rub: It only shows you the stops. You can’t see the routes. The online quizis…

Tech News Alissa Walker Apr 3 '15

The First Schizophrenia Medication Was Developed As An Antihistamine

Thorazine, or chlorpromazine, was the first antipsychotic. It freed many people with severe schizophrenia from mental asylums, but that’s not why it was developed. It was first tested because it’s an antihistamine. Yes, like the allergy medications. The incessantly itchy eyes and noses that some people get in the spring is the result of their…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 3 '15

Crazy winds throw window cleaners for a scary swing ride on 91st floor

Dear Lord. Cleaning the windows of skyscrapers is already a scary enough job but cleaning windows of the 91st floor of the 1600-foot tall Shanghai World Financial Center while the wind violently throws around the scaffolding like some unhinged, unbuckled roller coaster swing? That is absolutely pants laundering terrifying. The workers were thankfully rescued but…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 3 '15

First Look At Syfy’s “Space Bounty Hunter” Show Killjoys!

Syfy has been dipping its toe back into space adventure lately — but here’s a great leap back into the stars, with a pleasing amount of grit and dark humor. Killjoys is a show about bounty hunters in space, from Michelle Lovretta, the original creator of Lost Girl. Lovretta only worked on the first season…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 3 '15

Finally, Someone Is Bringing Back DC’s Retro Figure Playsets

The revival of retro toys based on the action figures of yesteryear is perhaps at its height right now — but one area where most lines are slipping up is in the distinct lack of retro playsets. Figures Toy Company is changing that with their line of retro DC action figures though, and it’s off…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Apr 3 '15

Inside Morgellons, the Internet’s Disease

Joni Mitchell was hospitalized this week, but the songwriter has been sick for years. She has described her debilitating illness as “a slow, unpredictable killer–a terrorist disease. It will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year.” Yet doctors have described this same illness as an internet meme, a delusion…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 3 '15

How We Underestimated the iPad

The iPad turns five today. That’s five years of reading emails at breakfast on slabs of glass and aluminum, five years of snuggling up with Netflix. Five years of wondering what the hell we were thinking when we first heard about this subtly transformative device. Five years! Nearly two-and-a-half million people have feasted their eyes…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 3 '15

You Can Reproduce The Awesome ‘Dancing Droplets’ Phenomenon At Home

Have you watched this video yet? It showcases some beautiful experiments performed by researchers studying the interaction of two-component fluids. The footage has been online for a few weeks now – but did you know you can reproduce this mesmerizing phenomenon in your own home? Stanford researchers Nate Cira, Adrien Benusiglio, and Manu Prakash –…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 3 '15

The Ultimate Peeps Marshmallow Milk Cocktails For Your Easter Brunch

It is the annual Peeps dilemma: To diorama or dip in dark chocolate? This year, the most polarizing sweets on the planet have become the most polarizing beverage in the dairy case. Yes, there is Peeps milk. It is real and kind of gross but I’m still going to drink it on Easter morning. With…

Tech News Alissa Walker Apr 3 '15

Did You Forget How Insane The Devil’s Advocate Was?

I am here to testify that if you’ve only witnessed The Devil’s Advocate on TNT, your soul is unclean. Until you have witnessed the holy incestuous orgies and drunk of the sacred monologue spittle of Al Pacino, you will not be saved from the mundaneness of modern-day cinema. Come with me and I will make…

io9 Apr 3 '15

The Subzero Lab Where Scientists Recreate Avalanches In a Box

Avalanches are powerful forces of nature, but they’re also the result of millions of tiny snowflakes bonded—or not bonded—together just so. Looking at avalanches falling down mountains can only tell you so much. At Montana State University’s “subzero lab,” scientists are studying how avalanches happen by recreating them flake by flake. The subzero lab is…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 3 '15

George R.R. Martin Is Developing A New HBO Show Called Captain Cosmos!

George R.R. Martin isn’t writing for seasons five or six of Game of Thrones — but that doesn’t mean we won’t see more stuff from him on HBO. In a new interview, Martin reveals he’s developing a new show called Captain Cosmos. But he also revealed that a major twist could be coming in the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Apr 3 '15

Monkeys Can’t Stop Eating India’s Delicious Fiber Optic Cables

Right now, India’s in the middle of launching a massive, $18 billion plan to finally bring the country’s shoddy internet up to speed. There’s just one little problem: Adorable monkeys just can’t stop eating its delicious, delicious data cables. Specifically, its the 3,000 year-old holy city of Varanasi that’s having the hardest time getting an…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 3 '15

Director Turns A Perry Bible Fellowship Comic In A Demented Short Film

Nicholas Gurewitch’s webcomic Perry Bible Fellowship is always good for a perverse laugh, but what would one of those gag comics look like as a short film? Director Matt Lenski took a crack at adapting the Perry Bible Fellowship comic “No One is Thirsty.” Naturally, it starts out sweet and gets pretty twisted. [via Vimeo…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 3 '15

Cool photo of 12 US Air Force Stratotanker refueling planes in a row

Here are twelve KC-135 Stratotanker refueling airplanes all lined up on the runway like a dozen ducks in a row. It was part of an aerial exercise at the Kadena Air Base in Japan where the Stratotankers pumped 50 aircraft with 800,000 pounds of fuel. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 3 '15

An Extra $1000 Buys You a Fancy Hotline For Your Fancy Gold Apple Watch

Many of us are still slack-jawed over Apple’s announcement nearly a month ago that its Midas-touched wearable will go for a cool $10,000 at least. Unfortch for the rich and/or people who are bad with money, that doesn’t include the protection plan, an expensive one that comes with a set up hotline! 9to5Mac says for…

Tech News Darren Orf Apr 3 '15

These Slow-Motion Videos of Fluids Vibrating on Speakers Are Wonderful

These videos aren’t just colorful and fascinating — they’re also educational. They’re made using just some speakers and a non-Newtonian fluid, and they can teach us important principles in physics. There are many examples of Faraday waves, the rippling patterns formed when a fluid interface becomes unstable under vibration.These videos feature several examples of Faraday…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 3 '15

History’s Lesser-Known Presidential Assassinations Were Utterly Gruesome

As countless films, books, and conspiracy theories have recounted, the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln came to dramatic ends when the men were struck by assassins’ bullets. Lesser-known are the deaths of James A. Garfield and William McKinley, who suffered the same fate, though both clung to life for days after. The…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy Apr 3 '15

Toy Story: The Haunting, And Other Posters For Movies We Wish Existed

What if Toy Story was a Stephen King-written horror film? These fake movie posters show us exactly what that might look like. Plus, the only place another The Fast & The Furious movies could really take us. And best of all, the highly underrated imaginary horror classic: Children Of The Corndog. You all mocked up…

io9 Ria Misra Apr 3 '15

Can You Identify 20 Of The Most Common Birds in North America?

Can You Guess a City By Its Transit Stops Alone?

The First Schizophrenia Medication Was Developed As An Antihistamine

Crazy winds throw window cleaners for a scary swing ride on 91st floor

First Look At Syfy’s “Space Bounty Hunter” Show Killjoys!

Finally, Someone Is Bringing Back DC’s Retro Figure Playsets

Inside Morgellons, the Internet’s Disease

How We Underestimated the iPad

You Can Reproduce The Awesome ‘Dancing Droplets’ Phenomenon At Home

The Ultimate Peeps Marshmallow Milk Cocktails For Your Easter Brunch

Did You Forget How Insane The Devil’s Advocate Was?

The Subzero Lab Where Scientists Recreate Avalanches In a Box

George R.R. Martin Is Developing A New HBO Show Called Captain Cosmos!

Monkeys Can’t Stop Eating India’s Delicious Fiber Optic Cables

Director Turns A Perry Bible Fellowship Comic In A Demented Short Film

Cool photo of 12 US Air Force Stratotanker refueling planes in a row

An Extra $1000 Buys You a Fancy Hotline For Your Fancy Gold Apple Watch

These Slow-Motion Videos of Fluids Vibrating on Speakers Are Wonderful

History’s Lesser-Known Presidential Assassinations Were Utterly Gruesome

Toy Story: The Haunting, And Other Posters For Movies We Wish Existed

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