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This Sci-Fi Short Will Have You Rooting For the World-Destroying Menace

There’s a mysterious blue goo wreaking havoc on this blob-shaped society. It’s creating panic and terror. Nobody knows how to stop it. And by the end of It’s Payback Time, you’ll realize why that wholesale destruction is the happiest ending you could ever want. This beautifully rendered short is an advertisement for the UK’s arm…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Bill Murray On His Personal Philosophy

Bill Murray showed up after a screening of Ghostbusters in Toronto yesterday, where he spent the better part of an hour answering questions from fans. His best answer was in response to a question about his penchant for weird, unannounced hangouts (crashing the above couple’s engagement photoshoot, for instance). Photo Credit: Fia Forever Wedding Photography…

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This week on Sailor Moon Crystal: Sailor Jupiter and Plot Conveniences

After a slightly extended absence, Sailor Moon Crystal returns with a new Sailor Senshi in tow, and a whole lot of contrivance as the team investigates a ghostly bridal shop. Moon Prism Power, Re-cap! Act 5 Makoto – Sailor Jupiter – isn’t really Sailor Moon Crystal’s finest hour (well, 22 minutes but you catch my…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Detroit’s Under-Funded Fire Departments Use a Soda Can For a Fire Alarm

Where absent money leaves gaps, ingenuity fills in. Nowhere is that more true than in Detroit’s fire departments, where, as Detroit Free Press reporter Tresa Baldas shows us, a soda can full of jangling coins and screws alerts the Motor City’s long-suffering heroes when there’s an emergency. The system is brilliantly simple: A soda can…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don’t Vaccinate

The latest figures: Between January 1 and August 29 of this year, nearly 600 confirmed measles cases were reported to the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The resurgence is the greatest the U.S. has seen since the disease was eliminated from the country in 2000. Image Credit: CDC Notably, it has not…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Three New Terminator Movies Get Release Dates

According to Paramount Pictures, all three of the reboot sequels will be released between 2015 and 2018. The studio announced Friday that the second and third installments of its Terminator reboot sequels will open May 19th, 2017 and June 29th, 2018, respectively. Terminator: Genisys, the creatively named first film in the new trilogy, is still…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The International Space Station Is Independently Launching Satellites

The International Space Station’s CubeSat cannon has gone rogue, independently firing two more of PlanetLab’s DOVES microsatellites. Even better? It’s sneaky: no astronauts, ground crew, or cameras saw the inadvertent deployment. Assumably, deployment looked something like this earlier deliberate release of DOVES. Image credit: NASA The International Space Station was already a wee bit creepy…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Spectacular volcano eruption caught on camera

Here’s a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What’s cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the people on the boat. Boom, for real. I like to think of the clouds running away as even Mother Nature gets…

Sploid Casey Chan

California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

I’m biased because I grew up in California so it’ll always be home to me but I’ll always be a little jealous of people who aren’t from here, just for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand new eyes. It’s such a big state that there are so…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Surprising Reason Why Bike Lanes Could Be Good For Cars

It’s the typical saga unfolding in every city in America. Bike lanes go in, often replacing a lane of vehicular traffic. Drivers get mad, claiming that the presence of bike lanes is destroying their commute. But according to one study, bike lanes may actually be making life better for drivers. Over at CityLab, Eric Jaffe…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Beautiful video shows how Pixar uses a rainbow of colors in their movies

This is great. Rishi Kaneria made a quick supercut that stitches together scenes from Pixar movies according their particular color. Following the Roy G. Biv color spectrum, you’ll see how Pixar chooses to use colors to make their animations. And it’ll make you want to watch all the Pixar movies again. It helps that the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick

I learned to love Aphex Twin in college, not too long after Drukqs melted everyone’s ears off. It’s been a decade and a half since then. I’m getting older. Aphex Twin appears to be getting younger. “Minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]” is the first song to be released off ofAphex Twin’s new album, Syro, and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Story of the Man Who Threw a No-Hitter on LSD

In 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter high as shit on LSD. In 2009, NoMasTV and artist James Blagden made an awesome short film about the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher’s hallucinogen-fueled triumph. More recently, Ellis’ story was given full-length documentary treatment in No No: A Dockumentary, a film about Ellis that offers a more comprehensive overlook…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

You Don’t Want to Be Rescued By Scientifically Accurate Chip n’ Dale

I don’t want to spoil the newest installment of Animation Domination HD’s Scientifically Accurate series, but I do want to say that the terrifying penises of the DuckTales crew finally have some… stiff… competition.

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Kim Harrison’s Hollows Series Has Fully Justified Our Love

I’ve been reading Kim Harrison’s Hollows for nearly a decade now, it’s one of the only series I’ve stuck with through the entire run and a large part of that is the fun, fast nature of the novels. And now, with The Witch With No Name, she’s giving long-time fans the satisfying ending we deserve.…

Books & Comics Naamen Tilahun

The Last Of Us Finds Its Way Into Adventure Time‘s Candy Kingdom

The good news is that Joel and Ellie have found their way to the Candy Kingdom; the bad news is that the kingdom is experiencing one of those pesky plagues of Candy Zombies. Greggory Metzler created this mashup for the Press Start III exhibit currently showing at Ltd. Art Gallery. Prints are available at the…

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I Wish This House Hanging From a Cliff Was Actually Real

Along Australia’s rugged western coastlines, landowners could one day live next to their cliffside properties—rather than on them—if the designers of this vertigo-inducing, prefabricated design, Modscape, have their way. Built onto the the side of a vertical rock face like a modern Mesa Verde dwelling, the obviously-named Cliff House melds modular construction with a vertical…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?

For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck is that? Why are there so many digits after the decimal? We’re here to help. And because one degree of longitude and latitude can actually…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Report: Apple Has Already Lined Up CVS and Walgreens for Mobile Payments

We’ve heard tell of Apple’s plans to embrace mobile payments in a big way. And now, according to a new report from Recode, not only will the iPhone 6 come packing a payment system, but Apple has even lined up some major partners for announcement day. Citing “a person briefed on the plans”Recode notes that…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Normal guy catches a super fun ride on a spaceship back to Earth

The sad truth is that most of us will never be astronauts who can ride spaceships back to Earth. Here’s one hilarious way we can pretend though: be like this genius prankster who brought a blow up spaceship with him on a skydiving jump from a hot air balloon. Yup, he rode a spaceship back…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Sci-Fi Short Will Have You Rooting For the World-Destroying Menace

Bill Murray On His Personal Philosophy

This week on Sailor Moon Crystal: Sailor Jupiter and Plot Conveniences

Detroit’s Under-Funded Fire Departments Use a Soda Can For a Fire Alarm

CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don’t Vaccinate

Three New Terminator Movies Get Release Dates

The International Space Station Is Independently Launching Satellites

Spectacular volcano eruption caught on camera

California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

The Surprising Reason Why Bike Lanes Could Be Good For Cars

Beautiful video shows how Pixar uses a rainbow of colors in their movies

Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick

The Story of the Man Who Threw a No-Hitter on LSD

You Don’t Want to Be Rescued By Scientifically Accurate Chip n’ Dale

Kim Harrison’s Hollows Series Has Fully Justified Our Love

The Last Of Us Finds Its Way Into Adventure Time‘s Candy Kingdom

I Wish This House Hanging From a Cliff Was Actually Real

How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?

Report: Apple Has Already Lined Up CVS and Walgreens for Mobile Payments

Normal guy catches a super fun ride on a spaceship back to Earth

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