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A “Dumpcano” of Trash Erupted in the Arctic and Won’t Stop Burning

It began rather quietly as a underground fire at a dump in Canada’s remote northern reaches. Then in May, the fire “erupted,” spewing forth flames and toxic fumes over the city of Iqaluit. Faced with a football field-sized smoldering dump fire, this week the city council finally scrounged up the $2.2 million to put it…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

John Lennon wrote “Come Together” for Timothy Leary but pot ruined it

Pull up a chair, Beatles fans, I have a story for you, a story about politics, pot, and rock and roll, starring John Lennon and Timothy Leary. IT’S A GOOD ONE. The story starts—as so many good ones do—in the 1960s. Specifically, it starts the day after Christmas in 1968, when Timothy Leary was arrested…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Disney Can Turn Any 3D-Printed Object Into a Perfectly Spinning Top

Believe it or not, Disney has a team of researchers at its disposal that do more than just make that robot Lincoln seem more lifelike. The team’s latest research involves a custom algorithm it created that can turn any 3D model, even one that’s oddly-shaped and asymmetrical, into a perfectly-balanced spinning top by simply creating…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

11 Origins of Common Drinking Phrases

There’s a lot of slang associated with drinking. Three sheets to the wind. Hair of the dog. On the wagon. We all know them, we all use them, but most of us don’t know where they came from or what they really mean. Read on, and you’ll be the smartest person at the bar. It’s…

Tech News Brent Rose

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Black Market Parlor

Something bloody has happened in this chamber, perhaps at the hands of the red-eyed figure standing in the doorway. In your story, is this figure a butcher, a savior, or neither? Black Market Parlor is by the concept artist Hethe Srodawa. As always, we invite you to come up with your own story inspired by…

io9 Lauren Davis

“Mr. Organic” died during a TV interview after saying he’d live to 100

The organic food movement owes a lot to Jerome Rodale. As the publisher of Prevention and Organic Gardening and Farming magazines in the 1940s and 50s, Rodale was promoting “organic food” before most people had even heard the term. But today he’s probably best remembered for his death. He died of a heart attack on…

Tech News Matt Novak

A Look At the Sub That Took James Cameron To the Bottom of the Sea

James Cameron showed us new worlds in films like Avatar and The Abyss. So it’s no wonder that the filmmaker would want to explore the one we actually live in. Deepsea Challenge3D chronicles his journey to the greatest depths of the ocean—thanks to an incredible sub that Gizmodo recently had a chance to see up…

Movies Leslie Horn

Confused Google Street View Driver Ignores Street Signs, Crashes

You’d think a guy driving a car with “Google Maps” written on the door would never get lost. But a Street View driver in Arkansas proved that user error knows no bounds, going the wrong way down a one-way street, busting an illegal U-turn, allegedly blowing a red light, and hitting another car. Hope you…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Should Environmentalist Politicians Focus Less On Climate Change?

Today we debunked the claim that scientists in 1970s commonly believed that the Earth was headed for another ice age and had a number of discussions about global warming and environmentalism—including whether politicians should talk about climate change less and other advantages of sustainable policies more. Image by Andrea Della Adriano. Commenter StormDaughter argues that…

io9 Lauren Davis

Those New Anne Rice Movies Can’t Possibly Measure Up To This

They may have all sorts of great set pieces and cutting-edge VFX — but the new Universal Anne Rice movies can’t possibly have a scene as great as this one from Queen of the Damned. Aaliyah eats a guy’s heart, lights everything on fire, and walks way in slow-mo. Seriously, can you imagine anybody matching…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Editor Accidentally Copy-Pastes Facebook Status Into Newspaper Article

Readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal found a strangely out-of-place paragraph in an article about business zoning regulations: A 350-plus word status update apparently intended for the Facebook page of the newspaper’s copy editor. At least she alerted us that it’d be long. Jim Romenesko’s blog has a snapshot of the article as it appeared…

Social Media Bob Sorokanich

Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film Is Now A Super Meta Modern-Day Movie

Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited Don Quixote movie (we honestly thought this film had been dead for a long time) is back with a production start date on the horizon. But there’s one big change to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: it’s set in the present. The Wrapannounced the first big change to Terry Gilliam’s The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Windowless jet makes its fuselage transparent using displays

The IXION windowless jet—which makes its interior transparent using display panels that cover most of the cabin—might look like an impossible sci-fi concept but the fact is that we are not very far from this. Check out the video. It’s so cool. The concept airplane interior—created by Technicon Design—uses external cameras to capture a 360-degree…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

How To Free Up Space On an Android Phone or Tablet

It doesn’t take long for a new Android phone or tablet to get cluttered up with rolls of pictures, redundant apps, unused widgets, cached files and the troublingly vague “Misc” data that seems to take up more and more internal storage with each passing week. Take a few minutes to blow the cobwebs out of…

Gadgets David Nield

Canadian Police Want You To Respond to Sexts With These Insane Replies

It’s been a red-letter past few years for both teens and sexters alike. So it’s not surprising that, today, we find ourselves in the era of the sext-addled teen. But the Ontario Provincial Police think they might be able to stop teens at the source with a potent combination of app-based sarcasm and “keep calm…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Most Of What You Need To Know About Planet Earth, In Seven Minutes

This gorgeous animation by the folks at Kurzgesagt (previously) tells you nearly everything you need to know about our home planet. Lots of great stuff in here, including bite-sized information on the big splat; a visualization of all of Earth’s water, collected into a sphere; theocean’s deepest point; and out planet’s mysterious magnetic field. Check…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

New video shows NASA’s cool Flying Saucer in action at last

At last, here’s the video of NASA’s LDSD test—the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator system that will take a new rover to Mars, one even larger than Curiosity. It’s impressive to see the entire system in action, working like clockwork even while the supersonic parachute display failed. Listen to the commentary by Ian Clark explaining everything in…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The New Alienware 13-inch Laptop Promises Pro Gaming Without Backache

Gaming laptops are going mobile. Of course, the word “laptop” means that’s always been the idea behind these machines. But until recently, gaming on the go meant being strapped with a pretty hefty piece of computing. Such massive hardware, usually with a scorching hot chassis and shit battery life, makes you wonder if it’s even…

Tech News Darren Orf

Photos Of Everyday Life In Pripyat Before The Chernobyl Disaster

Today, the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, is a ghost town, abandoned and overgrown in the wake of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. But once it was a thriving town, filled with people who walked the streets, visited the beaches, and even rode that famous ferris wheel. Concrete block of flats The Prometheus…

io9 Vincze Miklós

High-Def Video of NASA’s Flying Saucer Decelerator Test Is Excellent

NASA just released the video footage of the prototype Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (aka, the “Flying Saucer”) first test flight over Hawaii, and it is incredible.

Tech News Mika McKinnon

A “Dumpcano” of Trash Erupted in the Arctic and Won’t Stop Burning

John Lennon wrote “Come Together” for Timothy Leary but pot ruined it

Disney Can Turn Any 3D-Printed Object Into a Perfectly Spinning Top

11 Origins of Common Drinking Phrases

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Black Market Parlor

“Mr. Organic” died during a TV interview after saying he’d live to 100

A Look At the Sub That Took James Cameron To the Bottom of the Sea

Confused Google Street View Driver Ignores Street Signs, Crashes

Should Environmentalist Politicians Focus Less On Climate Change?

Those New Anne Rice Movies Can’t Possibly Measure Up To This

Editor Accidentally Copy-Pastes Facebook Status Into Newspaper Article

Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Film Is Now A Super Meta Modern-Day Movie

Windowless jet makes its fuselage transparent using displays

How To Free Up Space On an Android Phone or Tablet

Canadian Police Want You To Respond to Sexts With These Insane Replies

Most Of What You Need To Know About Planet Earth, In Seven Minutes

New video shows NASA’s cool Flying Saucer in action at last

The New Alienware 13-inch Laptop Promises Pro Gaming Without Backache

Photos Of Everyday Life In Pripyat Before The Chernobyl Disaster

High-Def Video of NASA’s Flying Saucer Decelerator Test Is Excellent

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