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Learn How To Talk To Animals

The BBC has a new series all about animal communication called Talk to the Animals. Someone has posted the first episode online in its entirety, and it’s well worth a watch. Lucy Cooke, TV presenter and zoologist, begins the series with segments on vocal communication in mongooses, hippos, and frogs; on visual communication in fireflies;…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Buzz Aldrin: Second Man on the Moon, But First to Take a Space Selfie

This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, when man first set foot on the moon, but Buzz Aldrin just tipped us off to another of his many accomplishments: He took the world’s first space selfie back in 1966. Eat your heart out, Instagram. The photo Col. Aldrin refers to was snapped…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

8-Bit Pixel Sunglasses Implore Everyone Around You to Deal With It

Sometimes you need a quick way to tell the world, all of it, everyone, “there is no mode of escape from the current situation other than to persevere.” For those times, CNC Design offer you the universal totem: The Deal With It Sunglasses. Laser cut and engraved from a solid piece of smoked acrylic, the…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Blood Of 2 Million Babies Found In Indiana Warehouse

For over 20 years, the state of Indiana hoarded the blood of newborns without their parents’ consent. If your child was born in Indiana after 1991, chances are his or her blood sample is one of an estimated 2.5-million specimens currently stored in a warehouse, the location of which state officials have not disclosed. Above:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Is This a Footprint, or Bootprint?

That is undeniably a boot print, yet every time we talk about this iconic photograph from the Apollo 11 moon landing, we call it a footprint. Why? The Leaping Robot Blog started the conversation, using modern history as the lens for differentiating between the connotations of a footprint as a symbol of exploration versus a…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Tech Journalist Discovers Feds Had His Credit Card Number For 9 Years

Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo’s Saturday afternoon roundup of the best writing from around the web. This week we’re featuring pieces from Ars Technica, Variety, Businessweek, and Discover. Ars Technica’s Cyrus Farivar submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for his Passenger Name Record, the individualized data collected by airlines, cruise ships and hotels whenever…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Sure Your Job Sucks, But At Least Darth Vader’s Not Your Boss

Poor Conan Antonio Motti. The guy speaks up at a work meeting, and all of a sudden Lord Vader is trying to put his lights out from across the room. But the worst part isn’t the force-strangling or lack of faith. It’s having to work alongside the jerk and pretend like nothing ever happened. [Nerdist]

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Legend Of Korra Tells Two Tales Of Sibling Rivalry

The Legend of Korra dropped out of adventure mode a bit this week to focus on two of its key families: the Beifongs and the Aang clan. But while the children of Toph and Aang worked out their differences, our merry band of villains is having all the fun. In the first of last night’s…

io9 Lauren Davis

Here’s The Thing About English

As Blaze Miskulin puts it below, “English is a mutt. And a slut. It was born of the random fucking of multiple cultures, languages, and dialects, and it will hop in bed with any language that tickles its fancy. It’a also a thief. English will blatantly steal any word or phrase that it finds interesting.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Comcast Cancellation Hell, Floating Prisons, Viral Hoaxes, and More

What a week! We debunked some more of those dumb fake images you’ve seen on social media; we shot down the notion that smartphones will kill GoPro; we looked at the jet we could’ve had if we hadn’t blown all that money on the F-35; and more! 12 More Viral Photos That Are Lying to…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Working On My Novel Is Hilarious, Hits A Little Too Close To Home

Working On My Novel is a book by artist Cory Arcangel featuring 127 tweets from authors who are, you guys, seriously so busy working on their novels that they barely have time left over to tweet about their novel-writing process. Which is something I suspect none of us can relate to. Nope. Not at all.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

iPhone 6 Screen May Not Be Sapphire, Probably Isn’t Bow-And-Arrow-Proof

It’s summer, which means Apple is probably updating the iPhone soon, which means the iPhone 6 rumor merry-go-round is spinning up. We’ve heard that Apple might use sapphire for a tougher iPhone screen, but experiments with alleged Apple materials say that might not exactly be the case. First up, that sapphire rumor. There’s plenty of…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This ISS Experiment Looks Like A Miniature Star Factory

We didn’t think the zero-G fire experiments aboard the International Space Station could get any more stunning. We were wrong. Flame Extinguishment-2 (FLEX-2) is the second iteration of an experiment designed to test how burning droplets of fuel behave in space. But unlike other fire experiments aboard the ISS, FLEX-2 requires the flaming droplets to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How to Save Water (And Not Get Fined) In This Drought

Sprinkling scofflaws in the drought-stricken state of California are about to get an expensive wake up call. As water consumption rates climb despite Governor Brown’s call for a voluntary 20 percent per household reduction, the State Water Board has voted to impose fines up to $500 for a variety of wasteful outdoor watering practices. Here’s…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Here’s How The Six Californias Plan Would Divide The Golden State

Venture capitalist Tim Draper’s widely criticized proposal to divide California into six separate states has reportedly received the signatures it needs to qualify for the November 2016 ballot (amidst accusations of voter fraud). Here’s how the plan would break up the Golden State. https://gizmodo.com/why-should-you-care-about-the-plan-to-break-up-californ-1547948389

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Spheres of Flame are One of the Surreal Wonders of Living in Orbit

Flame, in microgravity. Reid Wiseman sends home the best Vines from Space. We’ve written before about how and why flame abandons its flickering familiar shape for a sphere on the International Space Station. It seems the experiments aren’t over, as astronaut and provider of six-second loops of incredible views from the station Reid Wiseman sent…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Bee-Inspired Bots Skitter and Swarm at NYC’s Museum of Mathematics

Dr. James McLurkin has a swarm of robots. Individually, they’re not that smart, but a crateful of them behaves in some very complex ways, like the bees that inspired them. Gizmodo got to see the wee machines in action, and while they’re adorable, they represent some serious future bot capabilities. The quiet before the swarm:…

Artificial Intelligence Bob Sorokanich

Some Genius Designed A Hamster Wheel For Cats

It’s called One Fast Cat. At 48-inches across, the circular, cat-powered cat-treadmill is a gigantified version of the exercise wheels commonly associated with lab rodents. It’s designed to help your feline companion exercise indoors, when it isn’t busy bringing death and destruction to the outside world. https://gizmodo.com/as-many-as-30-of-cats-are-stone-cold-killers-5932939 https://gizmodo.com/domestic-cats-are-destroying-the-planet-5979891 Via One Fast Cat’s Kickstarter page, where…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How NASA Would Have Handled a Failed Apollo 11

This weekend marks the 45 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing the first men on the moon. Like all missions, NASA had a contingency plan. Space historian Amy Shira Teitel explains the astronauts’ grim orders if a lunar lander malfunction had left Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stranded on the moon. Yes, even…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich

If you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe

The myth: You can’t fold a paper in half more than eight times.* The reality: Given a paper large enough—and enough energy—you can fold it as many times as you want. The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years. Seriously.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Learn How To Talk To Animals

Buzz Aldrin: Second Man on the Moon, But First to Take a Space Selfie

8-Bit Pixel Sunglasses Implore Everyone Around You to Deal With It

Blood Of 2 Million Babies Found In Indiana Warehouse

Is This a Footprint, or Bootprint?

Tech Journalist Discovers Feds Had His Credit Card Number For 9 Years

Sure Your Job Sucks, But At Least Darth Vader’s Not Your Boss

Legend Of Korra Tells Two Tales Of Sibling Rivalry

Here’s The Thing About English

Comcast Cancellation Hell, Floating Prisons, Viral Hoaxes, and More

Working On My Novel Is Hilarious, Hits A Little Too Close To Home

iPhone 6 Screen May Not Be Sapphire, Probably Isn’t Bow-And-Arrow-Proof

This ISS Experiment Looks Like A Miniature Star Factory

How to Save Water (And Not Get Fined) In This Drought

Here’s How The Six Californias Plan Would Divide The Golden State

Spheres of Flame are One of the Surreal Wonders of Living in Orbit

Bee-Inspired Bots Skitter and Swarm at NYC’s Museum of Mathematics

Some Genius Designed A Hamster Wheel For Cats

How NASA Would Have Handled a Failed Apollo 11

If you fold a paper in half 103 times it’ll get as thick as the Universe

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