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Watching This Sea Anemone Eat A Bird Will Completely F@#k You Up

One afternoon, while looking through a photo archive, oceanographer Kim Martini saw an image that looked like “a purple Butterball turkey being attacked by a lime green scrunchie.” Her co-worker, Lisa Guy, corrected her: It’s a baby seabird being consumed by a sea anemone. In fact, Guy — who researches marine ecosystems at the Joint…

io9 Mark Strauss

Even Bears Get Slipped Disks–And Someone Has To Treat Them

This is Mango, a 19-year old Syrian brown bear that has been sedated for back surgery due to a slipped disc. Mango is undergoing the procedure—the first of its kind for brown bears—at the Ramat Gan Safari park, outside of Tel Aviv, Israel. Fingers crossed, and get well soon, Mango! Photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images.

Tech News Attila Nagy

These Vintage Cutaway Drawings Show How Nuclear Reactors Really Work

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably wondered how a nuclear reactor works. When you look at pictures nuclear power plants, questions must march through your head. Why are some of them shaped like weather balloons? How do they keep the fuel safe? Where’s Mr. Burns’s office? Well, these cutaway drawings can supply some answers.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The End of History Illusion Is The One Way You’re Still An Adolescent

Do you believe you’ve finally shed the illusions of youth? That you’ve struggled, and changed, and become a different person? You’re half right. One of the most persistent personal illusions is the End of History Illusion — and that might be a very good thing. Do We Misjudge the Future or Forget the Past? Remember…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

From Dusk Till Dawn Brings Exposition and Flashbacks

As this show moves further and further away from the original film’s plot, it distinguishes itself through explorations of its mythology. But unfortunately, it’s mostly doing that through massive infodumps. This week was bifurcated between Satanico/Carlos/Richie and the group trying to escape. Let’s take them each in turn: Satanico/Carlos/Richie The plot part of all of…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

This Is the Navy’s New e-Reader For Its Submarine Crews

The Navy doesn’t allow its personnel to uses iPads or Kindles—they’re too risky—but there’s a limit to how many books you can squeeze onto a submarine. So it’s developed its own super-secure digital reader for use aboard underwater vessels. The Navy’s General Library Program just announced the Navy eReader Device—or NeRD to its friends. It’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Chart Of All The Most Overrated And Underrated Movies

What are most overrated and underrated movies of all? This chart attempts to finally give us a definitive answer to that question, with data. [UPDATED] The chart is the work of Benjamin Moore, a PhD student in computational biology at the University of Edinburgh. [UPDATE: Moore is stopping into the comments now to take questions!…

io9 Ria Misra

Man makes giant 13.4-foot-long space station with 282,000 matchsticks

Artist Pat Acton recently completed this enormous 1/26 scale model—13.4 feet (4.1 meters) long by 9.2 feet (2.8 meters) wide—of the International Space Station, which uses 282,000 matchsticks, 8 gallons of glue and 1,950 hours of perseverance. He also made modules at 1/13 scale, complete with cutouts that show all the details within the station.…

Sploid James Baker

One Of These Star Wars Characters Is Going To Die (Probably)

Before you freak out: I have no special information about the Star Wars sequels. I merely have an educated guess about what might occur, and thus my headline is in no way an Episode VII spoiler. Unless I’m right. Which we won’t know until the movie comes out. At which point it will no longer…

io9 Rob Bricken

U.S. Military Drones Are Going to Start Running on Linux

Raytheon is making a bold move: it’s dumping the proprietary operating system Solaris in favor of Linux for the control systems of its U.S. military drones. According to a May 2nd Avionics Intelligence report, Raytheon entered into a $15.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy earlier this month to upgrade their control systems to Linux.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Models pranked into talking about children deaths gets awkward fast

In this Save the Children campaign, fashion models are pranked to participate in a fictitious fashion TV commercialfor a mystery brand. The awkward moment comes when they are asked to say things like “1 out of every 7 children die before their fifth anniversary” in a sexy manner. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

GIF-Enhanced Movie Posters Bring New Meaning To The Term “Action Film”

The poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is motionless, until Grace Kelley suddenly tilts her head to gaze at James Stewart, who lowers his camera, as if he knows he’s been spotted. It’s a tense scene before even seeing the film. Such is the magic of animated movie posters. Posted on Imgur by a pseudonymous…

io9 Mark Strauss

The Power Rangers Are Getting “Re-Envisioned” With A New Movie

Everything old is new again. That’s right, it’s Morphin time, and Hollywood is hellbent on returning the air-punching Power Rangers to glory, beginning with an all-new movie. Fingers crossed for an unnecessary gritty twist! Lionsgate is partnering with Haim Saban to “re-envision” the hit 1993 for the big screen. According to the recently released press…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Street View Mash-Up Shows Your Neighborhood After Sea Levels Rise

Ever wondered what New York, London, Paris, Dubai or even your home town might look like when sea levels rise? World Under Water by Carbon Story uses Google’s Street View to do just that. The mod shows how the streets of the world will look if sea levels continue to rise. Simply type in your…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Your Cup of Coffee Sits on Every Side of This Möbius Table

Are your coffee breaks too simple? Do you fancy a little mental stimulation when you kick back? Then you need aMöbius strip table. You won’t know which side you’ve put your feet up on. Created by Pierre Renart, a furniture designer in Paris, this endless coffee table is made from (an infinite amount of?) carbon…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Jack White’s New ULTRA LP Generates A Hologram When It Spins

Former White Stripes frontman Jack White is going all out on his upcoming album. The vinyl version of Lazaretto contains a number of unprecedented features, including two different intros for the same song and the appearance of a holographic angel while it spins. White is calling the vinyl edition of his new album an ULTRA…

io9 George Dvorsky

Just How Much Will Star Wars: Rebels Cross Over Into Episode VII?

Sleepy Hollow casts its Ben Franklin as a recurring character. There will be a time jump between seasons 1 and 2 of The Tomorrow People. And Gotham gets a series order. Plus, new looks at Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rosemary’s Baby. Spoilers now! Top image: Sleepy Hollow…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Could Jack White’s Ultra LP Make Vinyl Innovative Again?

Jack White recently broke a world record by recording and pressing a 7″ vinyl in less than four hours, but he has more innovation in store. Now, he’s developed what he’s calling an Ultra LP which offers multiple playback features: bonus features for the bygone medium. White’s new album, Lazaretto, will be released as an…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You can actually barbecue a steak using this cook book’s pages

Brazilians are the masters of churrasco—their national style of barbecue—and they sure aim to prove it with this beautiful book/ad.TheBible of Barbecue is not a self-help manual but is actually full of pages you can physically use to prepare the perfect meal. One page becomes an apron, one is salt-coated for seasoning your meat, another…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

California Wants to Send Water Uphill Through Its State Aqueduct

Gravity being what it is, water tends to flow downhill—but engineers in California are trying to reverse that process in order to counter the effects of the state’s current drought. Associated Press reports that the state is planning to use diesel-powered pumps to send water back up a section of the 420-mile aqueduct in order…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watching This Sea Anemone Eat A Bird Will Completely F@#k You Up

Even Bears Get Slipped Disks–And Someone Has To Treat Them

These Vintage Cutaway Drawings Show How Nuclear Reactors Really Work

The End of History Illusion Is The One Way You’re Still An Adolescent

From Dusk Till Dawn Brings Exposition and Flashbacks

This Is the Navy’s New e-Reader For Its Submarine Crews

A Chart Of All The Most Overrated And Underrated Movies

Man makes giant 13.4-foot-long space station with 282,000 matchsticks

One Of These Star Wars Characters Is Going To Die (Probably)

U.S. Military Drones Are Going to Start Running on Linux

Models pranked into talking about children deaths gets awkward fast

GIF-Enhanced Movie Posters Bring New Meaning To The Term “Action Film”

The Power Rangers Are Getting “Re-Envisioned” With A New Movie

A Street View Mash-Up Shows Your Neighborhood After Sea Levels Rise

Your Cup of Coffee Sits on Every Side of This Möbius Table

Jack White’s New ULTRA LP Generates A Hologram When It Spins

Just How Much Will Star Wars: Rebels Cross Over Into Episode VII?

Could Jack White’s Ultra LP Make Vinyl Innovative Again?

You can actually barbecue a steak using this cook book’s pages

California Wants to Send Water Uphill Through Its State Aqueduct

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