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Why Is A113 Slipped Into So Many Animated Movies?

Did you know that Pixar, Disney, and plenty of other animation studios have a secret in common? If not, don’t worry — the A113 is often hidden in places that are super hard to find. But with the technology and the Internet combined, the code has been cracked for all of us. The Huffington Posthas…

Tech News Jason Krell

NASA: Ganymede is a water and ice Club Sandwich that may harbor life

NASA scientists says that the largest moon in the solar system may harbor life in its inner oceans. Previously, scientists thought Ganymede only had one ocean between two ice layers, but data reveals that its structure is “ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich.” According to Steve Vance—the lead paper…

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You Can Now Own Your Very Own Overlook Hotel Rug From The Shining

You can also get a matching scarf, ski cap, and sweater. The folks at Mondo are coming out with an entire collection of gear inspired by the mesmerizing pattern on the carpet from The Shining’s Overlook Hotel. You can preorder your Overlook doormat, cardigan, or area rug now and give anyone who gazes upon them…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Would You Send A Ship Into Space Without Rocket Fuel?

In response to Russia’s rather unorthodox suggestion to NASA — that perhaps it could use giant trampolines in absence of Russia’s shuttle to get our astronauts up to the ISS — a more serious question arose: Could a ship really get into space without rocket fuel? Top image: 1st – illustration from Jules Verne’s From…

io9 Ria Misra

12 Weirdest Shows That People Watch Inside Cartoons

Cartoons are often filled with messages, and they’re presented in all kinds of ways. Sometimes the best way is to frame a story within another story. It can come off heavy-handed and other times the subtlety is superb, but it’s a popular option nonetheless. And while not every instance is good, the following 12 are…

Tech News Jason Krell

Something Weird Happens When Three Master Fencers Battle Fifty Novices

It doesn’t play out the way you probably think it does. It bears mentioning that this is not a no-holds-barred engagement. In modern fencing, a large portion of the body – sometimes the entire body – is a valid target; but in this exercise, the aim of expert and amateur alike is to puncture a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Bee Rustlers Are California’s Newest Outlaws

In the world of agriculture, bees are big business. California beekeepers often rent their hives out in mid-winter to farmers who need the insects to pollinate almonds and other crops. And that’s why bee rustling has become such a problem. Photo by John Schreiber Back in the nineteenth century, cattle rustlers would peel off a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

With Honor’s Knight, Rachel Bach’s Space-Opera Trilogy Gets Truly Epic

We enjoyed Rachel Bach’s first military-science fiction adventure, Fortune’s Pawn, immensely — but with the second volume in the trilogy, Honor’s Knight, she really hits her stride. This is starting to feel like a really epic story that covers some ground that military SF hasn’t trodden too much before. Spoilers ahead… When we reviewed Fortune’s…

io9 Andrew Liptak

We Must Have These Adventure Time Plush Dress-Up Dolls

Lorena Rodríguez doesn’t just make adorable plush dolls out of the ladies on Adventure Time; she also gives them perfect little wardrobes. Seriously, where can we buy these? Rodríguez does sell some of her other plush toys, like her zombie bear, her Ursus Geekus wall trophies, and her tree golem in her Etsy shop, but…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of BASIC, Steve Wozniak has written some memories about his first experiences with this popular language—and how he created his own BASIC from scratch for the Apple I and Apple II computers. An incredible feat. Enjoy!—JD In 1967 or 1968, as a senior in high school, our electronics teacher (the…

Tech News Steve Wozniak

Fantastic Four Director Tim Story Explains How Summer Movies Go Wrong

Tim Story was an up-and-coming director, with a hit movie (Barbershop) under his belt. And then he directed two Fantastic Four movies that nobody really liked. Now that he’s back on top with Ride-Along, Story is explaining what he learned from his two superhero films. There’s a fascinating profile of Story, one of the most…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

An Incredible Way of Visualizing Music

Electronic Musicians George & Johnathan III have created a series of beautiful visualizations, each of them representing their latest songs in some very innovative ways — including a dream-like 3D journey that lets you fly through the dots and dashes that represent notes. [ h/t FlowingData ]

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The Hobbit Would Look Amazing As A Papercraft Animation

This digital animation of The Hobbit’s Smaug is styled to look like a series of animated papercraft sculptures. It feels like it popped right out of a storybook. Kieran Duncan directed this short for an animation class project. Given the bedtime story feel of The Hobbit, this would be an excellent way to adapt at…

io9 Lauren Davis

These Upside Down Pyramid Buildings Seem to Defy Gravity

Ancient Egyptian pyramids and modern pyramid-shaped structures are awesome, but what could be better than walking into an upside-down pyramid? The Katimavik (means “Gathering Place” in Inuit) of the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada, designed by Rod Robbie, opened in 1967 (via Musée québécois de Culture populaire, Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Commercial Beekeeping and the Rise of Bee Thieves

Every spring, bees all over the country make a long, artificial migration to California by truck. Renting out bees to pollinate almond trees has become a big business with the explosive growth in California’s almond industry. Where there is money, of course, there are thieves. It’s a tough time for beekeeping, but it’s also a…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

So it Turns Out Bears Are Surprisingly Good Rock Climbers

Trees? Sure. Trees are nature’s ladders, to a bear. A craggy rock face, on the other hand, seems a taller – and more dangerous – order. But these two black bears handle a cliffside ascent with ease. Via Stephanie Latimer, the nature enthusiast who captured the pair on video: Endangered Mexican Black Bears (momma and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

It’s Bike Month at Gizmodo

We can see it in our neighborhoods and in cities around the world: The future of transportation is arriving on two wheels. May is National Bike Month and, to celebrate, we’re declaring it Bike Month on Gizmodo. Come along for the ride, won’t you? We’ll be focusing on the latest and greatest biking innovations, from…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Angry Beaver Stops Traffic To Protest Climate Change

Only in Canada could a lost beaver create a traffic hazard. CBC news reports that the beaver spent most of the afternoon on Tuesday roaming around the streets of Miramichi, causing traffic delays due to concerned drivers who didn’t want to harm the wayward rodent. Jim O’Neill was driving his taxi when he noticed a…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

All Of Spider-Man’s Costumes In One Perfect Infographic

Plenty of sites cover all the costume changes various Spider-Men have gone through over time (i.e., Peter Parker, Ben Reilly, Miles Morales), but none have ever quite looked so good or been as informative as this one from Mashable. It even has his ridiculous 1602 outfit! Behold the infographic in all its glory: [Via HuffPo]

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The One Cognitive Bias That’s Holding Back Genetic Research

Scientists may be awesome, but they’re still human beings — and they fall prey to the same cognitive biases as everyone else. Now, a group of researchers say they’ve discovered that the bias known as anthropocentrism is holding back genetic research and severely limiting our discoveries. Image of the protist Nassula by Gerd A. Guenther…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Why Is A113 Slipped Into So Many Animated Movies?

NASA: Ganymede is a water and ice Club Sandwich that may harbor life

You Can Now Own Your Very Own Overlook Hotel Rug From The Shining

How Would You Send A Ship Into Space Without Rocket Fuel?

12 Weirdest Shows That People Watch Inside Cartoons

Something Weird Happens When Three Master Fencers Battle Fifty Novices

Bee Rustlers Are California’s Newest Outlaws

With Honor’s Knight, Rachel Bach’s Space-Opera Trilogy Gets Truly Epic

We Must Have These Adventure Time Plush Dress-Up Dolls

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch

Fantastic Four Director Tim Story Explains How Summer Movies Go Wrong

An Incredible Way of Visualizing Music

The Hobbit Would Look Amazing As A Papercraft Animation

These Upside Down Pyramid Buildings Seem to Defy Gravity

Commercial Beekeeping and the Rise of Bee Thieves

So it Turns Out Bears Are Surprisingly Good Rock Climbers

It’s Bike Month at Gizmodo

Angry Beaver Stops Traffic To Protest Climate Change

All Of Spider-Man’s Costumes In One Perfect Infographic

The One Cognitive Bias That’s Holding Back Genetic Research

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