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The FCC (Still) Stinks at Defending the Internet

The FCC’s soon-to-be-proposed rules on net neutrality reportedly won’t stop broadband providers from giving better service to people that pay for it. That stinks. This was the agency’s big chance to lock down a set of regulations that will keep the internet free and open, and it’s letting America down. In fact, the FCC has…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Map of Who Doesn’t Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States

Did you know that 1.6 million Americans don’t have complete indoor plumbing? The American Community Survey published on Tuesday that says that nearly 630,000 occupied homes in the United States lack complete plumbing facilities*, and The Washington Post whipped it into a handy interactive map. How’s your home state doing? If you’re from Connecticut, the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Wasp Nest Merges With Human Face To Become Nightmare Fuel

A wasp nest merged with this wooden statue to form… your darkest fears. This was discovered by Redditor CountBubs. And here’s the caption that follows this terrifying image: “An abandoned hornet’s nest my dad found in his shed that he hadn’t been in for a couple years. The head is apart of a wooden statue…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Two Astronauts Must Decipher An Emergency Message From Their Future

Inspired by a script outline by Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, Exit Log follows two astronauts on a ship that can travel three minutes back in time. When they receive an emergency message from an alternate version of themselves, how will they proceed? For Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Series, Fletcher wrote a very basic outline of a…

io9 Lauren Davis

You’ll Want to Play Forever In This Swirling Sea of Packing Peanuts

You might think it a nuisance when a few packing peanuts spill from a box out onto your living room floor. But when an entire hallway is filled with millions of the white nuggets and blown around in a cyclone of styrofoam, you’ll probably react a bit differently. It’s all part of an installation by…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Cosmic Wonder of Colliding Galaxies

When the massive collections of stars known as galaxies collide, the results are spectacular. Here’s a gallery of galaxies that are interacting — sometimes to the point of completely changing each other’s shapes in the most dramatic ways imaginable. The larger galaxy of Arp 273, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Supercentenarian’s Blood Provides Clues To Extending Human Life

Prior to her death at the tender age of 115, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was the world’s oldest woman. Recently, scientists had the opportunity to study her blood — and what they discovered could have serious implications to the future of rejuvenation therapies. Supercentenarians are a rare breed — people who have reached the age of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Visualization reveals how the number Pi looks (spoiler: Pretty!)

Cristian Ilies Vasile has created the coolest visualization of Pi I’ve seen. First he divided a circle in 10 segments, from 0 to 9. Then he traced a path going from the third segment to the first segment. From 1, the path jumps to 4, then back to 1, then 5 and so on. After…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

John Malkovich Goes Full Insane Pirate King in Crossbones

Stop what you are doing immediately, and watch the trailer for NBC’s new looney-tunes, pirate escapade show Crossbones. Starring John Malkovich, and his indecipherable accent. We’re getting a hard The Island of Doctor Moreau vibe with this one. Which, good. Very good, this amuses us. Crossbones was penned by Neil Cross, of Luther and Doctor…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Agents of SHIELD‘s Ward Is So Much Better Now That He’s Being Himself

Who would have thought that Grant Ward would become my favorite character on Agents of SHIELD? Really. And all it took was one surprising reveal. Last night’s episode was a nifty thriller, in which we discovered that monsters who know they’re monsters are actually the most horrifying. Spoilers away! It’s looking more and more as…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

With a Kevlar-Lined Shirt, You’re Not Completely Screwed in a Crash

Pay attention as the weather gets warmer: you’re gonna see a lot of motorcyclists riding around in regular street clothes, nothing but hopes and dreams protecting them from nasty road rash should things get tumbly. Well, maybe not all of them—hopefully, some will be wearing Crave’s kevlar-lined Axe shirt, which looks like a normal work…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

What’s Your Favorite Comedy Episode Of A Dramatic TV Show?

Just about every dramatic series has its funny moments. But every so often, the writers decide to lighten up a bit, and write an entire comedic episode. Usually, this works best when the show has been on for a while, and we’re comfortable enough with the characters that we can fully appreciate seeing them in…

Television Mark Strauss

Sleep Disorders in Disney Cartoons Were Surprisingly Accurate

“Sometimes,” said Walt Disney, “we can recognize ourselves in animals. That’s what makes them so interesting.” He was more right than he knew. One group of people may have had particular insight into human sleep behavior and its disorders: Disney animators. It wasn’t until the 1980s that “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder,” or RBD, became formally…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Nanoparticle Panels Will Bring Blue Skies Indoors

Skylights are so 1986. Now it doesn’t matter if the weather outside is dark and dreary, or even if it’s midnight, for that matter: Thanks to this LED panel which replicates cloudless skies, you’ll feel like you’re bathed in warm sunshine. What the panel is actually imitating is the Earth’s atmosphere, a special cocktail of…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Supernatural Spin-Off Bloodlines Looks Ridiculous

And it’s obviously a Supernatural spin-off, so that’s really saying something. Three words: Organized monster crime. Yes, Bloodlines is about a bunch of different monsters mobs — e.g. the werewolf mafia, the shapeshifter mafia, etc. — ruling Chicago, and a young cop-in-training whose fiancée gets killed in the middle of the monster war. This obviously…

Television Rob Bricken

Do Frozen And Other Disney Movies All Have Pro-Gay Messages?

The Atlantic recently ran an article that shows how, with the right perspective, almost every major Disney movie seems to have pro-gay themes. And given the company’s support of its LGBTQ employees, the Atlantic speculates that Disney is eager to support the gay community. But is the subtext really, there or are people grasping at…

Tech News Jason Krell

Gibson’s New Audio Cable Automatically Records Everything You Play

Ensuring that no spontaneous but memorable riff ever gets forgotten, Gibson has teamed up with Tascam to create the next-generation of audio cables that actually records everything being played on an instrument, for up to eight solid hours on a single AA battery. It’s like a dashcam for catching musical accidents you definitely want to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Chew Is Getting An Animated Movie—With Steven Yeun And Felicia Day

An animated feature adaptation of John Layman and Rob Guillory’s uproariously funny cannibal cop comic Chew has been in the works for a while, and it looks like the project is truly moving forward. The Chew movie has a script by Layman and has cast its Tony Chu and Amelia. The Hollywood Reporter has announced…

Movies Lauren Davis

WSJ: The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Will OK Pay-to-Play

Initial reports about the FCC’s hotly anticipated net neutrality rules are out, and they are foreboding. While they’ll prevent broadband providers from blocking legal content on the internet, it does not explicitly ban companies from paying for better service. While that’s bad for net neutrality, it’s not entirely a surprise. Net neutrality advocates have long…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Detroit’s Airport Just Installed a $75,000 Indoor Dog Bathroom

If you thought there was nothing worse than flying with little kids, just think about the complications of traveling with a dog. Most dogs fly in crates, but service animals are allowed in terminals and plane cabins. And so that their owners don’t have to navigate the maze of airport security for an outside break,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The FCC (Still) Stinks at Defending the Internet

A Map of Who Doesn’t Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States

Wasp Nest Merges With Human Face To Become Nightmare Fuel

Two Astronauts Must Decipher An Emergency Message From Their Future

You’ll Want to Play Forever In This Swirling Sea of Packing Peanuts

The Cosmic Wonder of Colliding Galaxies

Supercentenarian’s Blood Provides Clues To Extending Human Life

Visualization reveals how the number Pi looks (spoiler: Pretty!)

John Malkovich Goes Full Insane Pirate King in Crossbones

Agents of SHIELD‘s Ward Is So Much Better Now That He’s Being Himself

With a Kevlar-Lined Shirt, You’re Not Completely Screwed in a Crash

What’s Your Favorite Comedy Episode Of A Dramatic TV Show?

Sleep Disorders in Disney Cartoons Were Surprisingly Accurate

Nanoparticle Panels Will Bring Blue Skies Indoors

The Supernatural Spin-Off Bloodlines Looks Ridiculous

Do Frozen And Other Disney Movies All Have Pro-Gay Messages?

Gibson’s New Audio Cable Automatically Records Everything You Play

Chew Is Getting An Animated Movie—With Steven Yeun And Felicia Day

WSJ: The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Will OK Pay-to-Play

Detroit’s Airport Just Installed a $75,000 Indoor Dog Bathroom

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