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Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb

Kaboom. And fireball. And ground shake. And shockwave. And boom. AtomCentral shows us some amazingly clear HD footage restored from 1953 of the Atomic Cannon test from Upshot-Knothole Grable. In the video below, you can see cars, jeeps, buses and tanks against the backdrop of the ginormous blast’s initial burst and shockwave. The blast eventually…

Sploid Casey Chan

Real Estate’s New Music Video Teaches You How to Play the Song

Back in the day, you had to figure out how to play songs either by listening to them or by buying a book. Then came the internet and easy access to tabs. These days the bands are doing all the work for you! Real Estate released a new video for its breezy song “Crime,” and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Here’s why they call Earth ‘The Blue Marble’

The Caribbean country of Cuba appears at the top of this image, photographed last December by an Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station. Andros Island, part of the Bahamas, can be seen in the bottom of the frame. The surrounding waters are so beautifully aqua-colored as to appear unbelievable. See also: NASA’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

io9 is hiring: We’re looking for a few good researchers!

Are you just starting your career, and want to get your feet wet with a research job at io9? We’ve got three openings — two for contributing researchers who focus on culture and entertainment, and one for a half-time editorial fellow in the sciences who will do research, writing, and outreach in the science community.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hero father paints Doctor Who Adventure Time mural for daughter’s wall

The creator of Wookie the Chew, and a multitude of additional wondrous works of art, James Hance, painted this on his daughter’s wall. We are so jealous. https://gizmodo.com/wookiee-the-chew-5627984 https://gizmodo.com/ups-little-old-couple-have-created-the-most-adorable-st-5887992 https://gizmodo.com/the-doctor-is-the-cheshire-cat-to-amy-ponds-alice-in-w-512177792 The mashup debuted first on his Facebook page: I’ve just finished an “Adventure Timey-Wimey” mural on my 9yr old daughter, Maddy’s room It’s 5ft x…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Amazingly, Supernatural finds our heartstrings again

Supernatural has reached a kind of emotional event horizon where the Winchesters are concerned. After so many repetitive tear-jerking conflicts, they’ve collapsed into a kind of drama singularity, from which no real emotion can escape. But last night’s episode still wrung a lot of pathos out of a couple of side characters. Spoilers ahead… Just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Brand New Art from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson!

Well here’s an unexpected surprise: Bill Watterson, long-retired creator of Calvin of Hobbes, was so impressed with Stripped – a new feature documentary that invites some of the biggest names in comics “to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newspapers die” – that he agreed to provide the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

One easy way to visualize numbers that are very big or very small

When numbers get either very, very large or very, very small, it’s hard to conceptualize exactly what they mean. But this vintage video is a simple guide to comprehending numerical extremes. Made back in 1977, the “Powers of 10” video was recommended by commenter OmegaUnlimited, after reading this piece on just how to comprehend incomprehensibly…

io9 Ria Misra

Watch a great white shark fly into the air to kill a seal

Don’t worry, the seal was just a decoy. But the breaching great white shark attack was real. The Great White comes at the seal at such a high speed (up to 25mph) that it launches itself and the seal decoy it caught out of the ocean and into the air. It’s beautifully fierce, isn’t it?…

Sploid Casey Chan

Once time travel becomes common, drunken assholes will abuse it

The problem with a revolutionary technology is what happens when it falls into the hands of the general public—including drunk people and their obnoxious friends. Ben Mallaby’s film Timeholes is just two minutes long, but that’s plenty of time for it to deliver its goofy send-up of time travel tropes. And it does a neat…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Crazy Contraption Weighed a Single Electron 13x More Accurately

Last week, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics published the most exact value ever observed for the weight of a single electron—a value 13 times more accurate than the previous estimate. And the Penning trap, the kooky looking device shown above, was crucial in obtaining this measurement. To get this super-accurate weight…

Physics & Chemistry Bob Sorokanich

Drop Everything – The Bald Eagle Cam is Back!

Will 2014 be the year you witness a baby bald eagle hatching live, on camera? NOT IF YOU LOOK AWAY, IT WON’T. Above: The female eagle flies from the nest as the male flies in (2/9/14) | Photo Credit: Berry Eagles Photo Gallery It’s that time of year again – the time of year when…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem

Qatar’s overtly yonic soccer stadium, a global architectural symbol of the forthcoming 2022 World Cup, has seen its share of the nation’s staggering number of construction deaths: more than 500 Indian migrant workers have died in Qatar since January 2012. This week, the stadium’s architect—Zaha Hadid—said, well, it’s not her problem. https://gizmodo.com/the-grim-secret-behind-qatars-lavish-new-stadiums-hum-1466811510 Speaking at the…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Mind-Blowing Hungarian Posters for All Your Favorite Movies

Can you name all of the famous science fiction films represented by these beautiful and bizarre posters from Hungary? You’ve seen Star Wars posters from all over the world and the wild paintings used on Ghana’s movie posters. But nothing is more intense and wonderful than Hungarian posters for imported science fiction films. See for…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Is there a new Big Bad on Person of Interest?

Last night’s Person of Interest was a fun, fast-paced number of the week episode. But it also hinted that we might have a new kind of bad guy on the horizon who is obsessed with Finch the way the Joker is with Batman. Spoilers ahead. Let’s face it — this episode was basically a much-deserved…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch the full documentary on how Hollywood is destroying VFX studios

When Life of Pi received the Oscar for best Visual Effects, Rhythm & Hues, the studio responsible for its eye-popping effects, had just announced that it was filing for bankruptcy. You can now watch the full documentary, Life After Pi, which explains the industry model that is financially bleeding VFX studios dry. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-oscars-proved-hollywood-is-killing-the-vfx-indu-5987131 Directed by…

Movies Lauren Davis

Offshore Wind Farms Might Save Us From Hurricanes

In the matchup of wind turbine v. hurricane, our bets have traditionally been with the hurricane. But think about it this way: wind turbines are designed to suck energy out of wind. What if they could suck out so much energy that hurricanes like Katrina or Sandy never form in the first place—with the potentially…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

The End of an Era: Ginjer Buchanan is retiring from Ace/Roc

Almost exactly 30 years after she started, Ace/Roc editor Ginjer Buchanan is retiring. Her encyclopedic knowledge and keen editorial eye have been a major asset to science fiction publishing for the past few decades, and the field will not be the same without her. Top image: Jennie Ivins/Flickr. Back in 1984, Buchanan originally went to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

And Yet the Hamburglar Remains At Large…

On September 24, 1996 the mayor and police chief of San Jose, California swore in Officer Mac, a McDonald’s-sponsored robot. Officially, Officer Mac’s duties were limited to educating Bay Area citizens about crime prevention. But we all know Mac was deputized for one purpose, and one purpose only: to teach kids how delicious McDonald’s food…

Tech News Matt Novak

Boeing Is Working On a Self-Destructing Phone For Spies

Government employees who rely on Blackberry’s famously secure encryption might have another phone to choose from some day soon: Myce reports that Boeing has quietly filed papers with the FCC for a phone that self-destructs if you tamper with it. It’s called the Boeing Black, of course. But this isn’t be a phone for you…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb

Real Estate’s New Music Video Teaches You How to Play the Song

Here’s why they call Earth ‘The Blue Marble’

io9 is hiring: We’re looking for a few good researchers!

Hero father paints Doctor Who Adventure Time mural for daughter’s wall

Amazingly, Supernatural finds our heartstrings again

Brand New Art from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson!

One easy way to visualize numbers that are very big or very small

Watch a great white shark fly into the air to kill a seal

Once time travel becomes common, drunken assholes will abuse it

This Crazy Contraption Weighed a Single Electron 13x More Accurately

Drop Everything – The Bald Eagle Cam is Back!

Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem

The Mind-Blowing Hungarian Posters for All Your Favorite Movies

Is there a new Big Bad on Person of Interest?

Watch the full documentary on how Hollywood is destroying VFX studios

Offshore Wind Farms Might Save Us From Hurricanes

The End of an Era: Ginjer Buchanan is retiring from Ace/Roc

And Yet the Hamburglar Remains At Large…

Boeing Is Working On a Self-Destructing Phone For Spies

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