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Every mountain needs to have a wonderful cloud bridge like this

The problem with building man made structures in natural wonders like mountain ranges is that they can sore your eyes pretty quickly. Some parts of the world should be left untouched! But imagine a bridge like this one, designed to look like a cloud, on top of a few mountains. The views would be absolutely…

Sploid Casey Chan

Person of Interest delivers a caper, with a side of serious OMG

Last night’s Person of Interest was mostly a pretty old-school caper story, with a number of the week who pulls pretty much every kind of con except a retcon. But then we had some major reveals, too, and a pretty scary encounter with The Future. So I’m beginning to think that somebody writing for Person…

Television Annalee Newitz

First trailer for Winter’s Tale sprinkles magic on NYC

Based on the wonderful 1983 novel by Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale is set in an alternative timeline starting at the turn of the 20th century in New York City. But this Gotham has magic, gangs, and a gorgeous white flying horse straddled by Colin Farrell. This long awaited movie is FINALLY releasing some footage, and…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The best way to stop a hive mind from killing you

The great ships were hive minds, concatenations of thousands of smaller ships that swarmed together so closely you couldn’t tell where one ended and another began. They were supposed to be unstoppable, but they had one vulnerability: internal dissent. If you could talk a few ships into separating from the whole, you had a chance.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This is what we would all do if we got to wear a real NASA spacesuit

BBC’s Richard Hammond of Top Gear fame recently got to step inside a NASA’s Z1 spacesuit prototype that was pressurized to simulate what wearing the spacesuit would be like on Mars. Because Mars atmosphere is so thin, the suit needs to be pumped up inside to hold his body together. No matter to Hammond though.…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Bizarre Game of Thrones Tribute From Last Night’s Supernatural

The opening shot of last night’s Supernatural episode was the funniest part, as we discovered that a taxidermist has created a whole Game of Thrones tribute, out of woodland creatures. This was the second time in a row the show has made a Thrones joke — insecure much? As for the rest of the episode……

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Risk of asteroid hitting Earth is ten times higher than we thought

This is frightening. Nature just published a study by astronomers who have reanalyzed and recalculated the estimate of asteroids that could hit Earth and it’s a lot worse than we thought. Ten times worse. As in, researchers are now saying we are 10 times more likely to get struck by an asteroid than before. As…

Sploid Casey Chan

Illustrations of Petra Pan, the Genderswapped Girl Who Wouldn’t Grow Up

Artist Marion, also known as Galaxyspeaking, does a puckish genderflip of Peter Pan, reimagining the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up as a girl named Petra, who traipses through Neverland with her crew of Lost Girls and her male fairy companion, Tinkerbell. Galaxyspeaking explains that she is currently working on a comic with her genderswapped Peter…

io9 Lauren Davis

How I Turned My Problem Pet into a ‘Cadaver Dog’

Author Cat Warren trained her dog to sniff out human remains as a “cadaver dog.” In this exclusive excerpt from her book What The Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs, she explains how this experience taught her about the longstanding connection between dogs and death. Top image: Son of Groucho Excerpted from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Comment of the Day: Lonely Superman Edition

Today, we spun some possible endings for The Walking Dead, composed an epitaph for the humble video store, and learned once and for all why Superman is the loneliest fellow in Metropolis. In response to this post naming and shaming the worst friends in fiction, commenter Angrier Geek gave us a peek into a very…

io9 Ria Misra

Denny’s new Hobbit 2-themed menu is sure to desolate your stomach

Obesity rates among the denizens of Middle-Earth are on the rise. Hobbits, dwarves, orcs and even men are getting fatter, because instead of a sensible diet based on fruits, vegetables and Lembas bread, they’re eating at Denny’s, thanks to their new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Your Arteries Smaug-themed menu. You may remember last year’s…

io9 Rob Bricken

South Park hilariously nails everyone’s problem with cable companies

Sure, complaining about cable is probably the quintessential first world problem but it’s like cable companies get off in screwing you over. South Park captures the cable screw job perfectly: every customer wants changes to be made with cable but every cable company is just enjoying how many different ways they can say no to…

Sploid Casey Chan

This is what 1.6-tons of space station garbage looks like on re-entry

Four days ago, the Albert Einstein ATV re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was destroyed as planned. The ESA managed to snap this spectacular pic as the carrier — filled with human waste, dirty clothes, and other detritus — went aflame over the Pacific Ocean. The mission ended on October 28 after the successful transfer of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Turns out The Originals is about America’s original sin: slavery

The Originals is a weird show. The four characters who came over from The Vampire Diaries to form the bedrock of the show’s cast were among the least sympathetic on the parent show, and all the new characters seemed either forgettable or sort of horrible. But slowly but surely, The Originals is finding a story…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

These Abandoned Toy Factories and Shops Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Once these stores and factories sold the stuff of children’s dreams, but now that they lie abandoned—filled with decaying displays and disembodied doll heads—they are more likely to inspire nightmares. Top image: Doll factory – The last production, via Bousure. Kanga Wooden Toy Factory, O’Connor, Perth, Australia (via Nate Robert) The Toastmaster factory in Algonquin,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

An App-Connected Laser Tape Measure Will Never Mistake Inches For Feet

Sure, that laser rangefinder made short work of measuring every dimension in that room you plan to renovate. It’s just too bad you jotted all those measurements down on the back of an old receipt that promptly went missing. That’s why Bosch has given its new GLM 100 C laser rangefinder Bluetooth capabilities and an…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Watch a tooth get burned to crispy bits

Seeing things that shouldn’t be burned get melted down to nothing by fire is weirdly titillating. You don’t even have to be a pyromaniac to enjoy the perversion of the flames. Just look at how this tooth slowly disappears! It’s gross and weirdly wonderful in all the right ways. So bless the master torch wielders…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Map of Where Americans Are Moving (Hellooooo, Vegas!)

Each year, 10 million Americans pack up their lives and move to another part of the country. But where are they going? The University of Wisconsin-Madison has made an awesome interactive map that tracks the net migration to different counties across the U.S. The map uses data sets that include age, race, Hispanic-origin, and sex…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Ian McKellen showed off his cheeky Gandalf underpants on stage

What does Sir Ian McKellen wear beneath his wizard’s robes—or his gold shorts? During a performance this week, he revealed his tighty-Gandalf-the-whities. McKellen bared his Gandalf underwear—featuring the words “You Shall Not Pass”—during a performance at Only Make Believe’s 14th Annual Gala, “Make Believe On Broadway.” He decided to enact a quick costume change onstage,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Falling Soon Through a Sky Near You

It’s what the New York Times calls “the latest in a parade of spacecraft falling from the sky”: the imminent crash of the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (or GOCE). Somewhat unbelievably, no one has any real idea where it will land—due to its orbit, “almost all places on…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

Every mountain needs to have a wonderful cloud bridge like this

Person of Interest delivers a caper, with a side of serious OMG

First trailer for Winter’s Tale sprinkles magic on NYC

The best way to stop a hive mind from killing you

This is what we would all do if we got to wear a real NASA spacesuit

The Bizarre Game of Thrones Tribute From Last Night’s Supernatural

Risk of asteroid hitting Earth is ten times higher than we thought

Illustrations of Petra Pan, the Genderswapped Girl Who Wouldn’t Grow Up

How I Turned My Problem Pet into a ‘Cadaver Dog’

Comment of the Day: Lonely Superman Edition

Denny’s new Hobbit 2-themed menu is sure to desolate your stomach

South Park hilariously nails everyone’s problem with cable companies

This is what 1.6-tons of space station garbage looks like on re-entry

Turns out The Originals is about America’s original sin: slavery

These Abandoned Toy Factories and Shops Will Haunt Your Nightmares

An App-Connected Laser Tape Measure Will Never Mistake Inches For Feet

Watch a tooth get burned to crispy bits

A Map of Where Americans Are Moving (Hellooooo, Vegas!)

Ian McKellen showed off his cheeky Gandalf underpants on stage

Falling Soon Through a Sky Near You

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