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The International Space Station looks so cool when astronauts sleep

I’ve never seen the International Space Station at “night,” when astronauts and cosmonauts go to sleep, so when I saw that I immediately though “that’s so damn cool!” “The dots near the hatch point to Soyuz if we have an emergency,” says astronaut Mike Hopkins.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 21 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 48 Hour Duck

Faced with a long, cold winter of starvation, one samurai must make the ultimate sacrifice for his family. Who would have thought that sepuku took so much out of you?

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 21 '13

Lumia 2520 Review: Not Much More Than a Pretty Face

Up until now, pretty much your only option for a Windows RT tablet was the Surface 2. But now Nokia is giving you another choice, in the form of the Lumia 2520, a colorful line of tablets that look even larger versions of its rainbow phones. https://gizmodo.com/surface-2-review-one-step-forward-two-steps-behind-1448865506 What Is It? A colorful Nokia tablet running…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 21 '13

Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool. Fuji News Network says the island is forming near the Nishinoshima Volcano. The footage below was captured by…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 20 '13

Ew, this human cheese was made with belly button and toe bacteria

Get ready to hold a little vom down in your throat. These carpet-looking thingamajigs are actually cheese made with human bacteria, such as the kind you’d find in your belly button or in your nose or in your salty tears or on your skin or on your toe. It’s beyond gross and, if you really…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 20 '13

One chart exposes the racial preferences of online dating

Quartz has dug up a rather sad chart that reveals the racial preferences of online daters. Judging from data from Facebook dating app Are You Interested, you can see how different races respond to each other under the veil of the Internet. Most women respond positively to white men, while most men respond positively to…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 20 '13

Why Agents of SHIELD‘s Marvel Movie Connection is Kind of a Problem

Last night’s Agents of SHIELD was billed as being a quasi-sequel to Thor: the Dark World. As if Coulson’s squad would be spending the whole episode cleaning up the aftermath of Thor’s fight with Malekith. In fact, it was much more a standalone affair — which pointed to one problem with the shared continuity. Spoilers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 20 '13

Something deeply strange is happening to these cars

The boss said, “Go get my car from the basketball court.” This wasn’t exactly what I expected to find. These floating cars, ripped out of my dreams, were created by Chris Labrooy. You can see more of his goofy, evocative work on his website.

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 20 '13

All the leaked NSA documents, rounded up into one place

Trying to keep up with all the leaked documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden? Now you can. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has put together a handy repository of every single one, for you to peruse at your paranoid leisure. There is a ton of stuff here, from the early slides showing that the NSA was…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 20 '13

In the Key of Xbox One (via Kotaku)

Over at Kotaku.com, Kirk Hamilton focuses on the three-note melody that plays when the new Microsoft Xbox One is turned on. The startup sounds of both Microsoft and Apple computer devices have gotten attention in the past, thanks to work done for the companies by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Hamilton contrats this with a…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum Nov 20 '13

Kawasaki built a time machine and stole a bike from the future

Akira, Tron, I don’t care what pop reference you pick. The new Kawasaki J Three Wheeler EV—presented today at the Tokyo Motor Show 2013—is absolutely insane. And the way you ride this amazing thing is even crazier. Check it out in Sport Mode: The bike has different modes depending on your style and mood, and…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 20 '13

Comment of the Day: The Very Best (and Shortest) Science Fiction

Today, we fell down the rabbit-hole of the internet’s list making capabilities, debated the relative merits of every single Doctor Who episode ever made, and wrote over 1000 (and counting!) very short pieces of science fiction. In response to today’s call for six-word science fiction stories, there were plenty of fantastic entries. Here’s just a…

io9 Ria Misra Nov 20 '13

Which movie do you desperately wish would get a sequel?

The world is full of movie sequels that nobody asked for. But then, there are some other films, which charmed us once and then disappeared without overstaying their welcome. Which movie would you actually pay good money to see a sequel to? Please include a picture, poster or clip of this film. And if it’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 20 '13

No matter how good your recall is, you still have false memories

There is a condition known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, in which people can remember every detail of what they did years ago. In a sense, these people have the best memories on Earth. And yet they still suffer from false memory syndrome, just like the rest of us. Image by Lightspring We’ve all heard…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 20 '13

Amazing new miracle material will keep you dry no matter what

There are a lot of water-repellent surfaces, but nothing as incredible as this new miracle material that—according to research published in Nature—repels water way beyond “what was previously thought possible.” As you can see in the clip above, the water bounces completely off the surface as fast as possible, leaving nothing behind. Its inventors say…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 20 '13

Watch Simon Pegg slowly lose it in The World’s End‘s Gag Reel

There’s nothing like forcing a great actor to remember a whole mish-mosh of random pub names, and then film him stumbling through the long litany of dialogue. And it’s even better when it’s Simon Pegg doing it. Check out the Gag Reel from The World’s End, and wish that one day you too could be…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 20 '13

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

We can cry because we’re happy. We can cry because we’re sad. We can cry because we’re cutting onions. We can cry just because we need to cry. They’re all completely different emotions… but are they different tears? Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wanted to find out in her series The Topography of Tears. She put dried…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 20 '13

Retrofuturistic Buildings of the Former Soviet Union For Comrade Jetson

Some of the more flamboyant architecture of the former Soviet Union had this strange mix of brutalism, gothicism, and googie. Looking at these buildings makes me wonder what a Soviet version of the Jetsons would’ve been like. Meet George Jetsonov… https://gizmodo.com/googie-architecture-of-the-space-age-512620908 https://gizmodo.com/five-crazy-buildings-that-were-actually-made-by-russian-1468557202

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 20 '13

RoboCop tries to take off his suit in the new RoboCop trailer

The latest international trailer for RoboCop is all about “the man inside the suit.” Unfortunately this suit can never be taken off, or you’ll die. Too bad for Alex Murphy. We have to admit this trailer (and the last one) look arguably better than the first. Fingers crossed for the new RoboCop. But what do…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 20 '13

These Mega-Sculptures Are the Biggest in the World

They’re the very definition of monumental. These sculptures are the most enormous you’ll ever see in the world. They’re both insane and utterly magnificent. The 420 ft or 128 m (including its 66 ft or 20 m high lotus throne) tall Spring Temple Buddha in the Fodushan Scenic Area, Zhaocun, China, built in 2002. The…

io9 Vincze Miklós Nov 20 '13

The International Space Station looks so cool when astronauts sleep

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 48 Hour Duck

Lumia 2520 Review: Not Much More Than a Pretty Face

Watch a volcano birth an entire new island

Ew, this human cheese was made with belly button and toe bacteria

One chart exposes the racial preferences of online dating

Why Agents of SHIELD‘s Marvel Movie Connection is Kind of a Problem

Something deeply strange is happening to these cars

All the leaked NSA documents, rounded up into one place

In the Key of Xbox One (via Kotaku)

Kawasaki built a time machine and stole a bike from the future

Comment of the Day: The Very Best (and Shortest) Science Fiction

Which movie do you desperately wish would get a sequel?

No matter how good your recall is, you still have false memories

Amazing new miracle material will keep you dry no matter what

Watch Simon Pegg slowly lose it in The World’s End‘s Gag Reel

Tears of joy and tears of sadness look different under the microscope

Retrofuturistic Buildings of the Former Soviet Union For Comrade Jetson

RoboCop tries to take off his suit in the new RoboCop trailer

These Mega-Sculptures Are the Biggest in the World

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