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The US Military’s Disastrous Plan to Use Napalm-Strapped Bats in WWII

In 1942, after having finally entered WWII, the United States Marine Corps spent two million dollars on an insane new initiative. The mission? Strap napalm bombs to bats, and send them flying on deadly kamikaze runs. Seriously. Vacation Inspiration While most Americans spent the days following December 7, 1941—the day of Japan’s infamous attack on…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Another Spider-Man hangs up his tights in This Week’s Comics!

Given how miserable and dangerous it is being Spider-Man, it’s amazing the turnover rate is so low. Still, a new Spider-Person drops his suit in the trash, Tank Girl returns, Peter Pan fights Nazis, a group of astronauts watch the apocalypse from space and more, all in this week’s comic releases! New Issues Dark Horse:…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Town Reinvents Homebuilding With Flat-Pack Houses Under $150k

Holland has always had a progressive take on affordable housing, especially where apartments and co-housing are concerned. But a new government program is making it possible for people who make as little as $40,000 a year to build their own homes—all through the magic of flat-packing. The program is called I build affordable in Nijmegen…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

An Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 Is Your Deal of the Day

Thanks to legislation currently in the House, someday soon you’re probably going to have to pay online sales tax. Surprisingly, it’s not Amazon fighting the current bill—they’re kinda behind it—but instead the strongest opposition is coming from Ebay. https://gizmodo.com/why-amazon-wants-to-make-you-pay-sales-tax-5995447 Why Ebay? Because Ebay’s power sellers run low-margin operations that sales tax could absolutely kill. Case…

Tech News Kif Leswing

Defiance may be turning into the great scifi series we were promised

Welcome to the episode “The Serpent’s Egg,” or, as I prefer to call it, “The Bad-Mistake Express and the World’s Worst Deputy.” But while my alternate title might be snarky, I have nothing but praise for another strong episode, one that indicates that Defiance may actually live up to Syfy’s — and our — great…

Television Rob Bricken

Talk about the end of the world with Annalee Newitz and Seth Mnookin

Today from 12-1 PM PST, Annalee Newitz will be here talking about her new book, Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction. She’ll be in conversation with MIT science journalism professor Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus. And with you! Join us in a conversation about mass extinction, and whether…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

Jurassic Park got a lot of things right – driving home the point that birds are dinosaurs, for example. It also got a LOT of things wrong. https://gizmodo.com/back-to-jurassic-park-a-paleontological-view-470471393 CinemaSins counts 36. We – and others – have counted a lot more missteps than that, though most if not all of those have been of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

15 Android Fixes We Want to See This Week

Google I/O is almost upon us, and that means, presumably, some updates to Android. We might not see a full-on update to a new version (5.0) announced at tomorrow’s keynote, but we do expect some changes. And while the wishlist might not be as long as it has been in years past, there’s still plenty…

Tech News Brent Rose & Kyle Wagner

What are the rules of time travel in the J.J. Abrams Universe?

This week, we return to the Star Trek universe that J.J. Abrams rebooted using time travel. And meanwhile, Abrams is adapting Stephen King’s book 11/22/63. So it’s a great time to ask: How does time travel work in the Abrams-verse? If you’re in a J.J. Abrams story and you build a time machine, what should…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Texting while driving now kills more teens than drunk driving

Nearly half of teens surveyed in a recent study admitted they’d texted while driving – a disquieting statistic, given that more than 3,000 teenagers died last year while sending/receiving SMS messages behind the wheel. (Compare that to the roughly 2,700 teens killed annually due to drunk driving.) The study – which was conducted by researchers…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The World’s Longest Lego Railway Includes 2.5 Miles Of Track

It’s not quite as exciting as free-falling from the edge of space, but a group of 80 Lego enthusiasts in Denmark, led by Henrik Ludvigsen, now hold the Guinness Record for the world’s longest plastic toy train track—an honor that will certainly look fantastic on a resume. https://gizmodo.com/first-head-cam-video-of-supersonic-space-jump-5951725 Inspired by his own impressive collection of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Still confused by Cloud Atlas? Infographic & featurettes break it down

There’s an awful lot going on in Cloud Atlas, the time-spanning, super-ambitious movie that’s out on DVD and Blu-ray today. Six time periods, tons of characters, the same actors playing different characters, all cutting back and forth. So here’s a super handy chart and some featurettes from the DVD, to explain it to you! We’re…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

13 Images Reflected In Someone’s Eye

Everything we see has made its way through our eyes, which also means, there’s a good chance that most of our lives is reflected in our eyes. Here are 12 fantastic images that celebrate that idea. WINNER: Vertigo Canon T2i, 100mm, f/2.8. I realized a little too late that doing this by myself was a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Venice’s Beachfront Balconies Look Like Boxes of Candy

“Behind the Edge” is an eye-popping series by photographer Luigui Bonaventura, who shoots the brightly-hued balconies of hotels in Jesolo Beach, a small coastal town outside of Venice, Italy. The pastel facades look like meticulously arranged boxes of salt water taffy. The colors and symmetry verge on delicious. Bonaventura says the point of the project…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Here’s the actual “teleporting bank robbery” scene from Now You See Me

How on Earth do they do this? The characters in Now You See Me are supposed to be just regular stage magicians, but then they seem to have the actual power to send a guy from Las Vegas to a Paris bank vault — and then create a hole in the universe for money to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Navy’s X-47B Drone Has Taken Off From a Carrier For the First Time

The X-47B prototype fighter UAV has already shown that it can stick a landing on the rolling deck of an aircraft carrier but can it launch from one as well? Turns out, the answer is a historic yes. https://gizmodo.com/the-x-47b-doesnt-need-a-pilot-to-land-on-an-aircraft-ca-5932530 Today at 11:18 EST, one of Northrop Grumman’s star Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator successfully catapult…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The eldest Weasley uses time travel to pick up chicks in About Time

There have been plenty of time travel movies that involve romance, but About Time — from Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually — takes a different view on it. Instead to using it to save a relationship, why not use it to make sure your new relationship stays awesome? That’s what Domnhall…

Movies Rob Bricken

Simon Pegg explains why the new Star Trek movie is all Kirk’s fault

What does the “Darkness” refer to in the Star Trek Into Darkness title, and why is it all Kirk’s fault? In our exclusive interview, Simon Pegg reveals why Starfleet should never become a military organization, along with what the hell he’s wearing (and drinking) when he’s off ship. Spoilers ahead… When you were off the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Weird Dog In Little Sneakers Is Having a Hard Time

Who put the tiny sneakers on this poor little dog? Probably the person who uploaded the video! Anyway, the dog apparently survived the ordeal and now “likes” the tiny dog shoes. It’s one way to prevent heartworm, we guess.

Sploid Ken Layne

How to turn a high concept idea into an actual story

Every story begins with an idea. What’s amazing about science fiction stories is, they often start with a cool idea. Like a spin on space travel or robots that nobody’s ever thought of before. But how do you turn an idea into a story, with memorable characters and powerful moments? That’s often the hard part.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The US Military’s Disastrous Plan to Use Napalm-Strapped Bats in WWII

Another Spider-Man hangs up his tights in This Week’s Comics!

Town Reinvents Homebuilding With Flat-Pack Houses Under $150k

An Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 Is Your Deal of the Day

Defiance may be turning into the great scifi series we were promised

Talk about the end of the world with Annalee Newitz and Seth Mnookin

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

15 Android Fixes We Want to See This Week

What are the rules of time travel in the J.J. Abrams Universe?

Texting while driving now kills more teens than drunk driving

The World’s Longest Lego Railway Includes 2.5 Miles Of Track

Still confused by Cloud Atlas? Infographic & featurettes break it down

13 Images Reflected In Someone’s Eye

Venice’s Beachfront Balconies Look Like Boxes of Candy

Here’s the actual “teleporting bank robbery” scene from Now You See Me

The Navy’s X-47B Drone Has Taken Off From a Carrier For the First Time

The eldest Weasley uses time travel to pick up chicks in About Time

Simon Pegg explains why the new Star Trek movie is all Kirk’s fault

Weird Dog In Little Sneakers Is Having a Hard Time

How to turn a high concept idea into an actual story

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