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A future Antarctic research station that can walk over the ice

Scientists looking to set up research stations on Antarctic ice-sheets have a problem. The ice moves toward the ocean at a rate of a quarter mile each year. Not only that, ice and snow quickly accumulates on the surface of the frozen continent, burying any structure that dares to defy the elements. Combined, these factors…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 1 '13

What it Means When Someone Tries to Tell You THE Rules of Good Writing

There’s only one rule for how to write a story, and that’s: “Write a good story.” Apart from that, anything goes, as long as you can pull it off. (And some things are harder to pull off than others.) But sometimes, people will try and teach you ironclad rules of fiction writing. Like, avoid an…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1 '13

These Are All the Cables That Carry the Internet Under the Sea

The Internet connects us all, but it’s easy to take for granted what a crazy accomplishment that is. After all, plenty of us live on different land-masses. We’ve got to get that sweet, sweet Internet across the deep blue sea somehow, and these are the underwater ‘net pipes that get the job done. TeleGeography has…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 1 '13

Wow. So Google Street View is now available for the Grand Canyon.

Google strapped backpack-mounted cameras onto members of their team and sent them trekking through the Grand Canyon. The end result? Google Street View for Arizona’s great gorge, though a more accurate description would probably be “Trail View”; according to the official Google Blog, the company’s newly released interactive panoramas cover more than 75 miles of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 1 '13

Meryl Streep is a huge Witch in the Into the Woods movie

The legendary Meryl Streep is in talks to play the evil witch in the movie version of Steven Sondheim’s legendary musical Into the Woods. The award-winning Broadway musical epitomized the phrase “fractured fairy tale,” as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of the Beanstalk fame) and a childless baker and his wife venture into the woods…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 1 '13

Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust

London-based design firm Foster+Partners aims to partner-up with the European Space Agency, and build structures on the Moon from the regolith found on the surface. The inflatable scaffolding would be manufactured on Earth, then transported to the Moon and covered with a durable shell constructed by robotically-driven 3D printers. All images courtesy Foster+Partners. This is…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 1 '13

Under Armour Finally Releasing Its Performance Monitor Later This Month

Is it any surprise that another sportswear company is getting into the activity tracker game? Well, it shouldn’t be. The latest, it appears, will be Under Armour when it launches what the company says will be a “first-of-its-kind performance monitoring system” on February 12 in New York. For those that remember—I nearly forgot—Under Armour was…

Tech News Peter ha Feb 1 '13

The 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Is Your Needs-No-Introduction Deal of the Day

Until Apple refreshes the Retina MBP line, the 15-inch rMBP remains the pro laptop to own. It’s a better value than the 13″ model, it has a quad-core processor and discrete NVIDIA graphics, and oh — nobody else has a screen like that 2880×1800-pixel beast. Best Buy’s running a sale on a bunch of MacBooks…

Tech News Kif Leswing Feb 1 '13

How to Make Mathematically Perfect Nachos

Nachos are the ultimate party food; bad nachos are the ultimate party foul. You know the old sob story: There’s a platter full of chips, and only six of them have enough cheese. Some jerk dumped a can of salsa in the middle of the plate, and now people are worming their filthy plague-ridden fingers…

Tech News Joe Brown Feb 1 '13

This isn’t cosplay, it’s actually G.I. Joe‘s Baroness in real life

Geeks Are Sexy claims that this is merely an astounding bit of cosplay of the Baroness from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, done by DeviantArtist Daeltyh. However, as a cosplay aficionado and one of the thousands of boys who grew up in the ’80s whose sexual preferences were irrevocably steered toward potentially evil women…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 1 '13

The Woman Whose Pulp Art Was Too Sexy for “Public Decency”

Margaret Brundage broke two taboos at the same time with her iconic covers for Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. She was a woman working in the male-dominated world of fantasy art, and her covers were racy and titillating, even for the pulp era. Warning: possibly NSFW magazine art below! Now, at last, Brundage is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1 '13

Watch HTC’s CEO Rally The Troops With a Bizarre “M7” Chant

That rumored M7 phone? The new HTC flagship? It definitely exists, and “M7” is definitely it’s name. That is, if HTC’s super-enthusiastic, chant-leading CEO has anything to say about it. https://gizmodo.com/are-these-the-first-pictures-of-htcs-new-flagship-phone-5977560 The little cheering session went down at the end of HTC’s year end party in Taipei today. HTC CEO Peter Chou went up on…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 1 '13

How to Watch Super Bowl 47

This Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers will battle the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl 47. The action will air on CBS. Kickoff is at 6:30PM ET. Here’s how to watch it no matter where you are. Online The game will stream live online at both CBS Sports and NFL.com. It might be fun to keep…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 1 '13

Dark Side of the Earth: What would happen if our planet became tidally locked?

There’s a reason we only ever see one side of the Moon. It’s tidally locked to the Earth, presenting only one side to us as it orbits around the planet. Tidal locking is a fate that befalls lots of planetary bodies, and it can wreak havoc on the surface. Why does tidal locking happen? And…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 1 '13

Report: Leaked Documents Confirm Totally Obvious Non-Surprise Android Key Lime Pie Launch This Spring

Could it be that Google will announce the brand new 5.0 version of its Android operating system this spring? Considering that Google I/O-the event where it tends to make announcements like that-is in May, yes. And if that wasn’t a sure enough bet just based on the “well duh” factor, some leaked Qualcomm documents are…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 1 '13

NASA will launch the largest solar sail in history as soon as next year

Solar sails are all about “propellantless” propulsion — using photons from the Sun (as opposed to an onboard fuel supply) to push a spacecraft through space. Building on the lessons learned from smaller solar sail missions, like NASA’s NanoSail-D and JAXA’s IKAROS, NASA is gearing up to to launch the biggest solar sail in history…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 1 '13

Vladmir Putin Hired Boyz II Men to Sing Until Russians Make More Babies

Vladmir Putin is on a mission to raise Russia’s birth rate. Best way to do that? Hire Boyz II Men to croon the babies right into the bellies. Russia’s birth rate has been climbing in recent years, but only after Putin made a hard push to get the motherland knocking boots again. After years of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 1 '13

The Best of January’s Short Stories (That You Can Read For Free Online)

Short stories have always been the lifeblood of the science fiction and fantasy genres, even though novels get the lion’s share of the attention. There are hundreds of great stories published every year — and a large portion of them are available for free online — but many people only read the shorts in one…

Books & Comics K. Tempest Bradford Feb 1 '13

The 15 Dumbest, Goofiest, and Otherwise Most Impractical Gundams Ever

Gundam has long been called the Star Trek of Japan, because of its long-running popularity, and its many, many incarnations. This means there have been hundreds, if not thousands of Gundams and other assorted mecha designed for the Gundam anime series, and not all of them have been winners. For every RX-78 from the original…

Anime Rob Bricken Feb 1 '13

Breathtaking Photos of Four Volcanoes Erupting Simultaneously in Russia

In this photograph taken by Cmdr. Chris Hatfield, you can see four volcanoes that are erupting in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula simultaneously. According to NASA’s Earth Observatory: Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has the highest concentration of active volcanoes on Earth. Separated by only 180 kilometers (110 miles), Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Tolbachik, and Kizimen were all erupting simultaneously on…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 1 '13

A future Antarctic research station that can walk over the ice

What it Means When Someone Tries to Tell You THE Rules of Good Writing

These Are All the Cables That Carry the Internet Under the Sea

Wow. So Google Street View is now available for the Grand Canyon.

Meryl Streep is a huge Witch in the Into the Woods movie

Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust

Under Armour Finally Releasing Its Performance Monitor Later This Month

The 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Is Your Needs-No-Introduction Deal of the Day

How to Make Mathematically Perfect Nachos

This isn’t cosplay, it’s actually G.I. Joe‘s Baroness in real life

The Woman Whose Pulp Art Was Too Sexy for “Public Decency”

Watch HTC’s CEO Rally The Troops With a Bizarre “M7” Chant

How to Watch Super Bowl 47

Dark Side of the Earth: What would happen if our planet became tidally locked?

Report: Leaked Documents Confirm Totally Obvious Non-Surprise Android Key Lime Pie Launch This Spring

NASA will launch the largest solar sail in history as soon as next year

Vladmir Putin Hired Boyz II Men to Sing Until Russians Make More Babies

The Best of January’s Short Stories (That You Can Read For Free Online)

The 15 Dumbest, Goofiest, and Otherwise Most Impractical Gundams Ever

Breathtaking Photos of Four Volcanoes Erupting Simultaneously in Russia

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