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On Grimm, some guy was killed with a rat bomb

Oh, gritty fairy tale murder mystery Grimm. What are we going to do with you? While we love the fun twists you’ve given the Pied Piper and the Three Little Pigs, we still don’t give a Blutbaden’s cuss about any of these characters. Ah well, there’s always this clip of a man killed by hundreds…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 11

Two long-lost Doctor Who episodes uncovered

Many early Doctor Who episodes have sadly been wiped from existence, but today brings an iota of good news for Whovians. Two episodes — the third episode of the William Hartnell serial “Galaxy 4” and the second episode of Patrick Troughton’s “The Underwater Menace” — have been recovered by Terry Burnett, a film aficionado who…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Dec 11

Don’t Bring These Swiss Army Measuring Cups into Battle

There’s nothing cool about measuring cups. Nothing. Maybe if you’re measuring huge quantities of cocaine, but that’d be very inefficient, and there’s nothing cool about inefficiency either. But wait—what if your measuring cups were in a multitool? Yes. With these $10 Swiss Measuring Spoons by Gamago, you can pretend you’re braving the wilderness instead of…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Dec 11

Woman Kills Man With Amateur Penis Injection

You’d think that if were going to let someone stick a syringe into your genitals, you’d want them to have a medical degree of some sort. Or at least a masters in communications. Not this guy! Death by penis procedure. The Daily Mail says the preeminent Fake Dr. Kasia Rivera killed a 22-year-old “patient” by…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

io9 Roundup: December 11, 2011

Photograph by Cédric Delsaux. More of these real-world/Star Wars mash-ups can be seen here. This orphaned baby bat is the cutest thing you’ll see all day If you’re eating pancakes right now, don’t even bother pouring on the syrup. This is the sweetest thing you’ll see all day, nay, all week. This is the tale…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

Virginia Wants to Shoot Your Corpse into Space

The great commonwealth of Virginia has a quiet little idea to boost the local economy—tax breaks for space funerals! A proposed law would put money in your pocket for sending a loved one into the void. The action will center around Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, with the hope that the facility will go from launching…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle Dec 11

Songbirds caught evolving into separate species

If you just look at their DNA, the various South American songbird populations all look pretty much the same. But their outward appearances and the songs they sing couldn’t be more difficult. We’re witnessing the birth of multiple new species. We’ve known since Charles Darwin that species can change and evolve into new species, and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

Why is the universe pointing in one direction?

While the faster-than-light neutrinos are grabbing all the physics-shattering attention, there’s another strange, unexplained anomaly that might be about to rewrite our understanding of the cosmos. It’s all because the universe isn’t as monotonous as it should be. The cosmic microwave background, which is the radiation left over from the Big Bang, is not exactly…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

It’s Time to Win Lego Santa Yoda!

Who is going to win Lego Santa Yoda with the Santa Claw? WHO WILL IT BE? The person who grabs this special box with special green wrapping paper wins Lego Santa Yoda. Yup. We will send it to you. Happy Sunday! Oh, and we’ve had a Lego Santa Yoda photobooth set up all weekend! Here’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 11

And now, two mimic octopuses making sweet, sweet love

We love ourselves some mimic octopodes, and they certainly love each other. In fact, here are two Indonesian mimic octopodes engaged in the delicate art of making genetic knock-offs of themselves. Such choreography! This is some tentacle porn we have no compunction posting without the NSFW tag. [Via Deep Sea News]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 11

Netflix Wants All of Your Friends to Know Everything You’re Watching

There’s a law in place that requires a company to get your permission before it discloses videos you’ve seen. It sounds like an obscure, niche piece of legislation, but it’s suddenly super relevant—and Netflix wants to kill it. The New York Times reports Netflix is putting big support behind a bill that would turn the…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Dec 11

Taking Apart Nukes Is Probably a Stressful Job

I thought writing about gadgets was tough! Apparently I have nothing to worry about, and neither do you, unless you’re like Wesley Baptiste, who’s training to disarm old nuclear warheads for a living. Don’t drop that wrench. Part of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—a pact between us and Russia, acknowledging we no longer need…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

Why Do Three Google Execs Own Eight Private Jets?

How is the world’s top search engine going to put its software in every TV on earth? Not by flying commercial, like some sort of company for poor people! Let’s just buy a few spare private jets, just in case. Most reasonable people are content with one or two private jets, Larry Page, Sergey Brin,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

Babies understand grammar long before they learn how to speak

Perhaps the most complicated task that a baby faces is learning the language, a process that’s particularly intense between 18 months and two years old. But before that burst of learning, babies are picking up on crucial linguistic patterns. That’s the finding of Jill Lany, a psychologist at Notre Dame. She found that babies as…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

Cranky Senator Pissed at Fake ID App

Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania seems to agree with me—making a fake ID should be sketchy and laborious, not something you can do on your fancy smartphone! The questionable “Drivers License” app is not officially under fire. A fake ID used to be a trophy—an item of pride. You had to earn that case of…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

Jon Stewart Investigates the Iranian Drone Capture

While authorities debate the authenticity of Iran’s high school gym UAV display, The Daily Show has tackled the whole imbroglio on its own. Who ever thought talking about an RQ-170 Sentinel could be funny? Game of Drones! Yes! The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

Men Who Want To Be President Are Arguing Over a Moon Colony

Last night’s presidential debate didn’t bring much unseen material forth from the GOP contenders, but new rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney butted heads over one very pertinent issue: the moon. Should we mine it for moon minerals? Let’s argue. It started, the LA Times reports, when Romney was asked to explain what sets him…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle Dec 11

Ötzi the iceman died on a suspiciously full stomach

Ötzi is the name given to the 5,300-year-old body found in the mountains between Italy and Switzerland. Archaeologists had long thought Ötzi had been murdered in the Alps, perhaps after a long chase…but his stomach tells a different story. This natural mummy really does remain one of the most remarkable finds in archaeological history, and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

Artist’s mission is to depict all 55 of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

Artist Colleen Corradi Brannigan has taken it upon herself to illustrate all fifty-five of the fantastical cityscapes described in Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities. She’s not finished with this project, but she’s pretty darn close at this point. As you can see from her above depiction of the migratory, clone cities of Eutropia, she’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 11

Where in the solar system do these colorful meteorites come from?

Of course, much of the color in these images isn’t natural, but instead the result of analysis by a polarizing microscope. But thanks to such analysis we know exactly where these space rocks came from: the solar system’s weirdest asteroid. Generally speaking, when a meteorite hits Earth, we can only identify where it came from…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 11

On Grimm, some guy was killed with a rat bomb

Two long-lost Doctor Who episodes uncovered

Don’t Bring These Swiss Army Measuring Cups into Battle

Woman Kills Man With Amateur Penis Injection

io9 Roundup: December 11, 2011

Virginia Wants to Shoot Your Corpse into Space

Songbirds caught evolving into separate species

Why is the universe pointing in one direction?

It’s Time to Win Lego Santa Yoda!

And now, two mimic octopuses making sweet, sweet love

Netflix Wants All of Your Friends to Know Everything You’re Watching

Taking Apart Nukes Is Probably a Stressful Job

Why Do Three Google Execs Own Eight Private Jets?

Babies understand grammar long before they learn how to speak

Cranky Senator Pissed at Fake ID App

Jon Stewart Investigates the Iranian Drone Capture

Men Who Want To Be President Are Arguing Over a Moon Colony

Ötzi the iceman died on a suspiciously full stomach

Artist’s mission is to depict all 55 of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

Where in the solar system do these colorful meteorites come from?

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