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The City, Airborne

Architizer is a blog dedicated to the past, present and future of architectural design. They scour the internet finding the best/coolest/weirdest structures people crawl around in. Their latest find takes inspiration from the inimitable Buckminster Fuller. The reality of airborne environments, suspended loftily above, amid clouds, has always inhabited our dreams but always exceeded the…

Tech News Samuel Medina - Architizer Oct 20

Picture of the Day: October 20, 2011

Lonesome Monkey | A young golden snub-nosed monkey, high up in China’s Qinling Mountains, keeping its extremities as warm as possible, while its mother isn’t around. This is just one of the year’s best wildlife photos. https://gizmodo.com/the-years-best-wildlife-photos-will-break-your-heart-5851913 Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 20

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt : D City Rock

What, you don’t like anime? Not even when it pays homage to the most influential acts in rock-n-roll history? PSG is an action-comedy that follows the adventures of the Anarchy sisters, a pair of fallen angels sent to Earth to exterminate a cadre of ghost that prey on human greed. Don’t think this anime is…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 20

Climate Change Skeptics Eat Crow

Global warming skeptics suspected climate change scientists were hiding data. So the skeptics paid for a new study to find the real truth. The results are in! And they’re identical to previous results: Humans are heating up the earth. University of California physics professor Richard Muller, one of the most vocal skeptics, gathered a team…

Climate Change Kristen Philipkoski Oct 20

Steve Jobs Was Ready For “Thermonuclear War” With Google

Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs (titled simply Steve Jobs) comes out next week, but the Associated Press was able to buy a copy early and proceeds to drop some bombs, just like Jobs himself. According to AP descriptions of the book, Jobs was apparently so angry with Google over its Android operating system…

Tech News Mat Honan Oct 20

Mountain beavers evolved thicker teeth to eat volcanoes

The mountain beaver species of western North America possess some seriously weird teeth. Their teeth are thick and deep, providing the extra toughness necessary to eat hard, gritty plants. So why do they spend all their time eating soft plants? While the mountain beaver sounds like it’s probably a beaver of some sort – one…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 20

Bartering Kindles, Biking Desks, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. After the Kickstand Desk Will Be the Kegstand Desk Because your work day doesn’t involve enough monotony…

Commerce Brian Barrett Oct 20

Number of Facebook friends linked to size of certain brain areas

In a paper doubtless to be horribly misconstrued by much of the media (sample headline: Facebook linked to big brains), a new research paper has found a link between the size of your Facebook friend network, and the density of certain areas of the brain. What researchers have found is that a larger number of…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 20

American Horror Story and the Evil Abortionist

Last night, we learned so many things on American Horror Story. So many, in fact, that I’m worried we may have run out of things to discover inside this overstuffed “murder house.” But for now lets just celebrate one quality Constance flashback, complete with a de-aged Jessica Lange. American Horror Story started off like it…

Television Meredith Woerner Oct 20

How The New Mars Rover’s Power Supply Works (This Sucker’s Nuclear!)

There’s a reason Curiosity’s fancy new Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator isn’t going to be installed until just days before its launch. It’s radioactive, powered by a special form of plutonium dioxide that won’t be rendered useless by the red planet’s dust issues. In this video, Ashwin Vasavada, the Deputy Project Scientist for NASA’s Mars Science…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski Oct 20

Flaming Poop Sets Neighborhood Ablaze After Failed Poo-to-Gold Alchemy Experiment

Amateur science is a wonderful thing, but it’s got to be kept in check, people. Building your own space balloon or cataloging the local wildlife? Great! Taking a dump in your basement and trying to turn it into gold by heating it until it catches fire? Um. A man in Northern Ireland was arrested after…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 20

Scientists unlock the genetic basis for weed’s high

Not all weed is created equal. Some members of the Cannabis genus pump out tetrahydrocannabinol (aka THC, the plant’s main psychoactive chemical) like nobody’s business, while others produce very little of the mind-altering molecule. But the genetic basis for why some plants excel at getting you high while others are best suited for, say, their…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 20

A gorgeous airship model kit from the sustainable future

We’ve always loved Ian McQue’s incredible jalopy ship designs, and now Industria Mechanika is selling a super limited-edition version of this Remora ship as a model. If you love putting together models and painting them, this beauty could be your next project. Supplies are limited on these $150 kits, so zip over to Industria Mechanika…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 20

Daily Desired: Pantone Ornaments Will Make You Wish It Was Christmas All Year

As the paragon of pretty paint colors Pantone should really be celebrated all year. Who cares if it’s not remotely Christmas yet? These Pantone bulbs are so cool you should go poach a pine tree from the forest right now. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about all of the products we’d like to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 20

Meet the Gun in the Sky that Ended Qaddafi

It might have been a pack of brave Libyans who captured Qaddafi on the ground today, but his demise was started by a single French jet. Details are sparse, but a Mirage 2000 stopped Qaddafi’s getaway in its tracks. Bloomberg reports that Qaddafi was looking to get the hell out of Sirte—his last remaining, tenuous…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 20

Group sex among the giant cuttlefish

In this excerpt from the BBC/Discovery documentary Life, we learn about a mating strategy that’s fairly common in the animal world. A female cuttlefish is courted by two males. One is large and dominant, fighting off other males in order to fertilize the female’s eggs. The other is what’s known rather judgmentally among zoologists as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 20

The year’s best wildlife photos will break your heart

This monkey is insanely cute and lovable — and endangered. This is a young golden snub-nosed monkey, high up in China’s Qinling Mountains, keeping its extremities as warm as possible, while its mother isn’t around. Poor lonely monkey. But that’s not the most distressing of the year’s best wildlife photos, from the Veolia Environnement Wildlife…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 20

If There’s Any Possible Way to Improve Upon the Machete, This Is It

I don’t have any particular affinity towards blade wielding of any kind (I generally just gnaw on whole slabs of steak), but when I look at Gerber’s Gator Machete Pro, I have a strong desire to slice something in half. Equipped with the ability to function as a machete, ax or knife, the Gator Machete…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 20

Buffy‘s Clare Kramer is a sexy “spree killer” in the latest movie from the director of Brainsmasher and Cyborg!

Check out the new trailer for Albert Pyun’s latest exploitation film, Road to Hell. When a serial killer meets two hot female “spree killers” in a weird greenscreened landscape that’s somewhere between Hell and Purgatory, sparks are sure to fly. Sparks, in this case, meaning Range Rover bondage and knifeplay. And kissing. But wait —…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Oct 20

Iris for Android: Kind of Like Siri, But for Android

Have an Android phone? Jealous of Siri? Probably not. But if you are! There’s a new application called Iris (Siri backwards, heh) that kind of, sort of emulates what Siri does. You tap a mic, you talk and Iris responds to you. What’s it do? Let’s be honest here, Android has always had an emphasis…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 20

The City, Airborne

Picture of the Day: October 20, 2011

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt : D City Rock

Climate Change Skeptics Eat Crow

Steve Jobs Was Ready For “Thermonuclear War” With Google

Mountain beavers evolved thicker teeth to eat volcanoes

Bartering Kindles, Biking Desks, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Number of Facebook friends linked to size of certain brain areas

American Horror Story and the Evil Abortionist

How The New Mars Rover’s Power Supply Works (This Sucker’s Nuclear!)

Flaming Poop Sets Neighborhood Ablaze After Failed Poo-to-Gold Alchemy Experiment

Scientists unlock the genetic basis for weed’s high

A gorgeous airship model kit from the sustainable future

Daily Desired: Pantone Ornaments Will Make You Wish It Was Christmas All Year

Meet the Gun in the Sky that Ended Qaddafi

Group sex among the giant cuttlefish

The year’s best wildlife photos will break your heart

If There’s Any Possible Way to Improve Upon the Machete, This Is It

Buffy‘s Clare Kramer is a sexy “spree killer” in the latest movie from the director of Brainsmasher and Cyborg!

Iris for Android: Kind of Like Siri, But for Android

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