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Marmosets can meditate (and are immune to the placebo effect)

Scientists have trained monkeys to meditate with marshmallows. This is a gift from both the comedy and the alliteration gods, but it’s also a valuable medical technique. Every day monkeys show us new abilities and talents. Sometimes it’s stockpiling rocks to make arsenals, (as demonstrated by a macaque in captivity). Recently, it has been becoming…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 1

Professor Xavier’s Guide To Puberty For Mutants

We know that Xavier’s school is a horrendous place to get an education, and if this guide by Caldwell Tanner and Owen Parsons of College Humor is any indicator, it’s like all of your middle-school health class nightmares times ten-thousand. Witness Charles Xavier’s The “What’s Happening To My Body?” Book For Mutants. https://gizmodo.com/10-reasons-why-xaviers-school-for-gifted-youngsters-wou-5837961 Hat tip…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

With Kinect, Robots Are One Step Closer to Copying Everything About You

Asimo, the Honda humanoid, one of the world’s most loved robots, was showing off its dance moves this week at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco. The robot was here to demonstrate some new tricks it’s been learning from scientists at the Honda Research Institute in Mountain View,…

Tech News Erico Guizzo - IEEE Spectrum Oct 1

Darpa underwear will “harvest” soldiers’ energy, give them killer abs

Soldiers: Your underwear of the future will do more than prevent crotch rot. It’ll protect you from injuries, monitor your vitals, and even “harvest” your energy. That is, if a new project from Darpa’s Defense Sciences Office works out as planned. That’s an illustration, to the right, of what Darpa thinks its “Warrior Web” onesie…

io9 Mark Riffee - Danger Room Oct 1

Spotify Finally Lets You Create Radio Stations

European users have enjoyed this feature for ages now, but US Spotify fans can now—finally—create their own radio stations with the popular application. It basically lets you mix different genres together to create a custom mix. While it’s not anywhere as robust as, say, Pandora, coupled with Artist Radio it’s definitely something. [Billboard]

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

The Battle of Isengard from Lord of the Rings, depicted in 22,000 LEGO bricks

This LEGO recreation of the battle of the Ents from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is seven feet tall, has an eight-foot-diameter, contains 22,000 plastic bricks, and weighs 145 pounds. This sculpture consists of 23 treefolk, over 100 orcs, and one Saruman. Wouldn’t you like to see it? This chaos at the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Anthropomorphic taxidermy: the art of making dead critters have fun

The latest installment of the eccentric Midnight Archive web series focuses on Sue Jeiven, an anthropomorphic taxidermist who creates tableaus of dead animals having a jaunty, decidedly human time, à la famed British taxidermist Walter Potter. Watch how one practices the near dead art of making dead kittens whimsical. https://gizmodo.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-pet-mummifier-5838944 https://gizmodo.com/if-beatrix-potter-ran-hell-it-would-look-like-this-tax-5837290

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

This Is How Geniuses Live Forever

It stands to reason that anyone with an online presence will enjoy some level of immortality long after their gone. But for the old-school? You had statues and you had nouns. And language is much cooler than sculpted stone. [ Vimeo via Geekosystem]

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

The time travel flick Retroactive is like Groundhog Day with a crazy Elvis impersonator

In Louis Morneau’s 1997 time travel road thriller, Retroactive, Frank Whaley plays Brian, a physicist studying time travel. And James Belushi portrays the character Frank, a computer chip thief…and sociopathic Elvis impersonator. On their way to deliver their stolen goods, Frank and his wife Rayanne (Shannon Whirry) pick up psychiatrist Karen (Kylie Travis) broken down…

Movies Jason Shankel Oct 1

33-foot-long dead whale found beached in English field

Here’s another weird tale for the Annals of Dead Marine Life Found In Unusual Places. A 33-foot-long dead whale was recently discovered in a marsh half a mile inland near the English village of Skeffling. Biologists suspect that this is a female Sei whale that became beached after being caught in a particularly high autumn…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Did the X-ray specs from vintage comic book ads really work? Goodness, no

For his upcoming book Mail-Order Mysteries, author Kirk Demarais assessed dozens of craptacular items you could purchase from the sensationalist comic book ads of yore. Here’s his video investigation — the ventriloquist dummy is particularly creepy. It’s more disappointing than that soothsaying robotic brain. https://gizmodo.com/criminally-misleading-comic-book-ad-shilled-a-precognit-5689738

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Bing Now Has Complete Airport Maps

I’ve gotten lost at JFK Airport more times than I care to admit. But Bing Maps now offers full maps of airports so you make it to your flight without getting turned around. They only have 43 US airports listed right now, but that number is sure to grow. It just better hit phones soon.…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Meet AlphaDog, the terrifying robot horse the military’s building

Remember Boston Dynamics’ robotic pack mule Big Dog? The researchers have revealed the next generation of their mechanical quadruped, Alphadog. This remote-controlled equine machine is designed to carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile treks over uneven terrain. The primary benefit of Alphadog is that it’s way quieter than the stentorian Big Dog, which sounded…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

90 Percent of Pirates Get Dismissed from Massive Hurt Locker Lawsuit

The biggest P2P lawsuit ever just got cut down to size. Voltage Pictures, the people behind The Hurt Locker has voluntarily dismissed 90% of the 24,583 filesharers it sued this year, in what could be a big victory for either side. The whole rigamarole started last year, when The Hurt Locker’s producers first decided to…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Watershed moments in sexy magazine centerfold research

In the last decade or so, researchers investigating human preferences for male and female body shapes have turned to a previously under-explored academic resource – in the form of double-page gatefolded magazine spreads. Specifically, the centerfolds of so-called ‘top-shelf’ publications. For example, researchers at the School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, North York,…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research Oct 1

Outfoxed is a dark fable about a fox in love with a washwoman

In the short webcomic Outfoxed, a laundress saves a talking fox from a foxhunt. But then the fox decides that he should become a man and fall in love with the laundress – and she must love him back. Dylan Meconis delivers this folktale-inspired story of foxes and men. A laundress hauling her customer’s clothes…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 1

Our Favorite Phones, TVs, Cameras, Gadgets and More

Let’s be frank: September was a dog of a month this year. The last month before the holiday season gets going has exactly one thing going for it—nice weather. And at least in the seat of House Gizmodo, it was equal parts sticky and submerged. Not cool, September. Luckily, some great gadgets also came out…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Oct 1

The World’s Highest Webcam Is Shooting Mt. Everest As We Speak

Hoping to gain insight into climate change, international researchers, with the help of surveillance experts Mobotix, have installed a solar-powered webcam in the Nepalese Himalayas to capture images of the top of Mount Everest. That’s right. Mountains are shooting movies now. The webcam is powered by solar cells and is situated on the Kala Patthar…

Tech News Kwame Opam Oct 1

Paris Rolls Out a Fleet of Rentable Electric Runabouts

While Paris isn’t nearly as god-awful as Mexico City in terms of traffic, it’s by no means a commuter’s Shangri-La. So, Parisian officials are testing a new fleet of electric four-seaters to ease its congestion woes. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-horrific-traffic-in-the-entire-world-5838333 The concept of shared-vehicle rentals isn’t exactly new and is already establishing itself here in the US (heck,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 1

Kids Will Trade a Pint of Blood for Just About Anything These Days

How do you convince a bunch of otherwise disinterested, likely hung over, easily distracted, and—is that Marijuana I smell?—college students to give up a pint of bodily fluid to the Red Cross? Short answer: free stuff. What? You were expecting a passionate plea to a higher cause? Some righteous ode to serving the greater good?…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 1

Marmosets can meditate (and are immune to the placebo effect)

Professor Xavier’s Guide To Puberty For Mutants

With Kinect, Robots Are One Step Closer to Copying Everything About You

Darpa underwear will “harvest” soldiers’ energy, give them killer abs

Spotify Finally Lets You Create Radio Stations

The Battle of Isengard from Lord of the Rings, depicted in 22,000 LEGO bricks

Anthropomorphic taxidermy: the art of making dead critters have fun

This Is How Geniuses Live Forever

The time travel flick Retroactive is like Groundhog Day with a crazy Elvis impersonator

33-foot-long dead whale found beached in English field

Did the X-ray specs from vintage comic book ads really work? Goodness, no

Bing Now Has Complete Airport Maps

Meet AlphaDog, the terrifying robot horse the military’s building

90 Percent of Pirates Get Dismissed from Massive Hurt Locker Lawsuit

Watershed moments in sexy magazine centerfold research

Outfoxed is a dark fable about a fox in love with a washwoman

Our Favorite Phones, TVs, Cameras, Gadgets and More

The World’s Highest Webcam Is Shooting Mt. Everest As We Speak

Paris Rolls Out a Fleet of Rentable Electric Runabouts

Kids Will Trade a Pint of Blood for Just About Anything These Days

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