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This Surreal Lake Full of Frozen Bubbles Is Actually On Planet Earth

It’s hard to believe that such an alien sight exists on our Pale Blue Dot. Photographed by Emmanuel Coupe, this photo shows frozen gas bubbles in a Canadian lake. In his own words: https://gizmodo.com/the-world-would-be-better-if-everyone-watched-this-vide-5513783 This image was taken in winter time in a arid area of the Canadian Rockies. Temperatures where below -30 degrees Celsius…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 28

The mysterious remains of one of the world’s first organized religions

Homo sapiens may have had religion since the dawn of our evolution, but building vast monuments to our beliefs is a relatively recent development. And by “recent,” I mean 11,600 years ago. Archaeologists believe they’ve found the oldest temple ever built, in southern Turkey. Called Göbekli Tepe, it is perhaps the world’s first example of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 28

Working in a Spam Factory Is Brutal

Most of us know that Spam is made from the most unsavory parts of a pig. And most of us know that factory workers are treated horribly by their overlords. But that doesn’t make Ted Genoways’ feature in Mother Jones, which investigates the health hazards of working in a Spam factory, any less unsettling. For…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 28

R.I.P. Martin H. Greenberg, super-prolific anthologist and collaborator of Isaac Asimov

If you love science fiction anthologies and treasure the breadth and depth of story collections about the fantastic, then you owe a great debt to Martin H. Greenberg, who died over the weekend. The longtime political science professor at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay was involved with an estimated 2,500 anthologies, and his collaborators included Isaac…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28

Watch 11,000 Flying Lights Taking Over a Midsummer Night

Every summer solstice, all those European pagans celebrate their Midsummer Festivals. They are often beautiful celebrations. From Austria to Russia, it’s an occasion for joy and celebration. In Sweden, beautiful girls dance and sing dressed in fairy clothes, their blonde hair braided in beautiful patterns. In Spain, people burn old stuff in beaches and fields,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 28

$107,000 Worth of Cocaine Found Hidden Inside Shoe Soles

When airport officials were examining leftover abandoned luggage (not really sure why they do this), they found suspicious looking sneakers that were heavier than normal. Turns out the shoe soles were hiding 5 pounds of cocaine. Them drug mules are really resourceful when it comes to hiding their goods. I guess I would too with…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 28

The first advertising campaign aimed at monkeys — for science!

A group of brown capuchin monkeys will be the lucky targets of the world’s first non-human targeted advertising campaign. Their responses will provide evidence as to whether humans are the only sickeningly suggestible primates in the world. It’s been shown that the division between humans and animals is not as sharp as previously thought. Monkeys…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 28

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

Given the HTC Evo 3D actually hurt our poor reviewer Sam’s eyes, do you really want to put your own eyeballs through similar pain? Would you actually pay for that privilege? If so, the TOYin3D should be added to your sadist-wishlist. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-3d-oh-my-god-make-it-stop-hurting-5812185 It sounds simple enough to use, just by slipping your non-3D phone into…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

Fasting Before a Run Probably Won’t Help You Lose Weight

There are all sorts of tech-inclined ways to attempt a workout. Some look pretty scary. But basic common sense still says you should take care of yourself. And even though some studies say different, having a snack before your run couldn’t hurt. https://gizmodo.com/this-exercise-office-chair-looks-like-torture-5706160 A recent study published in Strength and Conditioning Journal showed that working…

Health Kwame Opam Jun 28

Jeff Bridges will bring The Giver to the big screen

The Dude has nabbed the rights to the influential novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Bridges hopes to play the title role — the one person chosen to feel for the whole of a future community. Variety is reporting that Bridges is ready to produce and star in this movie adaptation of the book. He’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 28

PC Mag Says Verizon 4G Punches Other Carriers in Collective Stomach

After a nationwide mobile bandwidth test, PC Mag has some pretty plain results: Verizon’s LTE network socks the cud out of other carriers, often beating them by double across the board. Unless you live in a rural area. Stacking Verizon up against AT&T, Cricket, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, and Sprint’s 3G/4G networks, the former came out strongly…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 28

Netflix for Theaters: MoviePass Lets You Watch Unlimited Movies in Theaters

How’s this sound: A movie subscription that lets you watch unlimited movies in theaters for 50 bucks a month. It’s like Netflix but for the real, real life. Would that be something you’re interested in? Called MoviePass, it’s a service that’ll let users use a smartphone app to handle all their movie bookings. For 50…

Movies Casey Chan Jun 28

What will Anne Hathaway’s costume look like in The Dark Knight Rises?

Joe Johnston explains how they turned Chris Evans into a 90-pound weakling for Captain America, while Kevin Feige explains the movie’s earnest tone. Guillermo del Toro discusses the half-dozen projects he’s working on, including what’s next for Mountains of Madness. Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Captain America. The Dark Knight Rises Anne…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 28

Fukushima Plant Leaks 15 Tons of Radioactive Water

TEPCO’s been struggling to keep Fukushima’s scorching reactors cool. They’ve also been struggling to deal with the massive volume of (now radioactive) coolant water. It’s not going so well—tons of it are spilling into the ground, Reuters reports. The leak’s a consequence of TEPCO’s botched attempts to purify contaminated water held in giant storage containers—an…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 28

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Straight from the horse’s mouth, if you can pardon the expression Mr Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, Andy Rubin. Tweeting “there are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” Rubin’s team must be happy with that rising figure. [@arubin]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

Malls Should Place Wedding Vending Machines Next to the Divorce Machines Just to be Safe

If you happen to walk past the AutoWed and alert the motion sensors, be warned—once your partner hears the twinkling bells of the wedding vending machine, she might just insist on getting married on the spot. Thankfully it’s just a concept—for now!—from the British designers at Concept Shed. They propose that the 8ft-tall pink machine…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

R2-D2 Whistles the Saddest Song When You Operate On Him

You can just imagine the whistles and bleeps R2-D2 would make as you accidentally touch the sides of his Hasbro Operation game body. Or if you cough up $27 from September, you don’t even have to imagine. [Toywiz via ChipChick via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

Sony’s Vaio Z Laptop Connects a Dock Accessory By Thunderbolt

This slim, MacBook Air-like laptop may only be destined for Europe, but it has a clever trick up its sleeve. Cramming its Blu-ray drive inside the power media dock, the two devices are linked to one another by high-speed Thunderbolt. Sony isn’t calling it Thunderbolt though, choosing to call it Intel’s “Light Peak” codename instead.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

Rare Snap of a 19th Century Killer Becomes Fourth Priciest Photo Ever

Of course, it’s not just any old 19th century killer, pictured in this ferrotype—it’s the one and only Billy the Kid, the wild west outlaw who killed between four and 21 men. Selling for $2.3 million in an auction on the weekend, it became the fourth most expensive photo to ever be sold. Billy the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

So Nokia’s first WP7 phone won’t have any hard buttons under the screen. Fair enough; we knew Microsoft was granting Nokia a few special powers on the design front. But what if buttons aren’t needed…on any WP7 Mango phones? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-nokias-first-windows-phone-5814774 Perpetually in-the-know Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin tweeted that “according to design guideline there no need…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 28

This Surreal Lake Full of Frozen Bubbles Is Actually On Planet Earth

The mysterious remains of one of the world’s first organized religions

Working in a Spam Factory Is Brutal

R.I.P. Martin H. Greenberg, super-prolific anthologist and collaborator of Isaac Asimov

Watch 11,000 Flying Lights Taking Over a Midsummer Night

$107,000 Worth of Cocaine Found Hidden Inside Shoe Soles

The first advertising campaign aimed at monkeys — for science!

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

Fasting Before a Run Probably Won’t Help You Lose Weight

Jeff Bridges will bring The Giver to the big screen

PC Mag Says Verizon 4G Punches Other Carriers in Collective Stomach

Netflix for Theaters: MoviePass Lets You Watch Unlimited Movies in Theaters

What will Anne Hathaway’s costume look like in The Dark Knight Rises?

Fukushima Plant Leaks 15 Tons of Radioactive Water

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Malls Should Place Wedding Vending Machines Next to the Divorce Machines Just to be Safe

R2-D2 Whistles the Saddest Song When You Operate On Him

Sony’s Vaio Z Laptop Connects a Dock Accessory By Thunderbolt

Rare Snap of a 19th Century Killer Becomes Fourth Priciest Photo Ever

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

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