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A Genetic Mutation Is Responsible for Mysterious Deaths in the Amish Community, Researchers Say

In a new paper this week, doctors at the Mayo Clinic say they’ve uncovered the cause of a mysterious heart condition that had suddenly killed over a dozen young, healthy members of a tight-knit Amish community. The culprit? A previously undiscovered genetic mutation that runs in families. Study author Michael Ackerman, a cardiologist and professor…

Health Ed Cara

Is Grimes Pregnant and Should We Blog It? (NSFW)

This post is not safe for work. Okay, we know the answer to one question. Grimes, a popular musician who has been dating Elon Musk for what seems like a lifetime, posted the following to her Instagram today: (Instagram presumably removed the post for violating its nudity policy, here’s an archived link and some tweets.)…

Tech News Rhett Jones

8 Oceanic Creature Features That Delight in Underwater Perils

Humans who find themselves living beneath the ocean in sci-fi movies might as well be living in space. Many of the dangers are the same, be they natural (oxygen scarcity, claustrophobic proximity to asshole co-workers) or unnatural (monsters!). Needless to say, it’s a setting that has inspired a lot of filmmakers. This Friday brings a…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

We Finally Know Why This 2,600-Year-Old Human Brain Is So Freakishly Well-Preserved

An Iron Age human skull found in 2008 contained an unprecedented amount of preserved brain material, a discovery that has confounded scientists for over a decade. New research finally explains why this brain resisted decay for thousands of years. The skull containing the Heslington brain, as it’s called, was found in a soggy mud pit…

Human History George Dvorsky

ABC Wants to Make More Marvel TV Shows and Plans on Talking to Kevin Feige About It

With ABC’s Agents of SHIELD on the way out, Disney’s biggest TV network will soon be without a marquee superhero show. The network hopes to change that soon though and knows just the man to speak to about it. “We love our partners at Marvel and we’re sad to see [Agents of SHIELD] go, it’s…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

The RetroN Jr. Lets You Play All Your Tiny Game Boy Games on Your Giant HDTV

Now that ThinkGeek is no more, Hyperkin will be carrying the “April Fool’s Day prank turned real” torch and turning the RetroN Jr.—a gag product it originally introduced on April 1, 2017—into a legitimate way to enjoy classic Nintendo Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance titles on a big screen TV. The…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dracula Series, The Brides, Could Be Headed to ABC

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the man behind Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, looks to be moving from comic books to classic literature. ABC has ordered a pilot for The Brides, a supernatural drama centered around Dracula’s brides that’s been in the works for years. As reported by Deadline, ABC landed the pilot order for The Brides,…

io9 Beth Elderkin

WTF Is an Artificial Human and Where Did They Come From?

Neon is the name of the company and also the name of its only product—if you can call it that. I’m told a Neon is a living entity, but it doesn’t have a physical body. I’m told a Neon is computationally created, but it’s not an AI assistant. So what the fuck is Neon and…

Artificial Intelligence Sam Rutherford

The Rise of Skywalker‘s LGBTQ Moment Is Held Back By the Film’s Bland Heteronormativity

Star Wars finally did it. It may have taken over four decades—and at least four of those years promising it—but The Rise of Skywalker managed to depict queer characters in the galaxy far, far away on the big screen. It was…barely even a Baby Yoda step (better than Disney’s other representation attempt of 2019 in Avengers:…

Movies James Whitbrook

Sprint Sacrifices Virgin

Ahead of an official ruling on the proposed megamerger between T-Mobile and Sprint, all Virgin Mobile USA users will be moved over to Boost Mobile beginning next month. RIP VMU. A spokesperson for Sprint confirmed the news and told Gizmodo that it began notifying customers about the change earlier this week. In a statement, the…

Tech News Catie Keck

Patrick Stewart Didn’t Want Picard to Be a Next Generation Sequel in a Post-Brexit, Post-Trump World

Decades after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Jean-Luc Picard’s self-titled Star Trek spinoff series presents the former Enterprise captain as a man worn down by tragedy and darkness. It’s a tragedy that the man behind him, Sir Patrick Stewart, fought to include—if only for his own conviction about the state of our current world.…

io9 James Whitbrook

The US Oil and Gas Industry’s 5-Year Plan Is a Climate and Health Nightmare

Thanks to the coal industry’s rapid decline, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions likely dropped slightly last year. But don’t get too used to that trend, because the oil and gas industry is poised to more than offset that reduction. By 2025, oil and gas companies have plans to expand enough to release as much new greenhouse…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Young Frankenstein Will Be Puttin’ on the Ritz for a Live TV Musical Special

After the success of Grease, Hairspray, Rent, The Little Mermaid, and others, you could say the live TV musical has come back from the dead. Now, for its next trick, it’ll do exactly that. ABC announced Wednesday that it’s teaming with comedy legend Mel Brooks to bring Young Frankenstein back to life. The iconic 1974…

io9 Germain Lussier

TikTok Announces End to ‘Delinquent’ Shenanigans as Serious Vulnerabilities Are Exposed

After several frenzied months of investigation over who TikTok is and what it wants with our teens, TikTok has posted new community guidelines that reflect the platform’s “driving philosophy” towards the end of “greater transparency.” That assurance probably won’t satisfy lawmakers who’ve prompted two national security probes into the app’s potential use as a propaganda…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Quibi Is Either a Clever Gimmick or the Future of Entertainment

Quibi is either going to be brilliant and influential to how we consume media, or we’re going to watch Hollywood and Silicon Valley shit the bed in a way that just not common in 2020. The new streaming service, dreamed up by Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder and CEO of Dreamworks and one of the architects behind…

Internet Alex Cranz

New Species of Praying Mantis Impales Its Prey on Barbed Spikes

Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But one newly described species doesn’t just hold its prey in a prickly embrace: It impales it, using long, barbed tines to expertly polish off the squirming morsel like a chunk of bread skewered on a fondue fork. The…

Biology Jake Buehler

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Is the Latest Animated Marvel You Absolutely Should Watch

The problem with having so much great television is there are good, deserving shows that tend to slip under the radar. Given how little has been said about Dreamworks’ latest Netflix series, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, it’s possible this one might come and go without most people noticing. But we’re declaring it a…

Television Beth Elderkin

An Estimated 1.25 Billion Animals Have Perished in Australia’s Bushfires

Australia’s bushfires have no shortage of horror stats. The blazes have burned 26.4 million acres. The smoke has traveled more than 7,000 miles. They were sparked following Australia’s hottest year ever recorded. But there’s perhaps nothing more shocking than the number of animals afflicted by the flames. A staggering 1.25 billion animals may have perished…

Conservation Brian Kahn

One of The Rise of Skywalker‘s Most Important Leia Scenes Hides a Beautiful Easter Egg

Regardless of how you feel about The Rise of Skywalker, its integration of the dearly-missed Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa can leave even the most taciturn of Star Wars fans a little misty-eyed. But one of its most lovely scenes with Leia carries a touching behind-the-scenes Easter Egg not just for fans, but for her…

Movies James Whitbrook

Wildfires Have Absolutely Ravaged Australia’s Cherished Kangaroo Island

Approximately one-third of Australia’s Kangaroo Island has been torched by recent wildfires, as new satellite photos reveal. Given the island’s ecological importance, it’s a tragedy for the ages. Known as Australia’s “Galapagos Island,” Kangaroo Island is located south of South Australia, around 112 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of Adelaide. It’s Australia’s third largest island after…

Earth Science George Dvorsky

A Genetic Mutation Is Responsible for Mysterious Deaths in the Amish Community, Researchers Say

Is Grimes Pregnant and Should We Blog It? (NSFW)

8 Oceanic Creature Features That Delight in Underwater Perils

We Finally Know Why This 2,600-Year-Old Human Brain Is So Freakishly Well-Preserved

ABC Wants to Make More Marvel TV Shows and Plans on Talking to Kevin Feige About It

The RetroN Jr. Lets You Play All Your Tiny Game Boy Games on Your Giant HDTV

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dracula Series, The Brides, Could Be Headed to ABC

WTF Is an Artificial Human and Where Did They Come From?

The Rise of Skywalker‘s LGBTQ Moment Is Held Back By the Film’s Bland Heteronormativity

Sprint Sacrifices Virgin

Patrick Stewart Didn’t Want Picard to Be a Next Generation Sequel in a Post-Brexit, Post-Trump World

The US Oil and Gas Industry’s 5-Year Plan Is a Climate and Health Nightmare

Young Frankenstein Will Be Puttin’ on the Ritz for a Live TV Musical Special

TikTok Announces End to ‘Delinquent’ Shenanigans as Serious Vulnerabilities Are Exposed

Quibi Is Either a Clever Gimmick or the Future of Entertainment

New Species of Praying Mantis Impales Its Prey on Barbed Spikes

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Is the Latest Animated Marvel You Absolutely Should Watch

An Estimated 1.25 Billion Animals Have Perished in Australia’s Bushfires

One of The Rise of Skywalker‘s Most Important Leia Scenes Hides a Beautiful Easter Egg

Wildfires Have Absolutely Ravaged Australia’s Cherished Kangaroo Island

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