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Sea Turtle Swimsuits are the Cutest Scientific Research Solution

Are you ready for sea turtle swimsuit diapers? Okay! You’ve probably never thought about it, but collecting sea turtle poop in brisk ocean currents is ridiculously hard. Scientists, clever nutcases that they are, came up with a runway-worthy solution, and it’s making us die of cute over here. Owen Coffee, a biology PhD student at…

How to Animate GIFs in Your Google Search Results

Are you the type of person who Googles for GIFs? Then you’re going to love this new Chrome Extension. Built by Gihub user peeinears, the “Google GIFs Chrome Extension” is pretty muchexactly what it sounds like. The invisible little application will animate the GIFs in your search results. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of…

The Blood Moon Was Recorded Back in 19th Century Thailand

This past Monday, people from around the world aimed their cameras upwards in hopes of catching a glimpse of the “blood moon” lunar eclipse. But as this 19th century manuscript shows, it’s a phenomenon that’s been chronicled long before the advent of camera phones and telescopic lenses. This Thai manuscript dates back to the time…

A Gravedigger Creates a Most Unusual Playground For His Son in This Sweetly Ghoulish Short

From students at Paris’ Isart Digital school comes Tombs & Rides, a fanciful short about a gruff gravedigger who does his very best to keep his young son amused with a makeshift, charmingly macabre carnival. But all is not what it seems under the moonlight… [Via Geek Art Gallery]

Video: The foot fetish of Quentin Tarantino movies

Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish. We know this, already. He also loves to show it off in his movies. We can now see this in this wonderful edit by Pablo Fernandez Eyre that stitched together scenes that involve feet in all his movies. It’s really, really great and uncomfortable and fun at the same…

And the Marvel News keeps on coming: Taika Waititi is allegedly in talks to direct Thor: Ragnarok. As noted byThe Hollywood Reporter, the director, best known for directing What We Do In The Shadows, came from a list of finalists from Marvel including Ruben Fleischer, Rob Letterman and Rawson Marshall Thurber.

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Be careful out there this this weekend, folks. There’s a storm a comin’. My favorite meme of the week has been Joaquin Phoenix’s face plastered across weather maps, as well as other mashups of the actor with the hurricane that shares his name. (via fb) Where I am it’s looking like the storm is going…

The Kingkiller Chronicle Is Getting The Massive Multimedia Adaptation It Deserves

Fans of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle are about to have the best day ever. After several months of negotiations and competition between studios, the popular fantasy series is about to get a mega multimedia rollout. The Hollywood Reporter reveals Lionsgate has won the rights to the series and has plans to make it into…

Cutting down a tree to make a stool in the woods is beautifully peaceful

Here’s a good way to spend a day if you need to get away from it all: go to woods, chop down a tree, and then use the wood to make a stool. Not only have you successfully made something with your hands but you can now sit down and rest because you’re gonna be…

More US Cities Are Pledging to End Traffic Deaths. When Will They Do The Same For Guns?

Earlier this year, a new study revealed some shocking statistics: For nearly half of the country, gun deaths have outpaced the number of traffic deaths. In much of the US, you are now more likely to be killed by a gun than a car. In the wake of the mass shootings which have become almost…

It’s Friday and There’s a Gif Party, So Flush Your Cares Away

That’s right, kids. The gif party is back, and it’s ready to close out the week in style with the New Best Gif Ever, courtesy of last week’s Steven Universe! So give us the news, tell us your hopes and fears, your highs and lows, whatever you want—just in gif form. Or maybe I really…

4.6 Million People Hacked in Data Theft from Retail Brokerage Firm Scottrade 

St. Louis-based retail brokerage firm Scottrade has been hacked. The social security numbers, email addresses, street addresses, and other sensitive information of at least 4.6 million customers was accessed. The data was stolen between late 2013 and early 2014. Scottridge is now offering a year of free credit monitoring for people affected. If that sounds…

Orange Wine Looks Like Pee But Tastes Like Magic

“What is it?” the innocent wine drinker asks as she stares at a glass of golden grape nectar. It smells like a light red wine, but it looks like a dark white wine. It tastes like nothing you’ve had before. It is orange wine, and it is delicious. The more you learn about orange wine,…

A Damage Control TV Series May Be Headed To The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marvel’s live-action universe may be getting a little bigger. Variety is reporting that ABC is planning to make a comedy show set in the Marvel universe—and it’s going to be based on the oddball shenanigans of Damage Control, a comic about the people who have to clean up after superheroes have wrecked the place. Damage…

Why Don’t Libraries Have Dungeons & Dragons Gamebooks?

Dungeons & Dragons and libraries should be a natural fit. Both attract people who love books, storytelling, and lore. Early D&D gamebooks even point readers towards their local libraries for research, and many libraries host comic book-themed events or have D&D clubs. This is why I was so surprised to learn how rare it is…

Here’s Our First Glimpse of the Rosetta Comet’s Dark Side

The Rosetta spacecraft has taken hundreds of stunning photographs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko over the past year, but a portion of the comet was obscured due to its odd seasonal shifts. Now, thanks to a special camera aboard Rosetta, scientists have created a sketch of its elusive dark side. Comet 67P/C-G’s double-lobed shape and rotational axis…

Biologists Expose Their Love of Weird Animal Sex in Twitter #HumpOff

A couple of months ago, the Twitter hashtag #JunkOff got biologists to post photos that displayed the extravagant weirdness of plant and animal genitalia. Yesterday, evolutionary geneticist Tom Houslay dared them to write about what animals actually do with their junk. And if there’s one thing I know from years of Biology department picnics, it’s…

io9 Newsstand is Excited To Go Paragliding on the Moon

This week’s story is about pushing the limits of endurance, about finding one’s fearlessness once more, about staying true to one’s self and one’s beliefs—even when a night lasts for months, and the sun’s light provides no warmth or meaning. The 1st Annual Lunar Biathalon by Rachael K. Jones | Crossed Genres The First Video…

That T-Junction in Your Sewer Line Is a Trap 

Your sewers have T-junctions—places were two pipes come together and form a “T” shape. So do your arteries. A new study has found that these junctions can trap tiny particles of matter, blocking normal healthy flow. Here’s a video of the supposedly busy intersection of two streams of fluid. Liquid is rushing around in multiple…

The World’s Largest Artificial Wave Generator Will Help Us Build Storm-Proof Cities

Next week, an unassuming canal in Delft will start shooting waves 15 feet into the air. And I’m sorry to say the surfers will have to sit this one out, because the Delta Flume wave machine was built for a higher purpose. Namely, destroying dikes and seawalls to figure out how the heck our coastal…