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Rick’s Beard Dies So Others May Live On The Walking Dead

The group has arrived at sunny Alexandria, the walls are high, the homes have electricity and running water, and the biggest threat there is Aidan the Douchebag. But there is a heavy price that must be paid in order to receive this sanctuary, and it is a price that can only be measured in facial…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 2

What Burger King’s Super-Disturbing Mascot Teaches Us About Creepiness

Back in the mid-2000s, Burger King had a really unnerving ad campaign where a man in a plastic Burger King mask breaks into people’s houses and watches them sleep. Over in the New Inquiry, Adam Kotsko uses the skin-crawling mascot, the King, as a jumping-off point to discuss the history of creepiness. Kotsko’s essay, an…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 2

The Dress and #Ferguson Are the Two Sides of Social Media Explosions

To understand the mass hysteria around The Dress last week, you can’t compare it to other memes. You have to compare it to political events like #Ferguson, which are its diametrical opposite. Except in one way. Photo by Jeffrey B. Banke via Shutterstock But first, let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that The Dress came…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Mar 2

Will Lost In Space Ever Get Its Props?

Star Trek’s 50th anniversary in 2016 is already shaping up to be a huge event — but what about Lost in Space’s 50th birthday, coming this fall? Like Trek, Lost in Space was an important part of science fiction TV history. And Lost in Space had some seriously entertaining stories. So why doesn’t this show…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 2

Let MIT Show You How To Be A Murderous Mary Poppins

Remember being enchanted as a kid when Mary Poppins poured out medicine of different colors from the same bottle? This video from MIT lets you pull the same “magic trick”! Only instead of medicine, it’s bleach. At first, I didn’t know why this video charmed me so much. It’s just cabbage water as a pH…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 2

Liquid-Pumping Bellows Are a Mesmerizing Alternative to a Smartwatch

If watch craftsmanship to you has nothing to do with how thin a company can make an LCD touchscreen’s bezel, then you’re probably already aware of the wonderful creations made by a company called HYT. To make its horological masterpieces really stand out the company uses pistons and bellows to pump colorful liquid through tubes…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 2

First Footage Of Game of Thrones‘ Legendary Sand Snakes

Check out an exceedingly detailed featurette on Dornish weaponry, which also just so happens to introduce the first good look at the “Sand Snakes” — also known as Oberyn Martell’s daughters. This is marvelous. Tyene (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers), Obara (Keisha Castle-Hughes), and Nymeria Sand (Jessica Henwick) are the daughters of Oberyn Martell. And they are…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 2

The Bootleg Toymaker Making Gay Stormtroopers

The Sucklord—real name Morgan Phillips—is a pop artist well known for his subversive creations of mashed-together toys. Imagine if Sid from Toy Story grew up to become an amazing artist, and you have an idea of what to expect. Director Joey Garfield recently toured Sucklord’s studio, appropriately named “The Suckhole,” to showcase some of these…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 2

Attack On Titan‘s Merchandise Now Comes In Water Cooler Form

Attack On Titan’s popularity knows no bounds – both in the US and Japan the manga is tearing up sales charts, and that of course means there is merchandise out the wazoo. But you know something’s really made it when it started being slapped all over… Water Coolers. Wait, what? Japanese Water Cooler manufacturer Aqua…

Tech News James Whitbrook Mar 2

Last Man On Earth Manages To Make The Apocalypse Both Dark And Charming

Will Forte and the directors of The LEGO Movie have pulled off something really difficult — and really special — with their new show The Last Man on Earth. They have created a show about the madness and despair of living in the post-apocalypse while making it utterly watchable. Last night, we got a double…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 2

The Fine Art of Photoshopping Justin Bieber’s Head On Naked Dudes (NSFW)

Many horrors exist within Tumblr’s dark, recondite recesses. But every once in a while, you’ll stumble upon a phenomenon that is beautiful for its sheer and utter and absurdity. Or in the case of one particular phenomenon, for Ron Weasely’s tender, loving gaze as he looks into Justin Bieber’s eyes. Fake Rupert Grint and Justin…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 2

200 Skeletons Have Been Discovered Beneath A Supermarket In Paris

Archaeologists in Paris have found the skeletal remains of 200 individuals laid out neat rows in a communal grave. The site, once the cemetery of a hospital that operated from the 12th to 17th Century, is now a supermarket. The Monoprix Réaumur-Sébastopol supermarket called in archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 2

NotCulus Rift: How I Hacked Together My Own Serious VR Headset

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey told me not to buy an Oculus Rift. That was two years ago, and he’s repeated the plea every time I’ve seen him since. Don’t buy it. It’s not ready. It’s just a developer kit. He’s right, but I’m tired of waiting. I want a VR headset and I want…

Tech News Sean Buckley Mar 2

Microsoft’s Folding Keyboard for iOS and Android Is a Razor-Thin Beauty

Imagine a keyboard that you can carry around like a wallet—almost as thin as paper, just a few millimeters—and that works with any smartphone or tablet, be it Android, iOS or Windows Phone. This is exactly what Microsoft’s new fold-able keyboard is, a little beauty for those who really miss physical keyboards on the go.…

Tech News Manuel Ángel Méndez Mar 2

How Scientists Have Made Bullets Out Of Light

Light bullets are not the deadly things their names make them out to be. They are, however, decidedly weird. To make a light bullet, researchers have to make a pulse of laser light that is continuously re-focusing itself. The Solitary Wave When you turn on a flashlight, or even a laser beam, and shine it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 2

Welcome to the Rural Town That Wants to Build a Hyperloop Utopia

What do cities look like in the world of Hyperloop transit? Will supersonic travel turn our cities into vast, intermodal suburbs? And what about the edge towns that once bled into the country, fed by car travel—will they empty out and decay, eliminated by a new form of transportation that bypasses them? Oddly enough, the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 2

Kerbal Space Program Now Lets You Turn Your Ships Into 3D-Printed Toys

Kerbal Space Program, the space flight sim about sending millions of Kerbal astronauts to an early grave/advancing the space-faring dreams of the Kerbal nation, is now offering a wave of merchandise based on the game – a site which lets you upload your wildest Kerbal creations and turn them into 3D-printed models. Squad, who develop…

Tech News James Whitbrook Mar 2

Reasonably-Priced Bluetooth Buds That Don’t Make You Look Like a Doofus

With its new Shadow Wireless headphones, reasonably-priced audio purveyor Sol Republic is tackling a problem no one else has gotten right yet: A compact, portable Bluetooth headphone that sounds good. By now, big over-ear and on-ear Bluetooth headphones are a well-established category with some awesome options, but making tiny Bluetooth buds that aren’t attached to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 2

The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox

One of the greatest conundrums to face humanity is the question of extraterrestrial life. Many explanations have been posited over the years to explain why we have yet to make first contact, some better than others. Here are seven of the weakest solutions to the vexing problem known as the Fermi Paradox. For those of…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 2

John Oliver Reminds Us That America’s Bridges Are Shit, and No One Cares

America’s cities haven’t devolvedinto a post-apocalyptic hellscape yet, but they do seem to be teetering on the brink of literal collapse. And no one in Congress seems to care enough to do a damn thing anything about it. Obviously the mere mention of the word “infrastructure” doesn’t exactly send tingles shooting up anyone’s spine, but…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 2

Rick’s Beard Dies So Others May Live On The Walking Dead

What Burger King’s Super-Disturbing Mascot Teaches Us About Creepiness

The Dress and #Ferguson Are the Two Sides of Social Media Explosions

Will Lost In Space Ever Get Its Props?

Let MIT Show You How To Be A Murderous Mary Poppins

Liquid-Pumping Bellows Are a Mesmerizing Alternative to a Smartwatch

First Footage Of Game of Thrones‘ Legendary Sand Snakes

The Bootleg Toymaker Making Gay Stormtroopers

Attack On Titan‘s Merchandise Now Comes In Water Cooler Form

Last Man On Earth Manages To Make The Apocalypse Both Dark And Charming

The Fine Art of Photoshopping Justin Bieber’s Head On Naked Dudes (NSFW)

200 Skeletons Have Been Discovered Beneath A Supermarket In Paris

NotCulus Rift: How I Hacked Together My Own Serious VR Headset

Microsoft’s Folding Keyboard for iOS and Android Is a Razor-Thin Beauty

How Scientists Have Made Bullets Out Of Light

Welcome to the Rural Town That Wants to Build a Hyperloop Utopia

Kerbal Space Program Now Lets You Turn Your Ships Into 3D-Printed Toys

Reasonably-Priced Bluetooth Buds That Don’t Make You Look Like a Doofus

The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox

John Oliver Reminds Us That America’s Bridges Are Shit, and No One Cares

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