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Insects In New York City Eat An Astounding Amount of Our Food Waste

A new study examines how various insects act as tiny trash disposals in New York City’s public spaces. Incredibly, these bugs eat thousands of kilograms of our waste each year. New York is one of many cities whose mythical allure claims that the streets are paved with gold. Sadly, you are more likely to be…

io9 Mike Jeffries — The Conversation Dec 3

What Do You Really Want This Holiday Season?

Need help planning out gifts and end-of-the-year surprises? Me too. So here it is, an Open Channel dedicated to what you really want. Tell us, what sort of gift would you really, truly love to get this year? Myself, the two things I really, really, really want are Marvel’s 75 Years of Cover Art Book…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 3

The World Trade Center Train Station May Cost More Than the Skyscraper

4 billion dollars. It’s almost twice as much as it cost to develop the most expensive plane in history. It’s more than the cost of the new World Trade Center, the tallest building in North America. It’s also the projected cost of NYC’s newest train station. In an absolutely astounding New York Times article this…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 3

You Have One Hour to Get A Guaranteed Google Inbox Invite

If you’ve been hassling everyone you know for an invite to Gmail’s shiny new email app Inbox, now’s your lucky break. From now until 3pm EST, Google is giving anyone who asks a guaranteed invite. To secure an Inbox of your very own, just send an email to [email protected] within the next hour. Even if…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Dec 3

Even Tic-Tac-Toe Has Jumped the 3D Shark

It doesn’t take long after learning to play Tic-Tac-Toe to realize that once you’ve mastered the basic tactics, your games will end in an infinite run of ties. But Pressman Toy has done the impossible and made Tic-Tac-Toe actually sound interesting again by upping the challenge with the introduction of a third dimension. Tic Stac…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 3

An Astronaut’s View On His First Spacewalk

Imagine the mild stress of tackling something new at your job for the first time. Now imagine that something is an extravehicular servicing mission, conducted at 17,000 miles per hour, on the outside of the International Space Station. Hey, at least your workspace has a view. This photo was taken last month by ESA astronaut…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 3

How the Higgs boson made reality possible and how it can destroy it all

After explaining why pure scientific research is crucial for the advancement of humanity at all levels, David Kaplan tell us why the Higgs boson is so important to our very own existence and the survival of the entire Universe in very simple way. We now think that the Higgs boson may be there—but the discovery…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 3

Sotheby’s Is Auctioning These Rare Tolkien Illustrations

British auction house Sotheby’s is gearing up for a huge sale of “antiquarian books and manuscripts from an English country house” December 9. The collection includes several items that you’ll wish you could have for your library. Detail from John Blanche’s Battle of Five Armies via www.fantasyartoriginals.com For everyone who doesn’t have tens of thousands…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy Dec 3

These Interactive Illustrations Make Harry Potter Even More Magical

We’ve seen the magic of Harry Potter played out on the big screen, but artist Kincső Nagy wanted to add her own visual magic to the books themselves. So she created an edition the books that glow in the dark, with simple but effective pop-up illustrations. Nagy created these books as her BA degree project.…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 3

How Facebook Is Hacking Together a Better Data Center

Data centers are boring. They have to be; these are spaces of control, consistency, security. You wouldn’t expect to find much creativity inside the plain facades of these highly-regulated structures—much less hacked-together experiments involving robotic Blu-ray storage systems and thousands of Mac Minis. But inside these seemingly boring buildings there’s an industry booming with change…

Social Media Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 3

Giving Up Those Late Night Snacks Could Be More Effective Than Dieting

A new study is cautioning against those late-in-the-day trips to the refrigerator. Because the evidence suggests that, when it comes to our health, it’s not just what you eat, but when you eat it. Okay, right off the bat I need to tell you that this study only considered the health benefits of time-restricted feeding…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 3

Games of Thrones Season 4 Exclusive Covers, Smash Bros., More Deals

Best Buy has Games of Thrones Season 4 with 5 exclusive covers available for preorder. Q: Can you ensure the price listed at the time the pre-order is placed will remain the same? A: …For example, if you order an item for $49.99 and the pre-order price is later dropped to $39.99, you will be…

io9 Shane Roberts Dec 3

Discounted Amazon Gift Card, Cheap Coffee, and More Deals

Free Amazon money. Can’t complain about that. Plus, if you use Google Checkout with this deal, you’ll get a $5 Toys R Us card too. Plus, if you’re creating a new Gyft account, you’ll get a $5 account credit after your purchase. The code should work on other gift cards as well, if you’d prefer…

Tech News Shep McAllister Dec 3

At Last, Proof That “Bath Salts” Won’t Turn You Into A Cannibal

Remember Rudy Eugene, the “Miami Cannibal” who made sensational headlines in 2012 after gnawing the face off a homeless man? Everyone blamed the designer drug known as “bath salts” for Eugene’s flesh-crazed madness. But new evidence shows that the drug probably couldn’t cause actual cannibalism. Image via dea.gov In fact, after Eugene was shot by…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Dec 3

A Daring Asteroid Mission Kicks Off After Weather Delays

Japan’s space agency just launched Hayabusa2, an ambitious deep space mission to land on an asteroid, smack it with an interceptor, collect and return samples, and deploy rovers. After a multi-day weather delay, the rocket blasted off a scene seaside spaceport, carrying Hayabusa2 and a collection of opportunistic missions into orbit. Top image: H-IIA/B blasting…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Dec 3

Behold Hot Toy’s wonderful Shadow Trooper

Looks like I was wrong about assumingDarth Vader and Obi-Wan would be the next we saw of Hot Toy’s fledgling Star Wars line – another Stormtrooper, but also the first figure from the now-defunct Expanded Universe from the toymakers renowned for their crazy details. The Shadow Trooper never appeared in the Star Wars movies –…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 3

An Action Cam on a Spinning Car Wheel Makes for One Mesmerizing Ad

An effective commercial doesn’t necessarily have to be a multi-million dollar production. Remember that Nike ad with Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on his club? It was supposed to be completely different until the director saw his skills on set. VW had similar luck with this ad made with nothing but an action cam…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 3

How Much Does a Wiretap Go For These Days?

For years, the government and phone carriers have been squabbling over secret surveillance—because of the dollar amount on the bill. Most recently, AT&T’s thrifty little offshoot Cricket Communications has agreed to pay out $2.1 million in a settlement for overcharging federal and state law enforcement agencies for wiretaps and pen registers, and Sprint is also…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Dec 3

Wire: A Wonderful Messaging App Missing the Only Thing That Matters

Wire is a beautiful new messaging app created by some of the key people behind Skype. The app is an effort to streamline some of the clunkiness that exists in virtually every messaging app out there. After trying it out this morning, I can say that the app succeeds. Whether anybody will use it or…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 3

The Secret History of Hermits

In nearly every civilization with historical records, we find stories of people who went off by themselves to live in the wilderness. But not all hermits were the same: some were outcasts, some were holy, and others were extremely fashionable. All their stories are extraordinary. To the Mountains All hermits seem attracted to heights. This…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 3

Insects In New York City Eat An Astounding Amount of Our Food Waste

What Do You Really Want This Holiday Season?

The World Trade Center Train Station May Cost More Than the Skyscraper

You Have One Hour to Get A Guaranteed Google Inbox Invite

Even Tic-Tac-Toe Has Jumped the 3D Shark

An Astronaut’s View On His First Spacewalk

How the Higgs boson made reality possible and how it can destroy it all

Sotheby’s Is Auctioning These Rare Tolkien Illustrations

These Interactive Illustrations Make Harry Potter Even More Magical

How Facebook Is Hacking Together a Better Data Center

Giving Up Those Late Night Snacks Could Be More Effective Than Dieting

Games of Thrones Season 4 Exclusive Covers, Smash Bros., More Deals

Discounted Amazon Gift Card, Cheap Coffee, and More Deals

At Last, Proof That “Bath Salts” Won’t Turn You Into A Cannibal

A Daring Asteroid Mission Kicks Off After Weather Delays

Behold Hot Toy’s wonderful Shadow Trooper

An Action Cam on a Spinning Car Wheel Makes for One Mesmerizing Ad

How Much Does a Wiretap Go For These Days?

Wire: A Wonderful Messaging App Missing the Only Thing That Matters

The Secret History of Hermits

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