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Cosmos: Even While Darkness Surrounds Us, The Light Is Winning

We begin (and end) in one of Carl Sagan’s favorite virtual environments from the original series: the Library of Alexandria. Sagan used the Library as a cautionary tale about what can be lost when a civilization is careless with its knowledge, but Tyson uses it as an inspirational story. Tyson views the Library as a…

io9 Jason Shankel Jun 9

Cosmos Knows It’s Not Easy Being Green

Last night’s episode of Cosmos was about carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect, and the hopeful possibilities for humanity’s future on Earth. We begin our journey with our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, with its famously harsh environment. Venus lost her oceans long ago, and with them her ability to sequester carbon dioxide released by geological processes.…

io9 Jason Shankel Jun 2

This Week’s TV: Cosmos‘ Final Voyage Of The Season Explores Dark Energy

Cosmos’ Ship of Imagination sails into the sunset (or is it just the sun?) this week, but not before plumbing the mysteries of dark matter. Finn gives dating another try on Adventure Time, Increase Mather rocks Salem, and a new character in Orphan Black’s conspiracy appears. See all the details and clips below! Tonight Beauty…

Television Lauren Davis Jun 2

The Next Cosmos Is Poised To Be The Most Controversial Yet

To date, the rebooted Cosmos series has unabashedly tackled such “controversial” topics as evolution and industry-funded science denial. But as this preview of the next episode shows, Neil deGrasse Tyson — along with his adorable dog — are heading straight into climate change country. In the clip, de Grasse Tyson takes the time to distinguish…

io9 George Dvorsky May 29

This prediction for Humanity’s next 40,000 years is worth fighting for

The last two minutes of Cosmos’ eleventh episode are perhaps the most inspiring in the entire series—or at least the most uplifting. The sequence gives us a glimpse of humanity in the next few thousands years—the first few minutes of the next Cosmic Calendar year*—in the most optimistic way imaginable. Looking at the news every…

Sploid Jesus Diaz May 28

This Week’s TV: Will Wil Wheaton’s Geek News Make Us Grin Or Groan?

Wil Wheaton makes fun of the scifi news of the week in his new show while Game of Thrones gets ready to throw down and duel. Orphan Black heads to rehab, Penny Dreadful attends the theater, and The 100 goes hunting. Plus, get caught up on Defiance before the new season starts. Details below! Top…

Television Lauren Davis May 26

Cosmos On Weed Is Probably The Most Realistic Cosmos Parody Ever

Cosmos on weed cuts through the middleman and delivers the reality. Getting stoned and watching Cosmos is great. Because space is rad.

io9 Meredith Woerner May 23

Cosmos Asks If Humanity Has What It Takes To Survive

Tonight’s episode of Cosmos is about the fragility and durability of life. Our story starts in the cradle of civilization, Iraq, with the development of written language and the recorded legends of the Mesopotamian goddess Innana, the hero Gilgamesh and the flood myth that found its final form in the Old Testament and the Aronofsky…

io9 Jason Shankel May 19

Cosmos Explains How Michael Faraday Lit Up Our Lives

Tonight’s episode of Cosmos tells the story of Michael Faraday, the man who unlocked the secrets of electricity. Born to poverty, unaccomplished at school and evidently cursed with an unfortunately Elmer Fudd-like speech impediment, Faraday educated himself well enough on the subject of electricity to apprentice for the world’s foremost expert in the field, Humphry…

io9 Jason Shankel May 12

This Week’s TV: The Season Finales Of Arrow, Agents Of SHIELD And More!

This week, we say a temporary farewell to several shows, including Person of Interest, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, and Grimm, while Star-Crossed ends its alien-human romance for good. See all the clips and details below! Tonight Adventure Time (6 PM, Cartoon Network) While Jake is asleep, his tail goes to work as…

io9 Lauren Davis May 12

Cosmos Shows How Life Will Always Find A Way… To Screw Everything Up

“Nothing is permanent,” said the great philosopher Heraclitus, “except change.” Tonight’s episode of Cosmos was about the changes the Earth has undergone over the eons and the contribution life has made to those changes. The story starts about three hundred million years ago, on December 23rd of the Cosmic Year, when trees first appeared on…

io9 Jason Shankel May 5

This Week’s TV: Which New Horror Series Will Bring The Biggest Chills?

Two new spooky TV shows premiere this week as The Tomorrow People and Once Upon a Time wrap up their seasons. Plus, zombie drama In the Flesh returns and a powerful Arrow character is back in Starling City. See all the details below! Top image from In the Flesh. Season Two hits BBC America on…

io9 Lauren Davis May 5

Cosmos and the Clash Between Academic and Popular Science

Over at Symmetry Magazine, DOE Office of High Energy Physics scientist Glen Crawford remembers how the original Cosmos show affected him as a college student. His comments are fascinating in light of the new show. Crawford describes being a physics student when Cosmos aired, and then what it was like to be in the same…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 29

How We Discovered the Life Cycles of Stars, on Cosmos

The theme for this week’s episode of Cosmos was the life cycle of stars, beginning with the famous Pleiades star cluster. But this episode truly belongs to a cluster of stars from the world of science: astronomer Annie Jump Cannon and her colleagues, who developed Harvard’s stellar classification scheme. Image via NASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar…

io9 Jason Shankel Apr 28

This Week’s TV: Maria Hill Is On SHIELD And Supernatural Gets A Spinoff

Maria Hill, fresh from her stint in Captain America 2, returns to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this week and Santanico Pandemonium has a deadly dance on From Dusk Till Dawn. Plus, Supernatural prepares its spinoff and Vikings and Resurrection close their seasons. Details below! Top image from Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Tonight Adventure Time (6 PM, Cartoon…

Television Lauren Davis Apr 28

Did the Roman Empire Really Fall Because of Lead in the Water?

Ever since Neil DeGrasse Tyson mentioned the “lead in the water” theory of why Rome fell on Cosmos, scientists and historians have been tearing up the internet to explain all the problems with this idea. Tyson described the way Romans preferred to use lead pipes for their drinking water, as well as other eating and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 22

Cosmos Explains Why Big Business Is Often the Foe of Science

This week’s episode of Cosmos tackles the Rock of Ages, the age of rocks and getting the lead out of our commitment to the environment. The episode takes the form of a fable, a cautionary tale about the dangers of letting any institution, but most especially science, fall into the clutches of the Argument From…

io9 Jason Shankel Apr 21

This Week’s TV: A Noir Comic By Alejandro Jodorowsky Comes To Life!

Agents of Shield introduces us to the love of Agent Coulson’s life: Amy Acker’s cellist. We get a chance to get caught up on From Dusk Till Dawn, Lana gets ready to give birth on Archer, and Metal Hurlant Chronicles brings and Alejandro Jodorowsky comic to the small screen. See all the details below! Tonight…

Television Lauren Davis Apr 21

What a creationist version of the Cosmos would look like

Funny or Die pokes fun of those who like listening to stories over understanding science in its latest: Creationist Cosmos. It’s like the new Neil DeGrasse Tyson Cosmos reboot TV show only made for Creationists. So instead of explanations about the universe, we get very unscientific reasons of why things exist. It’s all in silly…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 15

“Creationist Cosmos” Reveals The Truths Regular Cosmos Won’t Tell You

Still upset that Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t spending an equal amount of time on his show Cosmos discussing how science may be fake? Then Funny or Die’s “Creationist Cosmos” may be the show you’re looking for. That’s Veep’s Timothy Simons as the host/Creationist Baptist Church of Alabama Community Outreach Leader, doing an outstanding job. [Via…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 15

Cosmos: Even While Darkness Surrounds Us, The Light Is Winning

Cosmos Knows It’s Not Easy Being Green

This Week’s TV: Cosmos‘ Final Voyage Of The Season Explores Dark Energy

The Next Cosmos Is Poised To Be The Most Controversial Yet

This prediction for Humanity’s next 40,000 years is worth fighting for

This Week’s TV: Will Wil Wheaton’s Geek News Make Us Grin Or Groan?

Cosmos On Weed Is Probably The Most Realistic Cosmos Parody Ever

Cosmos Asks If Humanity Has What It Takes To Survive

Cosmos Explains How Michael Faraday Lit Up Our Lives

This Week’s TV: The Season Finales Of Arrow, Agents Of SHIELD And More!

Cosmos Shows How Life Will Always Find A Way… To Screw Everything Up

This Week’s TV: Which New Horror Series Will Bring The Biggest Chills?

Cosmos and the Clash Between Academic and Popular Science

How We Discovered the Life Cycles of Stars, on Cosmos

This Week’s TV: Maria Hill Is On SHIELD And Supernatural Gets A Spinoff

Did the Roman Empire Really Fall Because of Lead in the Water?

Cosmos Explains Why Big Business Is Often the Foe of Science

This Week’s TV: A Noir Comic By Alejandro Jodorowsky Comes To Life!

What a creationist version of the Cosmos would look like

“Creationist Cosmos” Reveals The Truths Regular Cosmos Won’t Tell You

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