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Science Fiction That’s Not Only Anti-Woman, It’s Anti-Science

You can’t really be a fully fledged sexist prat without also being kind of a bad scientist. The science supporting the idea that women are less rational than men is looking flimsier all the time. So it’s probably not a surprise that the outrageously sexist science fiction story that blew up the Internet, “Womanspace”, is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Jobs That Kill: What is the deadliest profession?

A child born today in a first world country can expect to live 80 to 90 years. But could your choice of profession play a role in increasing — or dramatically decreasing — your lifespan? Some jobs can cut decades off your life expectancy — including some seemingly benign, everyday professions. Here’s a look at…

io9 Keith Veronese

Let’s Explore the Batshit Insane World of Shutterstock Together

I don’t hide my love of stock photography. From the terrifying to the sublime, Shutterstock is a trove of crazy. Enter words, get pictures. Grandparent bacon. Angry prostitute. Let’s enter the cave of stock wonder madness together. https://gizmodo.com/the-furious-femme-fatales-of-computer-stock-photography-5754969 I wonder, does each Shutterstocked humanoid live in their own world? Or is there to be some…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Kids are getting shot more often than we thought

The most firearm-friendly libertarian and gun-control centered politician can agree at least on one fundamental point: the need to keep guns safe and out of the hands of unprepared kids. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re not doing a very good job of that. Top image: BG Knight, Shutterstock. A paper being presented at the American…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When People Taste Words

Synesthesia is a concept that has always fascinated people. People have long since claimed to process colors as sounds, or to associate colors with music or words. But how can we prove that synesthesia actually exists? And what happens when someone associates particular words with tastes? Top image: Zametalov/Shutterstock. Synesthesia, as a concept, was not…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Molecules that Could Erase (or Restore) Your Memory

A picture of the past, a memory of a nice afternoon, sitting on the grass doing homework with someone you love. An image or a movie takes up space on a computer’s hard drive, so what causes the reactions to store these memories in our mind? Let’s take a look at a couple of recently…

io9 Keith Veronese

Wi-Fi Signals May Be Used To Track Your Movement Inside Your House

Neal Patwari of the University of Utah discovered that breathing affects Wi-Fi signal strength. Chest expansion during a breath bends the wireless signals and they lose some power. This slight drop can be measured and used to calculate your breathing rate. Measuring someone’s breathing rate is helpful, but the use of this technology as a…

Tech News Kelly

Are Cable Companies Secretly Planning An “A La Carte” Option?

According to Reuters, cable companies are secretly discussing plans that’ll let customers choose what channels they want. Content providers won’t like this “a la carte” arrangement, but who cares. This is something customers wanted like yesterday. [Reuters via Tech Crunch; Image from IKO/Shutterstock]

Television Kelly

Scientists Design A Novel Magnetic Cloaking Device

Scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona designed a magnetic cloak that’ll both shield an object from an outside magnetic field and prevent an internal one from leaking out. It’s an antimagnet and it’ll have various military and medical applications. The antimagnet uses a superconducting material that blocks the internal magnetic field of an object…

Tech News Kelly

New Study Suggests We Really Are What We Eat

Scientists at Nanjing University made a startling discovery about the food we eat. Not only do we ingest the nutrients from our food, we incorporate some of the genetic material as well. The research team discovered abundant levels of rice microRNA in the bloodstream of Chinese test subjects. And this miRNA isn’t just sitting there…

Tech News Kelly

Pet Rabbit Rescues Homeowner From Fire

You often read about a dog or a cat saving an owner’s life, but you almost never read about a heroic rabbit. That is until now. The rabbit rescue went down in Ketchikan, Alaska where an early morning fire broke out in a residence. The rabbit was apparently aware of the fire, jumped on the…

Biology Kelly

Our Holographic Future Will Debut In The Back Seat Of A Car

Imagine being 8-years-old again and on a long car trip. Instead of whining “Are we there, yet?”, you pick up a controller and play with your holographic animals. It sounds like science fiction, but it could be reality someday. Researchers at the Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEELab) in Australia are developing a holographic entertainment…

Tech News Kelly

Study Says Babies Make Men Less Masculine, More Nurturing

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests men’s testosterone levels fluctuate when they have children. The study measured the testosterone levels of 600 participants when they were 21-years-old and then again when they were 25. Men with high testosterone levels were more likely to find a mate and…

Tech News Kelly

The Dead Live Forever On The Internet

Sorry folks, this story is not about the hippie band from San Francisco. It’s about dead people and the websites that let you memorialize them. It sounds macabre, but we live our lives on the internet, shouldn’t our death have a place online, too? Two online destinations dedicated to the dead are I-Tomb and I-Memorial.…

Tech News Kelly

Watch How You Walk If You Want To Remain Anonymous

If you’re in a crowd, it doesn’t take long to notice that people walk differently. A recent study suggests each person’s gait is supposedly so distinctive that their way of walking could be used for identification purposes. Led by Todd Pataky, a team of researchers at Shinshu University in Japan looked at walking characteristics like…

Tech News Kelly

How Old Are You In Venusian Years?

Sigh, I just found out that I’ll celebrate my next birthday at the end of September and I am old geezer, at least in Venusian years. Curious about your own age if you lived on Venus and used its shorter calendar? If you are, then you should point your browser to Nerdiversary, a light-hearted website…

Tech News Kelly

Furious Drunk Man Attacks Motorist With Live Power Line

According to the police, this guy is one crazy drunk suicidal bastard who grabbed a live power line struck down by Hurricane Irene and attacked another driver in the middle of the storm with it. How in hell? The alleged nutter is 32-year-old Richard Bialczak. The police says he chased 28-year-old Derek Edwards on a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

7 Tools to Assemble the Ultimate Dorm Room

Welcome to college! Your dorm room will look nothing like the image above, but it doesn’t hurt to have something to aspire to. We’re here to help you make your place less of a condemned rat’s nest. Image via Shutterstock Nuwave Infrared Tabletop Oven You probably won’t be doing a lot of cooking during your…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Which Hulu Bidder Should You Be Rooting For?

Hulu has been for sale for awhile now, but the WSJ says the initial bids are about to trickle in. Who’s interested? Google, Yahoo, Amazon and DirectTV (where’s Microsoft?). https://gizmodo.com/could-hulu-selling-itself-actually-be-good-for-content-5814230 Bids will be submitted on Wednesday and could range anywhere between $500 million and $2 billion dollars. Offers will not only include a dollar amount,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

7 Tools for Staying Dry When It’s Raining Cats and Dogs

The Summer heat is starting to abate, just in time for Hurricane Season. So when foul winds begin to swirl, reach for these devices to protect you—and your gadgets—from the elements. [top image courtesy of Shutterstock] Blade Runner-Style LED Umbrella Whether you’re hunting replicants on the mean streets of 2019 Los Angeles or just practicing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Science Fiction That’s Not Only Anti-Woman, It’s Anti-Science

Jobs That Kill: What is the deadliest profession?

Let’s Explore the Batshit Insane World of Shutterstock Together

Kids are getting shot more often than we thought

Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When People Taste Words

The Molecules that Could Erase (or Restore) Your Memory

Wi-Fi Signals May Be Used To Track Your Movement Inside Your House

Are Cable Companies Secretly Planning An “A La Carte” Option?

Scientists Design A Novel Magnetic Cloaking Device

New Study Suggests We Really Are What We Eat

Pet Rabbit Rescues Homeowner From Fire

Our Holographic Future Will Debut In The Back Seat Of A Car

Study Says Babies Make Men Less Masculine, More Nurturing

The Dead Live Forever On The Internet

Watch How You Walk If You Want To Remain Anonymous

How Old Are You In Venusian Years?

Furious Drunk Man Attacks Motorist With Live Power Line

7 Tools to Assemble the Ultimate Dorm Room

Which Hulu Bidder Should You Be Rooting For?

7 Tools for Staying Dry When It’s Raining Cats and Dogs

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

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