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io9Books & ComicsGail Carriger’s new music video will have you dancing in your airship
Here’s an exclusive first look at a new music video promoting Gail Carriger’s book Curtsies & Conspiracies. It’s the cutest thing we’ve seen in days — but be warned: Major earworm. You will be singing this one in the shower on Monday. Gotta love any song that rhymes “irritable” and “dirigible.” And the animation, mixing … Continued
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io9How Combat Medicine is Fighting to Keep More Troops Alive
When a nation sends its citizens to war, there are few things more important than providing the best treatment possible after they get injured in the line of duty. Thankfully, combat medicine has responded and evolved, steadily improving the survival chances of those injured on the battlefield. Top Image: Capt. Billie Matthews, Spc. Lauren Bentley … Continued
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io9Once Upon A Time in Wonderland just dropped a big old Star Wars bomb
Once Upon A Time’s Wonderland is really more like Candyland — if all the pieces were sleeping together and sometimes talked about Star Wars. So apparently Star Wars IS another realm these characters can hop into. Mother of God. In the clip above, Jafar (dressed as David Chappelle dressed up as Prince) and a tiny … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Kim Stanley Robinson brings the Neolithic to life in Shaman
Kim Stanley Robinson is known for his meticulous worldbuilding. So when Robinson heads to neolithic Europe for his newest novel Shaman, Robinson creates a world that has familiar outlines — but resists both clichés and lazy assumptions about prehistoric life. Spoilers ahead… First, it must be pointed out, Shaman is not a science fiction book. … Continued
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io9A Brief History of Painkillers (And Why They Work)
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without pain relief. We depend on these drugs to an unspeakable degree, yet few of us know what’s available or how they even work. Here’s a quick primer on painkillers and why they’re so good at easing the pain. We deal with pain on an almost daily basis. … Continued
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You can make nuts glow, people! Glowing nuts!
A week ago I urged you to light your house by setting nuts on fire. I was a fool! All you need to do is hit those nuts with a laser, and they’ll glow all by themselves. https://gizmodo.com/light-your-house-with-your-nuts-1432597685 I, personally, happen to like the scent of burning pumpkin so much that in years when I … Continued
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X-Men: Days Of Future Past stills tie all the X-Men movies together
Check out how our mutants have grown from X-Men: First Class in these new stills from the follow up film X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Including an excellent look at a bullet-riddled, shirtless Wolverine and Mystique covered head-to-toe in her original blue skin. https://gizmodo.com/watch-jennifer-lawrence-endure-7-hours-of-half-naked-ag-5835540 These come from Empire Magazine and Entertainment Weekly (there are plenty … Continued
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io9Television20 Amazing British TV Shows That Doctor Who Fans Should Watch
It’s been months since we last saw Doctor Who, and there’s still a month to go before the anniversary special. But if you’re having withdrawal symptoms, fear not — British television has spawned tons of other great science fiction and fantasy programming. Here are 20 lesser-known British TV shows that Doctor Who fans might like. … Continued
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The KGB conspiracy that attributed AIDS to the CIA
The Cold War contained a lot of ignominious events for all how participated in it. One of them lingers in conspiracy theories to this day. There was a conspiracy involved — just not the ones the theorist generally believe in. During the Cold War, the USSR started a disinformation campaign that blamed the creation of … Continued
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io9Trailers
Rebooted Mr. Peabody & Sherman movie is disarmingly adorable
At first we were horrified by the idea of a Mr. Peabody & Sherman movie. The WABAC machine had been modernized, Mr. Peabody’s lab had been completely redone, and we were not ready. But then we saw the first half of the movie and simply fell in love with the classic duo all over again. … Continued
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First pic of Ron D. Moore’s Outlander is just a hot dude in a kilt
The first official look at Ronald D. Moore’s TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander book series is here, and it’s of actor Sam Heughan as 18th-century Scotsman James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. Given the fangasm that erupted when Starz posted this on the show’s Facebook page, I assume this is newsworthy to more than a … Continued
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Shawna Trpcic, Firefly’s Costume Designer, Is Here to Answer Your Questions!
Just in time for Halloween, Shawna Trpcic — the woman behind the amazing and enviable threads worn in Firefly, Angel, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, Power Rangers, and many, many more — is here to answer your questions about dressing up and getting costumed! Ask her questions about crafting a look for your … Continued
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Condemn the innocent in two ways with Morton’s Fork
It’s nearly Halloween, so let’s learn the rhetorical rules of a good old-fashioned witch hunt. One of the most notorious of these rules is called Morton’s Fork, a paradox which has been used in everything from legal cases to strategy games. There are all kinds of paradoxes. Some arise from the kinks in philosophy. Some … Continued
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Why Are Thousands of People Dreaming About This Man?
Have you dreamed about this man comforting or befriending you over the past five years? Then you are one of thousands across the world who have dreamed “this man.” And they have a website to describe their experiences. According to the This Man website, set up to bring together the people who have dreamed about … Continued
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How to Make Your Ridiculous TV Show Work
Sleepy Hollow is very possibly the most ludicrous show that has even been on TV. It’s about the Headless Horseman being one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and Ichabod Crane getting sent to the present by his wife (who’s a witch) to stop the apocalypse… for starters. This is completely absurd, and yet … Continued
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Clive Barker is returning to Hellraiser… again
Hellraiser has been trying to come back from the dead for years. But now that Clive Barker has signed on to reboot the whole series will the franchise find new life? Or should Dimension Films just stop trying to make Hellraiser happen? Original writer and director Clive Barker announced on his Facebook that he is … Continued
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io9The Sun has been completely manic this week
It’s been a remarkable week of solar activity. Astronomers recorded several coronal mass ejections this week, including three that are currently hitting the Earth’s magnetic field. An exquisite image of one of this week’s many flares can be seen below. Above video: Unrelated to this week’s solar events, NASA released a spectacular video of a … Continued
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What Are Science Fiction’s Best and Worst Predictions?
Sometimes scifi foreshadows the future with incredible accuracy (the fiction of Jules Verne, for instance, predicted the moon landing and the electric submarine) and sometimes not (he also imagined an Earth that had a core full of mastodons.) Today, we want to know your picks for the best and the worst predictions about the future … Continued
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io9A seagull does so much more in a day than you do
A day in the life of a Dutch seagull, as revealed by GPS. The bird covers 332 kilometers (over 200 miles!) in a single day, soaring over land and sea alike. According to commenters over on reddit, the narrated version of the video (which appears below, in Dutch) explains the bird is collecting food with … Continued
