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The Greater Midwestern Squidowl wishes you a tentacle-filled new year

The Greater Midwestern Squidowl wishes you a tentacle-filled new year:

As New Year's Eve approaches, this curious creature, created by Phineas X. Jones (and featured on the Half Acre Beer holiday card), hopes you have a weird and wonderful new year, filled with cryptids and unexpected cephalopods. More »




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Tons More Hints for Tom Cruise's Oblivion. Plus the Lowdown on Doctor Who's Season Finale!

Tons More Hints for Tom Cruise's Oblivion. Plus the Lowdown on Doctor Who's Season Finale!:

Joseph Kosinski explains why M83 is as right for Oblivion as Daft Punk was for Tron Legacy. Mark Wahlberg showers some absolutely ridiculous praise on Transformers 4. Justified star Walton Goggins discusses G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Check out photos from Bryan Singer's gritty fairy tale Jack the Giant Slayer. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks Terminator 5. Plus hints aplenty for The Vampire Diaries and Arrow! More »




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Adventures in the Forbidden Zone: The Best of io9's 2012 Longreads!

Adventures in the Forbidden Zone: The Best of io9's 2012 Longreads!:

This past year, we went on some amazingly strange journeys and made some bizarre discoveries. We ventured into realms of weird science, and delved into the meaning of pop culture. We asked some dangerous questions — and sometimes, the results were too complicated to boil down to a few snappy paragraphs. More »




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The Most Baffling Pop Culture Moments of 2012

The Most Baffling Pop Culture Moments of 2012:

Whether you feel 2012 has been a good year or a bad year, we can all probably agree that it's been a confusing year. A lot of weird things happened over the last 12 months — things we still can't quite believe occurred (and/or got approved by actual human beings). Here's eight things that happened in 2012 that we're still a bit boggled by. More »




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Watch ants slip and slide to their doom inside this ingenious carnivorous plant

Watch ants slip and slide to their doom inside this ingenious carnivorous plant:

This short video reveals how the carnivorous pitcher plant Heliamphora nutans traps its prey with an ingenious two-step method — even if the ants in the video are able to get a grip on the plant's dangerously smooth pelt, some well-placed water means the ants have almost no chance of getting out alive. More »




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This Week's TV: 10 of Your (Possibly) Favorite Shows Are Back!

This Week's TV: 10 of Your (Possibly) Favorite Shows Are Back!:

Welcome back, television! In this week's returning shows, we get the strangest clone of them all in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. There's also a confrontation with the Devil, the deadliness of "doomsday volcanoes," and a fairytale murder mystery. Plus the steampunk superhero story you've been waiting months for. More »




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Does the cooking process really de-booze the alcohol in your dishes?

Does the cooking process really de-booze the alcohol in your dishes?:

Any experienced cook knows you can add some flavor by putting a bit of alcohol in with sauces, and any experienced baker knows that squirting a cake with brandy and setting it on fire as it goes out to the table will eliminate any questions as to why it looks so crappy once the fire has been put out. With the many social events and potluck dinners in the holiday season, we all rely a little bit on alcohol to get us through. More »




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10 Science Fiction TV Characters We Hope Will Die in 2013

10 Science Fiction TV Characters We Hope Will Die in 2013:

There were plenty of great moments on television this last year — but there was also a lot of pain. And even as characters we loved dropped like flies, some of our most hated characters clung to life like ticks. More »




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Thank goodness for a YA heroine who doesn't have a romance

Thank goodness for a YA heroine who doesn't have a romance:

There are days when YA book shelves seem filled with nothing but paranormal romance and dystopian social critiques. It's almost a relief to come across a book that is a straight up pulse pounding adventure set on an alien planet. Katya's World by Jonathan L. Howard is just that book. Set on the ocean world of Russalka, Katya's World follows Katya on her first day of her navigator's apprenticeship aboard her uncle's submarine, called Pushkin's Baby. More »




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