How to be a cord-cutter without paying for the privilege.
Irinel Petrescu
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Some may call it excessive, unreasonable, exhibitionist. What kind of masochist wants to stare at a billion…
For the record, planet Earth is still in the Holocene.
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They did meet up to compare notes before their reruns started being shown on WGN...
jia you could stay
Hey, have you read the news? Gizmodo and io9's parent company Gawker Media Group is filing for Chapter 11. What this…
Give me back the vane!!!!
There’s a killer new novel about a pharmceutical pirate and the robot that hunts her, set in the world of 2144,…
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Annalee had this crazy idea of mixing science and science fiction on the internet, and nobody quite understood what she was getting at. But she kept bringing up the example of Omni, and she was totally right that this was a blend that people would be open to. The science made the science fiction writing smarter and…
A year and two months ago, Annalee Newitz was the woman brave enough to look at some drivel I had written about Marvel superheroes and go “Hey, maybe there’s something not objectively awful about this.”*
Last night’s Agents of SHIELD was a pretty simple story: the tale of what happened to Agent Simmons during the six…
This isn’t 100% correct. There are documentaries that give you new insights about the world and make you think about things in different ways, and then there’s shark week.
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I really disliked her at first. She summed up just about everything I hated about..well...humanity.
But instead her journey became a great thesis on why we need science fiction stories. How they broaden people’s minds and make the world a better place. Donna Noble is the character that shows us just why the real…
“Elk Bath” – A wildfire on the East Fork of the Bitterroot River on the Sula Complex in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, United States, 6 August 2000. Taken by John McColgan, employed as a fire behavior analyst at the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
I had my daughter read the draft of this post before it went up, as I usually have her do when she’s mentioned in my writing. She thinks the article’s fine but would like to add that she really did brush her teeth and try to sleep in those instances. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ronald Reagan is known as the movie junkie president. He was, after all, an actor before getting into politics. But…
I”ll always think of you when I think of eating bugs. Really, that was one of my favorite io9 posts.