We io9 editors were just debating this point — about whether this article is misogynist or not. I was really fascinated by the fact that the article revealed how a single, small change to a person's eyes could make them basically unrecognizable. So I thought of this as a story about the science of facial recognition…

It's odd that the impact of makeup goes unmentioned. In her starlet days, Renee wore makeup that accentuated her full cheeks, bedroomy hooded eyes, and thin-but-distinctive smile. The makeup she wore that night is objectively not very well-applied (being an actor and model, I have extensive professional experience…

Once again I find myself appreciating Marvel's commitment to gratuitous male nudity.

"I mean this is just embarrassing. I'm from the race that built the TARDIS. Dimensions are kind of our thing."

Um, was that an Abortion episode? Because I'm pretty sure it was an Abortion episode. The central question of 'should we kill this unborn baby or not'; 'this decision is up to you, all of womankind'; the giant red letters of ABORT flashing on the screen for a second. And I'm not really sure how I feel, or what they…

Wow. This season has just been screaming for a reinstatement of the script editor position, this episode more than the others. Between an astronaut not knowing how to set the bombs (despite it being stated they spent 10 effing years preparing the mission.) and the line about "My grandmother use to use tumbler." Good…

Tony Zhou makes some of the most accessible video essays on filmmaking.

What can I say? When a woman gives birth with a pulse-based weapon in hand, in the middle of a major firefight that had virtually zero chances of survival...does that make her tough enough?

In next week's episode: Groundskeeper Willie has serious regrets about not campaigning harder for Scottish independence.

Because you can't spell Science Fiction without deadly neurotoxin.

I liked the third book a lot! God forbid we actually deal with the PTSD fallout from the dramatic (read: traumatic) situation that entertained us so much in the first two books. It's what gives this series its darker feel.

Back when I was a teenager, the people who read these books and the people who watched MTV were in social groups that did not interact very much at all. Yes, I realize the series isn't exactly A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of quality or anything but my gorge still rises a bit at the notion that a channel that once…

Each group prefers to mate with their own color. It sounds like what humans would call racism ...

The lid portrays scientists as anti-nature by emphasizing a false dichotomy that pits science (bad) against the "natural" (good). It does so intentionally. This, in a country currently embroiled in a debate over GMOs for all the wrong (and unscientific) reasons, and by a company that did, in fact, rely heavily on…

The villain's plot is far more intricate than it seems

The Wire

I liked how Pearce's character spoke like he knew that he was in a b-movie and had a snark quota to meet.

well yeah but........

Funny I did this in snow last year!