Who skis in Ohio? Also...

It’s going to be a one way trip with your small cohort.

“One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets.
And then a long wave of warmth crossed the small town. A flooding sea of hot air; it…

Would love to see a return to io9 featuring concept, fantasy, and sci-fi art.

I thought that Trump had already been to Mars. The best people sent him there.

“I was interested to see a bible by your bed. You actually find time to read it?”

I want u 2 remember that no #bastard ever won a war by dying for his country #USAUSA He won it by making the other poor, #dumbbastard die 4 his country. lol #needmoreflagemojis

Yep, I was lucky to be given a tape machine when I was six, and it literally changed my life.

This is not at all surprising to me. I am a veritable kidney stone factory, and since having my ureters “bored .030 over :” with stents, I have been able to pass most of them with percocet, drinking water and jumping up and down.

Speaking of, here is a piece she wrote about Kubrick’s film, some of her thoughts on the use of music in it, the work of Bell Laboratories with computer speech and singing, and (most interesting) the Eltro device used to slow HAL’s speech throughout, but most notably during his “death”:

HOUSTON IS AN ENERGY CITY!

You beat me to it. It would be awesome if this show had Rollerball in it. Even if the characters just mention it.

YES! This was the ultimate in corporistocracy based futures. What a fantastic movie. I love me some Jimmy Caan.

Actually, worse, he just retyped the somewhat erroneous headline from a different source without contemplating its accuracy.

I don’t mind, actually. The word “culture” might be what most people are expecting, but frankly the word “civilization” tends to be used in a biased way anyway-- that is, people seem to be expecting archetectural landmarks, written histories, complex political systems, and so on, but frankly considering the ambiguity…

Yeah it seems to have been done for clickbait reasons. Unnecessarily really because the findings about the Aborigines are fascinating all by themselves.

Non African... The Koi and San ( Bushman) folk have been down here at the pointy end of Africa for more than 140 000 years and in spite of the best efforts, to wipe them out, of everybody who ever had some control over any part of this region, they still exist. At the moment it seems that Botswana is trying quite hard…

Yeah. You’re showing too much teeth, Koenig!

One of these poses is not like the others.....