For those of you saying "wow, that Battle of Hogwarts looks a lot more exciting than the one from the books," you should read the fanfic Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness. It's extremely dark and gory, but it recounts Neville's seventh year at Hogwarts and the true brutality of the battle.
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"There will be no survivors...it's what they did to my people." Then how are you alive? Or is this like the Dread Pirate Roberts, who everyone knows about despite his leaving no survivors?
No Sword of Truth? Really? Yes, the later books go downhill significantly, but at least in the earlier novels, literally hours after the protagonists have finally vanquished all those who seek to kill/torture them, the next disaster (and book) starts. Never mind the author's obsession with obscure sects of sexy women…
When I saw the title of this post, I was sure it was going to read like "Scene 1: the first tenth of the movie. Scene 2: the next tenth of the movie. Scene 3: the third tenth...you know what, by now you should have noticed a pattern."
Speaking of guest stars, though, isn't it about time Mark Sheppard has an episode? Everyone knows it's not really a sci-fi show until Mark's been the Morally Ambiguous Brit.
Red Vines, you say...
You mean "The Doctor is marrying the Doctor's daughter, who is also the Doctor's favorite Doctor's daughter." It's like fractal weirdness.
While I can't fault this list, some other interesting species are the squid, whose giant neuron (with an axon up to 1 mm in diameter!) allowed for early researchers to understand the electrochemistry of neurons; the zebra finch, whose mating call is frequently studied to discover how animals learn complex behaviors;…
Scariest part of this, from the PhysOrg article on the same topic:
It almost reminds me of the Doctor Who Christmas special where the aliens thought it was a good idea to name a ship "Titanic" because it's the most famous Earth sea liner. "Hey, what are the best-known robots and robotics companies in the US? HAL and Cyberdyne? We should name our stuff after them!"
Two Amys. I can't even tell you what I'm thinking right now.
I think you misspelled the "The Eye Creatures."
Thank you for titling this "Stellar wormholes *could* link stars with tunnels of phantom matter" rather than "Do stellar wormholes link stars with tunnels of phantom matter?" Lately io9 has started to ignore the Zach Weiner Rule of Science Journalism, and I'd like to think you guys know better than that. Between this…
I see Smolin left off the "and such a discovery would work to be one step towards validating loop quantum gravity, my preferred explanation for unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity" part. Not that there's anything wrong with that; I've read enough of Smolin's work to be fairly sympathetic to his…
Wait, "the Earth stops spinning and gravity stops"? I could have sworn that the Earth's rotation has nothing to do with its gravity. In fact, if the Earth were to stop spinning, people near the equator should weigh more due to the sudden lack of centrifugal force.
And this is why we need to stop telling artists about biology: any attempt they make to employ biology just turns to shit.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thing this article would be about a more...direct method of "restarting the human race." Adam And Eve Plot, anyone? (WARNING: TvTropes.)