Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Cyborgorilla and the Banana Robot
In the ruins of a city, an unlike pair comes together. Are they predator and prey? Post-apocalyptic pals? Or just strangers passing each other at the end of the world?
The most important moment in the evolution of life
There's a fundamental mystery at the core of our evolution. No, it's not how we went from fuzzy shrews to humans — it's how bacteria made the jump from single-celled existence to something more complex. The weird part is that evolutionary jump only happened once.
While you weren't looking, Tomorrow People became a great TV show
Tomorrow People had a shaky start, but has been steadily improving week by week. But last night's episode was probably the first time this show could legitimately claim to be great, rather than just watchable. Here are all the fist-pumping "fuck yeah" moments in last night's episode.
Star Trek has a carol to sing you!
Yeah, we know the season has past. But, when you have a holodeck, it's Christmas any old time you choose.
Knights of Badassdom is a sweet, gory tale of geek social life
Knights of Badassdom is finally coming to VOD next week, and it's about damn time. This horror comedy is about live action role-playing gamers who accidentally stumble across a real spell book, with hilarious performances from fan favorites like Peter Dinklage and Summer Glau. The real mystery is why we had to wait so long to watch this great flick.
This robot will utterly destroy you at air hockey
In an effort to suck the fun out of every activity still left for us puny humans, an engineer has built an amazing 3D printable air hockey playing robot that, in addition to moving across the required two dimensions, can predict the movements of rebounding pucks.
Illustrated Cosplay Guide Does All the Work For You
Curious about Cosplay, but not sure how to get your ensemble started? Artist Patrick Dean has you covered. His illustrated work "My Half Assed Cosplay Ideas" is anything but half baked. It's a treasure trove of easy-to-recreate comic costumes if you have the patience.
1920s London Underground Posters Remind Us That Trains Are Wonderful
Remember the Roaring Twenties, when the future looked like Metropolis and cities were going to become battalions of marching skyscrapers? In these colorful 1920s ads for the London Underground, trains never felt so much like the transport of tomorrow.
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A spectacular new impact crater appears on Mars
NASA's Mars Orbiter has discovered a brand new impact crater on the Martian surface — and it's a beauty.
RIP Mark Rogers, Creator of Samurai Cat
Mark Rogers, the artist and author who created Samurai Cat, passed away last weekend while hiking with his family.
Please let this LEGO X-Men Mansion playset become a reality
You may not be able to attend Xavier's School for Gifted School for Gifted Youngsters, but this proposed LEGO playset would let you act out your mutant school fantasies, from Storm's attic garden to Cerebro and the Danger Room.
Who is the worst sidekick ever?
Plenty of sidekicks are better than their heroes
Crowdfunding site Experiment lets you support cutting-edge science
With government funding for science dropping to a shocking new low, researchers are looking to the public to support their work. After all, if Rob Thomas can get the Veronica Mars movie made with crowdfunding dollars, why shouldn't good science do the same? Enter Experiment, the scientist's crowdfunding portal.
This two-hour fan-made RoboCop remake is the RoboCop remake we deserve
While we're waiting to see if José Padilha's RoboCop remake is a worthy successor to the original, the folks behind Our RoboCop Remake have beaten Padilha to the punch by releasing their entire feature-length, crowdsourced remake that lovingly spoofs each scene in Paul Verhoeven's film.
Meet The New Sonic and His Next Game
Sonic's celebrating more than 20 years as a video game icon. So it makes sense that Sega's giving their furry blue mascot a bit of a facelift—nothing drastic, mind you—along with a new game and TV show in the hopes of keeping the hedgehog moving at top speed.
Cryptozoologicon Could Revolutionize the Field of Monster Studies
What happens when a well-respected paleontologist and two science artists create a book about monsters? You get Cryptozoologicon, a brilliant, funny book that conjures up the magic of your favorite cryptids, from chupacabra to the yeti, while also subjecting them to scientific scrutiny. This is perhaps the greatest, and most beautifully illustrated, work of speculative evolutionary biology you'll ever read.
It's official: They're making a Preacher TV show
The wondrously grim and epically bloody comic book series Preacher, is filming a pilot for AMC. Hell yes.
This cyborg mystery novel is what Intelligence could have been
One of the reasons Intelligence has fizzled is that it took a solid premise—a government agent with a chip in brain—and failed to do anything interesting with it. K.B. Spangler's novel Digital Divide, on the other hand, takes the idea of cyborg agents and runs with it in a tale of murder and anti-cyborg prejudice.
Real Life Logan's Run happening in San Francisco this weekend!
OK, this is pretty cool. There's going to be an organized Logan's Run chase this weekend in the streets of San Francisco. Some folks will be designated Runners, while others will be designated Sandmen, hunting them down.
