io9: Cake

Fresalina Limoneta is the scariest slice of lab-grown cake you've ever seen

Robert T. Gonzalez — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:30:00 PST

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Let's get one thing right out in the open: I'm all for lab-grown food. I think that lab-grown meat and burgers, for example, could soon become a great way to circumvent a lot of the environmental and ethical problems of today's meat industry. But I think we can all agree that if our foodstuffs were ever to sprout eyes, or teeny mouths, most of us would probably be more than a little wigged out. More »

What does it mean if you don't want to have sex?

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PDT

Famed sexologist Alfred Kinsey called them "group X." Big Bang Theory calls them people who, like Sheldon, "have no deal." But the one percent of the population who aren't interested in sex call themselves asexuals, aces, or, more simply, people who would pick cake over sex. More »

The great atomic bomb cake controversy of 1946

Cyriaque Lamar — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:12:52 PDT

In 1946, a mushroom cloud-shaped cake was served at a Washington D.C. military party celebrating the task force that oversaw atomic tests in the Pacific post-World War II. The photo of this garish pastry caused a bizarre international fracas. More »

What will physics research look like after the Singularity?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:30:00 PDT

Over at the Physics And Cake blog, there's a great discussion of exactly how machines will replace theoretical physicists, with their only goal being to create a perfect model of the universe, and no ego at stake. More »

Why Do So Many Criminals Wear Spider-Man Masks? Was The Daily Bugle Right All Along?

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:30:00 PDT

Yesterday, a weirdly polite criminal dressed in a Spider-Man mask and armed with a screwdriver robbed a video store near Sydney, Australia. This is just the latest in a long string of Spidey-masked crimes around the world. What gives? More »

Dark Knight Marketing Campaign Goes Berzerk

Kevin Kelly — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:40:17 PST

We couldn't be more excited about Batman: The Dark Knight... or more sick of Warner Bros.' marketing campaign for the movie. When it was just sky-writing planes over Comic-Con and "Jokerized" dollar bills, we were sort of amused. But when Warner started baking Joker-cakes, we got indigestion. A gallery of weird schwag and a rundown of crazed marketing, after the jump. More »