http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/jezebel http://io9.com/tag/jezebel When most Saturday Night Live cast members are asked where they got their career started, we tend to hear the same answers: Chicago's Second City, L.A.'s Groundlings, and the UCB Theater right here in New York. Kristen Wiig, however, has a much more interesting story to tell. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5800504&view=rss&microfeed=true Action heroines are rare creatures. The earliest were female versions of pre-existing male heros, like Wonder Woman, BatGirl and SuperGirl. Some more recent heroines have their roots in fantasy or sci-fi, like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Selene from Underworld, or Alice from Resident Evil. But while there are plenty of realistic male heroes who run, jump and fight without being cartoony or existing in a vampire realm - think Jason Bourne, James Bond or Ethan Hunt - there are very female counterparts. via [Jezebel] More »
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With police investigations in shambles, a group of self-described superheroes have formed to protect sex workers from the serial killer menacing the New York area. More »
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We've already grown tired of the glistening abs of last year's vampires and werewolves. Edward is cold, and Jacob is yesterday's puppy chow. 2011 is ushering a whole crop of shirtless, sweaty supernatural playthings just ripe for our ranking. So here they are the best — and the worst — of the year's new supernatural specimens, ready for your objectification. More »
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Science fiction, pop music, and reality are chock full o' artificial intelligences that can carry a tune. Here's an entire roster of fantastic singing she-bots who can croon circles around The Rock-A-Fire Explosion. More »
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With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the internet. No online communication could pass in or out of the country. We investigated whether a similar lockdown could happen in America. More »
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We're totally obsessed with the unicorn woman who appeared, as if by magic, in the middle of On Aura Tout Vu's bird-themed show, at the Spring-Summer 2011 Haute Couture Collection Show in Paris. What are her powers? Where's the pegasus? More »
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Every day at 10 AM, we're going to bring you a list of ten things - maybe they're cool, or noteworthy, or just plain weird. But they all go together. Welcome to the first Daily 10. More »
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With global bee populations shrinking drastically, designer Karen Ingham's decided our winged pollinating friends need all the help they can get. Enter the Pollinator Frock, a garment doused in a nectar-like solution that's designed to help foraging bees. More »
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Nicolas Cage may have hoped Season of the Witch would be a searing Medieval war drama with monsters — but it has more of a Monty Python feel to it. Are you ready to meet the Knights who say Nic? More »
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Normally we don't cover reality TV nonsense like The Bachelor. BUT, last night's dating TV show really threw us a doozy. A bachelorette showed up with vampire fangs. Now she has to wear them for the rest of the show. More »
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The Czech Republic has been administering phallometric tests to determine whether homosexual asylum-seekers from gay-unfriendly countries are actually gay. Needless to say, no one is particularly enthused by this policy. More »
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A single finger bone found in this Siberian cave led to an amazing discovery. Early humans and Neanderthals co-existed with another humanoid species called Denisovans. And many present-day humans carry genes that prove our ancestors had children with Denisovans, too. More »
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What exactly is the half-life of celebrity? A new field called culturomics has the answer. Using the largest linguistic database ever created - Google Books - culturomics experts track things like "lexical dark matter," and how long fame really lasts. More »
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Maid Cafes are a tradition in Tokyo's otaku-centric Akihabara neighborhood. People say they're a romantic version of strip clubs: Instead of lapdances, you buy innocent displays of affection. How does it feel to pay for puppy love? I found out. More »
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So, Darren Aronofsky's scary ballerina movie. It's like nothing he's done before, or anybody else for that matter. Is it breathtaking? Is it profound? Is it silly? Does it get a bit muddled? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Warner Bros. had half the right idea with their Buffy the Vampire Slayer remake. It's about time somebody picked up the baton Joss Whedon dropped seven freaking years ago. But we don't need more Buffy, just more heroes like her. More »
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The $65-million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is not unlike eating a caramel-covered, poisonous arachnid. It's a deranged spectacle that's sweet going down. More »
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The early success of AMC series Walking Dead confirms it: Though zombies have been hot for a while, they are now officially the new vampires. Why do Americans love zombies, and what does it say about us? More »
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With the final Harry Potter book coming to the screen this week, the Potter pipeline's about to run dry. Many people have been clamoring for J.K. Rowling to write more Hogwarts epics — but that would be a dreadful mistake. More »
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The human brain is one of the most remarkable things on this planet...but that doesn't mean it can't make mistakes, particularly when it comes to how we see the world. Here are five mind-blowing optical illusions and how they work. More »
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, opening next week, there are seven Harry Potters. But in real life, there have been way more Potters than that. Here's the complete list of stories that people have accused of copying Potter. More »
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Do your feet feel like this? If you're a fan of sugary drinks, there's a significant chance you've got gout — and it's not just soda that's to blame. More »
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We can't prevent environmental disasters without preparing for them. That's why io9 is going to pay $2000 each to two people who write the best stories about environmental disaster. It's io9's Environmental Writing Contest - for science fiction and non-fiction. More »
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A few years ago, some mathematicians analyzed the US Congress using network theory, trying to determine which committees were linked by shared members. They discovered that the connections between committees and subcommittees changed markedly when Congress was dominated by Republicans. More »
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In a desperate attempt to stay relevant, director Uwe Boll is making a ridiculously offensive fatsploitation movie called Blubberella. "She will kick major ass - with her major ass." Dear Hollywood, please stop giving this man money. Love, the universe. More »
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Why do elections always come right after Halloween? Maybe because politicians love to use zombies, demon sheep and apocalyptic imagery in their ads, so the scariest time of year works perfectly. Here's a video compilation of our favorite horror/apocalyptic spots. More »
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Mission Impossible IV, directed by The Incredibles' Brad Bird, is filming in Prague right now — and here's your first look at Tom Cruise, hanging out in the middle of doing a dangerous stunt. What do you think he's saying? More »
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We've seen Tangled, Disney's latest attempt to revive the great princess movies of its past. While we can't share everything that happens in this movie, suffice to say it transported us back to our childhoods via a pumpkin carriage. More »
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The great challenge for any climber is to conquer each continent's tallest mountain. But tomorrow's climbers can consider a far more extreme challenge: leaving Earth to climb the tallest peaks of the solar system. Here's how they'll do it. More »
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Do we really need another vampire movie? If it's a ridiculous AbFab-style comedy from the director of Clueless, then maybe yes. Check out Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two beautiful vamps... who were turned by vampire queen Sigourney Weaver. More »
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For those of you who weren't thirteen-years-old and female in 1999, Roswell was on after 7th Heaven in the pre-CW golden days of the WB, and almost nobody watched it. More »
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A dark caper whose players stretch from paramilitary contractors in the U.S. to secret label fashion designers who fetishize "slubby" jeans, Zero History is William Gibson's hommage to the fashion industry. Especially its dangerous, geeky, corporate-espionage underpinnings. More »
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Mockingjay, the end of Suzanne Collins' science-fictional Hunger Games trilogy, attracted the kind of fervor usually reserved for YA fantasy like Twilight or Harry Potter. And the good news is, it more than lives up to the hype. More »
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One of the world's tiniest frogs has been discovered in Borneo. At 10-12 mm long, Microhyla nepenthicola may be micro, but its croak is loud. That's how researchers found them, swimming in tiny puddles of water captured by pitcher plants. More »
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In this excerpt from her book The Breakup 2.0, media studies professor Ilana Gershon explains the rituals around breakups on social networks. To defriend or not defriend? What about creating a warning ringtone for your ex? More »
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Pop culture has gone superhero-crazy, but almost all superheroes date from the middle of the last century. Where's the new, fresh costumed adventurer who speaks to the ringtone generation? How about Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel's superstar? More »
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A big part of being a fan of Lost was concocting your own theories, and nobody's guesses were more elaborate than those of Entertainment Weekly's Jeff "Doc" Jensen. Here are 12 Jensen theories that were cooler than the real answers. More »
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io9 contributor Chris Braak will be staging the world premiere of his alternate history play, Empress of the Moon, next week. And you can watch the livestream here on io9! More »
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Michelle Rodriguez kicked ass in Lost and Avatar, but her characters always get killed. Why is that? We managed to corner her at San Diego Comic Con and ask her. More »
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