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Why this fish has teeth all over its body

February 16, 2012 – This beautiful image of a skate fish embryo reveals something truly extraordinary about the scales on its body. As University of Cambridge biologist Andrew Gillis explains, they are, in fact, quite similar to human teeth. [io9]

Margaret Atwood's chickie nobs spring to mind.

I think this list is awesome - I had never heard of most of these poets and their work sounds amazing. Frankly I'd always rather find out about new writers. Especially when they aren't all dudes. Not that I don't love dudes. I've just read a LOT of them.

under the microscope

A luminescent portrait of cell movements in a developing embryo

February 13, 2012 – Imagine if you could track the movement of every single cell in a developing embryo, discovering what each undifferentiated cell turned into. It could allow you to reverse-engineer the construction of an organism. [io9]

Embryo porn? I think that may fall outside even the capacious Rule 34.

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io9 Book Club Reminder: Meeting 2/21 to discuss Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus

February 9, 2012 – The io9 Book Club meets every month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In February, we're meeting on the 21st to discuss Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. [io9]

And this is why I'm sad about ocean acidification. These poor little Cthulhus can't survive it.

I just figured our site was so plastered with ads for the show that people would be sick of seeing TONIGHT ON ABC at 9!

Agreed about miniseries. I love the way the BBC will say "here are 6 or 8 episodes." That's it! We're not drawing it out.

Three reasons to watch The River tonight, and one reason not to

February 7, 2012 – Produced by Steven Spielberg, and created by Paranormal Activity writer/director Oren Peli, new TV series The River boasts some pretty great credentials out of the gate. [io9]

Thanks for this moving comment - you've got a lot of fans here!

PLUS: In silhouette, the villain looks like a small Gojira.

You are a role model for us all.

Yeah, especially with this heated blanked cranked up to 11.

This is what it looks like when cancer gets smacked down by a T cell

February 6, 2012 – This incredible video captures a showdown between cancer cells and the T cells that act as the shock troops for your immune system. That's right - you're actually watching a T cell defeat cancer. [io9]

Alright everybody chill out. Seriously - personal attacks and insults are bannable offenses on io9 and we love you all and don't want to ban you.

A honeypot is not a rootkit - it doesn't "attack" you and start listening on your network and all its peripherals.

hur hur hur

I actually saw that r00t had put a directory on MY COMPUT0RZ yesterday! She is everywhere!

As well as the nice girl who works with the daughter in the restaurant on Big Love.

We Come from the Future

chemistry 2:20 PM 6 Why You Should Never Eat Acid Snow
space 1:50 PM 502 Earth’s orbit is swarming with debris — meet the satellite designed to clean it up
secret history 1:43 PM 1,442 The Short, Strange History of Decimal Time
holy crap wtf 1:40 PM 2,440 Incredibly NSFW, anatomically correct Hobbit doll will crush your very soul
tv recap 1:38 PM 384 On Vampire Diaries, being the bad guy is an act of self-sacrifice
short films 12:55 PM 2,330 Behold, Inception: The Theme Park
secret history 12:40 PM 1,742 The Lost Art of Detecting Incoming Aircraft Using Your Ears
mad science 12:20 PM 1,074 Frozen fruit fly larva brings us one step closer to cryogenics
afternoon reading 12:15 PM 10,076 Meet the youngest person on Earth to achieve nuclear fusion
secret history 12:00 PM 3,080 The Year Without a Summer, and How It Spawned Frankenstein
this is awesome 11:35 AM 4,768 This little boy and his drivable R2-D2 robot will make you misty-eyed
awake 11:20 AM 3,316 Watch the entire pilot for Awake right now
friday gallery 11:00 AM 4,092 What is best in life? Epic Barbarian Art!
mad science 10:40 AM 4,839 Was stonehenge based on a "magical" auditory illusion?
daily 10 10:30 AM 11,999 Albert Einstein’s 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes