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Drug-Maker Funds Study Showing Why Some People Can Be Cured with Placebos
In one of those weird moments in corporate science, pharma mega-corp GlaxoSmithKline has funded a Swedish study that looked into the genetic underpinnings of susceptibility to placebos. Turns out that certain people are more easily cured by fake sugar pills (placebos) than others. Is Glaxo trying to figure out which people it needs to eliminate in order to ensure a population entirely dependent on drugs for their cures? [via ScienceNow]
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Sarah Connor Chronicles recap
A Piece Of The Terminator Action
Top ho! It's a 1920s Terminator speakeasy party, with flappers doing the Charleston and some positively ripping cocktails. I've been excited for the killing-machine-meets-Valentino episode of Sarah Connor Chronicles since I read some pages from the script, and it was just as mold-breaking as I'd hoped. I'm beginning to think this show's at its best when it's doing a weird digression, rather than trying to push the overall plot forward. More » -
Concept Art
How You'll Get Around in Style After the First Global Superwinter
We're all worried about climate change, but few of us have really considered the cool new vehicles we'll get to use when the world become a snow-blanketed mess like in The Day After Tomorrow. Luckily, the Russians are all about getting through the 100-year winter in style. Here's a late-50s Victory aerosled design by Russian engineer I. Kamov. And it's not just crazy concept art - we've got the pictures to prove these babies are already hotrodding the frozen plains.
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Flash Forward
Can ABC Do Justice To Sawyer's Mind-Bending Novel?
The new ABC drama Flash Forward is picking up the first members of its cast. And it sounds more and more as though the show, based on a novel by Robert J. Sawyer about a worldwide prophetic blackout, will be a worthy companion in weirdness to ABC's Lost and Life On Mars. More » -
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Choose Your Wonder Woman
Having already chosen a lead actor for the Captain America movie, Newsarama.com are asking their readers to now pick who should play Wonder Woman, if her movie ever makes it out of development hell. But while we've got no problem with two of the three choices (The odd one out is Megan Fox - Sorry, she's really not the Amazon type), what we want to know is: Where's Beyonce? Go and announce your preference here [Newsarama.com]
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Failed franchises
Why Is It So Hard To Start A New Franchise?
In an alternate universe, we're all obsessing about the impending release of The Matrix V and Chronicles Of Riddick 9. Even as we're drowning in retreads of things that launched in the 1960s, just think of all the more recent works that tried — and failed — to launch a franchise. Why is it so difficult?
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Video Games
Video Game Re-Animates Lovecraft’s Herbert West
In H.P. Lovecraft’s proto-zombie story “Herbert West - Reanimator” the titular doctor uses a serum to whip reanimated corpses into frightening violence. In a new free game online, you get a chance to become West. Your mission: Bring the dead back to a semblance of life while making sure no one gets eaten. More » -
Street Fighter
Kristin Kreuk Lets Her Chun-Li Legs Fly, Yuuup Yup!
Workin' the pole to her advantage, Chun Li yup yups some deadly power kicks straight into the faces of her assailants, in the new live-action Street Fighter movie. Kotaku got their hands on a few new action stills from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, showing our main lady kicking some ass with her infamous meaty gams. More » -
Lost
Who's That At Kate's Door, In Lost Season Five?
Why is Kate packing her suitcase in a hurry, in all those Lost season five trailers you've been seeing? It's probably not why you think. Here's a clip from the upcoming season opener, that explains just what kind of crazy scrape she's gotten into this time. More » -
Eleventh Hour
Eleventh Hour Gets Fourteenth Through Eighteenth Hours As Well
It may not be a favorite around these here parts, but Eleventh Hour has proven popular enough with the rest of America to be given a full-season order by CBS... Well, an almost full season, anyway. More » -
Star Trek: The New Frontier
Peter David's Star Trek Soap Opera Sails Onwards
Can you believe the Star Trek: New Frontier book series has already been going for 20+ books? It's hard to imagine. The longer Peter David's little corner of the Trek universe has gone on, the more soap-operatic it's gotten. And the trend looks set to continue with the forthcoming Treason, which just announced a pub date, cover and synopsis. More » -
Lost
A Peek Into The Anti-Lost Backlash Of 2011
Here's a flash-forward, featuring Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse talking about the show's fourth season from a few years in the future, after their fans have turned on them and gouged Lindelof's eye out. They showed this hilarious featurette as part of an online conference promoting the show's season-four DVDs, which will include all of the season's flash-forwards in linear form as an extra. The producers also spelled out a bit more of what to expect in season five. More » -
Afternoon reading
Optimistic Scifi Story Stars Videogamer with Martian Dreams
Earlier this year, science fiction writer Jason Stoddard wrote a manifesto calling for “positive” science fiction that's optimistic about the future and features protagonists who can effect real change. The manifesto started a debate about whether positive science fiction could create compelling stories. Stoddard’s latest short story “Willpower” is his attempt to prove his point with a tale of a post-scarcity future, a down-on-his-luck gamer, and a mission to Mars. More » -
Meteor hit
The Fearless Meteorite Hunters of Saskatchewan
After a 10-ton meteor exploded in a spectacular fireball over the Canadian province Saskatchewan two weeks ago, the hunt was on to find fragments of the space rock. Researchers and local enthusiasts descended on the area around Marsden, Sask, and have found dozens of fragments like the one pictured here - discovered on an icy lake by Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley. Already, the researchers have learned a lot from the recovered meteorite bits. More » -
The Force Of Lotus Is With You
A Man And His Car: George Lucas' Senior Thesis Film Found!
FROM JALOPNIK.COM: Before there was Han, Luke and Chewy, or even Indiana Jones and a whip, George Lucas created A Man and His Car, his senior thesis film at USC focused solely on Peter Brock and his Lotus 23 race car. Also knows as 1:42:08, the short is essentially a quickly edited representation of a racecar driver... More » -
Justice League
Is George Miller's Justice League Officially Dead?
Reports are hitting the web that director George Miller is no longer attached to Warner Bros' planned Justice League movie, owing to a change of direction that'll make the movie into a bigger-name rival to Marvel's Avengers. Could it be true?
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