Being a scientist is hard work, but being a mad scientist is even harder. There are so many additional dangers, and you can rarely even recognize them, because, you know, you’re mad and all. I highly recommend all mad scientists tape these 11 “don’ts” on their fridge or hunchbacked assistant, whichever they see most.
Do vampires pee? An investigative study
In this week's "Postal Apocalypse," we reveal the incredible secret excretory systems of vampires, figure out what you need to be watching on Netflix, and discover a war that's also a paradox... a paradox of death. Read on, but don’t forget to send your questions to postman@io9.com!
Watch Hoverboard an entire short film dedicated to the wonder of Back…
Remember the first time you played Jurassic Park raptor kitchen or blew up the Death Star from your backyard? The adorable little film Hoverboard takes us all back to the time when great movies such as Back To The Future Part II would inspire hours of make-believe. Directed by Sydney Freeland for the 2013 PBS Online…
20 Lies Back to the Future II Told Us (Besides the Hoverboard)
I think it's safe to say we're not getting our hoverboards. Despite the 2015 Back to the Future Part II showed us, it's 2013 and we can't even make a non-hovering replica of the hoverboard correctly
The 10 Least Competent Time Travelers
Time travel is a tricky subject. Questions of causality, the butterfly effect, what happens when timelines differ — all these can be extremely confusing, which might explain why there are so many shitty time travelers out there. In movies, TV shows, books, whatever, there are plenty of jerks who obliviously wreak…
The Worst Scifi Snubs in Oscar History
It's Oscar season, so brace yourself for more snubs when it comes to science fiction movies. Speculative fiction has a crummy track record when it comes to the Academy Awards, and even when an iconic scifi flick scores Oscar nods, it tends to be ignored in everything but the technical categories (see: E.T., Star Wars, …
The 40 Most Amazing Toys From Toy Fair 2013
Every year, New York's Toy Fair offers the biggest, most astounding display of upcoming collectibles and toys you will soon be lusting after. Today, we hit the floors of Javits Center in New York City and perused the panoply of playthings on display. Here's the very best of what we saw. These are the 40 toys that will …
Witness Back to the Future II's homages to It's a Wonderful Life
Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis is a great fan of that alternate reality holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, and he's never made a secret of the fact that the Biff-ruled Hill Valley of Back to the Future Part II is an homage to the neon-filled Pottersville George Bailey travels through. This video,…
This Back to the Future/Doctor Who mash-up is just so damn perfect
Who knew Back to the Future and Doctor Who would blend together so perfectly? This adorable mash-up cartoon from James Farr casts Rory as Marty, Amy as Jennifer, The Doctor as The Doc (obviously), and River Song as Clara (from BttF 3, not the new Who series). It's just all too perfect for words. Get this on the…
Where we're going, we don't need roads, but we do need this official…
We're probably not getting hoverboards in 2015, bt at least we have the consolation of knowing that Lego approved an actual, licensed Back to the Future DeLorean set for release in the middle of next year. The set - which should include the necessarily Legos to modify the DeLorean for all three movies, as well as…
