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Did Star Trek or Doctor Who Mold Your Brain?

I am a devoted Doctor Who fan in a family of Trekkies — and I'm also the only creative writer in a family of electrical engineers. Are those two facts related? What kinds of minds do science fiction shows attract — and, more importantly, what kinds of minds do they create? My first independent research project as an io9 intern will attempt to answer those questions. And it all starts with you. More »

1:30 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Nivair H. Gabriel
3,462 views, 49 comments

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Take the io9 Psychographic Survey

Yes, it's time for our every-few-months psychographic, demographic, non-pornographic survey. As ever, we use this survey find out more about you so that our nice advertising department at Gawker Media can sell more ads in those wee sidebars, and thence allow io9 to continue thriving as the commercially-sponsored free thing that it is. In addition, those nice advertising people are sweetening the pot by offering you a chance to win a $300 Amex gift card if you fill out the survey (winners will be picked at random by evil robots, and some contest rules apply). OK, so fill out the survey already. It will only take about ten minutes.

6:40 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
1,071 views, 39 comments

Latest by Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: The only thing that surprises me is the questions that weren't asked. more »

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Your Sleep Patterns Are Controlled by Television

Human sleep patterns were once controlled by circadian rhythms governed by day and night. But now, according to a new study, almost everyone in the United States has a sleep pattern that's controlled by when they watch TV. A massive survey on time management conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics shows that most people watch TV between 11 - 11:15, dropping off to sleep when they switch the tube off. The hour when nighttime falls affects this pattern very little. Human sleep patterns are therefore more malleable than believed, and it's possible people could change them as easily as changing channels. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Annalee Newitz
10,292 views, 18 comments

Latest by SundaySunday: Sometimes, I like to do what I call "Sleeping in the theater", where I put the bedroom TV on Turner Classic Movies or the Starz Western channel and sleep with it on all night. Sometimes it's cool when the TV sound more »

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Let the Machine Overlords Hear Your Cry in Our Demographic Survey

It's been nearly a month since io9 lowered its shields and initiated signal transmission. Now we want to know more about you, our readers. We've posted a brief demographic survey to harvest your innermost thoughts — but we don't want to know anything privacy-invading like your address or phone number. If you fill it out, you will be entered to win some credits with Amazon. So what will we do with the information on this survey, other than feed it to our machine overlords? More »

8:40 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,360 views, 35 comments

Latest by Katana_Mind: One would have though that advertisers targeting special sub-cultural hangouts like Io9 would be a little more specific in their questionaire. Either they believe that the average net-sawy user is comparable to the average consumer [they would be mistaken] or, more »