BLACK VELVET PLANET | An astonishing photo of Saturn , backlit by the sunshine , from the Cassini Space Probe . More inside information here .
https://gizmodo.com/this-rare-view-of-saturn-is-among-the-most-awe-inspirin-5969581
Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2012
http://io9.com/5969645/best-and-worst-science-fictionfantasy-movies-of-2012
This was a pretty good year to be a fan of musical style movies . More and more low - budget movies had the courageousness to undertake scientific discipline fiction and fantasy themes , and meanwhile Hollywood seemed to ill-treat up its plot a little . More »
https://gizmodo.com/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-humans-5969515
Someday I will come up with a well reason why I am champion with the neighborhood Crow . For now , I can say that it started when I looked up from my place windowpane to see this big flock of bragging hang out on the cap of an flat construction nearby . More »
https://gizmodo.com/the-middle-earth-illustrators-j-r-r-tolkien-loved-and-5968792
While Peter Jackson ’s Lord of the Rings trilogy , and now The Hobbit movie may be how many modern folks see Middle Earth , it ’s important to remember that the first person to illustrate J.R.R. Tolkien ’s world was Tolkien himself . Tolkien had a very clear sense of how mediate Earth should and should not take care , and while he had doubtfulness about his own abilities as an illustrator , he also had very stiff opinion about other artists who tried to draw his world and his characters . Here are some of the illustrator whose works discover favor with Tolkien - and a few who appeal his artistic ire . More »
http://io9.com/5969802/when-will-we-finally-have-a-world-government
Political scientist and science fiction writers alike have long been taken with the idea that humans would one mean solar day organize a global authorities . Yet few of us take this candidate very seriously , often dismissing it as an outright impossibleness or very far off in the futurity . More »
https://gizmodo.com/marvel-writer-dan-slott-is-getting-death-threats-for-th-5969554
When writer Dan Slott verbalise about the final , 700th - emergence of The Amazing Spider - Man , he told Comic Book Reources that “ I ’m going into hiding after issue # 700 comes out . I ’m not looking at message display board . I ’m not poking my head up out of that jam , because what happens in issue # 700 is big!”More »
https://gizmodo.com/woman-undergoes-untested-stem-cell-wrinkle-treatment-s-5969830
Let it be said that stem cell therapy may well be the future of medicine , but untested fore cellular phone therapies have the potential to give rise to the stuff of incubus . More »
https://gizmodo.com/8-signs-that-pop-culture-is-finally-done-with-the-apoca-5969449
The earth has end , civilization has collapsed , the undead hordes have infest everything . We ’ve consider the apocalypse so many times , even Roland Emmerich is bored with it . More »
https://gizmodo.com/that-crazy-video-of-a-golden-eagle-trying-to-make-off-w-5969695
merriment Formidable fact about lucky eagle : it is estimated that the talons of these doll can exert up to 750 pound sterling per square inch ( 5.2 MPa ) of pressure when buckle at prey . More »
https://gizmodo.com/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-of-2012-5969670
This year was a great one for science fable and phantasy that exceed genre bounds . novel that appear to be science fabrication turn out to be fantasies , and stories that begin as out space struggle turned into thought - elicit meditations on the political future of humanity . More »
https://gizmodo.com/shot-by-shot-breakdown-of-all-the-plot-details-hidden-i-5969114
Earlier today a new trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness beam , filled with conniption of death and destruction . What clue are hidden in the new scenes?More »
https://gizmodo.com/the-great-filter-theory-suggests-humans-have-already-co-5970501
It ’s hard to not be pessimistic when considering humanness ’s succeeding prospects . Many people would agree that it ’s more likely than not that we ’ll eventually do ourselves in . More »
https://gizmodo.com/a-child-s-treasury-of-13-horrible-frank-miller-comic-pa-5969808
Frank Miller is a champion whose seminal whole works helped transform strip in the ’ 80s from a tiddler ’s mass medium to a legitimately take art shape . unluckily , he ’s recently been under attack … by Frank Miller . More »
https://gizmodo.com/diphallia-when-men-are-born-with-two-penises-5968324
This term is one that you could guess if you really thought about the Latin name . Some men are born with two clear-cut penises . Although the shape is extremely rarified , doctors know exactly why it occurs . More »
https://gizmodo.com/the-best-anime-series-youve-probably-never-seen-5969198
Urusei Yatsura was the sci - fi Simpsons of ‘ 80s Japan . It was rummy , cagy , and originative to the percentage point of insanity . It star a sexy extraterrestrial in a bikini . More »
https://gizmodo.com/72-years-of-batman-logos-on-a-single-poster-5968803
Cathryn Lavery traces the evolution of Batman ( or at least his at-bat - work marketing ) with this poster , taking us from 1940 ’s Batman & Robin : The son Wonder to the shattered bat logo from The Dark Knight uprise . More »
https://gizmodo.com/the-best-and-worst-television-moments-of-2012-5969989
What were the most amazingly brilliant moments ( and the most horrific scenes ) delivered by the almighty television this year ? We ’ve rounded up the very good bits from a whole year of obsessional TV observance . More »
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