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It’s a grim world out there, people. Let’s revel in a moment of lightness—such as Rogue One star Felicity Jones granting everyone from Kylo Ren to Yoda a high school yearbook superlative. Read more… Source: io9

In Jackson Stewart’s Beyond the Gates, brothers whose father has been missing for months make an intriguing discovery in his seemingly abandoned video shop: an old board game that requires a VCR to play, and seems nothing more than a…

Poor Barry. First his best friends start calling him out for altering all of space-time, and then he has to deal with Oliver Queen making him look like a clown in front of all his superfriends. Read more… Source: io9

With the 50th anniversary of Star Trek this year, there is time to ponder all the things about the show that have managed to last this long. Among them is the design of the U.S.S. Enterprise and why it worked…

A 17th century map was found in a chimney in Scotland and then delivered to the National Library of Scotland crumpled inside a plastic bag and basically destroyed. Just unraveling the fragile, centuries-old map seemed impossible enough, but the team…

Akira is considered an all-time classic in animation for many reasons—but one rarely championed is the way it uses light in the movie to support Katsuhiro Otomo’s commentary on the grim future of Neo-Tokyo. Read more… Source: io9

When you think of vampires, chances are you think of Anne Rice’s Lestat—gothic, beautiful, tortured, romantic, everything that has practically defined the creatures in pop culture since Rice wrote Interview With the Vampire in 1976. But in her new book,…

Humans do not treat the Earth kindly, and now we have even more evidence. Google just updated the Google Earth Engine to include four years of additional imagery, petabytes of new data, and generally a much clearer view of any…