This past year , we went on some amazingly strange journeys and made some bizarre discoveries . We ventured into realm of weird science , and delved into the meaning of pop civilisation . We ask some dangerous interrogative sentence — and sometimes , the upshot were too complicated to churn down to a few jaunty paragraphs .
So here are the well long reads that io9 published in 2012 , include essays as well as news media .
Top simulacrum : Just one of the dazzling figure of speech from the image and VFX design studio Framestore that io9 was lucky enough to feature in 2012 — this one was part of a jubilation of our dreams of space exploration at the American Museum of Natural History . See more beautiful image here .
https://gizmodo.com/planetscape-paintings-from-an-interstellar-journey-5926862
https://gizmodo.com/i-paid-strangers-50-to-tie-me-up-and-scare-the-shit-ou-5948758
I tardily make my way down a hall lit only by the glowing of a few TVs strewn about the floor . As I creep forward , so does a shape on the screens . The footage is a hot feed of myself projected onto each boob tube . More »
https://gizmodo.com/corvids-the-birds-who-think-like-humans-5969515
Someday I will come up with a good intellect why I am champion with the neighborhood crows . For now , I can say that it start up when I reckon up from my office window to see this adult flock of line-shooting hanging out on the roof of an flat building nearby . More »
https://gizmodo.com/are-allergies-for-real-5875793
allergic reaction were passably much wholly nameless until the get-go of the twentieth century , and allergic disease have skyrocket in the last twenty years , and well over one-half of all Americans are supersensitive to an airborne message . More »
https://gizmodo.com/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-u-5886178
Mass Effect is epic . It ’s the product of the best parts of Star Trek , Star Wars , Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the sexual love - nipper of Picard , Skywalker , and Starbuck . More »
http://io9.com/5964672/is-every-living-thing-on-earth-related
We ’re distantly related , you and I. Somewhere deep in the past , the two of us portion out a common ascendant . The same can be said for us and chimps . Or Pan troglodytes and alligator . But what about alligators and sycamore trees ? Or humankind and Tyrannosaurus male monarch ? Are you and I , as paleontology expert Brian Switek place it , distant ( remote , distant , distant ) cousins of the great , tyrant lizard?More »
https://gizmodo.com/is-game-of-thrones-gratuitous-sex-worse-than-the-gratui-5906540
One of the biggest thing people noticed about Sunday ’s episode of Game of Thrones was something that was n’t there : nakedness and expressed sex . The show totally failed to meet whatever quota you might think it would have for naked skin and heaving bosominess . More »
https://gizmodo.com/how-autism-is-changing-the-world-for-everybody-5928135
There ’s not much doubt that autism , along with Asperger Syndrome , is finally becoming accepted as a normal part of the human material . Even if some people still see autism as a condition that needs to be “ treat , ” it ’s more and more obvious that people on the autism spectrum are finding way to win in our neurotypical - based society . More »
https://gizmodo.com/why-i-write-strong-female-characters-5912366
If you ’re intimate at all with my oeuvre , you ’ve noted that , not only do I oft indite stories with female characters as my protagonists , but these woman share certain trait . They tend to be quite chic , if not all of them well - educated . They lean to be physically dynamic , most up to of taking a punch as well as contrive one . They be given to be driven , end - orientate , and uncoerced to go to great lengths to stop up their aim . More »
http://orig.io9.com/5957024/why-cant-we-stop-a-hurricane-before-it-hits-us
We can send people into space and put vehicle on Mars – why ca n’t we stop a hurricane in its racecourse , before it comes to our major population centers and starts roll for damage ? Here are some methods that the great unwashed have suggested for preventing , or stopping , a hurricane – and why they might not knead . More »
https://gizmodo.com/technologies-that-weve-lost-and-the-quest-to-find-the-5881149
Greek fire . Damascus blade . These are two technological innovations whose secrets are tell to be lose to clock time . Even the original schematics for the Apollo missions have disappeared into the mist of account , forever hidden inside hopelessly obsolete calculator . More »
https://gizmodo.com/why-manga-publishing-is-dying-and-how-it-could-get-bet-5874951
If in 2007 , manga was like a foreign motion picture virtuoso who had come on American shore to make it big , the last four years have been like watching that star run away out of role , persist out of money , deal their theatre , go into rehab , and end up just hitch along in infomercials . More »
https://gizmodo.com/how-nasa-might-build-its-very-first-warp-drive-5963263
A few months ago , physicist Harold White daze the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his squad at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster - than - light warp private road . More »
https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-women-denied-abortions-this-is-the-fir-5958187
Abortion is a heatedly debated and poorly studied medical operation . There are a few studies of dubious hardiness that connect miscarriage to mental illness and drug use . More »
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