- Our own Moxie Munroe will be speaking at illogiCon this Saturday! Visit her Women and Geek Culture panel at 4pm, and then go back for some more in the Podcasting panel at 6pm!
- For our history buffs, Life has some excellent and sobering photos of WWII, including this color shot of a female welder at a building yard.
- Guillermo del Toro discusses his latest projects, including Mama and Dark Universe.
- Benedict Cumberbatch is just as annoyed as the fans are about not being able to talk about his character in Star Trek Into Darkness.
- We got our first look at Katniss and Finnick from Catching Fire, and… we’re still Team Jesse Williams.
- Tina Fey is in talks to star in The Muppets sequel, alongside Ricky Gervais.
- Aladdin is coming to Broadway! Hopefully to include some of the characters and songs that were cut from the original animated film.
- Possibly the best “who said it?” quote quiz ever: is it a Jay-Z lyric or a Great Gatsby quote? This has resulted in both gloating and shamefaced defeat in our editorial group.
- In sad science news, the U.S. came in second place (behind Turkey) as a Western country with the least acceptance of the theory of evolution.
- Check out this adorable sneak peek of Pixar’s latest animated short.
- With the recent high profile rape cases both in Delhi and Steubenville, we hope this piece helps people see the exact extent and reach of rape culture.
- First the Ikea Monkey, and now Prison Break Kitty?
- Running on an Intelcore 5 processor, the Papertab folds and bends like paper, but isn’t! It needs to be plugged in in order to function, and only really works for documents and files, but totally fascinating nonetheless.
- How horses can help curb internet and pornography addictions. Get your mind out of the gutter!
- Hackbright Academy: a women-only school in San Francisco that teaches its students everything they’ll need to know to become entry-level programmers (and get jobs!) within 10 weeks.
- At least one letter of STEM is well represented by women: Math!
- A hypothesis that gender bias in STEM starts even earlier than thought.
- From Science Fiction to Science FACT!
- This year’s Puppy Bowl just got better, with the addition of hedgehog cheerleaders! Tune in for the cuteness on Feb. 3!
- Nominees at the 15th Independent Games Festival have been announced, including an honorable mention in the Excellence in Narrative category for Papo & Yo, a game we previously covered here on the site.
- John Cho gets dissed by Morrissey.
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