For all you would-be scoundrels, here's a recent medical paper that will be of interest. It's about the dangers of swallowing your prizes. In a new paper, two academics detail a case about a diamond theft gone south. Literally. [io9]

This week a Minnesota man was convicted of aiding in the suicides of two people he met online while posing as a female nurse. He gave them advice on painless ways to die, and entered suicide pacts with them. [io9]

The New York Times has taken a firm stand: Game of Thrones, the venerable paper argues, is for boys only. How bizarre is that? The show is obviously targeted exclusively at women. Here's why. [io9]

What you're looking at are neurons grown from a schizophrenic person. An incredible study, published today in Nature, reveals how scientists grew schizophrenic brain cells to understand the inner workings of this still-mysterious neurological disorder. [io9]

Sucker Punch is such a bad movie that it raises the bar for what counts as terrible. This film will crystallize for you all those half-formed thoughts about what's wrong with Hollywood. [io9]

Over the past few weeks, we've sought to understand the science behind the disaster in Japan. But a fascinating statistic from Wikipedia shows that hits on "Godzilla" jumped tremendously after the disaster too. What does this say about us? [io9]

Yesterday we learned that Blade Runner was getting a sequel or a prequel. We spoke with the producers behind the project, and asked them your burning questions. So, will it be Blade Runner 2 or Blade Runner Origins? [io9]

The Thierry Mugler men's show—featuring Lady Gaga's new single and co-designed by her stylist Nicola Formichetti—opened Paris Fashion Week today. All the models wore plastic bags and one even looked like a zombie. Did we expect anything less?

It wasn't easy convincing the network bigwigs that Star Trek was a sure thing but Roddenberry was on a mission. Here Shatner talks about how the show moved on from its rough start to become a vehicle for social commentary.

While watching the Lord of the Rings movies—or reading the books, I suppose—did you ever wonder if the ring was really only able to be destroyed in the fiery pits of Mordor? This alternate ending answers the question.

The new year has arrived and it is awful, what with bird/fish/crab death, floods, freezing temperatures, and zombie ex-Vice Presidents. So let's just put it all out there and list the reasons why this is already the worst year ever.

When making Back to the Future II, as I'm sure you know, the final scene of BttF had to be reshot to include Elizabeth Shue as the new Jennifer. Here, just because, is a side-by-side comparison of the two.

The classic 60s' TV series Batman causes a number of people to recall bright, poorly timed sound bubbles with ridiculous words like "ZOK" written in them, but that wasn't all they should remember. Batman was dropping knowledge left and right.

Watch a "lost" blooper reel containing the iconic 80's wise cracking extra terrestrial puppet dropping the N-bomb and more. The footage comes from a YouTube user that bought the footage as a VHS tape off of Ebay ten years ago.

In case you haven't noticed, a pasty fugitive hacker has been at war with the U.S. government for the past few weeks while his minions use the net to attack global corporations. So what's all the fuss about?

Last night at dusk, a mystery missile was launched near Los Angeles, as reported by LA's KCBS. Neither the navy nor the military have claimed the missile yet, so far its origin remains unknown. Their report inside.

Back to the Future and its sequels have been quite the rage this week, certainly around these parts. But with the good must come the bad. While we love it, here is a collection of some of the film's mistakes.

Five years from now, Marty McFly will show up in Hill Valley to save his kids. We wanted to see just how prophetic Zemeckis was in 1989, when he designed Hill Valley: 2015. Find out after the jump!

On August 2nd, 2010, College Humor posted an original video: a parody of Inception written by Dan Gurewitch and David Young. Two days ago, South Park aired a new episode: a parody of Inception that seemed strangely familiar.