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io9The Last of Us Head Wants to ‘Decouple’ the HBO Show From the Game Experience
There have been many attempts to turn video games into successful movies and TV shows, like Assassin’s Creed, Tomb Raider, and Super Mario Bros. Sony is still trying to make Uncharted happen. For the most part they’ve all fallen short. Craig Mazin, who’s working on HBO’s The Last of Us, shared his thoughts on the … Continued
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EartherSci-Fi Fanatics Suspected of Arson as Wildfires Near Chernobyl Create World’s Worst Air Pollution
Wildfires are burning yet again in the area outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The latest round of blazes has sent smoke traveling to the capital of Kyiv, creating some of the worst air pollution in the world. The Chernobyl area has been on fire off and on since last week, and in … Continued
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EartherTwo of Chernobyl’s Largest Wildfires on Record Are Out
More than a week has passed since two major fires broke out inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. They were inching closer to the shuttered power plant and the radioactive waste now disposed of on-site as hundreds of firefighter battled the blazes. As of Tuesday, however, the fires appear to be out. With the help of some … Continued
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EartherConservationThis Is What the Chernobyl Wildfires Look Like From Space
Chernobyl is still on fire. Satellite images captured Thursday by Planet Labs show wildfires inching closer to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The fires first started Saturday inside the 1,000-square mile exclusion zone centered around the plant, which suffered a massive explosion in 1986. Radiation levels spiked to 16 times higher than normal … Continued
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Tech NewsRadiation Around Chernobyl Is 16 Times Higher Than Normal After Forest Fires
Fighting forest fires inside Chernobyl’s dreaded exclusion zone sounds awful, but that’s exactly what nearly 150 emergency responders had to contend with this past weekend, as a pair of blazes broke out near the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. As CNN reports, the blaze began Saturday inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, which encompasses an … Continued
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io9The Last of Us Is Heading to HBO, Courtesy of the Mind Behind Chernobyl
Sony might be struggling to get one Naughty Dog video game adaptation off the ground already with Uncharted, but another is already a go on TV. And it has some very interesting names behind it. There had been rumors of an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s seminal post-apocalyptic action-drama—which followed survivors Joel (Troy Baker) and Ellie … Continued
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EartherConservationFukushima’s Exclusion Zone Is Being Overtaken by Wild Animals
The success of wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been well documented, most recently in the Netflix series Our Planet. New research shows that wildlife are experiencing a similar flourishing in the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan. No matter how much humans screw up the planet, nature seems to find a way to rebound … Continued
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Tech NewsChernobyl’s Infamous Reactor 4 Control Room Is Now Open to Tourists
The “highly radioactive” control room at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s Reactor 4 at the center of the facility’s infamous 1986 catastrophe is open for tourists, so long as they wear a protective suit, helmet, and gloves while inside, CNN reported. Chernobyl tour agencies confirmed to the network that the control room is now open for … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryThis Bottle of Vodka Was Made From Grain Grown Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Grains and water from Chernobyl’s dreaded exclusion zone have been used to produce a single bottle of vodka. Called ATOMIK, the vodka could revolutionize the way land is reclaimed in the radioactive region surrounding the beleaguered nuclear power plant. A collaboration involving scientists from the UK and Ukraine has produced radioactive-free vodka from crops grown … Continued
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EartherCreator of HBO’s Chernobyl Asks People Not to Snap Embarrassing Photos at Disaster Site
HBO’s Chernobyl has ignited a newfound interest in our relationship with nuclear power and the impacts of one of the worst nuclear disasters with history. It’s also wildly popular, which means it was only a matter of time people started looking to cash in on the moment on social media. Tourism in the Exclusion Zone—an … Continued
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Tech NewsChernobyl, Schrödinger’s Cat, and Telegram Terrorists: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Happy Sunday evening! Hopefully the events of the last week have been going better for you than YouTube, which spent an impossibly long time flailing around like a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man after refusing to remove videos of a conservative internet personality taunting a journalist with racist, homophobic harassment. Hopefully the week … Continued
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EartherClimate Change Is Our Generation’s Chernobyl Moment to Tell the Truth
HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries has reinvigorated our collective fascination with the 1986 nuclear disaster that may have in part contributed to the Soviet Union unraveling. But the lessons the show imparts aren’t about how nuclear power and communism are Bad. The miniseries’ gritty, horror movie-like atmosphere sets up radiation as an invisible agent of death. But … Continued
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EartherEnergyThe Terrifying Reasons We’re Confronting the Chernobyl Disaster Right Now
Thirty-three years after the nuclear catastrophe that defined its name, Chernobyl has surged back into the popular consciousness. HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries, which dramatized the disaster and the Soviet government’s attempt to cover-up key details, is part of a string of major works that have revisited the Chernobyl catastrophe this year. In February, Adam Higginbotham reconstructed … Continued
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Tech NewsThink HBO’s Chernobyl Is Brutal? Check Out This Haunting Animation That Aired on TV in the 1950s
HBO’s new miniseries Chernobyl has gotten a lot of attention for its gory realism. Radiation from a nuclear power plant disaster is brutal for the human body, to say the least. But the explicit nature of Chernobyl almost pales in comparison to some of the things that were shown in the 1950s. Like this British … Continued
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io9TelevisionSony Hints at a Big, Spider-Man-Linked TV Show Coming Soon
Oscar Isaac talks up getting to know Star Wars’ heroes in Episode IX. The long-brewing adaptation of Stephen King’s The Talisman could be getting some traction. The Flash is getting a new showrunner. Plus, the Rock gives us our first familiar look at Jumanji 2, new pictures from Hellboy, and more. Spoilers now! Fear Street … Continued
