Emily Lipstein
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Climate Change Memes for Angry and Terrified Teens
As Earther’s social editor and the youngest person on Gizmodo’s staff, our writers and editors frequently come to me with questions like “What do The Youth want?” and “What is a VSCO girl?” This has put me in a strange position as teens have yeeted themselves to the forefront of climate activism. On the cusp between Millennial and Gen Z, I’m a climate journalist who is sometimes mistaken for a… → Read More
You’re Not Mapping Rats, You’re Mapping Gentrification
Where there are people, there are rats. Or, more accurately: Where there are well-off white people, there are complaints about rats. It’s just that two of the country’s biggest newspapers can’t seem to tell the difference. → Read More
Computer, Enhance The Hole
Last night, scientists revealed the first-ever image of a black hole at a press conference in Washington, D.C. This is a huge deal, as Harvard & Smithsonian astrophysicist Center for Astrophysics physicist Grant Tremblay told Gizmodo’s Ryan Mandelbaum, “The image marks the start of a new epoch.”... → Read More
Computer, Enhance the Hole
Today, scientists revealed the first-ever image of a black hole at a press conference in Washington, D.C. This is a huge deal, as Harvard & Smithsonian astrophysicist Center for Astrophysics physicist Grant Tremblay told Gizmodo’s Ryan Mandelbaum, “The image marks the start of a new epoch.” → Read More
NYC Raccoon Gets Busted After Trying To Ride The Subway Fare-Free
Cheezburger.com - Crafted from the finest Internets. → Read More
Rogue One's Director Krennic Gets A Beautiful Figure, And More Of The Best Toys Of The Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good and wallet-draining on the internet. This week: an insanely cool Iron Man figure, Director Krennic storms into the Hot Toys Star Wars line, and...Porg cars? Yes, porg cars. Check it out!... → Read More
Rogue One's Director Krennic Gets a Beautiful Figure, and More of the Best Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good and wallet-draining on the internet. This week: an insanely cool Iron Man figure, Director Krennic storms into the Hot Toys Star Wars line, and...Porg cars? Yes, porg cars. Check it out! → Read More
PopSugar's Twinning App Doesn't Think I Look Like Troye Sivan (Oh Also It Leaked Your Photos)
About two seconds before dropping a selfie in PopSugar’s Twinning app, a web app that generates your celebrity look-alike based on a user-uploaded selfie, I hesitated. “I work for a tech website,” I said to myself. “I know better than this.” But in the end, my desire to affirm my likeness for Troye Sivan won out over my desire to secure my privacy online. And I got let down on both accounts. → Read More
Emily's 24-Hour Product Diary: I'm Vain as Shit
Let’s be real here: I’m vain as shit. → Read More
To All The 'Shitty' Earbuds I've Loved Before
I'm a simple woman. When I'm riding the bus, walking down the street, or working in the open offices here at Gizmodo Media Group, I just want to pop in my earbuds, turn on some good music (buy Honey on iTunes) and ignore everything around me.... → Read More
To All the 'Shitty' Earbuds I’ve Loved Before
I’m a simple woman. When I’m riding the bus, walking down the street, or working in the open offices here at Gizmodo Media Group, I just want to pop in my earbuds, turn on some good music (buy Honey on iTunes) and ignore everything around me. → Read More
Seal Slaps The Bejesus Out Of Kayaker With Live Octopus
There you are, in your boat, kayaking, in the water, in New Zealand or whatever. Here it comes, a seal! Or is it a sea lion? Does this matter? More on that later. What does it have in its—oh. It’s an octopus! What... → Read More
A Year on Planet Earther
Last year, Gizmodo launched Earther, a new website dedicated to the environment, the people and entities working to save or destroy it, and those who will be most impacted by its destruction. We’ve survived a lot in the past 12 months, from Scott Pruitt’s EPA to rising CO2 levels and natural disasters changing the lives of thousands. It’s been difficult, but we’ve also seen resilience, recovery,… → Read More
Five Baby Squirrels Who Got Their Tails Tangled In A Knot Are Fine Now, Thanks
A family of Eastern grey squirrels in Wisconsin got a little too close-knit this weekend after five juveniles got their tails tangled together. The squirrels are fine, we PROMISE, so don’t feel too bad for gawking at them.... → Read More
Five Baby Squirrels Who Got Their Tails Tangled in a Knot Are Fine Now, Thanks
A family of Eastern grey squirrels in Wisconsin got a little too close-knit this weekend after five juveniles got their tails tangled together. The squirrels are fine, we PROMISE, so don’t feel too bad for gawking at them. → Read More
MoviePass Almost Ruined My Night Because It Needed $5 Million to Keep the Lights On
MoviePass failed me last night—and now I know why. → Read More
What Scientists Can Learn From Animals Living In Cities
Video: In a way, cities are giant science labs, providing an environment for organisms that’s unlike anywhere else on the planet. Even though cities have been around for thousands of years, the way that humans are urbanising our planet in recent decades has become radically transformative for entire ecosystems.... → Read More
What Scientists Can Learn From New York City's Freakiest Residents
In a way, cities are giant science labs, providing an environment for organisms that’s unlike anywhere else on the planet. Even though cities have been around for thousands of years, the way that humans are urbanizing our planet in recent decades has become radically transformative for entire ecosystems. Urban living is literally altering the DNA of life on Earth. → Read More
The American Museum of Natural History's New Climate Exhibit Delivers on Science But Avoids Solutions [Updated]
A new interactive climate change exhibit will open at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) this week, becoming the museum’s first permanent installation dedicated to modern day, human-caused climate change. It’s replacing a climate-centric portion of the museum’s Hall of Planet Earth, which features a ton of good rocks and a pretty awesome piece of petrified wood, but is 20 years out of… → Read More
The American Museum of Natural History's New Climate Exhibit Delivers on Science But Avoids Solutions
A new interactive climate change exhibit will open at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) this week, becoming the museum’s first permanent installation dedicated to our changing climate. It’s replacing a climate-centric portion of the museum’s Hall of Planet Earth, which features a ton of good rocks and a pretty awesome piece of petrified wood, but is 20 years out of date. → Read More