io9 Roundup of Superhero, Political and Futurist Articles, Part 5

Today we've got a roundup of recent, relevant, and few just really cool, articles from the science, science fiction and fantasy blog io9.com. Stay tuned for all the parts.

• A children’s anime series with rainbow-colored, gut-wrenching lessons in ethical philosophy
• How modern technologies made the fighting in Gaza even worse
• Pulp Science Fiction Under German Totalitarianism
• Here’s China’s impossible plan to build the world’s tallest building in a mere 90 days
• The 1965 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was fucking terrifying
• The Time Mormons Baptized Adolf Hitler and Vlad the Impaler
• The emerging science of ‘collective intelligence’ — and the rise of the global brain
• 5 Historical Myths About Real Scientific Discoveries
• Which Bond villain’s scheme had the greatest chance of financial success?

io9 Roundup of Superhero, Political and Futurist Articles, Part 4

This weekend we've got a roundup of recent, relevant, and few just really cool, articles from the science, science fiction and fantasy blog io9.com. Stay tuned for all the parts.

• Gift Guide: Graphic Novels That Even Non-Comics Fans Will Love to Read 
• Retro travel posters for the world’s top cryptozoological hot spots
• The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the History of Earth
• Humans can survive the harsh conditions found on Mars, scientists say
• “Heroes of Science” action figures are light on “action,” heavy on the “heroes” 
• Why Marvel’s upcoming “Age of Ultron” may actually be the event that changes everything 
• 21 Pictures that Sum Up the Whole History of Science Fiction
• Hitler’s forgotten attempt to build the world’s largest Olympic stadium
• The extremely tentative but potentially triumphant return of Rom: Spaceknight 
• Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Mega-Set returns — and a new Thor alternate ending! 
• Here are the most futuristic European cities that never existed
• Is this what students in Louisiana are learning about evolution?

Infamous Dictators Reimagined as Anime Ladies

From Japan, a new book featuring biographies of 40 dictators was recently released, with the twist that it includes illustrations of the dictators drawn by famous Japanese artists as women, in an anime style, with several done in the "cute girl" moé sub-style.
(At right, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, & Omar al-Bashir)
While turning things into anime-style characters has been popular lately, the book, Nyotai ka!! Sekai no Dokusaisha Retsuden (にょたいか！！世界の独裁者列伝 or loosely, "In Female Form?! Biographies of World Dictators"), has been criticized by some for "trivializing" the dictators with the depictions, although some have said that some of the images, like the one of Pol Pot at right, can make the dictator appear more frightening. More information and a gallery of some of the images can be found at Kotaku.com.
If you want to see anime-styled personifications of the nations of the world, check out the Hetalia series.
And if you wanted to know which dictator has been responsible for the most deaths, you can check this infographic from popten.net.