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 2

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.

• Thousands of Australian students are taught that Robots led the Russian Revolution
• This is the most accurate American election map we’ve seen yet
• A first: An electric car has been awarded Motor Trend’s top prize
• 20 Essential Books About the Next Step in Human Evolution
• An Open Letter to the President: US physics education is crap. Let’s fix it.
• Could this immortal hydra polyp inspire advanced rejuvenation therapies for humans?
• The Weirdest Monuments Of The Communist Era That Are Still Standing 
• Which species stand to benefit the most from global warming? 
• What are the worst pseudoscientific myths you ever learned from pop culture? 
• Iron Man concept art shows Tony Stark’s gadgets that we never saw 
• You could own the original sketch that transformed Jack Nicholson into the Joker!
• Could there be life in Earth’s Stratosphere?