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Single Panel Science Lesson: Luthor’s Not Lying, But…
Sure, Daredevil can tell when people are lying by listening to their heartbeats speed up. But that’s Daredevil. But Superman can do this too. As shown in stories by Joshua Williamson, Tom Taylor, and many others, Superman always listens to Lois and Jon’s voices and...
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LIFE SCIENCES
Pokémon (and our) Development: The Torchic or the Egg?
If you’ve sat down and played a Pokémon game any time since the year 2000, chances are you’ve run into an egg. In these eggs you can find any type of Pokémon, even a rare Legendary. In many of the recent games, like Sword and Shield, you can leave Pokémon at the...
COVID-19 – Herd Immunity vs. Natural Selection?
Herd immunity is still in the news, and occasionally, it’s being conflated with something else seen in large groups: natural selection. They’re not the same thing. One’s for now, one’s for later. Herd Immunity: Something for Now As I explained a little while back,...
The Science of Herd Immunity: You Are Not Rick Grimes
There are two snark-tropes I love when it comes to a zombie apocalypse: You don’t have to run faster than the zombies, you only have to run faster than the guy behind you. You are not Rick Grimes. That first one is pretty self-explanatory, that second one - it’s...
Batman and Exponential Growth: Contagion and SARS-CoV-2
Remember that time when 6.75 million lives were on the line - days away from a horrible infectious death, and one man, with his band of helpers, saved them? Yeah, me too - Batman is amazing. Infectious disease spreads exponentially. By now you know this, your friends...
CHEMISTRY
Gummy Bears Go Boom? Did Logan Lucky Teach Us How to Make a Bomb?
Watch enough science-based science fiction or “real world” movies/TV with science in them, and you’ll come to a simple conclusion: they’re leaving bits out. No matter how many episodes of Breaking Bad you watch, you’re never going to be able to make meth by imitating...
The Flash’s Weaponized Phosphorous
In last week’s episode of The Flash (you can still catch it on The CW's website here), the story reached to a point where the Flash (Barry Allen) had to rescue Professor Martin Stein from General Wade Eiling and reunite him with Ronnie Raymond (so the two...
It Haz Science! Waid & Samnee’s Daredevil #1
I was catching up with some comics recently and finally got a chance to read Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Daredevil #1 (Marvel Comics). There’s a lot that can be talked about with Daredevil on a science website, and Waid - a physics minor in college, if I’m not...
TEACHING WITH POP CULTURE
Using Comics and Superheroes to Teach Math
Teaching math is an art. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I did it for 32 years (I recently retired) and I’m here to tell you that if you’re in front of a classroom in the old-fashioned way, the “sage on the stage” as it were, you’d better have a rhythm like a...
EVENT: Picture a Scientist Discussion with TSO & a/perture Cinema
We here at The Science Of are thrilled to announce we’ve teamed with our local independent theater, a/perture cinema for a live discussion about Picture a Scientist with three local scientists. An Official Selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, the synopsis of...
Black Representation in Pop Culture STEM: Why Does It Matter?
If I were to ask you to name five scientists, engineers or doctors in pop culture, who would they be? Okay - ten. Or, similarly, the comic fan version - name the top five smartest characters (usually that’s an analogy for “scientist”) in either the Marvel or the DC...
Brave New COVID World: How Does School Work?
We make no secret about it here at thesciecenof.org, we’re both (me, Matt and wife Shari) in STEM Education - high school science teachers. Currently, we’re both teaching our classes online with varying degrees of success, but nothing nearing the levels of engagement...
PHYSICS
Snowpiercer Science: Making a Snowball Earth
Snowpiercer, which began life as a French graphic novel series that started in 1982 and was adapted into a 2013 movie, and is now a series on TNT is many things: a climate-change warning, social commentary about class and inequality, an adventure-survival story, a...
A Gruesome Conservation of Momentum on Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots
Coming up, in no particular order: a gruesome story about space, a spoiler for the “Helping Hand” episode of Netflix’s series, Love, Death & Robots, and an explanation of how the conservation of momentum works. If you feel that any of those three topics will upset...
The Hobbs & Shaw Way of Stopping a Motorcyclist
“Look at me - I’m black Superman. Idris Elba as Brixton and stating the obvious in Fast & Furious Present: Hobbs & Shaw “He really is Black Superman.” Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs, agreeing with the obvious. Early disclaimer: Fast & Furious Present: Hobbs...
Mera’s Hair is a Lie in Aquaman – Kinda. Color + Water = Science!
There's a problem with Mera’s hair in Aquaman. Okay, okay, Ariel from The Little Mermaid has the problem too, but let’s just talk about Mera today. Classically, Aquaman’s love interest, Mera, is a redhead. The thing is though, she’s not. Or wouldn’t be, at least...
SPACE
Scienceish Lesson: The Alcubierre Drive & the Flash
Scienish Lesson - The Alcubierre Drive from Flash: Fastest Man Alive #7 in a story by Jay Baruchel and Sumit Kumar. In the story, STAR Labs is testing an Alcubierre Drive - a real (okay, still theoretical, but rumored to be of high interest to NASA) thing. But this...
A Wrinkle in Time, A Schminkle in Time – What in the World is a Tesseract?
Okay, there will be a couple of mild spoilers for Disney’s upcoming version of A Wrinkle in Time in here, but tesseracts are cool. But let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. A Wrinkle in Time’s tesseract - the place where many pop culture fans most likely first...
Rick and Morty’s Tiny Earth: The Gravity of the Situation
In just two and a half seasons, Rick and Morty has shown us a huge variety of planets – weird, obscene, funny, normal, big and…small. Looking back on the Season 2 season finale, “Wedding Squanchers,” Rick, Morty and the family find themselves on the run after a...
Of X-O Manowar, Mork and Time Dilation
Consider X-O Manowar's Aric the Visigoth and Mork from Ork as brothers. Okay – that’s stretching it. They’ve got one thing in common though. Both have experienced time travel in the manner that Albert Einstein allows – which means that it’s straight-up, legit time...
TECHNOLOGY
DARPA Looking to Bridge Brain-Computer Gap
The list of "technopaths," humans who can communicate with machines just using their minds is huge in comics and science fiction, as is the list of novels where brain-networked soldiers are a commonplace element in the universe. Currently, there are many companies...
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