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Kraven, a Crossbow, and the Conservation of Momentum
Maybe you’ve seen the trailer for the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie. Maybe you have thoughts. While comic fans are dissecting costumes, accents, origin, and more, one thing stuck out to me: the crossbow scene right around the 2:30 mark. The character comes in...
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LIFE SCIENCES
The Fewer of Us: Population Decline in the Coming Century
We love to tell ourselves about how our world may end, and for decades, it involved a lot of people. The vision of the future given by 1973’s Soylent Green was dismal in many ways, but the scenes of people in the city packed shoulder-to-shoulder in every setting...
Cats vs. Dogs vs. COVID-19: Who Gets it and How?
Cats and dogs are not equal. Yeah, stunning conclusion right there, huh? Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. But what may have caught your attention in recent days in the COVID-19 news coverage is that cats can apparently be infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that...
Batman Contagion: Let’s Talk R-naught, the Clench and COVID
People falling ill from a new, mysterious virus. Hospitals overwhelmed by the sick and dying. An unprepared, overly-politicized leadership forced into reaction rather than proactive steps. Refrigerator trucks called in to act as temporary holding for overloaded...
Harley Quinn’s King Shark – Yes, Sharks Have Ears
The Harley Quinn animated series on the DC Universe app is one of the streamer’s bright spots. It’s foul-mouthed, hyper-violent lead character is pretty much everything you’d want her to be, and her band of fellow villains are, well, equal parts messed up and weird...
CHEMISTRY
Hey Spider-Man: About the Top of the Washington Monument…
It stands out in the Washington Monument scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming. It’s right there in the trailer and the movie – Spider-Man is at the top of the Washington Monument, and you can see it – the top is silvery gray. What? The top of the Washington Monument isn’t...
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TEACHING WITH POP CULTURE
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...
Masked Heroes: Why Are We Wearing Masks Now?
So here we are. Masked in public. Or, it’s recommended that we should be wearing masks. On April 3rd, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the recommendation that everyone should wear masks in public spaces when they need to be around...
Truck & Treat: BOOsted! Build a Skeleton Hand!
Welcome to The Science Of! For this activity, we've partnered with Mystery Science, a site that offers terrific STEM-based activities for elementary and middle school teachers. We've used them with a variety of groups in different settings, and they're great for...
PHYSICS
Doctor Psycho, Darkseid and The Nature of Time
In Season 2, Episode 12 of DC Universe’s Harley Quinn animated series, Doctor Psycho was on to a bigger question when he basically tried to ask Darkseid what time he was referring to, his time in Gotham City or that of Apokolips, Darkseid’s homeworld. To set things...
Dropping Diamonds From the Sky: The Wild Storm’s Kinetic Bombardment
For being telling such a technologically advanced story, in DC’s The Wild Storm, the characters occasionally like to go very old school. In this case, it was an example of “when someone bothers you, drop something on them.” Something that won’t break. From very high...
Black Bolt: The Inhumans’ King and Propulsion System
Marvel’s Death of the Inhumans #1 is significant for many things, most of which we’re not going to spoil here. But perhaps the most science-y thing that we can discuss is something right near the end, which isn’t one of the major, major revelations. Oh, and by the...
Flash and Null: What Happens When Gravity is Shut Off?
Falling down is tough, but what about falling up? Or just having gravity disappear in a flash? In the hunt for the 12 “bus-metas” on the most recent season of The Flash, the series got a chance to introduce metahumans with new and different powers - all of whom bit it...
SPACE
Marvel Cosmology: A Skrull Census
The Skrull are one of the oldest threats to the earth in the Marvel Universe. The green, wrinkly-chinned, pointy-eared, shapeshifting aliens have had a heck of a run. While Marvel movie fans first spotted them in Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home, they’ve...
Using Jupiter as a Weapon: Thor & The Great Red Spot
If you’ve been keeping up with Marvel’s The Mighty Thor, you know that things between the new(ish), female Thor and Odin aren’t going well. In issue #5 of the series (still available at your local comic shop or online via Comixology) things broke out into a total...
Venus is Hell: Rick Loverd on the Science of “Venus”
This week sees the final (for now…) issue of Venus hit comic shops and Comixology. Written by Rick Loverd, with art by Huang Danlan, Venus tells the story of the first human colonists on the second planet from the sun. The problem is…well, it’s Venus. The series from...
Shooting Jupiter in Superman – Can You Make a Star?
Recently, in DC’s Superman titles (Action Comics, Superman, and Superman/Wonder Woman), Superman and Vandal Savage have been squaring off against each other. Savage, the 50,000 year old immortal (who we talked about as being related to everyone in the DC Universe over...
TECHNOLOGY
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