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Cosmology with Galactus: The Big Bang
Galactus. The fact that you read that name and don’t get a knot in your stomach is one reason you know you’re living in “our” universe rather than the Marvel Universe. The other way you know that you’re not living in the Marvel Universe? Our universe. Literally. It...
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LIFE SCIENCES
Better Than His Dad. Superboy and Heterosis
Superboy’s origin story is as convoluted as it gets in comics. Jon Kent is the biological son of Clark and Lois, originally conceived and born in reality that doesn’t exist anymore. That story retconned so he was conceived and born in the current DC Universe(*). Jon...
The Science and the Creepy Look of the Plague Doctor
Plague Doctors, huh? Want a weird coincidence? Here we are in April of 2020, and - had the comic book industry continued running as usual, DC Comics would’ve released Hawkman #23 earlier this month, on April 8th. That’s a detail from the cover up there. The issue,...
Chimera X-Men? Hey – What’s a Chimera? Let’s Talk Biology…
Marvel’s X-Men books have relaunched, and relaunched in a big, big way with two new #1s in two weeks: House of X #1 and Powers of X #1 (that’s “powers of 10” actually) - both written by Jonathan Hickman. In the two titles - bi-weekly in their six-issue runs through...
X-Men: Blue Mutants Are Everywhere. Why No Blue Humans?
Marvel’s X-Men franchise got a revitalization this week with the release of House of X #1, the first part of a 12-part relaunch of the X-Men Universe courtesy of writer Jonathan Hickman. The storyline is bold to say the least, and world-spanning, and is already...
CHEMISTRY
Wonder Woman’s Real-Life Dr. Poison: Fritz Haber
In Wonder Woman, Dr. Poison has everything going for her as a classic villain. She's broken. She's creepy. She's troubled. She's brilliant. And she knows her science. Apparently in the thrall of General Ludendorff, Dr. Poison – Isabel Maru, played by Elena...
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TEACHING WITH POP CULTURE
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...
STEM Camp: Thanos and the Robot Hand
Summer STEM camps can be the best of times and the worst of times. Trying to keep students engaged when out of the routine and mindset of school is not for the faint of heart but it can be done. The Science Of recently took part in a camp activity at the Sci-Tech...
Lil Dicky and the Challenge of Pop Culture & STEM Ed
https://youtu.be/pvuN_WvF1to This week, Lil Dicky released, “Earth,” which is possibly the best song about saving the earth, ever. No seriously - this is better than...whatever song you’re thinking of now. So, so much better. As NPR describes it, “Watching it feels...
PHYSICS
Scienceish Lesson: Captain Marvel and the EM Spectrum
A Science-ish Lesson for today: The Electromagnetic Spectrum (and a little more) with Captain Marvel. This comes from Avengers #233 (1983) by Roger Stern and John Byrne, back in the day when you could spend a whole issue trying to figure out a way to get through a...
You Too Can Physics! A 65 Foot Ant-Man Should Weigh How Much?
So - that new Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer, huh? Particularly, that part where Scott (Ant-Man) Lang brags to Bill Foster (the former Goliath) that the largest he’d ever grown was 65 feet to Foster’s 21. Hope (Evangeline Lilly) van Dyne shuts the men down in an...
Black Lightning, Electricity, Energy and Teachable Moments
A billion joules is a lot of energy. A lot. Let’s not forget that. And if nothing else, the CW’s Black Lightning is about energy. Lot’s of it. Electrical energy, sure. Kinetic energy, Yep. And a whole lot of stored up potential energy in its cast and the people of...
It Has Science!: Marvel 2-in-One and the Conservation of Energy
Energy-wise, Marvel 2-in-One is a very bold book. Well, that's speaking scientifically. Let me explain. The thing about science and superhero comics and science...okay, there are many things...but the big thing that can just cause about anyone looking to explain the...
SPACE
Game of Thrones Winter, Geoengineering Here?
It’s been a little while since the Game of Thrones ended, feelings might have calmed...a little, and good memories may have started to creep in and cover up the perhaps no-so-good memories, so let’s go back to Westeros. One of Game of Thrones’ central plot points was...
Getting Thor Back from the Moon – Mjolnir Power!
by Matt Brady and Michael Surratt Well, when you suddenly find that you’re Thor and you're on the moon, what would you do? You'd want to go back home too. There’s been a new Thor in the Marvel (comics) Universe for a little while now. Dr. Jane Foster is the new,...
Captain Marvel’s New Geostationary Home
Captain Marvel, Marvel’s Captain Marvel – Carol Danvers that is – has a new assignment and new digs. In the latest Captain Marvel #1 issue from Marvel, Carol takes the job as the Commander of the Alpha Flight Space Station, Earth’s first line of defense. The massive...
How “Real” Are the Worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek?
So you say that you like the planets in Star Wars and Star Trek, but are really jonesing to go to one of those places in real life? In this video from Wired, Visualization Scientist Robert Hurk from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discusses analogues for Star Wars’...
TECHNOLOGY
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