This special live episode was recorded March 30 in Kansas City MO. I did a round-up of the science of superheroes and superpowers, including Captain Marvel, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Ant-Man. I discuss photon blasts, radiation, growing big and super-shrinking. Then I talked about the outliers: real life people with interesting abilities. Check out the transcript on the blog factandsciencefiction.com and share the episode with a nerd you know!
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Research from this episode came from:
O'Doherty Jim; Rojas-Fisher, Bruno; O’Doherty, Sophie. Real-Life Radioactive Men. Superhero Science and Technology, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, nov. 2018.
ExplainThatStuff.com How do lasers work?
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CBR.com Captain Marvel: All Of Her Powers Officially Ranked
The Science of Superheroes by Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg
Size and Warmth Noticing.co
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IceMan by Smithsonian Magazine
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