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...
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...
How Tall Are These Guys Again? Hobbs, Shaw and Forced Perspective
Take a look at this picture from The Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw above. What jumps out to you? Okay, yes, those are the two stars, Dwayne Johnson (left) and Jason Statham (right). What about it? Both are seriously tough guys. Yeah, but Johnson is 6’...
The Boys & Science: Do Metamaterials = Invisibility?
I probably need to get this out of the way right off the bat: If you’re a STEM teacher, you probably don’t want to use the new Amazon Prime series The Boys for any type of lesson. At all. Based on the Dynamite comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it’s...
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...
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