A Multiverse of Multiverses
Multiverse this, multiverse that. There was a time when the idea of multiverses was special knowledge held only by comic book fans and physicists. There’s a combination for you. Now, as a high school science teacher, I get a weird thrill that my students - and...
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...
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...
Starship’s Windows: Sci-Fi Materials Meet the Real World?
The violinist performs in front of a mesmerized audience. Her gown flows as she bows her instrument, notes reaching every ear. But she isn’t in a concert hall. She’s floating in zero gravity aboard SpaceX’s Starship, Elon Musk’s vision of a reusable transportation...
WandaVision and the CMBR. What’s the CMBR?
Okay, yeah - Disney+'s WandaVision is full of fun callouts, Easter Eggs, and hints about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to come, but episode 4, “We Interrupt This Program” had the biggest of callouts - literally. Just after astrophysicist Dr. Darcy Lewis (Kat...
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