Vitruvian Man & Comics: Leonardo’s Legacy
This week’s Flashpoint Beyond #4 continues the story of one of DC Comics’ most popular alternate realities (and maybe more Dark Crisis tie-ins?). It also continues the tradition of Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man sketch showing up on the cover of a comic...
Six Science Takeaways with Jurassic World
Over the course of 29 years and six movies, Jurassic Park has changed how we look and think about dinosaurs. It’s rekindled interest in the creatures from those of us who thought our dino days were behind us, and sparked a love for them among many millions of fans....
Pokémon (and our) Development: The Torchic or the Egg?
If you’ve sat down and played a Pokémon game any time since the year 2000, chances are you’ve run into an egg. In these eggs you can find any type of Pokémon, even a rare Legendary. In many of the recent games, like Sword and Shield, you can leave Pokémon at the...
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...