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Reality Check: Seeing Words, Tasting Sounds
Alongside the expansive Infinity event, Marvel is publishing an equally apocalyptic tale in Uncanny Avengers, given shape by the twisted...
AIPT Science isn’t just the physics of Superman – we like the methods of science, too. So come to check out the reality behind your favorite fantasies, but stay for the skeptical angle on pop culture, from box office to Bigfoot.
Alongside the expansive Infinity event, Marvel is publishing an equally apocalyptic tale in Uncanny Avengers, given shape by the twisted...
There was nothing. Followed by everything. After the release of Infinity #2 last week, Jonathan Hickman’s sprawling galactic epic is...
Welcome to Reality Check, a new weekly column on Adventures in Poor Taste that aims to address the science in...
The most renowned naturalist of all time, Charles Darwin, once wrote that “all observation must be for or against some...
In comics, superpowers are certainly a boon to thwarting evil and bringing villains to justice. But the normals still crack...
Everyone remembers their first. Mine was Infinity Gauntlet #4. My dad motioned to the book store’s spinner rack and asked,...
I was a teenager in the ’90’s, so I watched my fair share of the dating show Singled Out. After...
My degree is in geophysics, so it might seem a bit unnatural that I was asked to be a teaching...
This is a column about science. On a website dedicated to sublime storytelling and all things artsy. Out of place?...
Human beings are composite creatures. We’re mostly made of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, stuff that’s naturally abundant on Earth, but...