Update: I’m still alive and still working on the podcast. There has just been several other good priorities and diversions over the show lately.
The next episode is about 2/3rds there. I’ve got the history and the science. I still have to finalize the squishy human-stuff.
Great new responsibilities mean I’ve got less and less time, but still plugging away. Some RRSSS for your consideration:
- Clark Kent Videogame Pitch | Impractical Jokers – I’d play it
- Batman Cosplay breaks records | Guinness – Costume gadgets
- St. Paul’s – Christopher Wren talk | Gresham College – “If you seek his monument…”
- Creating [Joker’s] Supercar from Scratch | Great Big Story – Kit car developer of Joker’s ride
- 10 Things We Didn’t Know 100 Years Ago | SciSchow – Perspective on Wonder Woman in World War I or Superman’s debut 78 years ago
- Arrival (2016) | Villenueve – Starring Amy Adams, based on a short story by my favorite scifi writer, Ted Chiang
- Nocturnal Animals (2016) | Ford – Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon
- Playing God | RadioLab – Ethical dilemmas of triage
- The Girl Who Doesn’t Exist | RadioLab – Being born in the U.S. on a farm without papers like Clark Kent
- Faking Your Own Death | Point of Inquiry – Industry, ease, and costs of faking your death like Clark Kent might
- Bring on the female superheroes! | TED – It’s time
- Researches Develop Tech To Read Closed Book | Associated Press – Superman power application becomes reality, “I can see your ID tag in your breast pocket…“
- IBM’s Watson Cut A Trailer | IBM – AI-driven presentations in MOS (Jor-El’s history lesson, Zod’s dreamscape)
- Is Inbreeding Really That Bad? | PBS Gross Science – Restarting the Kryptonian race
- The Plane Highway in the Sky | Wendover Productions – How we lose track of planes (and Superman) in the sky
- Why Can’t Mules Have Babies? | MinuteEarth – Human-Kryptonian Hybrids
- Faint Young Sun Paradox | MinuteEarth – Lost portions of deep history
- Elon Musk: How To Build The Future | Y Combinator – Fatalism and other Lex Luthor parallels
- How the Mona Lisa became so overrated | Vox – Historical critical reception
- Why Some People Are More Altruistic | TED – Humble lack of self-centered view, attainable by more of us
- .62 Politicians’ Mental Health | Sparks – The Goldwater Rule forbids the unethical mental diagnosis from afar (not personally examined, without consent)
- .63 Mental Health Stigma | Sparks – The stigmatizing effect of irresponsible mental diagnosis
- Undead Genes: Genetic Activation After Death | STBYM – Superman’s resurrection power and topic of an upcoming episode
- Batman v. Superman Dawn of Justice Analysis | MediaMatters – See below
- Speed of Cliche Sayings | Daily Mail – See below
Batman v. Superman Dawn of Justice Analysis | MediaMatters
MOSAIC Episode 49 will be out “when it’s done” but hopefully before the end of this month.
