Category: Misc

Happy Thanksgiving!  Loads of little things to comment on since the last RRSSS, including a Wonder Woman press release and Civil War trailer.  Let’s just get right to it!

• Production Begins on Warner Bros. Pictures’ Wonder Woman Feature Film | Warner Bros
• Captain America Civil War Trailer | Marvel Studios
• Jessica Jones Trailer 2 | Netflix
• Creed Trailer | Warner Bros
• The Best & Worst Superman Movies Ranked | Movie Feuds
• There’s a Good Reason Darth Vader Is Interesting While Superman Is Just Boring | David Mitchell
• Superman’s Dumb Disguise | Omnibus
• Superman vs. The KKK | ScrewAttack!
• Grant Morrison Talks Superman’s Politics | Forbes
• Is Ron Dumbledore?? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
• Historic Rocket Landing | Blue Origin
• Why Mars Has Less Atmosphere | The New York Times
• Why Haven’t We Found Alien Life? | Space Time
• THR’s Studio Executive Roundtable 2015 | The Hollywood Reporter
• After a Rough Film Year, Can Kevin Tsujihara Lead Warner Bros. Back to the Top? | Variety
• ‘Batman v Superman’: Ben Affleck on ‘Ton of Pressure’ to Succeed, Exploiting DC Comics | Variety
• Superhero TV Thrives After Warner Bros. Loosens Film’s Grip on DC Entertainment | Variety
• Toberoff’s Never-Ending Battle | US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

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Might be a while until I have time to record another episode.  I basically only have one day a week to record / edit but that’s been taken by emergent work stuff, fellowship, and volunteering for a friend’s local election.  I still hope to get an episode out before the end of the month, but no promises.  No time to comment much, here’s some RRSSS:

• Bob Kane Walk Of Fame Ceremony | Variety
• How to Get Angry A Lot | The School of Life
• Batman vs. Superman: Who Wins?| Variant
• Why Superman is better than Batman | NerdSync
• Why Batman is better than Superman | BanditInc
• “Batman v Superman” Circa 1949 | New York Magazine
• Is This Glass Half Empty? | asapSCIENCE
• New York Comic Con – NYCC – Cosplay Music Video 2015 | Sneaky Zebra
• How filmmakers manipulate our emotions using color | The Verge
• Robot Chicken DC Special 3 Behind-The-Scenes | DC All Access
• Science vs. Cinema: The Martian | Science vs. Cinema
• Could We Destroy The Earth? | SciShow
• Lex/OS Announcement | LexCorp
• Who Should Superman Save? | Philosophy Tube
• Surface Pro 4 Review | Tested

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No episode for this week.  I’ve got a Microsoft meeting for work, a stack of midterms to grade, power through the DVR for Fall television premieres (The Flash Season 2 starts tonight!), and New York Comic Con this weekend.  Which is just as well, because it lets me react to the news likely to break soon (we’re already getting trickles of information for The Flash movie and Lex Luthor), before we go back to general topic episodes like martial arts, Krypton, the Batman, Lex Luthor, gadgets, etc.

Here’s some RRSSS content:

• Nietzsche on: The Superman | School of Life
• John Skelton’s “Speke Parott” | The Skelton Project
• Train Meets Tornado| unknown
• “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” | xkdc
• “If a meteor made out of diamond and was traveling at the speed of light…” | xkdc
• Confirmation Bias: Your Brain is So Judgmental | Big Think
• Why Studios Must End Their Mega-Budget Obsession | Variety
• The Guy Who Predicts Whether A Movie Will Bomb, Months Before It’s Made | What’s The Point
• Final ‘Hunger Games’ Most Anticipated Fall Releases Ever | Variety
• This robot will beat you in rock-paper-scissors every single time | Tech Insider
• Red Enhances Human Performance in Contests | Red Advantage
• The Man of Tomorrow | 99% Invisible
• The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch | Jonathan Gottschall
• Watch Uranium Emit Radiation | Cloudylabs
• The (Multi) Universe(s) | RadioLab

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Happy anniversary!  Hard to believe it’s been a year, time flies!  Batman v. Superman is just around the corner and soon we’ll be getting news about the other DC projects.  Getting used to the schedule of a new semester, so no episode this week.

Here’s some RRSSS content for this week:

• Is Superman the most powerful superhero?
• Gladwell: Choice, Happiness, & Spaghetti Sauce – variety means more happiness overall
• Gladwell: The Pitfalls of Market Research – criticism is unreliable
• Choice Blindness – justifying disdain
• Gladwell: Expert Overconfidence – How Zod lost
• Can We Expand Our Consciousness with Neuroprosthetics? – MOS science consultant
• Physics of Superheroes – Watchmen science consultant
• First Biological Laser from Human Cells and Jellyfish Protein – dawn of heat-vision
• 5 Wealthiest People On The Planet Under 35 – Lex Luthor
• Vulture’s Secret History of Television: Superhero TV

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Been busy between work, family, friends, and preparing course materials.  Probably a shorter episode this week if I can even get to it.

Just speculating long-term but I think after Act One commentary wraps, we’ll go back to topical / FAQ-type episodes, rather than the exhaustively-annotated approach.  It should help us wrap up Man of Steel with a few months to spare before Batman v. Superman.  Action is generally less open to interpretation and confusion anyways, so the pace should pick up quickly.

In the meantime, here’s some randomly related content, not just to Man of Steel, but for my own amusement, related from item to item.

• Batman Movies Kill Count Supercut
• Malcolm Gladwell On Engineering Hits
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• American Ultra
• The Pull with Max Landis
• Why doesn’t anyone recognize Superman?
• Could We Actually Live On Mars?
• The Martian
• Is Batman JUST?
• Case of the Speluncean Explorers
• Making Decision Under Uncertainty
• Priming
• French Train Hero Story
• Real Life Heroes
• Demetri Martin

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I was away for work and now playing catching up.  Not sure if I’ll have an episode up in time this weekend but hopefully I can do Suicide Squad and some mailbag questions.

• Every Suicide Squad Member’s Origin Under 5 Minutes
• IMDB user deciphers “Wayne Tower Devastated” article from BvS trailer
• NYC’s Population Doubles With Commuters
• Ghost Cities of China and WTC report thoughts
• What if there was a black hole in your pocket?
• The History of Aliens In Film
• No Man’s Sky Procedurally Generated World
• Eye In The Sky
• The Death of “Superman Lives” What Happened?
• Justice League Gods and Monsters: Bomb
• Death Battle: Goku vs. Superman 2
• “…and we have to destroy him!”
• Inspired by Justice Lords
• David and Goliath and Malcolm Gladwell

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