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We’re less than a week away! So I’m going dark, but hope to leave you with a few fun things to check out while your biding your time when you’re not rewatching Young Justice, catching up on Supergirl and Flash, and more. I’m doing a jury trial and grading exams, so no planned MOSAIC episodes before Batman v. Superman. Just enough time to make brief comments on each link. Enjoy the RRSSS until we meet again!

Randomly Related Slightly Salient Stuff

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Randomly Related Slightly Salient Stuff 10

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  I’m out of town until January and off-line for the immediate future, but wish you and yours an awesome holiday.  DC is picking up steam so there is so much to enjoy if you’re traveling or have some free time.  Just some RRSSS until we meet again!

Superman Stuff

Appreciating Man of Steel through Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Film, etc.

Miscellaneous Stuff

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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!

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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:

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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:

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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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If all goes well, I should have time to record an episode this week. I was obligated to accompany others to three different movies over the weekend and just about had my fill of film for now and wish I had more time to read (for pleasure rather than work).  I’m having a little trouble justifying working on the site lately since any polish or production really should go towards a client’s matter. Not for any mandated reason.  It’s just my own personal professional standard of quality I give my clients.

While I’d love for every answer I go over to be represented as a short FAQ answer, longer exhaustive and analytical essay, audio podcast, and video presentation… there’s no way I can do that all in the time that I have.  The podcast is the main outlet, but with the other mediums and formats as opportunity allows.

Anyways, in lieu of a post which addresses any specific questions or concerns, here’s some assorted materials, linked in a bit of a stream-of-consciousness, which could be applicable to analysis of Man of Steel and the DCCU.

  • Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived
  • What’s the Loudest Possible Sound?
  • The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons
  • The lost art of democratic debate
  • What makes a hero?
  • Why is Beer for Boys?
  • DP/30: Interstellar, Hans Zimmer
  • 1, 2, 3, 4…
  • Citizenfour
  • Superman and Philosophy: What would the Man of Steel Do?

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No time for a podcast this week but here’s some assorted materials, linked in a bit of a stream-of-consciousness, which could be applicable to analysis of Man of Steel and the DCCU.

  • The Fermi Paradox and Drake Equation via Kurz Gesagt and PBS Space Time
  • On Classical Heroes – The Power of Failure via Extra Credits
  • Study Finds People Stop Listening to New Music at Age 33 via NewsBreaker
  • “…why I didn’t understand the dark suit complaint… against Man of Steel.”
  • The Death of Superman at Mid Ohio Con 1992 ft. Roger Stern
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (Edward Snowden interview) via HBO
  • Can the Man of Tomorrow Be the Journalist of Today?
  • Image of Journalists in Popular Culture
  • Journalistic Ethics At the Daily Planet
  • The Severest Ethical Breaches of Superhero Journalists
  • Exposed: the severe ethical breaches of superhero journalists
  • Peter Parker and Clark Kent: Very Unethical Journalists

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