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May 14, 2013

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12:30 PM | Iron Man—Extreme Firmware Update 3.0
“Undergoing the Extremis Procedure remade my body from the inside out. Long story short, my body was turned into a kind of computer designed to interface with the Iron Man. There was no longer a division between me and the suit. My brain . . . evolved, I guess. Into a kind of hard drive.” [...]
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April 08, 2013

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4:26 PM | Iron Man’s Top 10 Heavy Metal Moments—Reflections on the First 50 Years of Scientific R&D from Stark Industries
At the risk of stating the obvious, a key component of Iron Man’s mythology is the suit of armor. And all the science and engineering research and development that Tony Stark has poured into that suit—and related technology—through Stark Industries. With the next Marvel Studies movie (“Iron Man 3”) coming up in May, I thought [...]
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December 04, 2012

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5:34 PM | Bumps and Bruises from Bruce to Batman, and Beyond
“Years of rigorous athletic training have enabled the Batman not only to resist but to recover from the brutal beating that would have mortally injured most men!” Comment in “Professor Strange’s fear dust” from Detective Comics #46, December 1940 “Wayne swaps the brace to his bad knee. Puts his weight on it—the knee bends, kicks. [...]
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September 26, 2012

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10:36 PM | Assembling an Avenger – Inside the Brain of Iron Man
When I first started reading comic books there were many superheroes that interested me. Naturally the list included Batman, Iron Man, Daredevil, Captain America, Thor, Nova, the Flash, the Black Panther, the Phantom, and lots more. What I enjoyed best of all were team ups where you got more heroes per page. Classics like the [...]
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July 19, 2012

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10:42 AM | The Fall and Rise of the Dark Knight-the Difficulties of Batman’s Life While He Exists
[In 2008, JR Minkel interviewed me about my first book “Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero” and produced the scientificamerican.com article “The Dark Knight Shift—Why Batman Could Exist, But Not For Long”. This blog post, an update on some of my thinking about Batman since JR’s article and the publication of my book, is [...]
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