SAN DIEGO—Are comic books a good way to present science to the public? And do they ever get it right? Reporter Helen Fields sat down with James Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, the author of The Physics of Superheroes, and a science consultant for the movie Watchmen. Listen to their conversation here. Read Helen’s full write-up of the Science of Superheroes session, which took place here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).
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