A history of the radar sense – present time
As any longtime reader will know, I love scrutinizing Daredevil’s senses, both from a scientific and conceptual perspective. That is to say that I enjoy looking at 1) the conflict between what the limitations of physics and biology allow in the real world and what Daredevil is able to do in the comic and 2)...
Daredevil Science and the sense of touch
Yes, we’re finally getting to the end of the Daredevil Science series, though this post doesn’t actually mark the end. Yes, believe it or not, this text started running so long, I had to decide to leave the topics of balance and proprioception for a later post. We’ve looked at some of the science of...
Daredevil and echolocation
As I’ve mentioned over the course of my ongoing series A history of the radar sense, Daredevil’s ability to detect and identify objects and obstacles has been described in several different ways. One interpretation is that is actually works like a real radar in that Daredevil’s brain sends out an electromagnetic signal which bounces off...
Science in the Marvel Universe Handbook
This is the first post of of the three I mentioned in my “science week” introductory post a couple of days ago. Here we’ll be taking a look at some of the numbers put forth by the writers of the Marvel Universe Handbook (specifically the 2004 edition). I’m also going to take the opportunity to...
It’s radar magic! (You don’t have to explain it)