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Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their real life. Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed mad.

~ James Kakalios

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As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.

~ James Kakalios

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This is not a guilty pleasure of mine, simply because I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

~ James Kakalios

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At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building! A second man on the street picks up the narrative: He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays—using them like a magnet!! Incredible!There are three feelings inspired by this scene. The first is wonder as to why people rarely use the phrase strangely-garbed anymore. The second is nostalgia for the bygone era when pedestrians would routinely narrate events occurring in front of them, providing exposition for any casual bystander. And the third is pleasure at the realization that Electro's climbing this building is actually a physically plausible use of his powers.

~ James Kakalios

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