Beast has blue fur. Nightcrawler has blue skin. But humans make no blue pigment. So could X-Men ’97’s blue mutants actually exist? Come one over to find out...

Students wonder if teachers wrote the feedback. Teachers wonder if students wrote the assignment. Teachers wonder if leadership wrote the email. And none of us completely trusts the machine sitting in the middle. #AIinEducation #Education

Hey @ryannorth.ca - I was just trying to read The Flash, and then Heat Wave vaporized a river. I took Wally's observation as an invitation and started the math. Things got weird. I blame you.

It’s easy to admire critical thinking when it changes someone else’s mind. Then some inconvenient evidence comes for one of your own opinions. Oh. Well...shit. Here's something about teenagers, social media, and getting called on my own bullshit.

There may be better images for science talks, but for tonight's Nerd NIght Winston-Salem, this is mine...

I don't think teachers are born martyrs. I don't think they're born cynical either. Schools accidentally build both. #education #teaching

Why are there no green stars? Turns out the answer involves binary star systems, your phone screen, your own eyes, and the fact that our Sun actually emits more green light than any other visible color. The universe is weird. #Supergirl #STEMEducation #Physics

Galactus comes from the universe *before* ours... or at least that's the story. 60 years later, after his creation, what does science say about that? A lot, actually. #Marvel #FantasticFour #Galactus #Cosmology #SciComm #Science

Gave a talk about dog and cat domestication as part of a Science on Screen showing of the movie, Flow. Yay! Wrote a longer article, because...that's what I do.

The Backrooms may be the most scientifically accurate horror concept on the internet. No ghosts. No jump scares. Just a place that breaks your brain's navigation system, threat detector, and memory all at the same time. Of course I nerded out. Neuroscience is fun! #Backrooms #STEMEducation

Missed this when it was posted...er...nine years ago? Dug it out from the archives, polished it off, and added a little bit to make it shine. PS - I wrote a whole book about this stuff!

One plastic Jesus became fifty-four. Then a student designed a 100-meter-tall cross with a Ferris wheel attached. Somehow, this is actually a story about classroom culture. And I need everybody to get really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly.

Science? Check. Hulk? Check. Dinosaurs? Check. A big asteroid? Check. I could’ve busted into a chorus of “My Favorite Things,” but I wrote an article about the cool science stuff in @ryannorth.ca's Hulk Smash Everything #2 instead. And I want to talk about the Marvel Bird Universe. Like a lot.

So @ryannorth.ca - was the world outside of the Leader's lab when he was experiencing the temporal wave in Hulk Smash Everything #2 Marvel Birdworld, since the Hulk killed the placental mammals in the past? If so, I have some ideas about the Fantastic Flock and Iron Corvid I'd like to discuss.

We tell students to be curious, challenge assumptions, test ideas, and learn from mistakes. And then we build organizations that struggle to do those same things. It's with a facepalm, but I wrote about it instead. open.substack.com/pub/bradytea...

Three stars, one cul-de-sac. Turns out the Sun, Tau Ceti, and Erid are basically neighbors on a galactic scale. So I made a travel guide to our (and Rocky's) neighborhood. Hope you dig. #ProjectHailMary #Astronomy #SciComm

Once you start looking for the Vitruvian Man in comics, you see him everywhere. Batman? Yep. Galactus? Somehow, yes. And most recently: Firestorm The story behind Leonardo's famous sketch is much weirder—and much more scientific—than most people realize.

The reward for becoming great at teaching shouldn't automatically be leaving teaching. My thoughts: "Why Gen X Shouldn't Be in the Classroom?" (Response) #Education #Teaching #PublicEducation #GenX

Look - if you're not reading FF by @ryannorth.ca and Humberto Ramos, I just...no words for what you're missing out on. Science, family, hope, optimism, and Ben writing the charter (constitution?) for the Future Foundation. I mean...Ben. This is going to stay with me forever. Thanks, Ryan.

By May, teachers start moving differently. Slower. Quieter. Carrying paperwork to the front office somehow feels like an expedition into Mordor, and answering one more email requires the activation energy of a moon launch. #Teachers #Education #TeacherTired #TeacherBurnout #PublicEducation

There’s a moment in class I can’t shake. The assignment is in front of them. Pencil in hand. And nothing starts.

The Orion capsule survives reentry by turning the air into plasma. As @ryannorth.ca points out in Flash #31, Wally West would have to survive something much worse. That’s a problem -- unless you have a hall pass for the physics. #Physics #NASA #Artemis #TheFlash #SciComm #PopScience

I used to want Teacher of the Year. Then I realized what it actually rewards. That changed everything.

“You don’t prove you care by destroying yourself. You prove you care by staying.” Wrote something about teaching. #Teaching #Education

What if life didn’t just use chemistry—but tapped directly into physics? You get Astrophage. Started asking questions, and ended up with a field guide with pieces that map directly to known biology and ecology. #projecthailmary #astrophage #scicomm #STEMeducation #spacescience #andyweir

Good lord...so much science in here, a solid explanation of why Flash MUST have the Speed Force, and an amazing story that hits me (high school teacher) where it hurts. All I think I'm going to be doing at thescienceof.substack.com is just writing about the science @ryannorth.ca crams into comics

Two of my favorite back-to-back days in physics: Tower of Terror/Elevator Physics and forces/Rock 'n Rollercoaster at Hollywood Studios. Engagement through the roof as they work, question, and fuss with each other until they get the answers.

Our district just told us measles isn’t an if anymore. It’s a when. So I went down the science rabbit hole—how it spreads, why it’s so contagious, and what it means for schools. #Measles #PublicHealth #Teachers

The first thing Ryland Grace does in Project Hail Mary is run a physics experiment. He drops a test tube, times the fall, and realizes something is wrong. #ProjectHailMary #STEMEducation #SciComm

"Make" science fun? Science is always fun! You know what makes science not fun? Assholes.

Best $5 ever spent at a used book store. First printing, 1966 - all three volumes in one. Bragging rights for...well. I mean...I always wanted this, so there's that.

What did Earth actually look like 66 million years ago, right before the Chicxulub asteroid impact? Dinosaurs, ancient oceans, and the real Late Cretaceous world behind @ryannorth.ca 's Hulk Smash Everything #1. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #PopScience

This weekend I accidentally ran a small experiment on myself: two hours of social media before bed. I woke up anxious with my nervous system ringing the alarm bell. If that’s what it did to me… what does it do to teenagers who live inside that environment every day? I wrote about it here:

The 100-Point Scale Is a Design Flaw in Our Education System The 100-point grading scale isn’t neutral. The lower half carries more mathematical weight than the upper half. That design changes behavior. I ran the numbers. Then I changed the design.

Hard work builds mastery. Instability interrupts it. It takes ten years to grow a teacher. #education #teacherlife #morale #retention #recruitment

A $46 million deficit, hundreds laid off and still no accountability. And now it’s election season. What is a school board for anyway, and why did mine fail so hard? #publiceducation #WS/FCS #winston-salem #educationpolicy #schoolboard #teachervoices

I think as teachers we all have lists like this floating around somewhere. Being home, snowed in, grading, and grading and grading - I was finally able to see the patterns, and what my kids’ work was telling me. #parenting #teaching #teachers #education #learninghabits #saccountability #phones

After I wrote “I Can’t Change Your Kid,” the most common response was simple: Okay—but what can you change? This piece is my answer. It’s about real power, real limits, and the damage we do when we blur the two.

“I can’t change your kid” isn’t cruelty. It’s the last honest sentence left in education. #Education #Teachers #TeacherBurnout #PublicEducation #Boundaries #Accountability open.substack.com/pub/bradytea...

Armed men show up near our schools. I wrote about what it actually feels like to teach in a moment like that — the fear, the refusal, and the line we hold for our kids. “The machinery of tyranny is vast, but it cannot erase the smallest act of refusal.”

Reading @ryannorth.ca’s secret email is always one of the highlights of my month. And I still remain I unconvinced about the Louvre thing…

Oh...for shit's sake. Glad I have printed copies and PDFs. These are wonderful GNs

Welcome to the oligarchy

This isn’t a “mea culpa” - this is an old man not admitting he was guessing, replacing his wishes for reality. Now all he’s left with is “LISTEN TO ME! I WAS SOMEONE ONCE!” Jesus.

This is, perhaps, my most important New Year’s resolution:

We all need to hear and see a donkey snacking on oranges today.

I’m going to be busy for the next 79 hours, give or take

Always worth remembering - Musk did not invent anything at or start Tesla. He sued to be named founder after he ran the funding (and later booted the real founders). This is not hidden information. He also bought the title of “chief engineer” when he bought Space X. See also, co-presidency of US