We all know The Flash is a speedster who can run super fast. But because he can move so fast, he must also have the ability to see, process and react to things super fast, too--probably getting input in real time--no lag like the rest of us.
Everyone in The Walking Dead is already infected with the zombie virus. So it's not the virus from the zombie bites that kill their victims, it must be something else. Kyle Hill is on the case, and drops some real-life zombie knowledge along the way.
The monsters that appear in pop culture are scary, sure--but nature makes a lot of its own extremely creepy creatures, as Kyle Hill is happy to explain. Meet nature's own vampires, body snatchers and more.
Could there be logical, scientific reasons for things that go bump in the night--or at least people's reactions and beliefs based on them? Kyle Hill thinks so. His "brains before boos" examples include confirmation bias, sleep paralysis and more.
Sure, there's lots of terrifying stuff in fiction--monsters, aliens, ghosts--but what about real life? Don't Google it, Kyle Hill is here to scare you with really scary things that really exist: animal bombs, liquid oxygen and Chernobyl.
Kyle Hill talks about the scientific theories underpinning the action in the movie Interstellar, including wormholes, white and black holes, the folding of space time and using a combo of all of those for backward time travel.
The ringlike structures that exist in pop culture from games like Halo to books like Larry Niven's Ringworld and movies like Elysium aren't quite buildable with current tech, but Kyle Hill explains what it would take to build them, theoretically.
The Muttations in The Hunger Games are mostly horrible genetically modified organisms that attack Katniss, but there are real GMOs that just might help solve the world's problems--including hunger. Also...the lyrebird is a lot like a Jabberjay.
Alan Turing, as portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the movie The Imitation Game, was a brilliant man who used science and math to deduce the Enigma machine's flaw, and saved millions of lives in the process. Kyle Hill explains how.
Kyle Hill is Nerdist's Science Editor, but he's also a helpful guy--so he's answering questions sent in by viewers on the topics of quantum entanglement, mirages, the Big Bang theory and Thor's hammer.
Kyle Hill realizes there are not actually dragons, especially not charismatic dragons with Benedict Cumberbatch's voice, like Smaug. That aside, he explains how dragons' fire-breathing could work, if they were real.
Kyle Hill, with help from a Spy magazine article, made a list (and presumably checked it twice) of all the different variables of Santa's gift-delivery trip, and comes to a startling conclusion on how fast Santa would have to go to make it happen.
Apparently 50 to 60% of us still make New Year's resolutions, but most people can't keep them for more than a week. So what are the secrets to sticking to your resolutions? Kyle Hill looked into it, so you can cross that off your list.
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By what name was Because Science (2014) officially released in Canada in English?