Description: Seminar, one hour. Analysis of several unique superheroes and superpowers using relevant biology, physics, and engineering concepts. Students learn to use these concepts to evaluate if certain superpowers and superhero origin stories are scientifically sound. Exploration of innovative research to assess whether technology can endow ordinary humans with superhuman abilities. Students gain understanding of scientific gap between normal human beings and superheroes, and how that gap can be narrowed by new technology. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Francis Lin, with Jacob J. Schmidt as faculty mentor.

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