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 Ellipsis is a narrative technique, used in films, books, and other such story-based mediums, which is the cutting out of a portion of an event or series of events, to either save time or to pace the story in a certain way. In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, this usually quite obvious but never noticed aspect is given particular attention:  Supergirl gets assaulted a lot supposedly, and a lot of the incidents are cut out for narrative sake. The whole story, being a travel narrative, does this quite a bit. The use of space travel is another scheme which uses ellipsis quite a bit. Space is of course an extraordinarily vast area, but the quick travel between planets (making them feel more like travelling between town to town) is waved away by unrealistically fast technology or some sort of wormhole, hypergate type explanation of almost instant transportation. But these are just general, and useful, techniques, whose use is so frequent and ingrained within all stories that a story w...

 To Whom It May Concern:  For Wonder Woman, I honestly don't have much to say. The psychology is interesting, but I feel like I could not make anything too original or interesting out of it. I suppose I will take this as my freebie.  Thank you and have a great weekend,  -Super Suds

 Becoming Batman is a 2008 book released about the training regime needed to morph your body into that of the hero Batman.  Of course, it is interesting to go over exactly how Batman's body works, and the amount of training he would need to morph oneself into the seemingly superhuman strength of the superhero known for just being a regular human. However, when looking at this book, a strange connection popped into my mind. Something from a distant comic book, far in the past.  These Charles Atlas ads were frequent in the 1940's within the pages of comic books. It promised any skinny or out-of-shape comic reader a path to becoming immensely buff, able to fight of any bullies or adversaries and attract beautiful women. The ads were quite bombastic, so they stuck in my mind.  Do these two pieces of comic paraphernalia not seem similar? Of course, comics are the epitome of escapist fiction, where readers often wish they were as strong, pure, and beloved as DC or Marvel's...

 The debate about plant intelligence is quite interesting. However, from having just a cursory look of a little bit of reading and one class session about the topic, and a much larger background in computing and artificial intelligence, the resemblance between plant intelligence and AI was quite striking. Plants were described as not being human in intelligence, but still being able to make decisions, and learn. Well, a computer could do that as well! Just as a plant may track towards the sun or learn to not be afraid when it was dropped, a machine learning model can learn to give better outputs, or even in an applied robotics sense move its' limbs in such a way until it figures out how to walk. Just like how plants evolve over time, machines do as well, with both either producing new offspring with slightly more optimal genetics or running through algorithms to slightly fine tune results. There are a few other similarities as well.  The above graph describes how plants act ba...

 Talking to my roommate one day, while wondering through the woods around town, the topic eventually came to the zombie apocalypse. We discussed potential tactics, and how the two of us would definitely be the exception and live, rising up above the rest of the unfortunate masses to lead the new world order. However, what he said after the usual fun chat stuck with me. He said he actually wanted to be in the zombie apocalypse. I of course objected. It would be really difficult, and a lot of people you love would probably die. He agreed, but said that the romance (in the traditional sense) and sudden change in everything would still be exceedingly interesting. There is some reason to want an apocalypse. There are plenty of easy methods to say modern day society is rotten to the core, plenty of reasons to be bored of modern comfortable life, and perhaps many ways to decry modern humanity's environmental impact even. So, why not just let it all collapse and live in a zombie apocalypse...

 House of X has a lot of interesting topics to discuss within it, but as I am myself, the thing that instantly stuck in my mind was a list of countries. A lot of these make sense. Iran, a religious caliphate, would reject the mutants due to a fundamentalist  interpretation of Islam. The Wakanda one is especially humorous. However, Brazil stood out to me. While part of the BRICS alliance, Brazil is still at least nominally aligned with western interests, and stands out as the strangest of the included nations as being against Krakoa. Trying to pursue this thread led to three separate theories.  Theory 1: This was Revenge  It seems like the only other people who noticed this were the Brazilians themselves. Riotimesonline, the largest English language newspaper in Brazil, published this story about the comic:  https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/entertainment-brazil/brazil-becomes-an-x-men-enemy-in-new-comic-book/ The article interestingly cites anoth...