{"id":704,"date":"2012-08-08T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=704"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:02:34","slug":"science-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/science-at-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Science at the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) is one of my favorite action superheroes.\u00a0 It turns out that the \u201cDecay Rate Algorithm\u201d in the movie, <em>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>, is based on real science.\u00a0 Jim Kakalios, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-a&amp;find_code=WAU&amp;request=kakalios\"><em>The Physics of Superheroes<\/em><\/a> and a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, explains the science behind the most recent Spider-Man movie in this short video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spider-Man and the Decay Rate Algorithm\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjfT6MqTCqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man) is one of my favorite action superheroes.\u00a0 It turns out that the \u201cDecay Rate Algorithm\u201d in the movie, The Amazing Spider-Man, is based on real science.\u00a0 Jim Kakalios, the author of The Physics of Superheroes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/science-at-the-movies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,15],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-science-in-popular-culture","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}