Captain America

This week we enter the wonderful world of superheroes with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger. We're talking world war two, the advent of comic book heroes, vita rays and super serums! Abi get's down with gene therapy while Freda goes on a journey with Hugo and his german accent. 'Gibt es das pretzel?!'References:Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? - BBC FutureOperation Paperclip - Book review: CIA Library More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers - The AtlanticNazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug' - Live ScienceThe 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments - Live ScienceMuscles in a Vial: Can a Single Shot Turn You Into Captain America - Live ScienceScience behind Captain America - Youtube : Stanford UniversityGene Therapy and making a real Superhero Serum - Youtube : Because Science in partnership with NovartisSuperhero physiology: the case for Captain America - Brown et al, Advances in Physiology Education Vol. 41, No. 1, 2017 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Do you like science? Do you like movies? Well, have we got a combo for you! Every two weeks join us, real life physicists Freda and Abi, while we break down the science behind some of the best and worst movie plots out there. We also get real about the depiction of scientists and their working environment in movies and lay it all on the table with our WTF moments. We're not about debunking, we're here to show our appreciation to the art of movie magic but reserve the right to laugh and shout as well as applaud where deserved! Here comes the science... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.