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PBS NewsHour | Science of Superheroes | PBS

Duration: 04:52
Program: PBS NewsHour #10473
Broadcast Date: Oct. 10, 2012

NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan talks to physics professor Jim Kakalios about how superheroes occasionally get their physics correct. Kakalios was the science consultant for The Amazing Spider-Man film released July 2012.

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Post Date: October 11, 2012