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 Every weekend I block out two hours for writing, and I should be using that time editing my book today, but I'm really not enjoying writing that book, and thinking of abandoning it altogether, so instead I'm doing another blog post to procrastinate from that other project. Some say we have super hero fatigue.  Less super hero movies are being made, after years of flooding the market.  James Gunn says that it's not fatigue for super-hero movies.  We just need good stories.   Super hero movies have been with us since the days of the serials in the 1940s.  Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Captain America all got serials, along with non-super comic book characters like Blackhawk, Hop Harrigan, and Dick Tracy.   For decades, it seemed as though the super-hero movies were focused on Superman and Batman.   That changed in 2000 with the release of X-Men.  Many will say that Blade in 1998 was the start, and that may be true, but I ...

summer of 1943-- The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of some   unified field theory , a term coined by   Albert Einstein   to describe a class of potential theories; such theories would aim to describe — mathematically and physically — the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise   electromagnetic radiation   and   gravity , in other words, uniting the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into a single field.  According to some accounts, unspecified "researchers" thought that some version of this field would enable using large   electrical generators   to   bend light   around an object via   refraction , so that the object became completely invisible. The Navy regarded this of military value and it sponsored the experiment.   Another unattributed version of the story proposes that researchers were preparing magnetic and gravitational measurements of the   seafloor   to detect anom...