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Why does Santa Claus wear red? 🎅 His decision was inspired by other gift-bringers, but there's an important scientific reason behind Santa's choice of red.

Check out my new article on RTE Brainstorm for the answer!

Full article:
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/1217/1486908-santa-claus-red-outfit-science/

My new book 'Superheroes' written with Etienne Augé is out in the world, and in the book, we explain why you need science and history to understand where the genre has come from and where it might be going.

Check out this fantastic article from Erasmus University Rotterdam, which contains a flavour of what you'll find in the book and what we hope to achieve with it!

Want to get yourself a copy of the book? Check out this page for information on how: https://bwscience.com/product/superheroes/

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Superheroes - a scientist and a historian debate the biggest movie genre today Etienne F. Augé and Barry W. Fitzgerald combine their superpowers to understand and explain superheroes.

It's Engineers Week 2024 in Ireland and I'm embarking on a mini-tour. 🦾

4 stops at 4 different locations as I bring my new talk "Extreme Engineering" around the island of Ireland.

Here are the dates and locations for the tour:

1. Sligo for the Sligo Engineering Fair at ATU Sligo (general public) - 3rd March 2024 (already done and it was great fun)

2. Selskar College, Wexford (secondary school) - 6th March 2024

3. University of Limerick, Limerick (workshops with primary school students visiting the campus) - 7th March 2024

4. Rath Dara Community College (secondary school) - 8th March 2024

Stay tuned for updates on the mini-tour.

And if your school, festival, or organisation are interested in engaging and interactive workshops in the future, please get in contact here, via my website www.bwscience.com, or via e-mail: [email protected].

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⚡ 'Superheroes' has arrived! My latest book - co-written with Etienne Augé and published with Bot Uitgevers in the Netherlands - is a fact. And it's out now!

It's my 4th book, 1st with a publisher, and 1st with a co-author. Etienne and I had a whole lot of fun writing this book, and we disagreed about almost everything while writing it (except for how great The Boys as a superhero series is).

👉 You can get the book in lots of places online such as my web shop: https://bwscience.com/product/superheroes/

Spread the word, and share the news. 'Superheroes' has landed!

(Good to know - it took more than 20 photos to get this photo of me 'reading' the book.)