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Awesome new TED-ED videos explain the physics of superhero powers

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Educator Joy Lin has teamed up with TedEducation to produce a series of fantastic animated shorts that explain the physics behind such superpowers as flight, speed, strength, invisibility, body mass manipulation, and immortality.

The physics of superhero flight is explained in the video up top.

Super strength explained:

Explaining the physics of superhero speed:

Immortality (not my favorite):

The science of manipulating body mass:

And lastly, what if invisibility wasn’t just the stuff of epic comic book stories?

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