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By Christine Hanefalk
Being Matt Murdock
One Fan’s Journey Into the Science of Daredevil
You will never look at Marvel’s fan-favorite character Daredevil the same way again! Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride into the science of the senses – heightened or not.
What could possibly allow someone to hear heartbeats? Is there something it is like to “radar-sense”? Is it true that your remaining senses are enhanced if you lose one of them? And, how is it that any of us can sense anything in the first place?
Christine Hanefalk takes an in-depth look at these questions – and many more – in this definitive examination of the science of Daredevil’s senses. Here, the author makes a passionate case for how we might come to understand this fan-favorite character on a deeper level while making room for both his blindness and heightened senses.
Daredevil blogger and author
Christine Hanefalk
Christine is best known in the Daredevil fandom for her website The Other Murdock Papers, where she has been writing about all things Daredevil for well over a decade. Combining her love of Daredevil with a lifelong interest in the natural sciences, she has turned a particular focus to examining the character’s heightened senses through a scientific lens. She holds a Master of Science in Engineering degree in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University.
Complementary material
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(Under construction!)
Chapter Nine
The Perplexing Origins of the Radar Sense
Chapter Ten
Making Sense of the Radar Sense
Chapter Eleven
There Is Something It Is Like to Radar-Sense
Chapter Twelve
The Missing Sense
Chapter Eight
Heat and Touch
Chapter Seven
The Forgotten Nose
Chapter Six
A Sense of Space
Chapter 5 | Super Hearing
Not an error as much as a case of unclear wording in the following section: “You would also see that the oval window on one end is matched by a membrane called the round window at the “far” end. When the stapes pushes on the oval window (I like to picture this looking...
Chapter 4 | Senses, Meet Brain
A quick look at the action...
Chapter 3 | Body, Meet World
A (detailed) look at the...
Chapter 2 | Sense, Nonsense, and the Stimulus
Longitudinal vs. Transverse...
Chapter 1 | The Literary Adventures of the Super Blind
Note! Early printings (physical books purchased before circa mid-September, 2022) contain an error regarding Frank Miller's age at the time he started working on Daredevil. While he was indeed very young, he was not quite as young as nineteen. The first issue Miller...