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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.

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Chapter 3 | Body, Meet World

Chapter 3 | Body, Meet World

Sensory Receptors • Sensory Organs • What Is Meant by "Heightened" Senses?Summary How do the matter and energy of sensation...

Chapter 4 | Senses, Meet Brain

Chapter 4 | Senses, Meet Brain

The One-Note Language of the Nervous System • Patterns in the Brain • The Metamodal Brain • The Brain Without Sight  • Sensory...

Chapter 5 | Super Hearing

Chapter 5 | Super Hearing

The Ear – An Audible Crash Course • The Things We Can(not) Hear • What Daredevil Actually Hears (Maybe)Summary Can a person...

Chapter 6 | A Sense of Space

Chapter 6 | A Sense of Space

The Cornell Experiments • Edward Smallwood and the Super Echolocators • Your Brain on Echoes • Echolocation on SteroidsSummary...

Chapter 7 | The Forgotten Nose

Chapter 7 | The Forgotten Nose

Your Nose Is Better Than You Think • The Science of Human Smell • The Smell of Hair Tonic • The Scent of a MemorySummary...

Chapter 8 | Heat and Touch

Chapter 8 | Heat and Touch

Color, Heat, and Temperature • Reading by Touch • Haptic ExplorationSummary What happened to Daredevil's early ability to sense...

Chapter 12 | The Missing Sense

Chapter 12 | The Missing Sense

The Oddly-Shaped Elephant in the Room • Blind Moments • The ToolboxSummary The book's final chapter takes a closer look at how...

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 over fifteen years.

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.

Photo of the author. Christine is Swedish and a brunette with long hair. She's in her mid-forties, but thinks she totally looks ten years younger.