Ryan North

How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period's constraints? Ryan North uses these hypothetical questions to explore the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization, offering a practical guide of how one could rebuild civilization from the ground up.

How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period's constraints? Ryan North uses these hypothetical questions to explore the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization, offering a practical guide of how one could rebuild civilization from the ground up.

This week, Ryan and Jasmine bring you all the latest in new books hitting shelves this week (1:16) including our picks this week CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE WINTER SOLDIER SPECIAL #1, MURDERWORLD: AVENGERS #1, IMMORTAL X-MEN #8.          Plus, we hand out the “You Could Learn a Thing or Two From Cats” award — our weekly award named after a phrase pulled directly from an issue in this week’s pull list! Think you know which issue this name came from? Let us know by sending us an email at PullList@marvel.com or by tweeting at us using #MarvelsPullList! Just make sure to mark it “Okay to read”!And finally, for this week’s reading club, Ryan North is here to talk about Fantastic Four: The Coming of Galactus!     What we're reading with Ryan North:Fantastic Four (1961-1998) #48-50 As always, shout out your local comic shop or send us your questions or comments by emailing us at pulllist@marvel.com or tweet using #MarvelsPullList. Make sure to mark it "Okay to read!"   Follow us at: @agentm, @jasmiest, @KaraMcGuirk New comics this week: BLADE: VAMPIRE NATION #1CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE WINTER SOLDIER SPECIAL #1DEMON WARS: SHIELD OF JUSTICE #1GAMBIT #5GOLD GOBLIN #1IMMORTAL X-MEN #8IRON MAN #25MURDERWORLD: AVENGERS #1NAMOR #2SHANG-CHI AND THE TEN RINGS #5SHE-HULK #8STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #26STAR WARS: HAN SOLO & CHEWBACCA #7STAR WARS: HIDDEN EMPIRE #1THUNDERBOLTS #4ULTRAMAN: THE MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #4WAKANDA #2New Weekly Infinity Comics:  11/14/2022X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #61                        11/15/2022AVENGERS UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #20     SPIDER-VERSE UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #24     11/16/2022ELECTRIC RAIN INFINITY COMIC #3    MARVEL'S VOICES NOVA INFINITY COMIC #25 11/17/2022    LOVE UNLIMITED: X LOVES OF WOLVERINE INFINITY COMIC #24          11/18/2022IT'S JEFF INFINITY COMIC #20    

Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund my wildly ambitious plans? How do I control the weather, destroy the internet, and never, ever die?Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain (Riverhead Books, 2022), he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today's most advanced technologies. Picking up where How to Invent Everything left off, his explanations are as fun and elucidating as they are completely absurd.You don't have to be a criminal mastermind to share a supervillain's interest in cutting-edge science and technology. This book doesn't just reveal how to take over the world--it also shows how you could save it. This sly guide to some of the greatest threats facing humanity accessibly explores emerging techniques to extend human life spans, combat cyberterrorism, communicate across millennia, and finally make Jurassic Park a reality.Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund my wildly ambitious plans? How do I control the weather, destroy the internet, and never, ever die?Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain (Riverhead Books, 2022), he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today's most advanced technologies. Picking up where How to Invent Everything left off, his explanations are as fun and elucidating as they are completely absurd.You don't have to be a criminal mastermind to share a supervillain's interest in cutting-edge science and technology. This book doesn't just reveal how to take over the world--it also shows how you could save it. This sly guide to some of the greatest threats facing humanity accessibly explores emerging techniques to extend human life spans, combat cyberterrorism, communicate across millennia, and finally make Jurassic Park a reality.Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

On today's episode, I talk to comics writer Ryan North. Originally from Osgoode, Ontario, Ryan was on a path to a career in computational linguistics before a small webcomic he started, Dinosaur Comics, launched him in a somewhat different direction. Since then, he's become a New York Times-bestselling and Eisner Award-winning writer whose work includes the non-fiction book How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comic and podcast for Marvel. He's also written Adventure Time, Jughead, The Midas Flesh and many other comics as well, and his most recent work is another non-fiction book How To Take Over The World! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

This week, Ryan and Jasmine detail all of this week's new comics including AVENGERS FOREVER #5, BLACK PANTHER LEGENDS #4, GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: THUNDERBIRD #1 and more! Plus, we’re giving out the coveted  “No Thanos, Those Are My Corpses” award. Think you know which issue this award name came from?  Let us know by emailing us at PullList@Marvel.comor tweet at us using #MarvelsPullList. And finally, for this week’s reading club, writer Ryan North joins us to talk about The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power.As always, shout out your local comic shop or send us your questions or comments by emailing us at pulllist@marvel.com or tweet using #MarvelsPullList. Make sure to mark it "Okay to read!"What we're reading with Ryan North:The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1-4 New comics this week (5/4)AVENGERS FOREVER #5BEN REILLY: SPIDER-MAN #4BLACK PANTHER LEGENDS #4GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: THUNDERBIRD #1IRON MAN #19MAESTRO: WORLD WAR M #3MARAUDERS #2SPIDER-MAN 2099: EXODUS ALPHA #1STAR WARS #23STAR WARS: OBI-WAN KENOBI #1 New Weekly Infinity Comics: X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC  #33      5/2/2022

Author Ryan North joins us to explain how we can all fulfill our dreams of being a real-life supervillain. We talk cloning dinosaurs, the price of immortality and even the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl!

Best-selling/award-winning/very tall author Ryan North joins Fūnk-é and Steven for an especially villainous (and Canadian) episode, wherein merritt challenges the panel to solve some of the problems facing today's evil masterminds, in addition to testing their knowledge of the public domain. As Ernest Hemingway once said, "wear sunscreen!" (Also check out Ryan's new book, HOW TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, wherever books are sold.)Segments: Evil Overlord Aptitude Assessment, Normal Human Staff Picks, Public Domain Speed PitchingGames discussed: Unraveled 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Guilty Gear Strive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times bestselling author & Eisner-winning writer Ryan North chats with Trey Elling about HOW TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD: PRACTICAL SCHEMES AND SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE ASPIRING SUPERVILLAIN. Topics include: The book's origin story (0:25) What a science experiment called Biosphere 2 that started in the 1990s tells us about what it takes to operate a secret lair (1:26) Why it wouldn't be wise for an aspiring supervillain to take land by soft force when trying to start his or her own country (5:48) Could bad guys clone dinosaurs like they did in Jurassic Park? (9:19) Why is sulfur dioxide a key in possibly controlling the weather? (14:20) Ryan's defiant opposition to putting political elections on computers (17:28) Why have we not gotten past the crust when attempting to drill to the Earth's core (24:06) The lack of importance in knowing why we age in achieving immortality (30:02) What Ryan wants to be remembered for (36:44)