Welcome to Part IV of DRIVEN’s exclusive interview series on Watchmen (Part I: Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Part II: Malin Akerman. Part III: Zack Snyder. Plus: See the end of this post for a chance to win an exclusive piece of collectible Watchmen memorabilia).
Today: Billy Crudup, the normally press-shy 39-year-old who shot to fame in 2000 as the burgeoning guitar rock god of Almost Famous, breaks down his serious, journalist-weary barriers to joke about his Watchmen roles as both the very human Dr. Jon Osterman, and his glowing dual personality Doctor Manhattan.
Look for plenty of atomic blue weirdness after the jump.
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It’s always shocking when a new technology is found to have a secondary use to its original, intended purpose. Some cancer researchers will likely be particularly surprised that their work might be about to find its way into battlefield arsenals or police patrol cars.
Most cancer treatments are pretty simple in theory: they seek cancerous cells and kill them before they have time to spread. NewScientist.com reports that a technique thought to be a promising cancer treatment is now being investigated as the basis for a Taser-esque weapon that stuns for longer periods, using short, nanosecond-long pulses of extreme voltage.
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