Hello, Deadpool here. We're very excited to be joining you, but we should set the table correctly.

We're mostly going to make enemies with Disney and make a lot of jokes at Hughes' expense.

Come again.

So sit back, relax, while we travel to a place where grown men and women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.

Because this is cinema. Cinema.

Shut up.

Oh my God.

Marvel Studios Deadpool in Wolverine in Cinemas Thursday, July 25th.

This is Scientific Americans 60 second science. I'm Karen Hopkins.

I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute.

Imagine you're a soccer goalie. Your opponent gets ready to take a penalty kick.

You're crouched in front of the net.

The past three kickers have aimed to your left. So which way do you dive?

If you said right, you'd be in good company. Because when penalty shots repeatedly head in one direction, world-class

goalkeepers are more likely to lunge the other way. That's according to a study in the journal

Current Biology. This form of misconception, that a string of rights is bound to be broken by a left, is also common in casinos,

so much so that it's called the gambler's fallacy.

At the roulette wheel, for example, betters tend to back black after seeing a run of reds.

We're due for a black, the thinking goes,

but in reality, the roulette ball is still equally likely to land on either color.

And despite what net minders might think,

the same is true for penalty kicks.

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