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Darwin Takes Center Stage
Is there a scientist in history more misunderstood in modern times than Charles Darwin? His seminal work, The Origin of Species, revolutionized the biological sciences and led to a tension between...
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Creation, Darwin, and Movie Censorship
When I first moved to the United Kingdom I had a bit of a shock upon seeing a £10 note. Currency in the United States features revered presidents and revolutionary war heroes. Yet, staring back at me...
View ArticleGoats in the Machine
The new film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, is based on the book by Jon Ronson detailing a weird military research project involving psychic warriors, LSD, astral projection and the like. But while the...
View ArticleJust Imagine
For those who missed the 2009 Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, one of many highlights was the screening of documentary shorts: not the dry, didactic educational films typically shown in the...
View Article"Rift" Sets Its Hero Adrift
Just when you thought the world was safe from universe-destroying black holes, comes a nifty short film from L Studio called Rift that explores just such a scenario. It's described as "a surreal...
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Creating a Conversation Through 'Creation"
A brand new film, Creation, opens in theaters this Friday, January 22nd, in major cities across the country (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC) and will certainly stir...
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Even Superheroes Need Their Science
This past weekend, the Science and Entertainment Exchange headed to San Diego for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Our session was a panel discussion...
View ArticleThe Technology Behind 'Minority Report'
Audiences flocked to to the futuristic thriller Minority Report when it debuted in 2002, impressed not just with thefilm noir mystery, but also the visually stunning futuristic world depicted onscreen....
View ArticleTony Stark's Science
If you're one of the millions of people who flocked to the cinema this weekend to see Iron Man 2, you're no doubt wondering how much of the plot is based in fact, and how much is pure science...
View ArticleGirls Just Want to Have Sums: Mathematically-Gifted Women in Television/Film
Girls just want to have sums. Or is it fun? Actually, why can’t it be both? Stereotypes plague math – difficult, boring - and girls who love math– they don’t exist. But several female television and...
View ArticleFilm in 2011: Robots, Aliens, Heroes and Everything Else You Could Ever Want
In 2011, aliens will invade, robots will battle for the moon, and superheroes will save us. No, we aren’t predicting the end of the world. We’re talking movies! The silver screen in 2011 will be...
View ArticleRoaring to Be Heard: Conservation in Film
In March, a new film hits theaters. It’s a courageous tale of a single mother, forced out of her home and fighting for survival. No, it’s not a little-known indie film or a critics’ darling. In fact,...
View ArticleThe Chemical Formula: Successfully Combining Chemistry, Science, and the Media
It’s hard to know what some 500 chemists were expecting when they filed into a ballroom for an event called Hollywood Chemistrythis past March 27, at the big annual meeting of the American Chemical...
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What You Need to Know to Survive a Zombie Disease
If you stay up late at night worrying about the impending zombie apocalypse, you will be happy to hear the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a blog post outlining exactly what...
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