Science at the Movies

It's the end of a series, the end of our so bad it's good era! Praise the lord! We're closing out this year with a long one but it was such a hoot talking about this movie. The wild ride that is Pacific Rim. It's full of tropes but Idris Elba and topless Charlie Hunman made it all worthwhile. Just don't say the aussie accents were good...apparently Freda disagrees. oops We're on an extended break now until the new year! We'll drop a few uncut episodes and try to crank out a christmas special. Rest and be merry this holiday season!Thanks for listening to us for another year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing out our Is it so bad it's good series is this absolute gem of a movie! Samuel L Jackson, snakes and a plane. What more could you want? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"couda been smart coulda gone to college, been cool...all these circuits get crossed ZAP" - Bruce Willis explains autism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

an orgy of hatred Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Halloween you beauties. Join us for a relaxed chat about what this movie means to people. It doesn't cost anything in life to be kind!Big Issue Interview with Richard O'Brien Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5 of our miniseries 'So Bad it's Good?' and yes, yes this movie is! Cotton Candy Cocoon anyone? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We deal with work stress before heading into the streams of our conciousness...Normalise Emotional Meltdowns!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

FINALLY a movie so bad its good. A movie so committed to the art of being bad that you have to applaud it. No second takes were had in this movie! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This absoulte jem came out on Netflix recently and it has everything we love about a sci-fi comedy nancy drew in the mystery machine with gangsters, pimps and ho's. Instant classic! We're back on clone science and memory downloads with a touch of what is conciousness. But most of all, it's a tumble down an MK Ultra rabbit hole, the bleak and crazy world of secret government experiments and that time they thought mind reading could be a thing. 'Let's get into Blockchain'TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comRecommendations:Behind the Bastards Podcast on MK UltraAmerican Scandal Podcast on Tuskagee Siphylus Study Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

i will never look at a baby in the same way again for the rest of my life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is as packed and chaotic as the movie itself, due to Abi and Freda being exhausted from bootlegging and Freda being in an crisis of science faith. Anyways, we finally get to discuss Oceangate. Also, offshore drilling hab(itats), underwater nuclear testing and breathing liquid oxygen strongly features. Finally, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio never felt the need to shorten her name.*****Some stuff you might be interested inInterview with Joseph B Keller about underwater nuclear testing: https://www.ams.org/notices/200407/fea-keller.pdfProduction hell of The Abyss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RyLikHFh78Liquid breathing: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2021/08/can-humans-breathe-liquid-like-in-the-abyss/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know those movies that you watch, where they are just sooooo bad, they end up being good? This isn't one of them.Welcome to this series minis: So bad it's good? This is episode 2 and we're seriously regretting this miniseries. Don't watch it, you don't need to waste 90 minutes of your life. Listen to us instead! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is this the greatest movie we've ever done? Can someone find Freda a Quarry, some rope and Perfect Tommy? Peter Weller makes bowties and glasses cool af! This movie is a glorious journey through madness with some well thought out science! Yes, the science is not terrible! In fact, it's pretty good. As far as cars driving through mountains into the 8th dimension goes...'Yes on one, no on two'Some Reading: Moving through matter with Buckaroo Banzai by Cary I SneiderBuckaroo Banzai Press Kit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know those movies that you watch, where they are just sooooo bad, they end up being good? This isn't one of them. Welcome to this series minis: So bad it's good? This is episode 1 and we regret it already. Don't watch it, you don't need to waste 90 minutes of your life. Listen to us instead! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back! Back with another Spielberg alien film, this time Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We are derailed at several points by conspiracy theorists, especially this one commenter called Daisy. Eric wasn't there to protect us. Bob Balaban returns to Science at the Movies. We talk about mental health, music, and the fact that we are both over Einstein. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our week between seasons and so we are re-releasing an old episode for you, uncut. So please enjoy two unedited hours of us rabbiting on about Zombies, Zombie Ants, Zombie Babies and Miss Justineau plus an entire minute of silence where Abi tries to find an article. Stay tuned for an accompanying interview with an actual fungus expert who can correct our awkward ramblings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a big one! 2001 is an absolute classic of science fiction filmmaking. Kubrick gave us space like it hadn't been seen before and working with the legendary Arthur C Clarke brought us one of the most impressive depictions of hard scifi in the history of filmaking.Could have done without the gorillas and fetus though.Before you listen..yes i messed up the names!! I will forever hang my head in shame.Daisy, daisy..TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comFurther Reading:American Rocketry Pioneer One giant lie.. why so many people still think the moon landings were fakedArthur C Clarke 2001 trilogy of books and the short story Sentinel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yes, we have more to say on this... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Small Soldiers a.k.a Freda dies on her hillMicrochips (what are they), non-technical bosses, viagra and...the biathlon? That escalated quickly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 5/6 of our scifi miniseries. This episode is all about AI. We talk about how they are depicted in science fiction, what we think about AI in the real world and what is our favourite movie about AI that we've covered here at SatMs!To get the conversation going we watched James Camerons series 'The History of Science Fiction'. It's well worth a watch! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Science Fiction classic turned cult satire! Starship Troopers; it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, it'll make you want to squash some bugs and slap some humans. This week we're talking about the battle for Klendathu, plasma butt weapons, asteroid slingshots and of course history and moral philosophy. "Do you want to know more?"TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comArticles of Interest:20 years later and the world has finally caught up with Starship Troopers - Darren MooneyCould the Bugs in Starship Troopers really exist? - Cassidy Ward Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 4/6 of our miniseries - James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's so good about being human? And what's so terrible about AI? Well, maybe we answer both of those question and then some. Come along with us to have a nuanced discussion about The Problem with AI, where we discuss black boxes, non-linear models, high-order interactions, causal pathways and all that fun stuff. Plus - oh yeah - there's this goddamn amazing movie to talk about to and some extremely sensitive talk about being too smart for our own good and having monthly periods..Here's the video Freda talks about regarding the Asian-American experience told thematically through After Yang: https://youtu.be/6jr2fMWywIQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction: Monsters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for another Marvel breakdown. This time we get quantum with Ant-Man!Pym particles and the quantum realm, safe cracking lols, controlling ants. Fun movie, stupid science and one of the worst casting decisions Marvel has made...'She went subatomic'TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comSafe Technician rates Heist MoviesIf you want to learn quantum mechanics, Leonard Susskind book series 'The Theoretical Minimum' is a great resource. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 2/6 of our scifi miniseries. This episode is all about Outer Space. We talk about how it's used in movies, would we go into space if given the chance and what is our favourite movie about outer space that we've covered here at SatMs!To get the conversation going we watched James Camerons series 'The History of Science Fiction'. It's well worth a watch! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For over two years Abi has tried to encourage Freda to cross into Sci-Fi fandom, and in this episode, she gives it her best shot. Green planets, muddy aliens, not knowing about fan fiction, not knowing the difference between using The Force and being Force-Sensitive...at least we have ET's phone to talk about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 1/6 of our scifi miniseries. This episode is all about Aliens. We talk about how they are depicted in science fiction, what we think a real alien encounter would be and what is our favourite movie about aliens that we've covered here at SatMs!To get the conversation going we watched James Camerons series 'The History of Science Fiction'. It's well worth a watch! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arrival (2016) is a beautiful depiction of our relationship with language, time and each other. Join us as we explore Egyptian Hieroglyphs, alien languages, Sapir Whorf hypothesis and our perception of time. 'Despite knowing the journey, and where it leads, I embrace it'Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Closing out our Time Travel miniseries with an absolute smashing classic! Bill and Ted the OGs of excellence. This movie was such a fun trip down memory lane and will forever be a joy to watch! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

YES ABI ROBERT PICARDO DID HIS OWN VOICE WORKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD8dx48A2GoSee at 10:20 for "evidence".In other news, this episode is on Innerspace and it is our least prepared episode to date (basicallly, unprepared). With Abi off to a conference and Freda making a Doctor Strange cosplay, these women aren't sleeping and this episode is the result. Fair warning: The proportion of movie chat to science content is high, but we talk Inside The Body and Functional Neurological Disorders, and have an excellent chat about hypochondria and health anxiety. But we stayed on schedule!.Leave us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we solve time travel! Tangents: keyboards, coyote ugly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is more full of science than anything you can imagine! The Core! Unobatanium, lasers, geodes, lavafalls, diamonds, birds losing it, pacemakers on the rampage, deus ex nuchina! Classic! We may have peaked. 'This movie is the gold standard for science at the movies!'Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5/7 of our extended Time Travel Miniseries. Andy Samberg and Time Loops! Do you need more in your life? Yes...then how about Christina Milliotti and Quantum Physics? More? JK Simmons with a bow and arrow! You don't need more than this. Watch it, love it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a true story! It happened to a friend of a friend of mine! No, but it did happen, and it Robin Williams IRL was Oliver Sacks. It's a crazy story and you have to come along to hear it..Some stuff to watch:encephalitis lethargica footage from 1925:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNVtUlroZcOliver Sacks talking about it plus footage of the real people described in Awakenings:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNum0dTYalk&t=379sWaking up after years asleep fun edited science video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkKSCsFUSoDocumentary of the incident from 1973 featuring young sprightly Sacks plus footage of Leonard and others INCLUDING THE BALL THROWINGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGq04Opx9DY&list=PLC3C1CE99A7A65B41&index=1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another episode for our over-indulgent Time Travel Miniseries!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Idiocracy (2006)Welcome to a future where advertising and automation rule the day and a Carls Jr can decide if you're an unfit mother. Capitalism! Are we heading for an idiocracy? We're talking cryogenics is a scam, to have or not to have children, natural selection doesn't do that, eugenics=bad, the curse of terrible automation and the fear of a pseudo-intellectual future. Who knew such a crap movie would lead to such detailed conversations. "Why you no have tattoo?"Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comThe Wisecrack Edition Youtube video - Idiocracy: Is it deep or dumb? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is episode 3/7 or 1/5 of our Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey miniseries. Time has no meaning anymore but we're here for the lols. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If this movie doesn't mess you up, you're an android!! But there's also a lot of science here. Airships (why DID they go out of fashion???), balloon flights, crazy airplane men, dog upgrades...this movie is a romp yet the episode is surprisingly dark.."I thought we were going to have a fun blimp chat" - Abi, 2023..Essay on the first ten minutes:https://studentjournals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/enquiry/article/view/125/125 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This movie was a sure fire hit on the podcast...or at least that's what Abi thought would happen. But divided we fall! Despite having another movie clash, we nerd out hard about this cast, the quantum mechanics madness of a many words multiverse and at the end of the day, everybody loves Waymond. Science in this episode: Quantum mechanics and consciousness, many worlds theory of the multiverse, philosophy and society. "Everything on a Bagel!'Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comThings you might like:The Philosophy of Everything Everywhere - Wisecrack on YouTubeWhat is the Measurement Problem - Sean Carroll on YouTubeThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse - PBS Spacetime on YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 2/5 of our miniseries Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The most important film in cinema historyhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=sg-Qkol4DKo&feature=share&utm_source=EKLEiJECCKjOmKnC5IiRIQRoger Ebert reviewhttps://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/timecop-1994 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is Episode 1/5 of our Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey miniseries. This is an excellent movie and if you haven't seen it, what the hell are you doing? It's on Netflix! Go Now! Watch it!!!!It's time travel yo! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're finally doing it! The absolute classic that is Back to the Future and the total joy of watching Mj Fox and C Llyod together. We have a bit of a movie love fest before a total nerd out about time travel. We're talking paradoxes, self-consistency principles, closed loops, many worlds, time in flux! "Gigawatts! Gigawatts!'Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's another UNCUT special, back to our eighth episode and third ever dumb science movie! A two brothers classic: Geostorm. This week you get 20 extra minutes of our incredulity at the ridiculousness of this movie! EnjoyWe've got frozen deserts, exploding cities, giant tsunamis and #airlockdrama! Abi tries to understand the scientific and economic logistics of a space net while Freda just wants this movie to flush itself out of her brain. It hurts all the science parts. "I want it dead, I want it's whole family dead, I want it down in the ground!"Things you might find interesting:Will weather control happen in the future? - BBCCan China control the weather? - How Stuff WorksCloud Seeding: should we or shouldn't we? - IndependentGeostorm and the ethics of geoengineering - The ConversationThe disasters of disaster movies - Yale Climate ConnectionsProject Poyeye - Office of the Historian (US Dept of State...not an onion article)The science behind Geostorm - Smithsonian MagRockets and rocket launches - National GeographicBBC How to build a satellite - Youtube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For episode 54 we're going into 1960s psychiatry, so get ready. What are lobotomies and how did they happen? Are you ready for this shit? Strap in, we're giving you the lowdown on all this shit. .Here are some resources:The 1946 expose by Life Magazine: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lobotomist-bedlam-1946/ECT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1125470/Psychosurgery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6384258/Psychiatric hospitals: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/nurses-institutions-caring/history-of-psychiatric-hospitals/Film and Psychiatry: https://news.mongabay.com/2005/04/the-methods-of-madness-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-and-awakenings/https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/we-are-still-flying-over-cuckoos-nest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's episode 5/5 of our Teenage Dirtbag miniseries! Grease is the darkest happy movie we ever saw. Revisiting this one is a hoot. Jan really wasn't fat at all, Rizzo thinks being easy is not as bad as being coy or stealing for that matter (there's worse things she can do y'all), everyone is too hard on Frenchie and the biggest effort Danny seems to go to is putting on a cardigan. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Angels & Demons (2009)Antimatter bombs, the god particle, science vs religon! This movie has it all! A bioentanglement physicist (what even is that?), a daredevil symbologist (why did TH do this to us 3 times!), a scottish/italian/irish helicopter flying priest, a murdered pope, a conspiracy, a secret society! I mean what else do you want from Ron Howard! Even the science isn't that off! What is happening?Ok but seriously, the movie is dumb and no we don't forgive Tom Hanks! "Scientists need to eat too!"Follow us on TikTok to catch live recordings of the episodes:TikTok: @scienceatthemoviesInstagram: @scienceatthemoviesEmail: scienceatthemovies@gmail.comReferences for this episode:The Cern website has a lot of information and references about the topics covered in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

10 Things I Hate About You: Episode 4 of our Teenage Dirtbag MiniseriesBlack underwear, not wearing a bra, what we thought paintball was, pristine "bad" boys with perfect soft hair, nerds staying in their lane, 90s pop rock where women sing like babies, self-pity, Shakespeare and more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**THE ANTARCTICA TREATY WILL EXPIRE IN 2048**The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1991 and came into effect in 1998. In Article 25, it cites a 50-year expiration date. If another protocol is not agreed upon, there is nothing stopping countries from seizing and occupying Antarctic land without any restrictions on protecting this precious environment. Antarctica is already under threat from Global Warming and science must continue to monitor changes and determine how to restore this habitat. Don't let it go silently.The Antarctic Treaty: https://www.ats.aq/e/antarctictreaty.htmlANYWAY, we also did an episode. Freda felt like it was time for another movie where someone loses both hands; The Thing, John Carpenter's of course! Did you know people hated it when it was first released? But today audiences love the nihilism and sometimes want to hear about the worse possible situation that could ever unfold. Abi is angry about dogs, and she has every right to be. John Carpenter got a fancy budget and spent in on Ennio Morricone but Ennio just did the music like John Carpenter did, which means John Carpenter could have saved a lot of money. We can't stop thinking about this! And then Quentin Tarantino used Ennio Morricone's John Carpenter score for the Hateful Eight and round and round it goes. Freda is afraid of her Aloe plant. Kurt Russel is a daddy and his hat is really big. The end. Other episode references:Den of Geek original reviews: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/john-carpenters-the-thing-had-an-icy-critical-reception/Backscatter imaging: https://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Eduspace_Global_EN/SEMD4V96KQH_0.htmlAIRSAR imaging: https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/sar-data-sets/airsar/Editorial Perspective: Cabin fever – the impact of lockdown on children and young peopleWhat kind of science to people do Antarctica: https://www.antarctica.gov.au/science/meet-our-scientists/Winter in Antarctica: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/antarctica/day-and-night-cycles/safety-and-wintering-over-in-antarctica Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Empire Records (1995) It's episode 3 out of 5 of our Teenage Dirtbag miniseries! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.