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Science in Movies

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Creation Date September 14th, 2020
Updated Date Updated November 27th, 2020
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  1. Pod Academy

    Human-Animal Hybrids in Movies

    1Sep 13th, 20201h 9m
    Human imagination has been rife with creatures that are part human and part animal ever since we started to express ourselves artistically as a species, and all the way to modern sci-fi stories. Centaurs, satyrs, the minotaur, mermaids, werewol
  2. Pod Academy

    Biological Apocalypse in Movies

    1Apr 13th, 20201h 16m
    Hollywood's disaster movie industry has created the sub-genre of biological apocalypse movies, which are now more relevant than ever. In this episode, Gil Kidron and Dr Rutger Vos talk about movies that depict scenarios that were once farfetche
  3. Pod Academy

    Malicious Code Injection in Movies

    1Apr 6th, 202050m 33s
    Both nature and computing are at certain levels digital. Code organized in discrete symbols (DNA bases, bits) can be understood, decoded, and manipulated. But do we understand these systems well enough to meddle with them? In this episode, Dr R
  4. Pod Academy

    The Jungle in Movies

    1Feb 17th, 20201h 6m
    The jungle has long been a very attractive topic in movies and books, with its unstoppable nature teeming with mysterious and dramatic creatures and plants. In this episode, Dr. Rutger Vos joins Gil Kidron to talk about the jungle from a scient
  5. Pod Academy

    Corona Virus Epidemic: Dr Rutger Vos on the Science and Politics

    The coronavirus 2019-nCov has been spreading out in the world and in the headlines. But what is a coronavirus anyway? Should we be worried? In this episode, Gil Kidron and Dr Rutger Vos (a biologist) discuss some of the basics of this thing tha
  6. Pod Academy

    The Expanse Science: How Can a New Planet Sustain Life?

    In an offhand remark, The Expanse claims that other forms of life are possible, such as forms based on silicon rather than carbon. How plausible is that? And what else would need to be in place? You'd need liquid water, for one. In fact, a whol
  7. Pod Academy

    The Expanse Science: When Species Discover New Habitats

    In this episode, we dive into The Expanse season 4 and its many layers. As humans travel farther than ever before, to a new world - new evolutionary opportunities arise. And pitfalls. Rutger and Gil break down the evolutionary opportunities and
  8. Pod Academy

    Epidemics and Pandemics in Movies

    In this Science in Movies podcast Gil again welcomes Rutger, this time to talk about how global epidemics (known as pandemics) have been portrayed in movies. We talk about Outbreak (1993), Contagion (2011), Philadelphia (1993), and Black Death
  9. Pod Academy

    Natural Disasters in Movies

    In this Science in Movies podcast Gil again welcomes Rutger - this time to talk about natural disasters on an unprecedented scale: asteroids, sudden climate change, and the eruption of a supervolcano. We break down the science, fact check it an
  10. Pod Academy

    Human Evolution in Movies

    We launch our new series of podcast episodes - science in movies! With Dr. Rutger Vos, an evolutionary biologist from Leiden University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, both in The Netherlands. In our inaugural science podcast episode, we tal

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