Science at the Movies

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.c...

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. S...

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: @scienceatthemovies Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email:...

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 WORK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD8dx48A2Go See 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...

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: @scienceatthemovies Instagram: @scienceatthemovies...

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=5lNVtUlroZc Oliver Sacks talking about it plus footage of the real people described in Awakenings: https://www...

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 m...

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/enqu...

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, ph...

Episode 2/7 of our miniseries Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The most important film in cinema history https://youtube.com/watch?v=sg-Qkol4DKo&feature=share&utm_source=EKLEiJECCKjOmKnC5IiRIQ Roger Ebert review https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/timecop-1994 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is Episode 1/7 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: @s...

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! Enjoy We'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 t...

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/ Psychosu...

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...

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...

10 Things I Hate About You: Episode 4 of our Teenage Dirtbag Miniseries Black 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. Antar...