It's a rerelease!! We're brining you back to our first days as baby podcasters with a rerelease of our second ever episode Spectral (2016). Listen back to our complete shock and awe at the use of science in this movie! In this episode we're talking about the 2016 Netflix movie 'Spectral'.Abi attempts to explain what Bose Einstein Condensate is, Freda explains why safety goggles are important around microwaves and we all establish that we had...fun.Why do they have boobs Summary In this episode w...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Hey SatMs! We're on a short break but we know we can't leave you high and dry! We're throwing back to our first ever episode on Annihilation and bringing you this companion piece to extend your listening pleasure! In this minisode Abi talks with a real life Cell Developmental Biologist, Dr Ezgi Kunttas, who does a much better job of explaining the science behind Hox genes! Welcome back to the shimmer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 18, 2021•27 min
It's a rerelease!! We're giving you a ( slightly ) extended version of our very first episode on Annihilation (2018)! Listen back to our first days as baby podcasters! In this episode, we talk about the queen that is Natalie Portman, exploding aliens, mesmerising synth music and our love for a movie monster! Freda coins the term 'sexy-science pillow talk' while Abi has a PPE concern in her WTF moment. But did we really get the refracting concept? Were our concerns about female science representa...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 20 min
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Mar 11, 2021•1 min
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Ep 4 of 4 from our Ack! Ack! It's an Alien! miniseries. We’ve made it through so far, but If anything is going to top the last year, it’s definitely going to be an alien invasion. So before we panic and start drawing straws for “leader of the welcoming party”...let’s take a trip through some comedy favourites with our miniseries Ack! Ack! It’s an alien! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 04, 2021•34 min
We're finally doing it...Contagion (2011) Don't worry, we're in this together, we'll take care of you. Freda has jokes, Abi gets mad at some kids and there's a game of conspiracy bingo to keep us all clam, or incite mass panic. Who knows?!? "Quark! Quark!" Twitter: @movies_science Instagram: @scienceatthemovies References, resources and tidbits: Articles: How does virus genome sequencing help the response to COVID-19? - UK Research and Innovation PCR, antigen and antibody: Five things to know ab...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Men In Black (1997). Ep 3 of 4 from our Ack! Ack! It's an Alien! miniseries. We’ve made it through so far, but If anything is going to top the last year, it’s definitely going to be an alien invasion. So before we panic and start drawing straws for “leader of the welcoming party”...let’s take a trip through some comedy favourites with our miniseries Ack! Ack! It’s an alien! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 18, 2021•30 min
It's back to the 80s with this Rick Moranis family favourite...and we're here for it. This episode has everything: a game show, an acronym contest and the return of Were The Jews Correct? Abby is still not over Rick Moranis getting punched in the head, Freda sizes up Lego, and somewhere an ant is dying under the weight of the Szalinski kids. Was it to scale??? __________ Some things you might be interested: The making of HISTK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYQgaJ1MZFg https://www.youtube.com/...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Galaxy Quest (1999). Ep 2 of 4 from our Ack! Ack! It's an Alien! miniseries. We’ve made it through so far, but If anything is going to top the last year, it’s definitely going to be an alien invasion. So before we panic and start drawing straws for “leader of the welcoming party”...let’s take a trip through some comedy favourites with our miniseries Ack! Ack! It’s an alien! For Lols! Galaxy Quest: The Mockumentary - YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 04, 2021•29 min
This week it's back to the MCU for Iron Man (2008). The military want some weapons and Tony Stark is happy to oblige. We're talking military funding (again), nuclear fusion and 680kg exoskeletons! Freda is shvitzing, Abi has Covid...it's a mess! "Manic pixie dream boy" Twitter : @movies_science Instagram : @scienceatthemovies References, resources and tidbits: Articles: Iron Man: The science behind the fiction , New Scientist How Nuclear Fusion Reactors Work , How Stuff Works Nuclear fusion is a...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Mars Attacks (1996). Ep 1 of 4 from our Ack! Ack! It's an Alien! miniseries. We’ve made it through so far, but If anything is going to top the last year, it’s definitely going to be an alien invasion. So before we panic and start drawing straws for “leader of the welcoming party”...let’s take a trip through some comedy favourites with our miniseries Ack! Ack! It’s an alien! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 21, 2021•30 min
We're kicking off new year with an all-time favourite! Robert Zemeckis' Contact from 1997. There's so much going on in the movie, where do we start? Freda is rude enough to mention Fourier transforms, Abby tries to hear what the Universe (or maybe Pulsars) is trying to say and we play tribute to Arecibo. I like it's bigness! __________ Extra stuff 4 the extra listeners: Carl Sagan supercut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmafy_v8g8&t=73s Arecibo Collapse from Now This https://www.youtube.co...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 3
For one Christmas only, its Magic at the Movies ! It's time to take a trip to Hogwarts for some magical chit chat! So gather your wands, ready your patronus and hop onto your broom! It's time for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Happy holidays everyone! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 24, 2020•59 min
It's the final instalment of our Hacking miniseries and this time it's Live Free or Die Hard. It's a hack paradox! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 17, 2020•28 min
This week we're talking Ghostbusters (1984). It's ghost science!! The old gods are coming and they're spewing ectoplasm everywhere so load up the traps, ready the proton packs and get ready to make some s'mores! Freda stans the marketing tactics, Abi solves ghosts and we're all just thinking...damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore! "Who you gonna call....parapsychologists!" Twitter : @movies_science Instagram : @scienceatthemovies References, resources and tidbits: Parapsychology: (you mig...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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Dec 03, 2020•24 min
It's our first animated adventure, Wall-e! What can we say about Wall-e apart from awwwww??? Freda geeks out about geeking out about sound, Abi gives some Twinkie science, and somewhere there's a glimmer of hope that everyone is capable of change (barf). Get off your bum! ________________________ Some things you might enjoy: Ben Burtt Sound Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPxIvbc_cs Wall-e production notes: http://www.pixartalk.com/feature-films/walle/wall-e-production-notes/ Pop Cultur...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We're kicking off our Hackers minisode with the mother of all hacker films and miniseries namesake: Hackers!!!!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 19, 2020•29 min
This week we're talking about the scientific extravaganza that is The Martian (2015)! From dust storms and martian crops to admin drama, testing fails and gravity assists. There is so much in this movie, so much! Freda tries out a Russian accent, Abi reveals a potato based grudge and we check in on our Benedict Wong movies count. "Calculations Correct" References, resources and tidbits: First things first - The Martian, book by Andy Weir - Read It!! Some articles on the science of the movie: Wha...
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Happy Death Day (2017). The final instalment of our Science at the Slashers miniseries. Ep 4 of 4 This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 05, 2020•31 min
It's Halloween and we're bringing you some extra scares with David Cronenberg's The Fly. Guess who's back? Schrodinger's cat—as well as Jeff Goldblum, who's more fly than ever (sorry). Freda tries her hardest to convince us that teleportation is NOT cloning, Abi ponders the stupidity of arms wrestling, and somewhere there's a black nylon in a tangled mess. But can ants do amazing gymnastics? _______________________________ Some things you might find interesting: The Fly Science:https://www.chica...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Halloween (1978). The third instalment of our Science at the Slashers miniseries. Ep 3 of 4 This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 22, 2020•31 min
This week we enter the wonderful world of superheroes with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger. We're talking world war two, the advent of comic book heroes, vita rays and super serums! Abi get's down with gene therapy while Freda goes on a journey with Hugo and his german accent. 'Gibt es das pretzel?!' References: Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? - BBC Future Operation Paperclip - Book review: CIA Library More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing ...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 10
The Cabin in the Woods (2011). The second instalment of our Science at the Slashers miniseries. Ep 2 of 4 This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 08, 2020•30 min
This week: 2016's modern retelling of the zombie film, The Girl with all the Gifts! Hurry up, because we have apocalyptic fungi (how do you say that?), too many box analogies and ravenous children to discuss. Abi loses the science, Freda scares the living daylights out of herself while researching the episode, and somewhere Miss Justineau is still stuck in an airlock. Zombie babies???? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! Some Episode Resources: Seven facts about domestic violence and strangulation : CEB Why do people fall down when shot : Real Clear Science Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 24, 2020•28 min
This week we're talking about the 2017 cli-fi movie, Geostorm! 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 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? - BBC Can China control t...
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The last episode in our Minisode Series on 90's Disaster movie, and it's the mother of them all: Titanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 10, 2020•24 min
This week, we are talking about the 1995 film by Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys! Psychiatry, causal loops and human fallibility, we go deep this time and reach a milestone: our first disagreement over a movie. Freda tries and fails to solve time travel, Abi gushes over set decorators and Brad Pitt has a googly eye. Well done, Brad Pitt! Sir Ig-Knows-a-lot????? Some things you might enjoy: The Hamster Factor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufyWxk5__YI Psychiatry and Cinema: What Can we Learn from the ...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Minisode 3/4 of our 90s Disaster Movies Miniseries! We're letting the lava flow as we talk about Volcano and Dante's Peak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 27, 2020•30 min
