Minisode: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 1
Lots of unedited, explicit content as Freda begins to turn the tables on Abi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 23, 2022•48 min
Science at the Movies
Do you like science? Do you like movies? Well, have we got a combo for you!
Every two weeks join us, real life physicists Freda and Abi, while we break down the science behind some of the best and worst movie plots out there. We also get real about the depiction of scientists and their working environment in movies and lay it all on the table with our WTF moments.
We're not about debunking, we're here to show our appreciation to the art of movie magic but reserve the right to laugh and shout as well as applaud where deserved! Here comes the science...
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Gattaca
This week, we cover Gattaca, and then some.... . Gattaca eventually got the attention it deserved, but now Abi and Freda give it the treatment that only two female scientists can. Um....are all the women in the Gattaca forced to undergo IVF? Also, is leg extension surgery real? Will humans visit Titan? Freda takes Abi on a journey along the genetic selection devices of the Ashkenazi community, we tackle medical termination and the legals surrounding embryonic selection, and Freda plays us out wi...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Minisode: Captain America The Winter Soldier
It's time for episode 3 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking ridiculous oversized secret government labs, uploading consciousness and superhero face masks! Interesting article about uploading consciousness: Mind-uploading: The Guardian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 09, 2022•39 min
Dr Strangelove
Dr Strangelove (1964) Oh this is a beauty! Join us as we gush over this perfect piece of movie making and glorious satire. We're talking operation paperclip, operation chrome dome, nuclear codes, fluoridation conspiracies and of course Doomsday machines! "Women try to take my essence" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com For your perusal: Almost Everything in Dr Strangelove was True by Eric Schlosser - The New Yorker Cobalt Bomb - ChemEurope Reconstructing Strangelo...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Minisode: Thor The Dark World
It's time for episode 2 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking gravitational anomolies, soul forges (aka quantum field generators) and women in science..again! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 26, 2022•44 min
Blast from the Past (1999)
It's been too long without our favourite comedy/adventure 90's hero, and this time he's joined by Alicia Silverstone. Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek is hamming it up in the basement with Christopher Walken, reading Dale Carnegie and Reader's Digest and developing an alcohol dependency. But Abi and Freda find a way to take this all very seriously. Cuban Missile Crisis? Terrifying! Fallout Shelters? Freaky and True! Tsar Bomba???? Get out of here! . It's party time in my radiation station. . Here is some...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Minisode: Iron Man 3
It's time for episode 1 of our Mission Catch Up miniseries and we're going full Marvel! We're talking disappearing super powers, crime scene reconstruction, super soldier serum part two and name badge equations! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 12, 2022•43 min
The Avengers
Next up on our Marvel journey is The Avengers (2012) We've made it to our first combo movie and Freda has almost showed some emotion to our heroes. She at least concedes that the battle for New York is epic! We're talking flatland, higher dimensional objects, space portals, gamma radiation and quantum tunneling! It's science speak tastic. "They all look like the Green Goblin!" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com For your perusal: Mathematical Analysis of A Wrinkle ...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Sunshine with Eduardo Rodriguez
On this guest episode Abi talks with Eduardo Rodriguez, a final year phd student at Princeton working in plasma physics. This episode we get into the premise of Danny Boyle's 2007 foray into space, we talk about the realities of a dying star and the potential for 're-igniting' the sun using a nuclear bomb. Having received his degree in physics from Oxford back in 2017, Eduardo moved to the US to take on his phd, and some surfing when time permits. His research focuses on stellarators, a method o...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Sunshine: Freda and Abi Uncut
It's an Uncut special! This week we're on a break from our regular episodes so please enjoy this unedited version of our Sunshine episode. One of our earliest episodes when we were baby podcasters trying to find our way in space! What could cause our sun to die? At what point did Brian Cox say 'I'm outta here', how much do we loooove Cillian Murphy as a physicist. We nerded hard on this one! It may not have smashed the box office but it's a slow burn cult classic that's worth the watch. Abi gets...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Another Round
If ever in the past two years you were sent screenshots of dubious studies about vaccine safety and were unsure how to describe its dubiousness, this episode is for you. What is correlation, and is it the same as causation?? What is a randomized double-blind control trial and why is it important? What is causality? What is not an experiment? Lest we forget, this episode is centred around the Mads Mikkelsen tour-de-force, Another Round, which features its own dubious study on alcohol consumption ...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Minisode: Icarus
It's episode 5 of our documentary miniseries. We're diving into the world of doping scandals and plot twists! "What is going on?!?!" *Note: This episode was recorded prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 31, 2022•43 min
Thor
Next up on our Marvel journey is the God of thunder! Thor (2011) It's time to enter the Asgardian realm and try to help Freda understand, just why did Kenneth do this movie?!?! Two brothers have a scrap and we finally get to talk about wormholes! We get into Jane as a woman in science, Myeuh-myeuh as an energy weapon and just what is an Einstein-Rosen bridge. It's time for some space magic. "We'd all be gaga for Hemsworth!" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com For y...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Minisode: Bob Lazar's Area 51
Here we go again - episode 4/5 of this miniseries is here and this time we are tacking....Aliens.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 17, 2022•45 min
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A treat for Freda in this weeks episode on the Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry frolic in the mind of Jim Carey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Surprisingly, there is a lot of great science in this episode, on what memories mean to us, and how they are formed and persist throughout our lives. Yeah, so it's a serious episode. Not sorry! . If they did it, how would they do it? . Some extra reading: https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/sites/science-fiction/2018/10/31/the-costs-of-a-spotless-mind-mem...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Minisode: The Social Dilemma
It's episode 3/5 of our "Shhhh,,,It's a secret!" miniseries... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 03, 2022•47 min
Don't Look Up
Don't Look Up (2021) Welcome to our most divisive episode to date. We had so many arguments that we had to do a cut away. Is this the end?!? We're talking science, scientists, science communication, science industry....there's so much science! But will anyone listen to two scientists talking about a comet? "What is this?!?!" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com For your perusal: I'm a climate scientist by Peter Kalmus - The Guardian Science of Don't Look Up by Jeffe...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Minisode: Behind the Curve
It's episode 2 of our documentary miniseries. We're diving into the world of flat Earth and trying to contain our disbelief and frustrations at this flagrant disregard for the scientific process! "Science just has Math" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 17, 2022•48 min
Battleship (with Rhianna)
Remember Battleship? Remember how you always thought it would make a good plot for a movie. You didn't? Well, here it is anyway: Battleship, from the mind of Peter Berg! Star Power! Wet Ships! Speeding up a radio signal (???) by slingshotting (???) around...somethin': this film has it all (plus Rhianna)! _____ Some great content for you: USS Missouri's Main Guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-15O-BTDw Peter Berg Harassing Israeli Interviewer about being a draft-dodger: https://www.youtube.c...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Minisode: The Inventor, Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
It's episode 1 of our documentary miniseries. We're kicking off with The Inventor and some serious feels about how women and science are represented in this story. Note: This episode was recorded before the trial was over and Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of fraud. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 03, 2022•51 min
Alien
Alien (1979) It's a new cycle and what better way to kick off than with an absolute classic! Abi gets to nerd out while Freda gets her horror fix. It's a win win! "Polarise the hull plating" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Altered States: Interview with Melissa Warner
To accompany our release of the raw, uncut episode on Altered States, we talk to an expert in psychedelics, Melissa Warner! Melissa is Secretary of Psychedelic Research in Science & Medicine (PRISM), an Australian research charity that develops, initiates, coordinates and supports formal research into clinical mental health applications of medicinal psychedelics. Her knowledge on this area is boundless. Melissa supports the initiation and execution of Australian psychedelic research trials a...
Jan 13, 2022•58 min
Altered States - Abi and Freda UNCUT
During our breaks, we love to give you an uncut version of a previous episode. Released in August 2020, Abi and Freda muse about pseudoscience: "I think it's getting worse", and boy did the world get worse. Cell memory, flotation tasks, hallucinations, getting high and finding God, this movie has it all, and we are in deep. Tune in to get a rundown on what pseudoscience is and how to engage with it, among many many other uncut gems (hehe). . See you in two weeks!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 40 min
Die Hard
Die Hard (1988) Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and we have the data to back us up! We're going full on action classic with some C4 and firehose science thrown in. Come nerd out on this classic with us. "Yippee Kiy-Yay Muthafucka!" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com References, resources and tidbits: By the Numbers: Science proves Die Hard is a Christmas Movie , Fandom on YouTube Can you survive a hosepipe fall?, Dr Jonathan Hare, The Creative Science Centre Sophis...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Minisode: Train to Busan
Uhmm...Merry Christmas...oops! Train to Busan (2016): This is episode 5 of 5 from our zombietastic miniseries " World of Z" Walker, zed heads, the infected, cranks, crawlers, dead heads, the walking dead, the living dead, g’s, munchers, roamers, runners, saifu, stiffs, biter, hungries, fleshies, undead but never under any circumstances, zombies. We’re in a world of Z and there’s no way out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 23, 2021•43 min
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Um. Hard to know what to say but this week we bring you slightly more than an hour full of The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (never forget The Klumps). Do science inventions live on CDs? Sometimes, especially in the Physics department circa 2006, if you ask Freda. Do science potions need to be fluoro? Why not! Can you grow a whole human from science potion and dog hair? We have to stop somewhere and according to Abi somewhere is baby Eddie Murphy saying 'Got Milk?'. . It's the end of this fucki...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Minisode: Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead (2004): This is episode 4 of 5 from our zombietastic miniseries " World of Z" Walker, zed heads, the infected, cranks, crawlers, dead heads, the walking dead, the living dead, g’s, munchers, roamers, runners, saifu, stiffs, biter, hungries, fleshies, undead but never under any circumstances, zombies. We’re in a world of Z and there’s no way out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 09, 2021•34 min
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (2010) We're on another journey through the MCU and we might actually be turning Freda into a fan, or Abi is just reaching out of desperation to keep doing these movies! Anyway, who wants to make a particle accelerator? "Software Shit!" Instagram: @scienceatthemovies Email: scienceatthemovies@gmail.com References, resources and tidbits: Articles/Websites: Build your own particle accelerator - Newcastle University Journal Papers: Rus, D., Tolley, M.T. Design, fabrication and control of...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Minisode: 28 Days Later
28 Days Later (2002): This is episode 3 of 5 from our zombietastic miniseries " World of Z" Walker, zed heads, the infected, cranks, crawlers, dead heads, the walking dead, the living dead, g’s, munchers, roamers, runners, saifu, stiffs, biter, hungries, fleshies, undead but never under any circumstances, zombies. We’re in a world of Z and there’s no way out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 25, 2021•35 min
Primer
This week, we are talking the famed Time Travel Film By Engineers, Primer. We've brought you space, we've brought you chimps - but today, we're in our native domain: Physics! What the hell - we went for it. Tell us what you think! . Are they cats? They're cats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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