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Researchers from the Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory at New York University recently carried out a study of the effects of films on viewers' brains.Hasson et al scanned the brains of 45 participants whilst they watched scenes from a number of films...Posted on June 25, 2008 11:50 AM • 3 Comments •
Stasi smell jars in the cinema
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the headquarters of the Stasi (the East German secret police) were found to contain a large room in which many thousands of "smell jars" were stored. Each jar contained an odour...Posted on June 2, 2008 4:30 PM • 0 Comments •
Psycho shower curtain
The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock had a profound insight into the workings of the human mind. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it," he once said, and the shower scene from Psycho, demonstrates...Posted on February 16, 2008 3:37 PM • 8 Comments •
Reel Bad Arabs
The vilification of Arabs in American popular culture serves an ideological purpose: the dehumanization of America's "enemy" in the "clash of civilisations". (Via Woman of Color Blog)...Posted on October 9, 2007 3:38 PM • 13 Comments •
Craig Venter advocates cognitive enhancement
At Wired, filmmaker Ridley Scott discusses the forthcoming remastered final cut of Blade Runner. This classic 1982 film depicts a dystopian futuristic society based on artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, and was recently voted as the best science fiction film...Posted on September 28, 2007 4:46 PM • 5 Comments •
NY Times on creationist filmmakers' deception
The New York Times has an article about how Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers and Eugenie Scott (director of the National Center for Science Education) were duped into appearing in Expelled, a film that puts forward the case for intelligent design...Posted on September 27, 2007 5:30 AM • 2 Comments •
The philosophy of The Matrix
In The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999) Keanu Reeves plays a computer programmer who leads a double life as a hacker called "Neo". After receiving cryptic messages on his computer monitor, Neo begins to search for the elusive Morpheus...Posted on August 4, 2007 7:12 PM • 13 Comments •
Science in The Simpsons
"What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? Never matter." So says Homer, in one episode of The Simpsons. And although I'm not an adherent of Homerian dualism, the show is still my favourite thing on television. I think...Posted on July 26, 2007 4:56 PM • 2 Comments •
Reconstructive memory: Confabulating the past, simulating the future
The term 'Rashomon effect' is often used by psychologists in situations where observers give different accounts of the same event,and describes the effect of subjective perceptions on recollection. The phenomenon is named after a 1950 film by the great Japanese...Posted on July 23, 2007 5:05 PM • 2 Comments •
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