Sigma Xi Film Festival: Short Films About Water
Sigma Xi is running a competition for three-minute student films about water, with a $1,000 prize.Posted on May 1, 2008 2:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Film Festival Query
If we did a grass-roots film festival funded by reader donations, would you contribute?Posted on May 1, 2008 10:41 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Flock of Dodos
Randy Olson's movie A Flock of Dodos comes up again and again in the course of arguments about public communication of science, but I had never gotten around to seeing it. I finally put it on the Netflix queue, and...Posted on April 30, 2008 8:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Movies
Inspired by the suggestion of a pro-science film festival, the Seed editors have launched a poll asking about science movies. They've narrowed it to four, all with both pros and cons: Contact Pro: Arecibo is way cool. Con: woo-woo ending...Posted on April 28, 2008 3:27 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?
There's absolutely no reason we couldn't launch the ScienceBlogs.com Online Film Festival right now.Posted on April 27, 2008 10:33 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Non-Dorky Poll: Political Documentaries
The release of Expelled has generated all sorts of chatter, almost certainly more than it deserves on its merits as a film. It's also produced repeated mentions of the fact that it's the eight highest-grossing political documentary of all time--...Posted on April 22, 2008 9:44 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hugo Nominees 2008
The Hugo Award nominees for this year have been released. The category I care most about is Best Novel, where we have: The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate) Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr) Rollback by...Posted on March 21, 2008 8:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Arthur C. Clarke, RIP
As approximately six billion other blogs have noted, Arthur C. Clarke is dead. His obit in the Times runs to three pages, which is a good indicator of just how long and distinguished his life was. My initial reaction is...Posted on March 19, 2008 7:53 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Random Oscar Thoughts
There was some back-channel talk about the Academy Awards this past week, in which another ScienceBlogger opined that the Oscars were stupid and that we, as Serious Intellectuals, ought to have better things to talk about than a pop-culture award...Posted on February 24, 2008 5:15 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Literary Poll: Nanotechnology in Fiction?
Do you know of any good portrayals of nanotechnology in fiction?Posted on February 22, 2008 11:56 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Non-Dorky Poll: One Movie to Share
If you were going to screen one movie for a bunch of college students, what would it be?Posted on February 8, 2008 9:57 AM • 64 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
"Harmony with nature, my ass," said the dog. "Let me outside. I'm going to stalk and kill something small and fuzzy."Posted on February 3, 2008 7:37 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hugo Nominations
Kate and I got our Hugo nomination ballots in the mail yesterday (as members of the 2007 Worldcon, we get the right to nominate works for the 2008 Hugo Awards). The nomination deadline isn't until March 1st, but this still...Posted on January 10, 2008 11:37 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No Country for Old Men
I got a new stereo installed in my car on Friday, so I can plug the iPod in directly rather than using one of those stupid FM transmitter gadgets, and the installation guy said it would take a few hours....Posted on December 16, 2007 9:58 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Golden Compass
Kate and I went to see The Golden Compass last night because, dude, armored bears! Also, we both really enjoyed the book, back when it first came out (though I haven't re-read it since The Amber Spyglass, to see if...Posted on December 9, 2007 8:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scary Movie "Meme"
Bora has tagged me, and nagged me in comments for this "Happy Hallowmeme" thing where people post links to clips from their favorite scary movies. The problem with this is that I really don't have that much interest in horror...Posted on October 27, 2007 9:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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