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- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.

- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.

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These jokers think the banana is perfect? I think not.

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Science Scout twitter feed So how come I've never seen this before? The infamous Kirk Cameron Banana YouTube clip? From what I can figure out, this is actually meant to be a serious attempt at describing creationist perfection. It's...

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Posted by David Ng at 11:52 AM • 14 Comments •

Agro-environmental Films

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

In search of, and for a compilation about, films on food, agriculture, and environment.

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:30 PM • 2 Comments •

Technology and Orgasm on Film

Category: Movie discussion

Gender, technology, and a new documentary about their historical intersections...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:51 AM • 5 Comments •

Haeckel on film

Category: Movie discussion

A blog post about a film about a biologist who was an artist...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:48 PM • 3 Comments •

Rebuilt: Cyborgs or Robots or Bionic Ears, but not Jerry Falwell

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die

The book Rebuilt, by Michae Chorost, and the documentary Sound and Fury, by Josh Aronson, here re-considered. (This is a Bookshelf #1 revisitation and expansion.) ((No reason for mentioning Jerry Falwell, by the way. That was a typo.)) I finished...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments •

Hollywood Physics (and the Society for Arts, Literature, and Science)

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

This is but a link to an interesting summary article about the topic of scientists (physicists) in film. It's by Sidney Perkowitz, who teaches at Emory, and who I've seen speak at the meetings of and know has long been...

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Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:23 AM • 2 Comments •

Responses a parent might give when their three year old asks what's going on during a relatively graphic preview of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" as shown on an episode of Entertainment Tonight

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Posted by David Ng at 12:15 PM • 3 Comments •

A Different Kind of Al Gore Movie

Category: The Film Building

Hello, those of you from boingboing.net. Please take a moment to peruse the site. In a nutshell, this is a site that is all about looking at things from both the humanist and scientific perspectives. The World's Fair is run...

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Posted by David Ng at 12:26 PM • 19 Comments •