S02E15 - Hard Science with Shell Grayson

Published: Dec. 16, 2018, 1:35 p.m.

This week we’re joined by an editor from Nature magazine to talk some real, hard science. No science fantasy, no science fiction, these movies are pure science baby. First up is the fictionalised Scopes Trial adaptation Inherit the Wind (1960) to determine whether we are men or monkeys. Second up is endless rounds of decontamination in the face of The Andromeda Strain (1971) and its virulent alien nature. We finish on Jodie Foster listening intently to the chaos of interstellar static as she tries to make Contact (1997). Also: Sixty-year-old ice cubes. Bewitched! Mr. Teeny. Hyper-chicken. The American psyche 3: Son of American psyche. Judas Goat. Jactitation. What a difference a day makes. Nuke it from orbit. In your face Resident Evil (2002). Chekov’s Nuke. Panspermia. Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal. Alec Trevelyan. Stene stealing. We love William Fichtner. Einstein-Rosen bridge. Sphere (1998). We play a game of “Let’s Science the Shit Out of This!”