Science Speed-Dating Aims To Boost Accuracy In TV And Film
When was the last time you got really excited by good science depicted in a movie? Anthropologist Barbara J. King joined scientists last week in helping producers make more accurate TV and movies.
Have you ever walked out of a movie theater and said to your companion, "Wow, the science in that film was awesome?"
You might think, here, of Jodie Foster searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in the now-classic movie Contact. Or, more recently, Matt Damon sciencing his way out of trouble when stranded in The Martian, or the smart linguist-and-theoretical physicist team played by Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner working to communicate with heptapods in Arrival.
We can each probably name a favorite. (I'm pretty sure for my 13.7 colleague Adam Frank, it would be the TV show The Expanse.)
Can you come up with , too — a movie that
