Silver Screen Science - Animals of the James Bond Franchise

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

There’s a pandemic on, and we and many of our listeners are spending lots of time at home. On the bright side, it’s a good opportunity to watch movies and record Silver Screen Science! So, we’re putting together some new episodes, to keep you – and ourselves – entertained. This episode, we share some thoughts from our long and animal-filled journey through the James Bond films. The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:27.4	Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science, the series where we talk about the science of movies.
0:28.1	Yeah.
0:34.5	Not just nitpicking stuff, but talking about how science fits into movies, how movies treat science.
0:38.4	Where is that crossover between science and pop culture?
0:41.4	Today, we're doing a weird one.
0:42.9	Very weird one.
0:48.2	This episode is about the animals of the James Bond franchise.
0:50.0	Ah, you didn't see that one coming.
0:51.8	No, because that's a very strange choice.
1:11.9	We'll explain a bit more about what exactly we mean in a moment. But first, the reason that we're doing silver screen science this time of the year is because we're stuck at home trying not to be part of the COVID-19 pandemic. And we know a lot of our listeners are as well, which is a good time to watch movies, listen to podcasts, and for us to make more podcast stuff.
1:13.2	Yeah.
1:13.8	It also means that we've been watching lots of movies.
1:16.6	A bit.
1:17.3	Now, originally our James Bond movie watching was completely unrelated to the podcast.
1:22.7	Now, just personally, we decided to do it.
1:25.2	We're going to watch through the James Bond franchise.
1:28.5	And we did.
1:29.3	Yes.
1:30.0	And as we were going through, there's obviously there's science in the James Bond franchise.
1:34.8	There are scientists.
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