Silver Screen Science - Tremors

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 50 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, happy 30-year anniversary to: Tremors (1990) Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ 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.
0:21.3	Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science.
0:25.9	Woo, it's back!
0:27.0	This special little sort of mini side series that we do in the Common Descent podcast, back for 2020.
0:34.0	Yeah, this is the first one of 2020.
0:35.9	And this time we are talking about tremors.
0:39.8	Oh, I've been waiting so long.
0:41.8	It's such a good movie.
0:42.9	For those who are unfamiliar silver screen science is the series where we talk about movies,
0:48.4	not just nitpicking what the movies get scientifically wrong,
0:52.4	although that is fun,
0:56.1	but more interested in how does scientific stuff look in the movie? How does science look through the filter of cinema?
1:03.6	How is it being translated to the audience?
1:07.1	Where does the movie fit in that broad intersection of science and pop culture?
1:13.0	Specifically, we like to talk about how they portray, usually animals and stuff, the scientific concepts, and how they portray scientists.
1:21.9	Yes.
1:22.4	And this movie has one.
1:23.6	Yes.
1:24.3	Which is enough to talk about.
1:25.6	Yes, and it's a good one.
1:27.5	Now, you might be wondering, why do Silver Screen Science now in March?
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