The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Los Angeles
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince continue their tour of the USA, as they take to the stage in LA, as they ask what happens when science meets Hollywood. They ask why so many movies now seem to employ a science adviser, whether scientific accuracy is really important when you are watching a film about a mythical Norse god and whether science fact can actually be far more interesting than science fiction. They are joined by cosmologist Sean Carroll, comedian Joe Rogan, executive producer of Futurama, David X Cohen, and Eric Idle.
(Photo: (left) Robin Ince and (right) Brian Cox)
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, |
| 0:07.0 | go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, I'm Professor Brian Cox and I'm a broadcasts. we've decided to take our show The Infinite Monkey Cage on tour across North America |
| 0:24.8 | to scrutinise the possible differences in thinking about particle physics, evolutionary biology |
| 0:29.5 | and very big dinosaurs. |
| 0:31.8 | This is what happened when we went to Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.0 | For the first time live in Los Angeles, this is the infinite monkey cage. |
| 0:40.0 | The, uh... |
| 0:42.0 | What a beautiful thing that across Hollywood at the moment some people are going to see a new |
| 0:50.8 | will feral film some people are going to see live nude girls and some people are here to see a lecture |
| 0:56.7 | on the spherical matter distribution in the universe. |
| 0:59.4 | That's yes. |
| 1:02.4 | So as we're in LA today, we thought we would talk about Hollywood. |
| 1:07.0 | And indeed in a town of fiction, is there any space for science fact? |
| 1:11.0 | So when you're making films about marauding aliens or transformers or |
| 1:16.2 | bizarre robots on the rampage, do you really need a science advisor? Does entertainment |
| 1:21.6 | need to face the scrutiny of scientific accuracy? |
| 1:25.0 | So we're joined by a panel who are going to help us through these ideas and they are first of all. |
| 1:30.0 | Sean Carroll is a cosmologist at Caltech he's the author of Particle at the end of the universe |
| 1:35.7 | and a fantastic blog called the Propposterous Universe he is science advisor on angels and |
| 1:40.6 | demons the Tron legacy and Thor, which I think, why do you need, when the basis of |
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