12/26/2014

SciFri Live: Science Movie Quiz

23:43 minutes

You may know science, but how well do you know movie science? In this live recording from Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, Ira talks to physicist Sean Carroll about working as a science consultant on set. Then he challenges scientists from Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Lab to battle it out in a quiz of movie science trivia. Think you can beat our expert contestants?

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Sean Carroll

Dr. Sean Carroll is the author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion, and is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

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