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I have mixed feelings about this movie.  It has some great physics in it, things no film has tried to portray this accurately before.  But it also has some far-fetched aspects and Hollywood touches that detract from the overall experience … Continue reading →

I really like this movie; it’s the closest any feature presentation has come to showing what the life of an astronomer is really like. That’s probably because the movie is based on a novel written by the eminent astrophysicist Carl … Continue reading →

Assignment: After reading Ch. 24 of “Bad Astronomy” by Philip Plait, write a blog review of tonight’s feature film commenting specifically, citing scenes and examples, on how this movie stacks up against Plait’s “Top Ten Examples of Bad Astronomy in Major … Continue reading →

Thematically, this week’s feature deals with the morality of having scientists design and build weapons of mass destruction. Many scientists who do this hide behind one of the moral shields presented in “Fat Man and Little Boy”: the scientists are … Continue reading →

There is plenty of bad physics in this movie, enough that we could make an assignment of just trying to find as many examples as we can. However, there is a deeper issue in the movie – that of global … Continue reading →