A @TheCoolidge Corner Theatre @SloanPublic grant program sponsoring cinemas nationwide to creatively pair film screenings with expert-led science presentations.
Me after watching a Science on Screen lecture on YouTube.
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Discover the inner workings of our digital life in this illuminating talk on cybersecurity.
AI, Cyber-Security, and the Threat of the Digital Age
Frida Cinema
SEARCHING
https://t.co/XiUNHksb1V
Rolling Stones Gather No Moss:
SPIRITED AWAY
Athens Ciné in Athens, GA: May 27, 2023
A discussion of children’s resilience in the face of difficult circumstances.
https://t.co/KBiDKV31p6
Dr. Immaculata DeVivo, molecular epidemiologist and professor at Harvard, discusses the scientific and ethical implications of the future presented in the film Gattaca.
https://t.co/qjxyrkNM82
Can the four-day work week eliminate worker burnout?
https://t.co/nNMGiLUCsw
THE APARTMENT (1960)
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA: June 16, 2025
Common misconceptions about how much of our social identities are actually based in genetics, and talks about how we can approach scientific evidence in a socially responsible way.
Social Identities and Genetics
Coolidge Corner Theatre
X-MEN FIRST CLASS
https://t.co/OvWy270wTG
A discussion of Shakespeare's social background and the public health disaster that was early modern London.
https://t.co/xqZ96630wQ
Science On Screen: Shakespeare's Tremor
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA: April 14, 2025
Shakespeare in Love
The search for and understanding of exoplanets! It's all relative.
https://t.co/aJXKSJovbV
Science On Screen: It's all Relative
Country Theater in Doylestown, PA: May 14, 2024
INTERSTELLAR See less
Dr. Omar Ahmed, discusses the neural basis of memories, why they can be considered subjective, and how they can be altered.
Science On Screen: Subjectivity of Memories and the Influence of Emotion
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
https://t.co/SXeAVVLep2
How close are we to finding extraterrestrial life?
https://t.co/bdAEopIuEY
Science On Screen:
"The Enduring Enigma of Extraterrestrial Life"
Austin Film Society, Austin, TX: May 21, 2025
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Explore the extraordinary underlying physics, like quantum theory and relativity, as well as the scientific history of the atom bomb and the key personalities featured in Oppenheimer:
https://t.co/r1UblIJheA
Science On Screen
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, CA: March 25, 2025
What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? This, and more, with the non-profit Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome.
https://t.co/k4DsgsRInQ
Science On Screen: "Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome"
Enzian Theatre, Maitland, FL: June 29, 2025
The Land Before Time (1988) See less
A fascinating look at the history of malls—their rise and fall—that explores possible uses for the ones that closed, including affordable housing, public centers, and other socially conscious ideas:
https://t.co/xNSBEswTNC
Science On Screen: "Living in Malls?"
https://t.co/eBiVTIFFTt
Science On Screen: "The Curious Success of Failure"
Avalon Theatre, Washington, DC: May 7, 2025
Film: BlackBerry (2023) See less
Dave Goldberg, Professor and Department Head at Drexel University in the Department of Physics, discusses the various theories of how time travel could hypothetically work.
https://t.co/rZocPZP0yb
"How was tomorrow? – The Theory of Time Travel"
County Theater
Primer (2005)
As neurotechnology evolves, it raises crucial questions: What does it mean to be human when our thoughts can be accessed by machines?
https://t.co/jcAWCudLOZ
"Neuroscience and Cinema"
Cinema Arts Centre
Film: Theatre of Thought (2022)
October is for our annual rewatch of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)!
Pair your viewing with this panel lecture on the visual techniques of mind control.
Science on Screen recorded at
The Little Theatre, 2016
https://t.co/1Cd6E4nIi1