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...with The Museum of Science and New Scientist Magazine. “The aim of the series is to educate about science while entertaining through movies, presenting a feature film or feature-length documentary on a science/medical-related topic,” theatre’s associate director Elizabeth Taylor-Mead said in an email...
Over the course of their five year history, Taylor-Mead and the Coolidge Corner Theatre have screened such films as “A Clockwork Orange” with a visit from Marc Hauser, a professor in Harvard’s psychology pepartment; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with pscychology professor Daniel Schacter; and “2001: A Space Odyssey” with cognitive scientist Marvin L. Minsky ’50. “Audiences should expect to see a classic or cult feature film or outstanding and hard-to-find documentary...
...often have audiences lined up out to the parking lot,” says Taylor-Mead. “It’s been very popular because it captures the interest of both film fans and science geeks...
...motivation underlying it, has been a large part of Professor Wrangham’s research over the past twenty years at Harvard University. “Wrangham has spent years studying chimpanzee cultures in the wild and comparing those cultures to human ones,” explains Taylor-Mead...
According to Taylor-Mead, Professor Wrangham’s appearance at “Science on Screen” will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audiences. “At home, audiences won’t get this surprising combination of edu-tainment,” Taylor-Mead explains. “[They’ll get] a private seminar only shared with 400 people sitting together in the dark eating the best popcorn in greater Boston...