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Gary Boas

Mar. 16, 2010 — Hollywood has a long, tangled history with science, with filmmakers calling on it to create strange, frequently dystopic worlds and using it to support surreal or otherwise inexplicable premises and plot devices (see, for example, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). As often as not, though, the actual science in movies is, well, spotty. Sure, screenwriters will come up with a smattering of big words, and maybe even read the first few paragraphs of a Wikipedia page about a particular concept, but really just enough to make a scene sound, for instance, future-y and frightening. By and...Read full article

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