The Fly

For Halloween, we're bringing you some extra scares with Cronenberg's The Fly.

Episode 11 of the Science at the Movies podcast, hosted by Abigail James and Freda Werdiger, titled "The Fly" was published on October 29, 2020 and runs 73 minutes.

October 29, 2020 ·73m · Science at the Movies

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It's Halloween and we're bringing you some extra scares with David Cronenberg's The Fly.Guess who's back? Schrodinger's cat—as well as Jeff Goldblum, who's more fly than ever (sorry). Freda tries her hardest to convince us that teleportation is NOT cloning, Abi ponders the stupidity of arms wrestling, and somewhere there's a black nylon in a tangled mess.But can ants do amazing gymnastics?_______________________________Some things you might find interesting:The Fly Science:https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ent-the-fly-cinema-science-20171019-story.htmlQuantum Teleportation:https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected/How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQK1WDYI_kThe No Cloning Theoremhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPC60Ue0BE&t=158sOriginal Quantum Teleportation paperhttps://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1895CRISPR Ted Talk by Jennifer Doudna (Nobel Laureate 2020!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBAHexVYzc&t=162sCRISPR readinghttp://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/https://theconversation.com/what-is-crispr-gene-editing-and-how-does-it-work-84591 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's Halloween and we're bringing you some extra scares with David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Guess who's back? Schrodinger's cat—as well as Jeff Goldblum, who's more fly than ever (sorry). Freda tries her hardest to convince us that teleportation is NOT cloning, Abi ponders the stupidity of arms wrestling, and somewhere there's a black nylon in a tangled mess.

But can ants do amazing gymnastics?

_______________________________

Some things you might find interesting:

The Fly Science:https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ent-the-fly-cinema-science-20171019-story.html

Quantum Teleportation:https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected/How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQK1WDYI_k

The No Cloning Theorem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPC60Ue0BE&t=158s

Original Quantum Teleportation paper

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1895

CRISPR Ted Talk by Jennifer Doudna (Nobel Laureate 2020!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBAHexVYzc&t=162sCRISPR readinghttp://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/

https://theconversation.com/what-is-crispr-gene-editing-and-how-does-it-work-84591

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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