Science Cinema with Marie-Claire Shanahan and Brady Haran

Last week's edition of Skeptically Speaking (two Sunday's ago) is now available as a podcast download.

This week, we’re looking at film and video as an exciting, engaging way to communicate science to the public. Guest host Marie-Claire Shanahan spends the hour with independent film-maker and former BBC video journalist Brady Haran, and artist and filmmaker Henry Reich, creator of the Minute Physics YouTube series. They’ll discuss the promise and pitfalls of telling science stories in moving pictures.

Go here to get the podcast.

Meanwhile, we await last Sunday's interview with David Dobbs about Naomi Wolf's book on the Vagina.

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