Science on screen

I know it’s not real by any stretch of the imagination, but isn’t there a far more reasonable explanation than aliens in this short bit of Doctor Who? (It starts …

I’ve been tempted to link to some of the ReGenesis science Facts Behind the Fiction articles I’ve written, but I kept putting it off because I’m always a few weeks …

HotDocs is in full swing, and I saw BLAST! last night. It was great, so I’m going to start out by mentioning that there is a second screening at HotDocs …

The annual HotDocs documentary festival will be in town again next month. It’s awesome. No really, it’s very good. In the past years I’ve seen about 5-10 every festival, including …

In September I wrote this post about a panel discussion I attended. The event covered both a science-inspired dance project and the TV show ReGenesis. Of ReGenesis I said: “They …

I was looking for informative videos about PCR for a microteaching session, and came across this outtake from CSI, where DNA isolation and PCR takes about a minute! (In reality, …