Podcaster: Brendan Mullan, Danny Barringer and Jason Curtis
Title: Astronomy at the Movies
Organization: Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Link : http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/brendan-mullan/ ; http://www.bmsis.org/
Description: Join science communicator Brendan Mullan and astronomers Danny Barringer and Jason Curtis for a fun roundtable discussion on astronomy in movies. From death by asteroid impacts, to colonizing the galaxy, to interstellar travel and communication, we explore several key astronomical tropes that show up in modern cinema.
Bio: Brendan is a Ph.D. astronomer, astrobiologist, and science communicator. He studies how galaxies collide and form stars in their interstellar wreckage, and he helps search for evidence of distant extraterrestrial civilizations. Brendan likes his beer dark, but his conversation light. Where the categories of science communication, pop culture, and early-90’s nostalgia intersect in life’s Venn diagram, that’s where you’ll find him.
Danny Barringer from Penn State Astronomy & Astrophysics and Jason Curtis from Penn State Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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