{"id":2541,"date":"2008-04-28T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/28\/science-movies\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:27:30","slug":"science-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/28\/science-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the suggestion of a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/a_proscience_film_festival_why.php\">pro-science film festival<\/a>, the Seed editors have launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/seed\/2008\/04\/reader_poll_best_science_movie.php\">poll asking about science movies<\/a>. They&#8217;ve narrowed it to four, all with both pros and cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><cite>Contact<\/cite><\/strong> Pro: Arecibo is way cool. Con: woo-woo ending is even less compelling than in the book.<\/li>\n<li><strong><cite>Gattaca<\/cite><\/strong> Pro: Believable human interactions between characters. Con: Implausible dystopian setting. Also, it&#8217;s about biology.<\/li>\n<li><strong><cite>An Inconvenient Truth<\/cite><\/strong> Pro: An important message for society and a mountain of supporting evidence. Con: It&#8217;s Al Gore giving a PowerPoint presentation.<\/li>\n<li><strong><cite>Jurassic Park<\/cite><\/strong> Pro: CGI dinosaurs! Con: Everything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tough choice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the suggestion of a pro-science film festival, the Seed editors have launched a poll asking about science movies. They&#8217;ve narrowed it to four, all with both pros and cons: Contact Pro: Arecibo is way cool. Con: woo-woo ending is even less compelling than in the book. Gattaca Pro: Believable human interactions between characters.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/28\/science-movies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}