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		<title>Go Red For Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In years past, Valentine&#8217;s Day has been a fun chance to explore the more lighthearted aspects of science, as pertains to matters of the heart (such as our post on the]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/interview/2012/02/14/go-red-for-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Selection: Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read through any archive of science fiction movies, and you quickly realize that the merger of pop culture and science dates as far back as the dawn of cinema in the early 1920s. Even more surprising than the enduring prevalence of science in film is that the relationship between film directors, scribes and the science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/from-the-lab/2011/09/21/editors-selection-lab-coats-in-hollywood-science-scientists-and-cinema/</link>
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		<title>REVIEW: Contagion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to anyone, don&#8217;t touch anyone.&#8221; The austere slogan of the new film Contagion mirrors the gripping subject matter of the latest addition to the pandemic disaster movie club. One of the most science-oriented films to be released in the last few years, Contagion follows the path of several scientists, public health workers, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/medicine/2011/09/08/review-contagion/</link>
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		<title>REVIEW:  The Last Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, a little publicized, unheralded documentary named Mountaintop Removal (which ScriptPhD.com reviewed) attempted to deconstruct the environmentally devastating practice of the same name literally destroying the Appalachian geography of West Virginia’s coal river valley. Honest, yet modestly shot and produced, the small-scale documentary needed a Hollywood touch to resonate on a human [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/its-not-easy-being-green/2011/06/22/review-the-last-mountain/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Science and Technology Game Changers in Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the Oscar-winning 1987 financial cautionary tale. In the middle of a movie that had nothing to do with science, the lead character started explaining the financial investment potential of a national research facility loosely based on the ultra-exclusive National Ignition Facility in Livermore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Designing California Science Center&#8217;s &#8216;Ecosystems&#8217; Exhibit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Approximately a year ago, the California Science Center added a 45,000 square foot permanent exhibit called &#8216;Ecosystems,&#8217; nearly doubling the size of the museum. Ten years in the making, at a cost of $165 million, &#8216;Ecosystems&#8217; manages to impress visually and scholastically. ScriptPhD.com recently got a private tour and in-depth guide of the ambitious exhibit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/interview/2011/05/18/podcast-designing-california-science-centers-ecosystems-exhibit/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Michio Kaku and The Physics of the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Michio Kaku recently consolidated his position as America’s most visible physicist by acting as the voice of the science community to major news outlets in the wake of Japan’s major earthquake and the recent Fukushima nuclear crisis. Dr. Kaku is one of those rare and prized few who possesses both the hard science chops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/interview/2011/04/26/interview-michio-kaku-and-the-physics-of-the-future/</link>
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		<title>From The Lab: Google World Science Fair and a New Generation of Idea-Makers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union speech in January, US President Barack Obama proclaimed that &#8220;we need to teach our kids that it&#8217;s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.&#8221; A noble (and correct) assessment, to be sure, but one mired in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/announcements/2011/04/04/from-the-lab-google-world-science-fair-and-a-new-generation-of-idea-makers/</link>
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		<title>REVIEW: Limitless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you said to yourself, &#8220;If only I didn&#8217;t have to sleep.&#8221; Or &#8220;If only I tap into my brain&#8217;s full neuronal capacity, imagine the things I could do?&#8221; Such neurocognitive superpowers would seem to be the stuff of science fiction&#8230;for now. In the new film &#8220;Limitless,&#8221; these wishes unexpectedly come true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/medicine/2011/03/18/review-limitless/</link>
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		<title>REVIEW: Battle: Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the end-of-the-world, fiery destruction of Armageddon and Deep Impact. Now ratchet up the action with the artillery of Saving Private Ryan and the greatest war movies you&#8217;ve ever seen. Add in a dash of sci-fi with highly evolved aliens—a hybrid of the metalloid Cylons of Battlestar Galactica and a gooier version of the extra-terrestrial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scriptphd.com/reviews/2011/03/10/review-battle-los-angeles/</link>
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