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Science rules Boston, both on the screen and in the news

Fall brings the return of two fun series of events.

coolidge_fusion_logo.jpgScience on the Screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre starts with an October 3 showing of the original Little Shop of Horrors.

When Skid Row plant-shop owner Gravis Mushnick (Mel Welles) threatens to fire his hapless clerk Seymour Krelboyne (Jonathan Haze), Seymour brings in a new species of plant he’s been breeding at home, hoping it will lead the shop to fame and fortune and save his job…Ecologist Aaron Ellison joins us before the film to shed light on the bizarre and amazing ways that carnivorous plants lure, trap, and digest their meals and on how these fabulously complex plants can offer insight into how a complete, functioning natural ecosystem works.

For an NNB Q&A with Elizabeth Taylor-Mead, the associate director of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and series curator, click here.

science in the news.jpgThe Harvard students behind Science in the News have also posted their schedule.

9/21 – Mind-Machine Interface: Computers and the Wired Brain

9/28 – How to Spot a Virus: The Origins of an Immune Response

October and November bring sessions on manned space flight, the future of the oceans, aging, cosmic evolution, and AIDS.

Here’s one NNB attended last year:

2010 8.1 The Science of Dogs, Part I: Domestication of Dogs from Science in the News on Vimeo.

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