Two of our favorite ongoing events on deck this week.

Science in the News takes on obesity. Science on Screen offers The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, paired with a talk by Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is the director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition.

From Coolidge Corner Theatre:

…, Luis Buñuel’s surrealist masterpiece deliciously skewers bourgeois presumption and hypocrisy as a group of well-to-do friends repeatedly attempts to have a meal together, only to be thwarted by events both real and imagined. Buñuel brilliantly interweaves flashbacks, dreams, and dreams within dreams into the narrative of this wickedly funny satire. Joining us before the film to discuss “The Indiscreet Charm of the Vivid Dream” is Robert Stickgold … How does the latest scientific research advance our understanding of where dreams come from? How do dreams contribute to the off-line reprocessing of newly formed memories? Is Freud dead?… Dr. Stickgold’s research examines the nature of sleep and dreams from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, with an emphasis on the role of sleep and dreaming in memory processing.

Check out our March Q&A with Elizabeth Taylor-Mead, the associate director of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and the curator of CCT’s Science on Screen series.

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