SCREENING: I ORIGINS
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On a cool, mid-summer Los Angeles evening just after sunset, filmmakers and film lovers gathered in an intimate theater on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot for a night of wonder, beauty, and science. Organized by The Science & Entertainment Exchange and the Sundance Institute, the event kicked off with…
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SCIENCE SPEED DATING, LOS ANGELES
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Last week, The Exchange brought its Science Speed Dating format to Los Angeles. The event kicked off with a YouTube video titled “The Fiction of the Science,” featuring Robert Wong from the Google Creative Lab. In the video, he argues that the collaboration between art and science is crucial to…
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Real Aliens with Seth Shostak
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Usually, when a group of creative minds meets in Hollywood to discuss the lives of stars, they’re talking of the terrestrial sort – the ones who appear in films and adopt packs of children. Guests of the Science & Entertainment Exchange were buzzing over the extraterrestrial life of stars, or…
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To Mars and Beyond
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‘Twas the evening of Mars, with experts discussing space exploratory clout, as Hollywood and science met, at the SoHo House. The Science & Entertainment Exchange met at the beautiful SoHo House in West Hollywood, for an affable evening of science and conversation. Acclaimed scientists and Hollywood’s elite attended the event…
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Event Recap: Science Speed Dating
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Just outside of our comfort zone is the space where magical things can happen, whether that be finding love, expanding professional horizons, or learning something new and exciting. Science Speed Dating was an event that did just that – stretched our programmatic skills to new places, but with an excellent,…
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Event Recap: Science of Psychopaths!
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Phrases like “sense of entitlement” and “out of touch with reality” described every prominent person mentioned throughout the night. Words like “arrogance” and “narcissism” were used repeatedly. High atop the gorgeous SoHo House last Thursday evening, in a room filled with some of Hollywood’s finest and most scientifically-curious minds, a…
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Deep Sea, Deeper Secrets with David Gallo
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Serene, mysterious, always intriguing, with just a touch of danger – on paper, the description of a beautiful woman and the great Pacific Ocean could be easily confused. Below the surface of some of the world’s most majestic waves, lies a world that few have experienced, and even fewer have…
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Body Hacking: Exploring The Quantified Self
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“You have walked 3,343 steps today,” according to the FitBit Flex around your wrist. But why do you feel so sluggish? A quick peek at your daily data suggests that it could be due to your 10 periods of restlessness the night before. The Quantified Self movement elicits a vision…
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Stories From Google New York
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A treasure hidden in plain view, the expansive Google New York building engulfs an entire square block of the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. But, while the building is hard to miss, gaining access to what lies within those four concrete walls is a much more difficult feat. On the surface,…
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Event Recap: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Science
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Magic flying carpets, how to obliterate your enemy and the ability to see through walls; sound like something from your favorite science fiction movie? What if we told you that all of those things were technically possible? According to Neil Gershenfeld, it’s true! All of the aforementioned technologies may be…
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