Another Night of Total Destruction
Written by: Ryan Hall
Superheroes smashing into buildings won’t do enough damage. An alien invasion probably won’t account for Will Smith saving the day. And robots taking over just feels overdone. So why must we worry about anyone else destroying our planet when we’re perfectly capable of doing it ourselves? In cinema today, the…
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Science, Strategy, and Tactics of Naval Warfare
Written by: Ryan Hall
“Science, Strategy and Tactics of Naval Warfare” was the title of one of the most recent Exchange events held at The Great Company and moderated by screenwriter Will Staples (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3). Guests fortunate enough to attend were treated to a panel of Navy experts who gave…
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Packing Your Bags for Interstellar Travel
Written by: Ryan Hall
“The Earth is the cradle of the mind—but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.” —Tsiolkovsky While the Russian rocket scientist quoted above may not have lived long enough to witness humans leaving Earth for space, I imagine he would be quite pleased to know not only how far we…
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Hollywood Inspired Science
Written by: Emilie Lorditch
While Hollywood has been known to use ideas from the great minds of science as a springboard for its storytelling, scientists have also been enlivened by what they have seen on screen to think about their research in different ways. “Movies blow the lid off of imagination and creativity and…
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NASCAR Tour
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I was recently invited along with other entertainment executives, writers, and producers to spend the day at the Auto Club Raceway the weekend of a NASCAR race. I did not know much about NASCAR before arriving, but the energy was palpable. I arrived on a Friday morning with the main…
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Data, Digital Biology, and the 21st Century
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On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, SoHo House hosted The Science & Entertainment Exchange for a tantalizing peek into the bleeding edge of Synthetic Biology: its relatively short past, its current state, and its future potential. The Exchange welcomed Andrew Hessel, a researcher with Autodesk Inc.’s Bio/Nano Programmable Matter Group and…
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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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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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