Break up your quaran-routine with this special Untapped series. Science On Tap Philadelphia is hosting a weekly movie screening with Netflix Party. Guests can talk to our Science On Tap experts through the chat function, asking questions in real time and learning more about the myths and misrepresentations in some of our favorite movies.
Invite your housemates and join us for this social-distancing Science On Tap. If you have a Netflix subscription and a home computer, you can join our party! This is a FREE event, but registration is required as Netflix Party limits the number of guests for each session.
Details on the first two May screenings are below. We'll announce the rest of May soon! You may sign up for multiple screenings, but please keep in mind that there are many bored/interested people who want to watch and limited space! Click here to register.
How to access Netflix Party
All preregistered guests will be sent the link to the event’s Netflix Party prior to the event start time. It will also be available in the Digital Links section of the Eventbrite event. Make sure to download the Netflix Party extension for Google Chrome. You can learn more about Netflix Party and how to set it up on your computer at www.netflixparty.com.
Monday, May 4th at 7 PM: Ex Machina with Science History Institute
Ex Machina (R) – A coder at a tech company wins a week-long retreat at the compound of his company's CEO, where he's tasked with testing a new artificial intelligence.
Meet our Expert: Lisa Ruth Rand, PhD
Lisa Ruth Rand has a PhD in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. She thinks constantly about space junk, and after memorizing nearly all of Apollo 13 and Contact as a teenager still has dreams of being a film science consultant.
Monday, May 11th at 7 PM: Snowpiercer with the Wagner Free Institute of Science
Snowpiercer (R) – After a climate-change experiment gone horribly wrong, Earth's few remaining residents are confined to the Snowpiercer, a single train that circles the globe. A revolution brews among the class-divided cars.
Meet our Expert: Mabel Rosenheck, PhD
Mabel Rosenheck is a writer, lecturer, and historian in Philadelphia. She works in the museum of the Wagner Free Institute of Science and teaches at Temple University in addition to freelance writing and research. She received her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Northwestern University. This spring, she will teach a course called Handmaids, Hosts, and Humanity: Love and Family in Dystopian Futures at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Samples of her writing can be found at www.mabelrosenheck.com/writing.
Image: Photograph of Science On Tap: Untapped at the Philadelphia Science Festival in 2019 (altered, of course). Photograph taken by Kyle Gronostajski