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. 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.
The Movie
The Core (2003) (PG-13) - Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.
Meet our Expert: Jeffrey C. Womack, Ph.D.
Jeffrey C. Womack, Ph.D. is a historian of technology and medicine; he studies why people succeed—or fail—to make sense of new devices and abstract ideas. He co-curated the Mütter Museum’s exhibit “Going Viral: Infection Through the Ages” and currently teaches at Penn State Brandywine. His publications include “Nuclear Weapons, Dystopian Deserts, and Science Fiction Cinema” and CPP’s digital exhibit, “Healing Energy: Radium in America.” Dr. Womack’s book, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century is available from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Image: Photograph of Science On Tap: Untapped at the Philadelphia Science Festival in 2019 (altered, of course). Photograph taken by Kyle Gronostajski