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lsanderson"By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: September 30, 2004
When an online news publication is the kind that runs articles with headlines like "Disilyne at Last: Synthesis of a Silicon-Silicon Triple Bond Is Called a Milestone for Multiple-Bond Chemistry," you generally do not expect to find great concern in its pages for the finer points of moviemaking.
And in a conversation with an editor of such a publication, you do not expect to hear her say that she really enjoyed "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," partly because of its examination of scientific ethics but also because "I just love when the bad guy goes all squishy."
But then maybe you have not spent enough time recently with Chemical and Engineering News, the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society, which in addition to informing its readers about the latest developments in protein engineering and atomic-scale manipulation has now ventured into territory where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle really prevails: Hollywood.
This summer, the Web site version of the weekly (pubs.acs.org/cen) started publishing movie reviews that focus (although not exclusively) on the accuracy of the science, especially the chemistry, in the latest releases. In a movie-obsessed world, it joins a growing number of Web sites that parse movies in ever more precise ways, from their Christian content to their physics to whether they have continuity problems. Other emergent critics are simply strange: One online reviewer, the Filthy Critic, seems to concentrate on putting as many curse words as possible into his reviews; instead of stars, he awards fingers. (One finger - guess which - is the lowest rating.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/movies/30crit.html
Then again, there's talking urinals... but I'm not sure we wanna go there.
And just what Erik needs: atomic clocks on a chip.
Published: September 30, 2004
When an online news publication is the kind that runs articles with headlines like "Disilyne at Last: Synthesis of a Silicon-Silicon Triple Bond Is Called a Milestone for Multiple-Bond Chemistry," you generally do not expect to find great concern in its pages for the finer points of moviemaking.
And in a conversation with an editor of such a publication, you do not expect to hear her say that she really enjoyed "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," partly because of its examination of scientific ethics but also because "I just love when the bad guy goes all squishy."
But then maybe you have not spent enough time recently with Chemical and Engineering News, the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society, which in addition to informing its readers about the latest developments in protein engineering and atomic-scale manipulation has now ventured into territory where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle really prevails: Hollywood.
This summer, the Web site version of the weekly (pubs.acs.org/cen) started publishing movie reviews that focus (although not exclusively) on the accuracy of the science, especially the chemistry, in the latest releases. In a movie-obsessed world, it joins a growing number of Web sites that parse movies in ever more precise ways, from their Christian content to their physics to whether they have continuity problems. Other emergent critics are simply strange: One online reviewer, the Filthy Critic, seems to concentrate on putting as many curse words as possible into his reviews; instead of stars, he awards fingers. (One finger - guess which - is the lowest rating.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/movies/30crit.html
Then again, there's talking urinals... but I'm not sure we wanna go there.
And just what Erik needs: atomic clocks on a chip.
