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SciFlix
February 13 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
SciFlix is a FREE community outreach effort designed to openly and honestly discuss science, theories, and ethics in popular fiction. Following the film, our moderator will introduce a panel of experts who provide their reactions to the film along with an audience Q&A session
Our first movie this season is Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Will Rodman (James Franco), a scientist in San Francisco, is experimenting with a drug that he hopes will cure his father's (John Lithgow) Alzheimer's disease. After his work is deemed a failure, Will becomes the guardian of Caesar, an infant chimp who was exposed in-utero to Will's drug. Rated PG-13, 1 hour 45 minutes.
Panelists:
- Sean Putney, Executive Director/CEO | Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium
- Ph.D. candidate Kathleen Rust, who studies aspects of early primate evolution, especially as they relate to primate sensory evolution.
- Ph.D. candidate Kevin Mulcahey, who studies Paleogene mammal evolution and systematics.