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Cleveland Natural History Museum Sorting Out Sci-Fi Movie Facts and Fiction

The Cleveland Natural History Museum will help sci-fi movie fans sort out what's scientifically possible and what's not in their favorite films.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Natural History Museum will help sci-fi movie fans sort out what's scientifically possible and what's not in their favorite films.
The Cleveland Natural History Museum will help sci-fi movie fans sort out what's scientifically possible and what's not in their favorite films.
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Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Natural History Museum will help sci-fi movie fans sort out what's scientifically possible and what's not in their favorite films.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural Historyis wants to help science fiction movie fans understand what is true science and what is poetic license in their favorite films. This week the museum will start hosting a series of  sci-fi movies followed by a discussion with an expert on the film’s subject matter.

The Natural History Museum’s Marketing Director Patrick Evans says the “Reel Science” series is an effort to provide entertainment, education, and showcase the museum’s experts and their research. The first showing on Wednesday at the Cedar-Lee Theater will be “Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Kahn.”

“We’ll have Clyde Simpson who manages our Ralph Mueller Observatory  here at the museum on hand to talk about just any aspects of astronomy or space science that’s going on in that movie.”

Other movies on the schedule include “Jurassic Park”, which will be broken down by the museum’s paleontologist, ”The Fly” featuring a discussion by an entomologist, and the museum’s human health scientist will take questions following “Night of the Living Dead.” The movies will be held on the first Wednesday of each month through May.

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Kevin Niedermier
Kevin was raised in New Washington in rural North Central Ohio. He attended Bowling Green State University and Ashland College (now Ashland University) before beginning his career in commercial radio news.