Taking a film-maker’s approach to science (Image: An Inconvenient Truth)
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DID you spot James Cameron’s mistake in Titanic? Leo DiCaprio is about to drown in the north Atlantic ocean, yet the constellations of the southern hemisphere are aglow in the sky above.
Who cares? Scientists, apparently. The mistake “ruined” the movie for Neil de Grasse Tyson, director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, Randy Olson says.
It’s the kind of reaction that gets scientists a bad rap, and Olson – himself a scientist and film-maker –…
