Episode 1005: Citizen Bio / Picture a Scientist
About this Episode
We have our second new guest host of the season join us this week: Inkoo Kang, formerly of Slate and now of The Hollywood Reporter. Together, we review the new Showtime documentary Citizen Bio, which profiles the late Aaron Traywick and his (not so) merry band of biohackers at Ascendance Biomedical, and pair that with an interview that Bart and Chris conduct with Sharon Shattuck, one of the directors of Picture a Scientist, an examination of pervasive gender bias in the sciences. Yes, the nation may be riven by election madness and discord, but we thought we'd take a break from our recent political coverage to talk about different topics. Enjoy!
Group Review Documentary:
CITIZEN BIO (Trish Dolman, 2020)
Playing now on Showtime.
Film Featured in Interview Portion:
PICTURE A SCIENTIST (Ian Cheney/Sharon Shattuck, 2020)
Currently only available for educational and private group screenings. One can request a screening at www.pictureascientist.com. Sign up for mailing list on the website for broadcast and streaming announcements.
Other Films/Podcast/Series Mentioned:
- All About Almodóvar podcast (Inkoo Kang/Daniel Schroeder)
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, 2020)
- Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst/Julia Willoughby Nason, 2019)
- Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Chris Smith, 2019)
- Human Nature (Adam Bolt, 2019)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (Alex Gibney, 2019)
- McMillions HBO series (James Lee Hernandez/Brian Lazarte, 2020)
- Radiolab podcast (Jad Abumrad, WNYC)
- Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, 2020)
- Surviving R. Kelly Lifetime series (now on Netflix) (Joel Karsberg/Jesse Daniels/ Dream Hampton/Tamra Simmons, 2019)
- The Vow HBO series (Karim Amer/Jehane Noujaim, 2020)
Links to reviews by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:
Timestamps:
- 00:43 – Intro
- 04:11 – Group Discussion of CITIZEN BIO
- 21:16 – Bart and Chris interview Sharon Shattuck of PICTURE A SCIENTIST
- 40:47 – Doc Talk
- 50:36 – Closing and End Credits
Website/Email:
Credits:
Artwork by Hilary Campbell
Intro music by Jeremiah Moore
Transitional music by BELLS≥ (thanks to Christopher Ernst)
Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed
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