forthcoming screenings

Urine Superpowers

Friday 14th November 2014 at 22h25 - Arte

Competition Science Television - Pariscience 2014

To satisfy our interests without disgust, whenever possible we will be using thermal imaging, microscopic and high-speed cameras.Despite the gradual success of urine, filming it could still create somewhat of a scandal!
The opportunities of our noble liquid are now the object of many patents.Today, we will go beyond this prohibition, release the cork, and take a wee look a tour pee that is more valuable than once thought: in medicine for healing, technology as a source of energy, raw material, and industrial fertilizers.
During our lives, each of us will have produced 38.000 liters of urine, the equivalent of a large tanker truck. Despite the importance of this matter, urine remains taboo.Many of us are oblivious to the fact that our first months of life were actually spent swimming in urine. Indeed, the amniotic sac is made up of 80% urine, from the fetus and on average, the fetus releases two glasses of pee per day.

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Marie Curie, a woman on the front

Tuesday 11th November 2014 at 20h45 - France 2

Competition Science Television - Pariscience 2014

Her experiences along with her colleague from the Radium Institute, Doctor Claudius Regaud, contributed in inventing the modern hospital.
She was convinced of the utility for the new X-ray techniques at the front. She criss-crossed the front line accompanied by her 17-year old daughter, Irene, and persuaded philanthropists, surgeons and doctors of the importance of using X-rays in saving lives.The urgency of wartime and her instant and insightful analysis of the situation drove her out of her laboratory and into the battlefield.
When World War 1 broke out, Marie Curie was an eminent scientist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics & Chemistry. She still mourned her husband Pierre Curie, tragically killed in an accident several years before. She continued her Radium research and to teach at the Sorbonne.

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Particle Fever

Wednesday 05th November 2014 at 20h00 - Cinéma Publicis

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Prix Grand Écran - Pariscience 2014

Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. Particle Fever gives audiences a front row seat to scientific discovery as it happens. The film follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest and most expensive experiment in history. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries join in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.

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