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IMAGINAL DISC Holiday Greeting Cards - December 2007 Collection

Imaginal Disc is proud to annonce the first in a series of holiday greeting cards. These cards will be inspired by biological manifestations.

A FRUIT FLY IN NEW YORK - In Film Festival Submission Period

More information, visit Fruit Fly in New York webpage.

Dr. Michael Novacek Video Montage now available

To all science lovers,

I have finished the latest video montage that will be screened before the Secret Science Club lecture by Dr. Michael Novacek tomorrow Wednesday night at 730PM. Please come in crowds to union hall. Enjoy a beer and a dinosaur story.

Screening of Paris Je t’Aime and Portrait Of A Scientist: “Scientists take off their labcoat”!!! TONIGHT

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TONIGHT
Monday, Dec 3rd
Paris Je t’Aime by 18 Acclaimed Filmmakers
(preceded by “Scientists take off their lab coats” - Portrait of A Scientist)

8PM
Caspary Auditorium
Rockefeller University
1230 York Ave (and 66th St)
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Tonight, as the holidays approach, we present Paris Je t’aime - an ensemble of short films that brings together 18 international acclaimed directors. Paris Je t’aime is a collective ode to the magical,innately lyrical place of the city of lights. The result, while bursting with perhaps, a few too many stories is well worth a viewing for the performance and stories that are at once haunting, charming, relatable and life-affirming. Given only a few minutes to present their segment, each director spins their own Parisian love song within a different district of the sprawling city. The scenes are charming enough, especially with an omnipresent tinkling of French accordions in the background to give the film an airy, sentimental feeling; but love is not always sweet, and the stories that deftly examine non-romantic love, and even loss and longing, prove to be the most moving of the entire collection.

All screenings are held in Caspary Auditorium on Monday nights at 8 p.m. Admission is free and open to the Tri-Institutional community.
Guests and family members are welcome.
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For more information on the Rockefeller Film Series and how to
participate, please visit www.imaginaldisc.com/rockefeller-film-
series. If you would like to be part of the Portrait of a Scientist
initiative, please email me at agambis@rockefeller.edu. The
initiative will continue all year long.

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UPCOMING MONDAY SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

12/15 @ 3PM - Children’s Afternoon Screening - RATATOUILLE

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Alexis Gambis
Coordinator of RU Film Series
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email: films@rockefeller.edu

Portrait Of A Scientist: Scientists take off their lab coats

The latest Portrait Of A Scientist called “Scientists take off their lab coats”!!! is now available on Imaginal Disc Website. It features a few scientists who talk about their hours away from the bench.

Click here to view

The Secret Science Club presents “Evolve!” on Wednesday, December 5 @ 8 pm

AMNH Paleontologist Michael Novacek lectures on Evolution, Biodiversity, and Mass Extinction @ 8 pm
Earth to humans, Earth to humans . . . is anybody there?
Michael Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History discusses how biodiversity and ecosystems evolved from the Age of the Dinosaurs onward to create an ideal environment for a novel new species–Homo sapiens. And now, Dr. Novacek warns, Homo sapiens is transforming that environment so rapidly that Earth may not be habitable in future.

In fact, Earth is experiencing what scientists call the Sixth Extinction as thousands of plant and animal species are pushed into oblivion by habitat destruction, overfishing and overhunting, the introduction of invasive species, pollution and climate change.

The provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, a world-renowned dinosaur hunter, and the author of Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk, Dr. Novacek takes the long view and asks: Why are ecosystems essential to human survival? How did Homo sapiens co-evolve with other species? Can we change our ways and save the planet?

Don’t miss this (r)evolutionary tour of Earth’s history! And tumultuous future . . .

Plus!
–Groove to naturally selected tunes, and check out the apocalyptic video by scientist/filmmaker Alexis Gambis.

–Imbibe the “Hungry Hyena” a ferocious cocktail that will determine the survival of the fittest.

–Buy and have Dr. Novacek’s sign his awesome new book, Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk

The “Secret Science Club” meets December 5th at 8 p.m. in the basement @ Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, p: 718.638.4400 Subway: R to Union St.; F to 4th Ave.; Q, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic

No cover charge. Just bring your smart self.

Doors open at 7:30. LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE.

The video montage is currently being made.

Melanie Wallace, Senior Series Producer at NOVA lectures at Rockefeller University

Today, Melanie Wallace from NOVA came to give a talk at Rockefeller. It was a great success and I received a great deal of feedback from students, professors and other people within the Rockefeller community. The science and media lectures seem to generate a lot of interest and will therefore continue. The next talk is next year - Roald Hoffman from Columbia will speak about “Entertaining Science” - a cafe scientifique at the Cornelia Street Cafe where scientists come speak.

Audio of the lecture is now available

More info on Science and Media Lectures at http://www.imaginaldisc.com/rockefeller-film-series/lectures