About this episode

Dr. Eric Jaffe discusses the biological aspects of the movie and book 'Project Hail Mary', highlighting what it gets right and wrong.

Everyone's favorite biologist and dinosaur enthusiast Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! Project Hail Mary is a very fun, and quite good, sciency movie that is cleaning up at the box office right now. You should see it! Eric is going to take us through the biology of the movie (and book) and what it gets right, and what it gets quite wrong.

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Eric Jaffe

Topics covered

• biology
• science fiction
• film analysis
• Project Hail Mary
• biological accuracy

Keywords

• Project Hail Mary
• biology
• science
• film
• accuracy
• Dr. Eric Jaffe

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Project Hail Mary

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