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"Science on Screen" Presents DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE with Les Kaufman
- Hosted by:
- Coolidge Corner Theatre
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- March 17, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- March 17, 2008 at 09:00 pm
- Location:
- Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Sreet, Brookline, MA. 02556
- Maps:
Description
“Darwin’s Nightmare” is a tale about North and South, about globalization, and about fish. Some time in the 1960s, a new fish was introduced into Lake Victoria in Tanzania as a scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. The new fish multiplied so fast that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars for their southbound cargo.
Hubert Sauper’s Academy Award-nominated documentary provides a harrowing, heartbreaking look at the effects of globalization on the communities living on the shores of the world’s largest tropical lake. Introducing the film is guest speaker Les Kaufman, professor of biology in the Marine Program at Boston University. Dr. Kaufman was one of the chief scientific advisors for the film and has researched the biology and fisheries of Lake Victoria since 1989.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- No
Additional information
Science on Screen programs are $9.75 general admission, or $7.75 for students, seniors, and Museum of Science members. Coolidge Corner Theatre members get in free. Tickets are available in advance online at www.coolidge.org/science or at the box office.
