{"id":124,"date":"2007-09-11T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/2007\/09\/11\/124\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T19:18:44","slug":"124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Flock of Dodos on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/shiftingbaselines\/2007\/09\/from_randy_olson_flock_of_dodo.php\" id=\"a053180\">From Randy Olson: <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\nFlock of Dodos&#8221; (plus 80 minutes of extras) now for sale on home DVD<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been a long road since our premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of last year, but the movie is FINALLY being released today nationally on home video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvideo.com\/\">New Video<\/a> ($26.95) as part of their acclaimed Docurama showcase and is currently featured on their home page. It also will continue to air on Showtime over the next two years. If you haven&#8217;t heard of &#8220;Flock of Dodos&#8221;, you can read about the film and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockofdodos.com\/press_coverage.htm\">reviews<\/a> on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockofdodos.com\/\">website<\/a>. The DVD costs a bit less on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flock-Dodos-Jack-Cahill\/dp\/B000PATZKQ\/%20ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-0769478-0549704?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1189380128&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year and a half I&#8217;ve attended about 50 public screenings, almost all of which have been followed by panel discussions or Q&amp;A&#8217;s. In these sessions, there are a number of most common questions that come up. These include, &#8220;What exactly is the difference between intelligent design and creationism?&#8221; &#8220;Why is this controversy so uniquely American?&#8221; and &#8220;Has the media done a good job of reporting this issue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We would have liked to have addressed these questions in the film, but we knew that if we did, we would have had an even more information-heavy film which would never have aired on the same channel that brings you &#8220;The L Word,&#8221; and &#8220;Weeds.&#8221; (by the way, the reason the film had such limited theatrical exposure was the distributors ALL felt it was too academic\/educational\/information-heavy, which is a nice contrast to some evolutionists who felt the film was &#8220;too light weight&#8221; and illustrates the central dilemma in communicating science).<\/p>\n<p>So the great thing with home DVD is that it includes in the EXTRAS a section called, &#8220;Ten Questions,&#8221; in which the answers to ten of the most common questions the film generates are answered by Dr. Eugenie Scott (Director of the National Center for Science Education) and a panel discussion sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute which includes three evolutionists and a theologian. It should be a very useful resource for educators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Randy Olson: Flock of Dodos&#8221; (plus 80 minutes of extras) now for sale on home DVD It&#8217;s been a long road since our premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of last year, but the movie is FINALLY being released today nationally on home video by New Video ($26.95) as part of their<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=124\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}