My Favorite Movie with Marcia McNutt: "Jurassic Park"

The original "Jurassic Park" did something few other movies have managed to do: It delivered the entertaining drama of dinosaurs wreaking havoc while educating the public about topics like genetics and chaos theory. The 1993 sci-fi classic also gave viewers new ways to think about ethics in science — particularly whether scientists should do something just because they could.

How does it hold up 26 years later? Join Future Tense, Marcia McNutt and Daniel Sarewitz for a screening of "Jurassic Park" and a brief discussion on the ways it helped inform — and misinform — the public imagination. McNutt is the president of the National Academy of Sciences and was formerly the editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals and, previous to that, the director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Sarewitz is a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, where he is co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.

This latest installment of Future Tense’s “My Favorite Movie” series will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at Washington, D.C.'s Landmark E Street Cinema at 555 11th Street NW. You may RSVP for yourself and up to one guest. Seating is limited.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University.