A Journey to the Center of ‘The Core’

The Core (2003) is notorious within the geoscience community for being one of the few big-budget movies to use geology and geophysics as its core (hah!) conceit, and then cramming in more scientific inaccuracies into its 135-minute runtime than any of us thought possible. I’ve attended more than a few viewing parties for The Core, all of which involved competitions to see who can spot the most inaccuracies (as an intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute I actually won, with 43 independent errors!). That said, this piece will not continue the longstanding tradition of picking apart The Core’s bad science. I didn’t come to bury The Core, but to reexamine it. <a href="https://medium.com/@adeene.denton/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-core-d5593541f8eb">Learn More</a>