Juras-Sick Park-cast

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 24 - Control  In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Ben Lewis chats with me about: Book clubs, podcasts, capitalism, Michael Bay's "The Island," black body radiation, infrared light like in Predator, colour, buzz words, physicists, Dr. Ian Malcolm, mathematicians, "Thin"telligence, Guiness Book of World Records, why mathematicians?, Monte Carlo simulations, Chaos Theory, running simulations, regulating industry, is Jurassic Park socialist literature?, graphing quadreatic equations, inflection points, Poisson Distribution curves, the shape of the data,  Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down , Fractal Curves, economics, Heinz Pagels , dense periodic orbits , strange attractors , Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, why invite Malcolm to the park a...

   Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 23 - The Tour pt. 3 In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Adam Leggett returns to chat with me about: All about Dennis Nedry! Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, We put a serious spotlight on Dodgson's Inside Man. Nedry's death, Nedry's backstory, Nedry's career, his portrayal in film, Wayne Knight, Wayne Knight in The Edge, and Armed Family , his deception, Nedry trivia!, Nedry's comeuppance, his tragic story, his cultural references, his gruesome and glorious death, and the neat Goonies easter egg . Plus dinosaur news about: First definitive record of Abelisauridae (Theropoda:Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt The dinosaur tracksite from the lower Barremian of Areia do Mastro Formation (Cabo Espich...

   Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 22 - The Tour pt. 2 In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Danielle Wigle, who chats with me about: Teaching the book in high school, film adaptations, media literacy, the softer more empathetic Hammond, Carrousel of Nations, Windsor festivals, her first time, VHS cassettes, Ellie Sattlers' problematic representation, Laura Dern, Oh Balls!, having an Attenborough, socialist literature, velociratpors are stock dividends, the island is a failure, why Nedry was so upset, the InGen Incident, what if Nedry didn't die?, Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold, Ray vs. John, being hard on Dr. Harding, the electric waterfall, gruesome depictions of death, Hammond's death co-opted in The Lost World, we quote the be-Jesus out of the movie, where does Hammond's wealth co...

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 21 - The Tour pt. 1 In this episode, my terrific guests Dave Marshall from Palaeocast , the paleontology podcast , who chat with me about: slagging off Jurassic Park, etymology of chelicerates (claw-horns), requests for the audience to submit sketches of what they think we look like, eurypterids , Merostomata , Xiphosurans, Chasmataspidids , the Ordovician , Silurian and Devonian , teeth like chopsticks (pterygotid large pincers), and their evolution and how new discoveries alter hypotheses, pesky vertebrates, horseshoe crabs are survivors, extinction events, launching podcasts, palaeontology, paleontology, oil rigs, biostratigraphy, aquatic sloths , and sloth Atlantis, teaching Poodles to Fly , documentaries, Prehistoric Planet , Jurassic Park's impact on popular culture,...