Episode 24 - Control

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 at all?, resonant yaw, poetic justice, reading Jurassic Park is worthwhile, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Exquisitely Preserved Dinosaur Skin of Psittacosaurus and the Scaly Skin of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs

• Histological and chemical diagnosis of a combat lesion in Triceratops

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases 

Intro: Death of a Dream.  Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control spanning from pages 92 – 111. 

Synopsis:

Malcolm questions Wu on one of Gennaro’s big questions – whether the procompsognathus remains Grant and Ellie identified is an escaped animal from Jurassic Park (p. 111). Malcolm is told that the compys were released in a series of batches, and that they are dependant upon lysine which is provided to them by Jurassic Park in tablet form, without which the animals will fall into a coma and die within 12 hours.

The control room is busy helping the boat dock, so while the tour waits, they go visit the velociraptor holding pen, where the raptors attack the fence, further intriguing Malcolm’s suspicions.

Discussions surround:

Sketchy science, Park management, The Supply Boat - the Anne B, Bow Down Before the Master, Cloning Dinosaurs, Timeline, Dinosaurs, Elaborating on Velociraptors, Visible Minorities, Building a Mystery, Dodgson's Man, Dinosaurs on the Brain, and Paleontology.

Corrections:

I said that colours absorb heat, when surely I meant that colours absorb (and reflect) light.

Side effects: 

May cause intestinal illnesses in stegosaurus.

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Thank you!

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Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time! 

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