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Episode 48 - Search

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 48 - Search . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Elizabeth D. Jones joins the show to chat with me about: My cat's name, the SECU DinoLab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science , how Jurassic Park introduced ancient DNA research to the world, Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science , the embarrassing story of when she met paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, Schweitzer's paper: Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present , < !! , the moral obligation of sharing history, The Jurassic Park Effect, debunking the Jurassic Park Hypothesis, figurative contamination, the problems with media taking the implications of some studies too far, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Svante Pääbo, celebrity scie

Episode 47 - The Park

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 47 - The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Bradley joins the show to chat with me about: Living in Edmonton, paleontology in Alberta, Dinosaur Park the UNESCO World Heritage Site , Ireland, prospecting for fossils, the dinosaur paleofauna of Alberta, publishing academic papers, estimating body mass with dollar-store dinosaur figures, the connectivity in paleofauna between North America and Asia, gregarious Gorgosaurs, Dino 101 at the U of A , Separation Anxiety , his award-winning book of poetry, depicting tyrannosaurs in the novel, swimming dinosaurs, extant phylogenetic bracket for dinosaur hypotheses, and much more! This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and th

Episode 46 - Dawn

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 46 - Dawn . In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs joins the show to chat with me about: SNALE , Steven Segal, Brendan Fraser, Nicholas Cage, Adam Sandler, Matthew McConaughey, Halle Berry, recommending Bulworth , the Olsen Twins, The Veloci-Pastor , The Jerry Show , Hexploitation Film Festival , horror films, Doug Jones , Killer Sofa , House Shark , Fathers' Day, The Raccoons , Cybertronic Spree , Transformers, 65, chickeny dinosaurs, All About Dinosaurs , and much more! To prove I'm not some charlatan, here's my copy of All About Dinosaurs Here's an image of All About Dinosaurs from the movie! Here's my copy of All About Dinosaurs .... Here's All About Dinosaurs  as depicted in the film! This is what this terrific new Snale album looks like! It's got a(n

Episode 45 - The Park

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 45 - The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman joins the show to chat with me about: living all over the place, the Edmonton Oilers, how cold is it!?, Underneath , Killer Hockey Mascot , Gritty, Cocaine Bear , Burial , Fallout, ReGrowth , Akira, developing characters, The Simpsons, The Simopsons Show Podcast , Jurassic Park references in The Simpsons, lamenting over Lex in the second half of the novel, adapating Jurassic Park from novel into film, John Hammond, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A New Titanosauriform Sauropod with An Unusual Tail from theLower Cretaceous of Northeastern China  (Ruxinia zhui)  Decoupling the skull and skeleton in a Cretaceous bird with unique appendicular morphologies (Cratonavis zhangi) Featuring the music of Snale  https://snalerock.ba

Episode 44 - 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 44 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Buck joins the show to chat with me about: Smart devices, Saturday Night Live, Stefon, The Loop, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt , ( and the documentary ) archaeology, why kids love dinosaurs, Egypt, World War 2, Michael Crichton, Ernst Stromer , Spinosaurus, Jurassic Park, Tina Bowman and the compy, excavating archaeological digs in Greece, Fair's Fair Used Books in Calgary , Ontario Teacher's Strike of 1997, Halloween, depictions of visible minorities, Samuel L. Jackson's John Arnold, adapting Ellie Sattler from the novel into the film, Steven Spielberg and John Williams, which rock star is Jeff Goldblum emulating, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North