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 58 - Destroying The World . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Peter Dodson joins the show to chat with me about: the Festschrift special edition of the Anatomical Record (Dinosaurs: New Ideas from Old Bones) honouring the career of Dr. Peter Dodson, the special effects in Jurassic Park, Fantasia, his father's career as an academic biologist , Dr. Edwin Colbert, authoring dinosaur books, studying paleontology in Ottawa, Alberta and Canada, memories of working with Dr. Dale Russell , preparing an Albertosaurus specimen collected by the Sternbergs!, working in Alberta, discovering a terrific Lambeosaurus skeleton, paleontologist Lawrence Lambe being honoured in Lambeosaurus' name, what else do you find amongst the dinosaurs out in the field?, field work in Egypt and finding a large, s

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 57 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Mike from Mike's Book Reviews joins the show to chat with me about: I open with a joke that flops, how he started his YouTube channel, BookTube, finding time to read, his video on Jurassic Park , re-reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's voice clearly portrayed through Malcolm, our favourite characters like Hammond, Nedry, Grant, Malcolm, Sattler, and Muldoon, Jumanji (1995), Stephen King, adding chidren to your stories, dealing with how abnoxious Lex is, Crichton's character work, problematic heroes, Congo, Timeline, Sphere, Dune, the fate of the Big Rex, the stardom of Velociraptors, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the Oncomouse, Next, chaos theory, why did Crichton not trust science?, Disclosure, our lists of the top Michael Crichton

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 56 - The Lodge . In this episode, terrific guest Dr. Jingmai O'Connor joins to the show to chat with me about: tunnelling, antipodes ,  When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies , The Field Museum of Natural History's new spinosaurus exhibit, entering into vertebrate paleontology, inspiration from Donald Prothero , transitioning to the "dinosaur dark side," enantiornithines, moving to Beijing, assisstant professor Alida Bailleul , the origins of birds, the "multiple origins of dinosaurian flight hypothesis," the Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx, feathers and caudipteryx , a lack in the data of the origins of wings, but wings co-inciding with nesting, coloured eggs, and changes in reproductive behaviour, dinosaur eggs, Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origins of Flight , are drom

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 55 - The Grid . In this episode, my terrific guest author  Roselle Lim joins the show to chat with me about: Forest fires, Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Speilberg's endorsements, Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, immigrating to Canada, how to put dinosaurs into your cookbook, eating crocodiles, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wicked stepmothers, employing fairy tales and fables into creative fiction, cooking analogies!, writing hope into the endings, disgusing the villains in your life as characters in your novels, allusions to myths and fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Ian Malcolm's cynical perspective like Alice, a subversive text disguised as a children's tale, learning English from watching wreslting, Jura