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Episode 56 - The Lodge

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, antipodesWhen 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 dromaeosaurs secondarily flightless?, why birds survived the end-Cretaceous extinction event and Dr. Daniel Field, Elsornis, baby enantiornithine bird's having costly energy demands leading to their extinction, the problematic gastric mills among enantiornithines, Green River fossil avifauna, specimens trapped in amber, Alida Bailleuls' exceptionally well preserved hyparcosaurus cells, human rights violations in Myanmar, extracting more information from specimens in amber, comparing feathers in amber to lithic specimens, microraptor stomach contents, and much more!

Jingmai is the author of When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies! which is a non-fiction book for kids and teens in the Incredible Evolution series about what birds are, where they come from, and other fascinating facts about their evolution.

Plus dinosaur news about:

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

Intro: Do You Want To Leave Me, Or Do You Want To Stay.  Outro: Maybe Days.

The Text:

This week’s text is Lodge, spanning from pages 350 – 359.

Synopsis:

Malcolm relates the importance of showing humility before nature, as the raptors gnaw through the bars. Meanwhile, Lex and Tim escape the raptors into the nursery – sacrificing the infant raptor to the three other raptors pursuing them; before being reunited with Grant and Gennaro.

Grant weaponizes his knowledge of dinosaurs, and the toxins in Wu’s lab, to defeat the three raptors, before racing to the Control room. 

Discussions surround:

The Sword of Damocles, Show, Don't Tell, Crichton Tropes, Narrative Juxtaposition?, Control is a Hoax, Timeline, Doing the Math, Park Management, God Complex, and Rule of Threes.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to google images of a prolapsed cloaca!

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Thank you!

The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com

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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