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Episode 66 - Iterations

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 66 - Iterations . In this episode ( stream it here !), my terrific guest Rob Luther joins the show to chat with me about: podcasting about our passions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Iterations and fractal curves, challenges in podcasting, the continuing legacy of Michael Crichton, the Turtle Forever podcast , the film Jurassic Park, Crichton's literary ambitions, favourite dinosaurs, hosting guests on a show, teaching, active listening, the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, 2023's Mutant Mayhem, and his other show, Retro Junkies podcast , and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria,Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay (Udelartitan celeste) An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia, Or...

Episode 62 - Hammond

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 62 - Hammond . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Spencer Lucas joins the show to chat with me about: the greatness of New Mexico, reading Jurassic Park, watching Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, rediscovered animals like the Coelocanth, will we discover true extra terrestrials soon?, the UFO Festival in Roswell, NM, the plausibility of Crichton's science fiction, The House Oversight subcommittee's hearing on UFOs , neat details about Tyrannosaurus, field work in New Mexico, the Permian Age, continental Pangea, ancient climates, chaos theory, how to make sense of extinction events, Permian insects and the meganeuran dragonflies, " God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, " cockroaches, giant millipedes, amber deposits, coelophysis, the incredible similarities between Triassic ...

Episode 57 - 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 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 ...

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 Simpsons 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  h...

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 a...

Episode 15 - Airport

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 15 - Airport In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Robbie Dorman chats with me about:   Burial , Westerns, Chuck Palahniuk, world building, magic, magical moments, mysteries, velociraptors, Malcolm's motivations, corporate malfeasance, Columbia University, science and scientists, Chaos Theory, relating to genre-fiction readers, building tension, movie Alan Grant v. novel Alan Grant, cool scientists, show don't tell, metatextual documentation, House of Leaves, Michael Crichton, The Simpsons Show Podcast , awful episodes of the Simpsons,  Plus dinosaur news about: The Tanis site and end-Cretaceous meteor strike   First articulated ornithomimid specimens from the upper Maastrichtian Scollard Formation of Alberta, Canada Featuring the music of Snale...