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 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...

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 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...

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 51 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella joins the show to chat with me about: marketing titles internationally, his terrific novel The Lazarus Taxa , The Tanis Site and Dinosaurs: The Last Day / Dinosaur Apocalypse !, imagining living in Late Cretaceous North America, what influence does Jurassic Park play, being inspired to put in the amount of research for the novel that Michael Crichton did, why do kids love dinosaurs?, 65 (2023), time travel, Timeline, Lazarus taxa, Douglas Adams, leptoceratops, imagining dinosaur behaviours and palaeoecosystems, dinosaur diets, where to find the Lazarus Taxa , and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications  Ontogeny and variation of the ...

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 37 - Bungalow . In this episode, my terrific guest Melissa Ray joins the show to chat with me about: melding the novel and the film together, differences between the film and the novel, like discussions around feminism, better versions of Ellie and Lex in the film, symbolism in the baseball and baseball mit, daddy issues, carrying baseballs and night vision goggles around, how did Lex and Tim's parents meet?, Ellie is conclusively not dating Alan Grant, and Grant is a childless widower, Sattler's portrayal, black and white symbolizing differences between Malcolm and Hammond in the film, the two "female ends" of the seatbelt in the helicopter ride to Isla Nublar foreshadowing the all-female breeding animals, overanalyzing movies today, John Williams' soundtrack, technologic...

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 34 - The Main Road . In this episode, my terrific guest ReBecca Hunt-Foster joins the show to chat with me about: State nomenclature, grade school dinosaur units, paleontologist origins stories, Arkansaurus fridayi , ornithomimids, Dr. James H. Quinn, Dinosaur National Monument and its history, deinocheirus, Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation , Moab and Nedcolbertia , all the famous dinosaurs: stegosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurs, and more!, reading Jurassic Park, Colorado State Fossil Stegosaurus, a baby stegosaurus!, running stegosaurs, the thagomizer, camptosaurus, dryosaurus, sauropods, and more on stegosaurs, their thagomizers, their necks, their tales, injuring allosaurs, describing the Late Jurassic of Utah, Jurassic vegetation and botany, burrowing ornithischians, Oryctodromeus cubicul...

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 32 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Matt Bufton joins to chat with me about: Flight of the Conchords, Children's programming, podcasting, The Curious Task podcast ,  The Institute for Liberal Studies , Ottawa, Friedrich Hayek , Chaos Theory, central planning of complex systems, calls for regulation, characters like Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant, Dennis Nedry, Malcolm's criticisms of the park, Crichton's condemnation of government, setting regulations on new technological fields like: the Internet, crypto-currencies, applications of biotech, whatever regulations that govern biotech, they seem to be working?, needless regulations, regulations leading to substandard products and services, John Stossel journalism  and scam artists, how to best assemble a team of watchdogs,...

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 30 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guests The  Past Time Podcast  duo Drs. Matt Borths and Adam Pritchard chat with me about: The Past Time podcast, producing podcasts, reading the novel, Dr. Elizabeth Jones, DNA, cloning, splicing genes, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Jurassic World, gene therapy, eliminating disease, why has no one adapted the river scene?, characterization, emotions and attitudes, the debate between the good and bad products of scientific discovery, what if Ian Malcolm were in Frankenstein , reverse-engineering dinosaurs out of a chicken, mapping the human genome, amphibian DNA, Callovosaurus, cloning unknown animals, Diabloceratops, choosing dinosaurs for your novel, Pteranodon v. Cearradactylus, Dodgson in the Tyrannosaur nest, Grant in the velocirap...

 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 29 - Big Rex In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley returns to chat with me about: How long after Jurassic Park in 1993, elements of the novel continue to reappear in subsequent films in the franchise! How much of Jurssic Park: The Lost World is from Crichton's 1990 novel? How about Jurassic Park III? Lots! Yeah, but how about the Jurassic World installments, what parts of the novel is still in there? Turns out, ... well, not as much, but some ! Some of it is still founded in Crichton's seminal text! Check it out! Stream this episode on YouTube! Plus dinosaur news about: Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America Ngwevu intloko : a new early sauropodomorph dinos...

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...

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 16 - Malcolm In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. David Hone chats with me about:   May Day, Victoria Day, high tea, Tea Cup Dinosaur hunters, excavating dinosaurs, Dr. Alan Grant, trace fossils, body fossils, eggs, fossil nomenclature, Computer Assisted Sonic Tomography fails, CAST process being non-viable, prospecting with drones, Velociraptor v. Deinonychus, making the best deductions, describing dinosaurs, Dilophosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Man's Hubris and Science, West World and Andromeda Strain, Triceratops, sauropods, character backstories, Ian Malcolm, anti-technology paleontologists, the future of paleontology, photogrammetry, Eli Kish, AMNH 5027, tail vertebrae, Leaellynasaura, Crichton's research, pterosaurs, the Aviary, Cearadactylus,...

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...