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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...