Episode 47 - 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 47 - The Park.

In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Bradley joins the show to chat with me about:

Living in Edmonton, paleontology in Alberta, Dinosaur Park the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ireland, prospecting for fossils, the dinosaur paleofauna of Alberta, publishing academic papers, estimating body mass with dollar-store dinosaur figures, the connectivity in paleofauna between North America and Asia, gregarious Gorgosaurs, Dino 101 at the U of A, Separation Anxiety, his award-winning book of poetry, depicting tyrannosaurs in the novel, swimming dinosaurs, extant phylogenetic bracket for dinosaur hypotheses, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• What The Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain (the amphibian visual cortex)
• Hadrosauroid Jaw Mechanics and the Functional Significance of the Predentary Bone

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

Intro: Hummingbird.  Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Park, spanning from pages 260 – 268.

Synopsis:

Grant, Lex and Tim scare away a maiasaura, climb down the tree and head back to the maintenance shed to get a raft to float down the Jungle River. Meanwhile, Arnold steps away from the monitors to meet with Hammond and Wu. Grant and the kids find a tranquilizer gun and head to the dock at the Lagoon. But the Big Rex is there, sleeping, so they sneak into the raft, but Lex blows their getaway by coughing, awakening Big Rex, and having her swim after them. 

Discussions surround:

The Dinoasurs, Timeline, Amphibian Visual Cortex, Tension, Feminism, Contrivances in Plot, Plotting the Book, God Complex, Chricton Tropes, and Island Layout.  

Side effects: 

May cause you to awkwardly quote T.S. Eliot and John Keats.

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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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