Juras-Sick Park-Cast

Episode 60 - Almost Paradigm

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 60 - Almost Paradigm.
In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about:
PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder, Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the punkrock roots of Weird Al, Green Jelly, claymation by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, music videos, Dinosaurs Attack!, Barney the Dinosaur, I Love You, You Hate Me, parody choices, UHF, the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesotra, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from theLower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK
A potentially fatal cranial pathology in a specimenof Tarchia
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Toucans.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.
The Text:
This week’s text is Almost Paradigm, spanning from pages 380 – 384.
Synopsis:
Hammond is uncomfortable with Malcolm’s sepsis, and leaves for a walk believing that the park is under control now, and is safe. On his walk back to his bungalow, he stews over how unfit everyone he’d hired to work at Jurassic Park had been, blaming them all for its downfall – and taking no responsibility of his own. Then he hears the roar of the juvenile tyrannosaurus, and panics. Out of fear and anger, he winds up falling down a ravine, landing in a river below, with a broken ankle. It turns out the tyrannosaur roar is just a recording being broadcast over loud speakers, as Tim and Lex are playing around on the computer in the control room, and there was no danger after all. 
Discussions surround:
Dramatic Irony, Responsibility and Safety, Considering whether or not you should, and Almost Paradise v. Almost Paradigm.
Corrections:
I said that Nedry didn't turn off the fences in the movie - when, of course he did. Arnold also turns off the power, but Nedry did it first. My mistake. Sorry. 
Side effects: 
May cause you to become ... weird!
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 59 - Under 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 59 - Under Control.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Darren Naish joins the show to chat with me about:
missing a recent conference, azhdarchids, Prehistoric Planet on Apple+ TV, barbaridactylus, hatzegopteryx, quetzelcoatlus, nyctosaurs, pterosaur preservation, pterodactylus, the Solnhofen Limestone and lagerstatten, depositional environments creating a fossil bias, rhamphorhynchoids, cearadactylus, Jurassic Park 3, how birds and pterosaurs may have interracted, integuement structures on pterosaur and dinosaur bodies, yutyrannus, feathered dinosaurs, more modern depictions of dinosaurs in media, recreating living and breathing dinosaurs, cryptozoology and potential non-avian dinosaurs living out there somewhere in the world: mokele mbembe, emela-ntouka, and mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, secret secrets about upcoming Star Wars projects, Star Wars being influenced by dinosaurs, and much more!
Check out his blog and podcast Tetrapod Zoology and his books:
 
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore now available.
 
 
Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 million years now available.
 
Plus dinosaur news about:
An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria:Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America
A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Sally Ride.  Outro: Shelter Dog.
The Text:
This week’s text is Under Control, spanning from pages 369 – 379.
Synopsis:
Things are back under control. The computer’s functioning properly, the Visitor Center and Safari Lodge are secure, there aren’t any dinosaurs in the norther sector,  and the authorities are on their way. Even the air-conditioning is working again! And a medic is coming for Malcolm.
The carnage has been measured: out of 24 people on the island, eight were dead and six were missing (p. 269). The National Guard is on its way – and the Costa Rican guard is surely speaking with Washington D.C., to discuss what these Americans are doing out on Isla Nublar. This international conversation may be slowing down the medical response, the novel suggests (p. 369).
Grant recruits Muldoon, Sattler and Gennaro to investigate the velociraptor nests, to inspect them and estimate how many animals have been born in Jurassic Park. Before they go, they discover a secret bunker at the maintenance shed equipping them with nerve gas for defense against the raptors.
They travel to the southern fields and follow a juvenile velociraptor to the nest.
Discussions surround:
The Dinosaurs, Equilibrium, Shipping News, Damned Gennaro, Timeline, Contrivances in Plot, and Big Questions.
Corrections:
I incorrectly correlated “rediscovered” animals with cryptid animals – they are categorically different. A rediscovered animal would be a known animal, if from nothing else, at least fossil evidence – cryptids on the other hand, are known anecdotally or only by witness accounts – not from verified evidence. So – that was not a correct line of thought, though I’m glad we were able to talk a bit about cryptids!
Side effects: 
May cause you to lose all your money to ₡hupacabraTM. 
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 58 - Destroying The World

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 58 - Destroying The World.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Peter Dodson joins the show to chat with me about:
the Festschrift special edition of the Anatomic Record (Dinosaurs: New Ideas from Old Bones) honouring the career of Dr. Peter Dodson, the special effects in Jurassic Park, Fantasia, his father's career as an academic biologist , Dr. Edwin Colbert, authoring dinosaur books, studying paleontology in Ottawa, Alberta and Canada, memories of working with Dr. Dale Russell, preparing an Albertosaurus specimen collected by the Sternbergs!, working in Alberta, discovering a terrific Lambeosaurus skeleton, paleontologist Lawrence Lambe being honoured in Lambeosaurus' name, what else do you find amongst the dinosaurs out in the field?, field work in Egypt and finding a large, strange skull, a 4m long coelocanth!, could dinosaurs consume salt water?, studying ceratopsians, sauropods and hadrosaurs, discovering and naming the Avaceratops lammersi, writing The Dinosauria, marital faux-pas naming a dinosaur after a woman who isn't your wife!, naming Auroraceratops rogosus, protoceratopsid Magnirostris dodsoni being named after him, extinct frog Nezpercius dodsoni was named after him, too, the Judith River Formation, the impact of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and the fascinating revelation that we're learning about dinosaur colours, paleo proctology, and much more!
Bonus details include overhearing groceries being put away, my cat whining and distinctly audible thunder. Sorry about all that... I try my best. 
Plus dinosaur news about:
A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Volcanic temperature changes modulated volatile release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Sally Ride.  Outro: Shelter Dog.
The Text:
The Seventh Iteration, “Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
This week’s text is Destroying The World, spanning from pages 367– 369.
Synopsis:
Hammond believes they’ve saved the world by stopping the raptors from reaching the mainland, but Malcolm says that “life” would survive – that life finds a way to overcome all odds. “Life” is the greatest power; Hammond is deluded if he thinks otherwise. 
Discussions surround:
Life Finds a Way, Semantics, Power is Magic, Crichton Tropes 
Corrections:
I said Ernst Stromer was a paleontologist from the 1800s – which isn’t quite correct. Yes, he was born in 1886, but his work on Spinosaurus and his career as a paleontologist was spent almost entirely in the 1900s, including the famous trip the Bahariya Formation in 1910. So, he was a 20th century paleontologist whose magnum opus was certainly in the 1900s. I was incorrect in describing him as a paleontologist from the 1800s.
Also, I wondered if the expression “Crocodile Tears” may have come from crocodiles excreeting excess salt via tear ducts, and, upon looking into it, saltwater crocodiles are known to have tears which help rid them of the excess salt that they take in with their food.
Side effects: 
May cause nomenclaturial irony.
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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 novels, Eaters of the Dead, The Great Train Robbery, and Mike's list of his favourite books of all time: Lonsome Dove, Hyperion, Jurassic Park, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, Ender's Game, Fellowship of the Ring, A Storm of Swords, It and Dune! and much more!
You can find Mike at @MikesBookReviews on Facebook and YouTube, and @zepp1978 on Twitter and Instragram.
Plus dinosaur news about:
A new spinosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous of Cinctorres (Spain)
A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous ofChina fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Truth Time.  Outro: Toucans.
The Text:
This week’s text is Lodge, spanning from pages 350 – 359.
Synopsis:
Tim, Lex, Grant and Gennaro rush to the Control room to get the power back on! Tim takes control of the computer, racing and struggling with the system, while guided with information from Gennaro, to switch to main power, restore power and contact the Anne B.
Discussions surround:
Show, Don't Tell, Uniform Maritime Law, Contrivances in Plot, and Cliff Hangers.
Corrections:
 
Side effects: 
May cause voices to sound like they're coming through a tin-can telephone. 
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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, antipodes, When 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:
Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology
Reconstruction of oviraptorid clutches illuminates their unique nesting biology
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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 55 - The Grid

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, Jurassic Park as a cautionary tale, social media, following the white rabbit, analyzing Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie was way too good for Grant, the insane land of Wonderland, navigating Wonderland, satirizing Victorian institutions like the monarchy, writing subversive texts inside children's literature, Jurassic Park as a subversive text, and much more!
Her latest novel: 
You can order it here: Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club
Plus dinosaur news about:
Feather Quill Knobs in the Dinosaur Velociraptor 
Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Black Licorice.  Outro: Sally Ride.
The Text:
This week’s text is The Grid, spanning from pages 345 – 350.
Synopsis:
Tim struggles to get power restored, in order to save their friends in the Lodge, but three raptors leap up to the balcony and enter the second floor of the Visitor Center. Lex and Tim snag a key card from a dead security officer and escape into another room. 
Discussions surround:
The history of Error 404 File Not Found.
Corrections:
Side effects: 
May cause you to smell forest fires from hundreds of miles away. 
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 54 - Return Part 3

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 54 - Return Pt. 3.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Tom R. Holtz Jr. joins the show to chat with me about:
field work, Jane the teenaged T. rex, Bob Dylan's birthday, Jurassic Park's (1993) has its 30th anniversary coming out, Crichton and Speilberg's efforts to produce an authentic dinosaur experience, introducing velociraptors to the public, Jurassic Park's lasting power, depicting dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise, the most prolific element of set design ever, a world without extinction, fossil tyrannosaurs at auction actually attracting more money than black market clones in Fallen Kingdom, centrosaurines with holes in their frills, Patchy from Walking With Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University, overcoming challenges collecting data, processing fossilized pollen to recreate paleoecosystems, how to operate the Phylogenetic Analysis Machine, acquiring the Truth with a capital T, transgressing the Scientific Era into the New Paradigm, The Arctometatarsalian Condition, running theropods, and then we geek out over Tyrannosaurus, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals themorphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings
New data on Kansaignathus sogdianus, a dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Tajikistan
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Black Coffee.  Outro: Black Licorice.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Synopsis:
Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).
In this final installment, Grant and Gennaro make it back to the visitor center; Tim and Lex make it to Control; and Ellie escapes with her life. 
Discussions surround:
The Sixth Iteration, The Dinosaurs, Doing the Math, Park Management, Island Layout.
 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 53 - Return Part 2

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 53 - Return Pt. 2.
In this episode, my terrific guest Ali Nabavizadeh joins the show to chat with me about:
Kansas, Kansas Official State Land fossil Silvisaurus, Tylosaurus, Pteranodon, the bloat and float hypothesis, The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic Park, fascinating areas of contestation, paleoart, the novel Jurassic Park, Triceratops beaks, mouthes, tongues, jaw power, and their hypothetical behaviours, triceratops and tyrannosaurs squaring off against each other, a tribute to the recently retired Dr. Peter Dodson in a special issue of Anatomical Record, An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology by Dr. Dave Weishampel and Dr. Ali Nabavzadeh, huge hadrosaurs, dental batteries, clarifying a hadrosaur's teeth, inset teeth in ornithischians, hadrosaur beaks, sauropod bites and digestion, surprises at the beginning of the novel, and much more!
Plus dinosaur news about:
How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Chinese Cafe.  Outro: Black Coffee.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Synopsis:
In this second installment, Grant turns the generators back on and finds Gennaro! Wu gets eviscerated and Tim and Lex confront a raptor in the kitchen! 
Discussions surround:
Show don't tell, Something went wrong, similarities, and Hubris.
Corrections:
Side effects: 
May cause bloating and floating, and subsequently becoming depicted in paleoart. 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 52 - Return Part 1

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 52 - Return Pt. 1.
In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay return to the show to chat with me about:
what types of podcasts they'd host themselves, how to pronounce that thing at the Royal Ontario Museum (Futalognkosaurus?!), To me, it will always be the Subway $5 Foot-long o-saurus, Beloved by Toni Morrison, It by Stephen King, Dracula, The Third Policeman, Vanity Fair, comparing Michael Crichton to your favourite authors, relating to the characters in Jurassic Park, relating Henry Wu's death to "Glenn" from The Walking Dead, (yo, don't click that link unless you know what's coming!), Ellie Sattler as bait, Dr. Henry Wu's hubris, who should have been bait to lure the raptors away, the complexity of ecosystems, who is Ian Malcolm?, a Biblical influence on Western ideology, Crichton's voice via Malcolm, and much more!
How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.
The Text:
This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.
Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).
We’ll cover this in part three when there’s a bit more time available to us. 
Synopsis:
This chapter is huge – and so, please allow me to address this in portions, as we scheme to make this a multi-episode chapter. And indeed, it’s as consequential and meaningful as The Tour was, way back when we had to divide that chapter up into three parts.
In this first part: Grant drives back to the Visitor Center via the underground tunnel (p. 317), stashes the kids in the cafeteria at the visitor center, and then heads out to restore power at the generator shed. Meanwhile, Muldoon and Sattler conceive a plot to distract the raptors, ensuring Grant is free to move around.
But the raptors prove to be far more cunning than they could have imagined…
Discussions surround:
Timeline, Feminism, The Lodge, Contrivance in Plot, Park Management and the Island Layout. 
Corrections:
I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!
Side effects: 
May cause you to become incredibly famous. 
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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.
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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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Episode 51 - 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 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 pachycephalosaurinedinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buchholtzae)
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Shelter Dog.  Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.
The Text:
This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 298 – 314.
Synopsis:
While considering what to do with the tranquilized Tyrannosaur and boasting that full control has been restored to Jurassic Park, the auxiliary power runs out. As the power goes out, the waterfall is halted, and the electric door separating Grant from the kids is unlocked and opened.
Arnold and Wu review the system printout and sees that they’ve been running on auxiliary power since they reset the system back at 5:14 a.m. 
Discussions surround:
Doing the Math, Malcolm's History of the Western World, Timeline, Show, don't tell, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances of Plot, Movie Adaptations, Control is a Hoax, Hammond's Dream, and Island Layout.
Corrections:
I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!
Side effects: 
May cause your Leptoceratops to become a Kleptoceratops!
 
Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).
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! 
#JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton