Episode 32 - 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 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, quoting Shakespeare, entrepreneurs making mistakes, Jimmy Wales starting Wikipedia, Canada stops Harvard's oncomouse in its tracks, Cannabis retailers, Quebec separatism, Jeremy Rifkin, Bitcoin, incarcerating dinosaurs, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina
• Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) dinosaur nesting colony preserved in abandoned crevasse splay deposits, Wi Island, South Korea

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire - Cat in the Brain.  Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 160-166.

Synopsis:

Park officials believe the eggshells are avian, whereas Grant and Malcolm agree, they are dinosaur eggshells. To prove his point, Malcolm leads Wu through a series of data like procompsognathus height charts and an overall animal count, to demonstrate conclusively that multiple species are breeding in the park and have been for ages.

Wu can’t believe it – and is terrified: if the animals are breeding, it calls into question every security measure they’ve put in place! Grant concludes there are seven nesting sites on the island.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Children of the 80s and Building a Mystery.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to transgress against the new law that it is now illegal to be bitten by a dinosaur.  

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Thank you!

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