Nature Extra: Backchat June 2015
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🗓️ 23 June 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Backchat, the newer, friendlier, only sometimes louder and more hysterical sibling of The Nature Podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | We are the Jurassic World to the Nature Podcast's 1990s Jurassic Park. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Kerry Smith and joining me in the studio, I have Ewan Callaway, regular Backchat contributor. |
| 0:17.4 | Hi, Ewan. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, I'm a reporter at Nature. |
| 0:19.6 | I cover human evolution, ancient DNA and this week buildings. Also, Ewan. Hey, I'm a reporter at Nature. I cover human evolution, ancient DNA, |
| 0:21.9 | and this week, Buildings. Also, Henry G. joins us. I'm a back-half nature editor covering |
| 0:29.2 | paleontology, aliens from outer space and other good things. And on the line from Washington, D.C., |
| 0:36.5 | Rich Monastersky joins us. Hi, Rich. Hi. I'm a features |
| 0:39.4 | editor at Nature in Washington, and I edit stories mainly on Earth Sciences. Sometimes I have |
| 0:45.2 | the delight of editing Ewan. Excellent. Now, coming up in the show, I've already dropped you a hint. |
| 0:50.2 | Jurassic World came out earlier this month, and I've amassed, obviously, my three favorite paleontology fans from within nature to get their take on the film. |
| 0:58.6 | And as well as ancient dinosaurs, we'll also be talking about ancient humans. |
| 1:02.9 | So first, Jurassic World, I was going to insert the theme tune here, but I don't know if it's copyright. |
| 1:07.4 | So do anyone want to sing it? |
| 1:09.0 | It's really hummed. Actually, I can't. |
| 1:10.6 | You can't remember it? Yeah, Henry, do you know? I did, because my |
| 1:13.5 | daughter's been playing it on her saxophone incessantly, but the moment you asked me to sing it, |
| 1:18.8 | I've completely forgotten it. |
| 1:24.0 | There you go. Yeah, that's it. Well, the film came out this month across the globe. |
| 1:28.8 | There may be plot spoilers, by the way, in this episode. |
| 1:31.3 | So skip onwards to roughly 12 minutes, 13 minutes in if you haven't seen the film yet, |
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