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The Common Descent Podcast

Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World (4/5)

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of 5! Our Jurassic Park review series is almost done! All month, we’ve been re-watching the movies and chatting about the science in a series of “science reviews.” How do these movies handle such subjects as prehistoric creatures, the science of paleontology, and the portrayal of scientists? In this episode, the complex – and controversial – franchise revival: Jurassic World (2015). Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent podcast.

0:05.7

But we digress.

0:08.0

Hello Will.

0:09.2

Hello, David.

0:10.6

Hello again, listeners, and welcome to part four of our five-part Jurassic Park franchise mini-series

0:18.7

science talking about the science of the movies in the series.

0:23.8

Every Saturday in June.

0:25.4

That was our Rick and Morty opening.

0:27.0

Yes, it was.

0:27.6

It was very Rick and Morty.

0:29.6

Every Saturday in June, we have been releasing discussions where we're talking about

0:36.0

the science of the Jurassic Park films set to culminate

0:40.6

with our impressions of Jurassic World's Fallen Kingdom at the end of the month.

0:45.7

We are reviewing the films not as film critics, for we are not film experts, but as science

0:51.6

critics and science experts, not just the nitpicky stuff, but the

0:55.9

broad concepts.

0:57.5

Where do these films fit in that grand discussion of the intersection of science and pop

1:03.3

culture?

1:04.4

Today, we are on the fourth movie.

1:07.6

There was a big break.

1:08.4

There was a big old break.

1:09.1

Yeah, a long time in between.

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