# Michael Crichton

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A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford

What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Cri…

A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford

What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Cri…

Jurassic Park - Chekov’s Armoury Simply Loaded With Dinosaurs

This week, we’re heading to Isla Nublar to talk about Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. While most people know the film, the novel is a very different beast—darker, more suspenseful, and packed with fascinating ideas about science, technology, and what happens when human ambition gets carried away…

You Trust AI Most Where You Know The Least

"Verify the output" is the standard advice for using AI responsibly. It quietly assumes you'd recognize a wrong answer, and outside your own field you usually can't. Aaron makes the case with three witnesses: Michael Crichton's 2002 description of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, software writer Gerg…

What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?

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Movie Meltdown - Episode 647 Join us for a prehistoric-packed episode as we welcome special guest "Dino" Don Lessem. He is an author, journalist, and was a scientific advisor for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park! Not to mention building giant, robotic dinosaurs, befriending Michael Crichton and hav…

Timeline (2003) — "Then history will change."

Michael Crichton spent his career turning big science ideas into page-turners, and Timeline was supposed to be the next Jurassic Park. Richard Donner's 2003 adaptation sends a group of archaeology students, led by Paul Walker and Gerard Butler, back to 14th-century France through a quantum device b…

NO CHEF: Italian Chef Fired For Refusing To Make a Pineapple Pizza

Italian chef Davide Tamburella says he lost his job after refusing to make pineapple pizza, arguing it violated Italian culinary tradition. His former employer says the issue was about serving customers and following instructions. Either way, the decades-old pineapple-on-pizza debate has now made i…

Westworld: Sex Machines

ep. 63: Brittany is repulsed by robot love. Brendan forgets how much Brittany wants to rob a bank. The two plan a trip to Medieval Times. Our first movie for This Became A Show is Westworld (1973). You can e-mail us at hello@blackandwhitemovienight.com. -Music: Brendan and Brittany -Credits for …

Congo (part 1)

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What happens when a grounded Michael Crichton techno-thriller is transformed into a 1995 camp spectacle featuring a martini-sipping gorilla? We dive into the wild world of Congo, where scientific realism takes a backseat to diamond-powered laser cannons and talking apes. We explore the fifteen-year…

Jurassic Park: Book vs Movie – What Did Spielberg Change? | Fantasy Classics Book Club

Yes, Jurassic Park was a book first! On today's Roundtable episode, we revisit the blockbuster dinosaur franchise and the Michael Crichton book that inspired it. We break down the biggest differences between the book and the film, and we discuss how the themes of human ambition and scientific respo…