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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 29 “Breeding Sites” (Pages 192 – 205)

This chapter, the final pat of ‘third iteration’ really kicks off the action. The kids see velociraptors on the boat heading to the mainland. Nedry steals the dinosaur embryos, releasing a computer virus to cover his tracks. The virus shuts … Continue reading

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 28 “Control” [5/12] (Pages 186 – 192) Poisson vs Gaussian Distribution?

Crichton has confidence in the technical literacy of his reader – as shown by the eleven tables / exhibits he uses in this chapter alone. These are data tables made to look as if they were cut-copy-pasted straight from an … Continue reading

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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 27 “Stegosaur” (Pages 179 – 186) – “Life finds a way.”

The Jurassic Park film has no stegosaur – instead the sick animal is played by a young triceratops. Stegosaurs do make an appearance in The Lost World movie. Here the ailing stegosaur gives us another glimpse at Hammond’s over confidence, … Continue reading

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