What the well-known novel and movie have to say about science, ethics, epistemology, and hubris.

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (and the movie!)

Show Notes Things mentioned on the show * Media OS—see TVTropes’ “Extreme Graphical Representation” for many examples. * The Expanse + TV series overview + book series overview + Caliban’s War: the book in which “complex simple systems” appear * Nuclear meltdowns + Three-Mile Island + Chernobyl + Fukushima

Upcoming books Note that we’ve ended up changing plans since we recorded our Kurzweil episodes! We originally planned to read Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, but decided to talk about our “background” reading so far!

• June: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein
• July: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Brown

Music * “Achime” by TENGGER * “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho

Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:

• Daniel Ellcey
• Douglas Campos
• Jake Grant
• Marnix Klooster
• Spencer Smith

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