Description

Boria Sax is an author and Adjunct Professor at Mercy College whose work focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world. He joins Fossils and Fiction for a discussion about his book Dinomania: Why we love, fear, and are utterly enchanted by dinosaurs.

Resources referenced in this episode:

1. Dinomania: Why we love, fear, and are utterly enchanted by dinosaurs (2018), by Boria Sax;
2. Avian Illuminations: A cultural history of birds (2021), by Boria Sax;
3. Jurassic Park (1993) by Michael Crichton;
4. Jurassic Park (1993) by Steven Spielberg;
5. Weird Studies, a podcast by Phil Ford and JR Martel;
6. Audio files of dinosaur and other Jurassic sounds by The Natural History Museum, London.

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