Episode 56: Timeline (2003)
Screens of the Stone Age
English - July 23, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes - 53.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFilm Reviews TV & Film Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today we’re reviewing Timeline (2003), based on a Michael Crichton novel of the same name, in which archaeology and physics team up for wacky time travel shenanigans. Unfortunately we don’t know much about medieval France, but we do love our time travel movies. Except this one. This one is a stinker.
(Sorry for the audio clipping in this episode, but thank god for backup recordings!)
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In this episode:
Timeline by Michael Crichton: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7669
Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals (or did he?): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2274850/
The short story about guy that goes back in time and squashes a butterfly is A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder
Carbon Dating math: https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/36
Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army: https://www.chinahighlights.com/xian/terracotta-army/color.htm
Provenience in archaeology: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-6376-5_8
DNA transcription errors: https://gero.usc.edu/labs/vermulstlab/transcription-errors/
Monkey Dust - The Crusades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEVJ_48YgTg