Episode 56: Timeline (2003)

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!) Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] 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