Freegal at the Movies: “Jurassic Park Theme” by John Williams

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I’ve just been reading the book Frankenstein’s Cat by Emily Anthes, a book about how scientists are bioengineering animals. It can make a person disturbed and hopeful at the same time.

There’s creepy but noble: changing the genes in pig hearts so they can fill in for the shortage of human hearts available for transplant.

There’s creepy but cool: aquarium fish that glow bright colors because they have some jellyfish DNA.

Then there’s creepy and disturbing: a home kit that sells for $99.99 and allows any home enthusiast to take a living cockroach, thread silver wires down its antennae and make a do-it-yourself remote-control cockroach.

On a little more hopeful note, she points out that it’s still too difficult to clone dinosaur DNA because it degrades over time. So for now, at least, Jurassic Park is still science fiction.

This year is the 20^th anniversary, and Speilberg’s dinosaurs-gone-amok film is coming out in 3D IMAx, if you like your dinos that big and loud.

You can get the music from the soundtrack as a free download from Freegal. John Williams himself conducts the orchestra. There are also some nice piano renditions by Dan Redfeld.

And if you want to go the creepy-but-cool route, you can download the track of Weird Al Yankovic singing his song “Jurassic Park” to the tune of the uber-dramatic “MacArthur Park.”