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Episode 425 - "How jiggly are your bits?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0500

What is temperature? Why do we care? Where did all of these temperature scales come from? This week, we find out!

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Di Lorenzo, Emilia, et al. "Periodic cooking of eggs." Communications Engineering 4.1 (2025): 1-10.

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Episode 424 - "Aunt Betty" Liquefaction

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0500

This week it's all about liquefaction as we explore why some caskets are above ground and how some cars get half way buried.

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Can creatively shaped pasta fold itself when cooked?
Tao, Ye, et al. "Morphing pasta and beyond." Science Advances 7.19 (2021): eabf4098.

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Episode 423 - "The rumors of our death"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:00:00 -0500

We are back after a very challenging 2025 but don't panic - there is a plan!

Fun Paper Friday

Taloni, Andrea, Vincenzo Scorcia, and Giuseppe Giannaccare. "Large language model advanced data analysis abuse to create a fake data set in medical research." JAMA ophthalmology 141.12 (2023): 1174-1175.

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Episode 422 - "Melissa"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0500

We're still here - it has just been a very difficult time, but this week we're talking about Hurricane Melissa and Halloween Candy!

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Trick or Treat! Maybe it should be Treat or Toy? Find out in this week's Fun Paper!
Schwartz, Marlene B., Eunice Y. Chen, and Kelly D. Brownell. "Trick, treat, or toy: children are just as likely to choose toys as candy on Halloween." Journal of nutrition education and behavior 35.4 (2003): 207-209.

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Episode 421 - "Come work for you"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:00:00 -0400

This week, we chat about our GEARS workshop that recently wrapped up, how it has evolved, and how it went!

GEARS Workshop

Fun Paper Friday

Hejnol, Andreas, and Mark Q. Martindale. "The mouth, the anus, and the blastopore—open questions about questionable openings." Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils, and Trees (2009): 33-40.

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Episode 420 - "Tourist Destination" Kamchatka Earthquake

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:00:00 -0400

This week we are back and discussing the recent large earthquake in Russia!

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Is that viral video of a fault rupture form a security camera real? This paper checks it out.
Kearse, Jesse, and Yoshihiro Kaneko. "Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video During the 2025 M w 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake." The Seismic Record 5.3 (2025): 281-288.

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Episode 419 - "Diamonds Everywhere" A States

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0400

We're hitting the open road — geologically speaking. This episode kicks off our new state-by-state series covering the most fascinating, scenic, or just plain weird geologic stops in the U.S. We’re going alphabetically (because of course we are), starting with Alabama, Alaska, and Arkansas. Some sites we've visited, others are firmly on our dream list, but every pick is guaranteed to bring a bit of science to your next adventure.

Alabama

Cheaha Mountain
Cathedral Caverns

Alaska

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Mendenhall Glacier

Arkansas

Crater of Diamonds State Park
Blanchard Springs Caverns

Fun Paper Friday

Frost, Mungo, et al. "Diamond precipitation dynamics from hydrocarbons at icy planet interior conditions." Nature astronomy 8.2 (2024): 174-181.

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Episode 418 - "I like the crystal habit"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0400

What makes a mineral a favorite? In this fun and down-to-earth episode, John and Shannon swap stories about the minerals they love most — and why. Along the way, they unpack cool crystal habits, formation environments, fieldwork memories, and the aesthetic appeal of minerals from museum specimens to muddy boots.

Shannon shares her appreciation for:

Hematite – With its metallic luster and planetary significance.
Goethite – A subtle but important iron oxide-hydroxide.
Smithsonite – Beautiful colors and a fascinating history in ore geology.

John counters with:
Ulexite – “TV rock,” with fiber-optic properties that never fail to wow.
Uraninite – A dense, radioactive reminder of geologic power and energy.
Tourmaline – A colorful, complex favorite of mineral collectors and scientists alike.

Fun Paper Friday

James, C. W., et al. "A nanosecond-duration radio pulse originating from the defunct Relay 2 satellite." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 987.1 (2025): L16.

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Episode 417 - "Who are you?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:15:00 -0400

We're back from summer break - Shannon taught field camp, John travelled for work and got hailed on, and more!

John’s Hail Storm

Fun Paper Friday

How does modern AI stack up against a cognition test designed for humans?
Dayan, Roy, Benjamin Uliel, and Gal Koplewitz. "Age against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairment: cross sectional analysis." bmj 387 (2024).

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Episode 416 - "Life is a Physics Exam"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:45:00 -0400

This week we talk about how we power our instruments in the field and all of the weird and wonderful ways they fail. Including getting turned into charcoal by lightning!

Fun Paper Friday

Why does ketchup splatter? Find out!
Arstechnica Article
Cuttle, Callum, and Christopher W. MacMinn. "Dynamics of compression-driven gas-liquid displacement in a capillary tube." Physical Review Letters 130.11 (2023): 114001.

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Episode 415 - "Fiat 500 Volcanic Bomb"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0400

This week we talk hail, Vesuvius, volcanic bombs, and vitrified brains.

Scandone, Roberto, Lisetta Giacomelli, and Mauro Rosi. "Death, Survival and Damage during the 79 AD Eruption of Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum." J. Res. Didact. Geogr 2 (2019): 5-30.

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An amazing new finding shows that brains were vitrified or turned to glass during the nearly 2000 year old eruption of Vesuvius.
Giordano, Guido, et al. "Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE." Scientific Reports 15.1 (2025): 5955.
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Episode 414 - "Closed Because of Landslide"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Shannon's class took a trip to study catestrophic sedimentation... and they found it! John switched back to a Mac after 5 years. Join us for these and other exciting updates!

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Find out how alcohol and an eye puffer machine cominbed with magnets can teach us about where our motor skills reside in the brain.
Johansson, Fredrik, et al. "Alcohol impairs learning and timing of conditioned eyeblink responses." Brain Research 1854 (2025): 149545.

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Episode 413 - "Waterfalls I Have Loved"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0400

Turner Falls, Oklahoma
- A rare waterfall that grows outward due to travertine deposition instead of eroding backward.
- Formed by spring-fed Honey Creek flowing through Ordovician limestone, creating massive travertine deposits.
Pe'ePe'e Falls, Hawai'i (Big Island)
- ~80 ft falls in downtown Hilo, part of the Wailuku River flowing between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
- Carved into 10,000-year-old lava flows with subsequent flows creating the Boiling Pots — vertical and horizontal lava tubes.
- Extremely dangerous, especially after storms — known as the deadliest water in Hawai'i.
Cataratas do Iguaçu, Brazil/Argentina
- Largest waterfall system in the world, spanning the Argentina-Brazil border.
- Name means "Big Water" in Guarani.
- Upstream from the Itaipu Dam, which generates most of Paraguay’s electricity.
- Itaipu — the 3rd largest hydroelectric plant globally and 2nd in power output.
Bonus Waterfalls Mentioned:
- Cascata delle Marmore, Italy – Ancient Roman-engineered waterfall.
- Natural Falls - West Siloam Springs, OK
- Devil’s Kettle, Minnesota – Mysterious waterfall where water seems to disappear underground.

Fun Paper Friday

What can spacecraft learn from cats?
Zhang, Li, et al. "Analysis of Cushioned Landing Strategies of Cats Based on Posture Estimation." Biomimetics 9.11 (2024): 691.

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Episode 412 - "Unpopular Flavor of Capri Sun"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about snow forecasting as the winter season starts to wrap up and try to figure out if you're really happier in the morning or not!

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Episode 411 - "TSA Does Not Care About Your Data "

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:00:00 -0500

Ever wondered how geologists figure out when a landslide happened? Or how ancient river terraces and glacial deposits get dated? This week, we dive into the detective work behind dating geomorphic features! 🌍🔬 From tree rings to cosmic rays, we explore the fascinating methods geologists use to reconstruct Earth’s history and assess natural hazards.

Why Dating Landslides and Other Features is Hard
- Landslides can reactivate multiple times, fluvial deposits get reworked, and glacial features have complex histories.
- What are we really dating—the event, the material, or the last exposure?
Dating Techniques in Geology
- Dendrochronology 🌲 – Tree rings reveal landslides, floods, and debris flows.
- Radiocarbon Dating 💀 – Organic material like charcoal and buried soil horizons provide time markers.
- Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) 🌞 – Measures when quartz grains were last exposed to sunlight.
- Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating ☄️ – Tracks surface exposure using cosmic rays.
- Other Methods – Lichen growth, volcanic ash layers, and earthquake trenching.

Fun Paper Friday

Ever wondered if your favorite neon-orange snack has hidden superpowers? This study explores how strongly absorbing molecules, like those found in food dyes, can reduce light scattering in biological tissues—making them temporarily more transparent! Researchers applied tartrazine (a common food coloring) to live mice and were able to see internal structures like blood vessels without invasive procedures. The discovery could improve biomedical imaging, but we’re mostly just fascinated that Dorito dust might have unexpected side effects!
Ou, Zihao, et al. "Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules." Science 385.6713 (2024): eadm6869.

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Episode 410 - "GEARS OIL UTEP"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:00:00 -0500

We just wrapped up our first-ever on-site GEARS Workshop at UTEP and it was a massive success! 🎉 Tune in as we break down the highlights, what we learned, and how this hands-on geoscience training is evolving for the future.

Fun Paper Friday

Can paranormal lights actually be tied to earthquakes?
Hough, Susan E. "Haunted Summerville: Ghostly Lights or Earthquake Lights?."

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Episode 409 - "Resolutions"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0500

This week, it's time for our 2025 resolutions show, where we see how we can improve this year and discuss everything that's changed in the past year!

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We are all overloaded with surveys and requests, but can a chocolate bar increase the response rates?
Jamtvedt, Gro, et al. "Chocolate bar as an incentive did not increase response rate among physiotherapists: a randomised controlled trial." BMC research notes 1 (2008): 1-4.

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Episode 408 - "Everywhere there's cottonwood trees"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0500

This week we wrap up our finding faults show started oh so long ago! Learn how to identify faults in the field and then relax with a coffee with a physicist! A perfectly spherical coffee on a frictionless plane that is!

Fun Paper Friday

Bossart, Aleksi, Romain Fleury, and Benjamin Apffel. "Science of a coffee cup: a physicist walks into a bar..." arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01180 (2025).

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Episode 407 - "If you like dragons, that's important to you" Joshua Pearce

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:00:00 -0500

This week, we’re thrilled to welcome Joshua Pearce to the show! We dive into the world of open-source hardware for academic labs, the challenges and rewards of open-sourcing projects, and the exciting opportunities it creates for researchers and the general public alike. Tune in for a fascinating discussion about innovation, making, and the future of accessible technology!

Joshua Pearce

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This Study Was Hailed as a Win for Science Reform. Now It’s Being Retracted.

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Episode 406 - "Taking in all the really interesting things"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:00:00 -0500

Shannon went to AGU and we're updated on the meeting and what cool new science things she saw!

Fun Paper Friday

He, Yu, et al. "Superionic iron alloys and their seismic velocities in Earth’s inner core." Nature 602.7896 (2022): 258-262.

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Episode 405 - "Getting Tensor"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:00:00 -0500

Faults are fractures in the Earth's crust where movement has occurred, creating features that are critical to understanding geological processes. In this episode, we explore how to recognize fault zones in the field, examine their widths at different depths, and analyze the breakage patterns and deformation features that define them.

Definition of faults and why they matter in geological studies: USGS - Earthquake Glossary
Importance of identifying faults for earthquake research and infrastructure planning: Seismic Hazard and Risk - IRIS
- Indicators such as fault scarps, offset layers, and linear valleys: Geology.com - Recognizing Faults
- Explanation of slickensides and fault breccia: Fault Surface Features - ScienceDirect
- How vegetation and water accumulation signal fault traces: Hydrology and Fault Zones - Nature
- Observing stratigraphic offsets and deformation in rock layers: Structural Geology Basics - USGS
- Characteristics of shattered rock zones and mylonites: Mylonites in Fault Zones - Geological Society
- Narrow zones in brittle rocks vs. wider zones in thrust faults: Fault Zone Width Variability - ResearchGate
- Examples of strike-slip vs. thrust faults: Geological Features of Faults - Springer
- Discussion of fault core and damage zone broadening: Deep Fault Zones - ScienceDirect
- How depth impacts fault geometry: Fault Depth Behavior - Wiley Online
- Fault breccia and gouge as indicators of brittle behavior: Fault Breccia Properties - GeoscienceWorld
- Hazards like landslides and slope instability: Fault Zone Hazards - USGS

Fun Paper Friday

Are those Christmas puddings good for you?
Wallach, Joshua D., et al. "Association of health benefits and harms of Christmas dessert ingredients in recipes from The Great British Bake Off: umbrella review of umbrella reviews of meta-analyses of observational studies." bmj 383 (2023). ## Contact us:

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Episode 404 - "So Many Paperclips"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:00:00 -0500

Lithium, often called "white gold," is a critical resource powering modern technologies like electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energy storage, and more. This week, we explore lithium's geological formation, mining, processing, and its growing importance in the energy revolution. We also dive into exciting developments in Arkansas, which could make the U.S. a major player in domestic lithium production.

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Can geomagnetic storms change flight characteristics and drag on satellites? This week we find out.
Parker, William E., and Richard Linares. "Satellite Drag Analysis During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08617 (2024).

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Episode 403 - "My Dad Caught my Mom's Pants on Fire"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:00:00 -0500

Gold has been a symbol of wealth, beauty, and power for millennia, but its importance extends far beyond jewelry and currency. From its formation deep in the Earth’s crust to its critical uses in electronics, medicine, and aerospace, this episode explores the fascinating journey of gold and why it continues to captivate us today.

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Can pee be used to 3D print homes on the moon?
Pilehvar, Shima, et al. "Utilization of urea as an accessible superplasticizer on the moon for lunar geopolymer mixtures." Journal of Cleaner Production 247 (2020): 119177.

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Episode 402 - "Shoes in a dryer on turbo"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0500

Ever wondered how silver journeys from ancient rock formations to the tech in your pocket? In this episode of Don't Panic Geocast, we dig deep into the fascinating world of silver—the metal that's shaped economies, inspired legends, and powers modern technology. From its formation in Earth’s crust to the precise science of extraction and refining, we’ll explore how silver’s unique properties make it indispensable in everything from solar panels to medical tools. Tune in to learn why this shiny element is more valuable—and more complicated—than you might think!

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Can seeing a bad (dad) joke actually make you funnier? This week’s Fun Paper Friday dives into the surprising effects of both funny and unfunny examples on our ability to create humor. It turns out that even groan-worthy jokes can fuel creativity—though they might make you work harder for the punchline!
Shin, Hyelim, et al. "Creative fixation is no laughing matter: The effects of funny and unfunny examples on humor production." The Journal of Creative Behavior 54.2 (2020): 487-494.

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Episode 401 - "I fell into a lot of bogs"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0500

This week, we dive into the fascinating world of coal—its origins, types, and the role it has played in shaping economies, past and present. We discuss coal’s formation in ancient swampy environments, the journey from mining to electricity generation, and the transition we’re witnessing as the world moves toward renewable energy sources. We wrap up with a Fun Paper Friday that challenges the classic "Infinite Monkeys Theorem"—could monkeys really type out Shakespeare if given enough time?

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Can monkeys really type out Shakespeare? This study explores the probability of typing coherent text with a finite number of monkeys and limited time. Spoiler: even with thousands of monkeys, the odds are astronomically low, revealing the true limits of randomness.
Woodcock, Stephen, and Jay Falletta. "A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem." Franklin Open (2024): 100171.

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Episode 400 - "Mushroom Cloud of Salt"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:00:00 -0400

Throughout human history, certain minerals have held immense power, shaping economies, societies, and entire civilizations. In this economic rocks series, John and Shannon discuss how essential minerals like salt, gold, and coal influenced historical events and continue to impact modern geopolitics. This week we start with salt and how it is essential to many aspects of our day to day.

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History of Salt in Ancient Civilizations - Learn how salt became an essential part of trade, diet, and religion in ancient China, Egypt, and Rome:contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}.
The Role of Salt in the Roman Empire - Discover how the Roman Empire used salt as currency and a political tool to control its territories:contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}.
The Impact of the Salt Trade in West Africa - Learn how salt was traded for gold and helped build the Ghana and Mali empires, creating a network of trade routes that shaped the region’s history:contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}.

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This week's Fun Paper Friday features a study on the leaf-mimicking abilities of Boquila trifoliolata. The vine is capable of changing the shape and size of its leaves to resemble those of neighboring plants, potentially as a form of camouflage against herbivores. But the most surprising part? It can even mimic artificial plastic leaves. This finding challenges existing theories that leaf mimicry is driven solely by chemical signaling or genetic exchange between plants, suggesting instead that Boquila may possess a form of plant vision through specialized light-sensitive cells called “plant ocelli.” This discovery opens new possibilities for understanding plant sensory and adaptive behaviors.

White, J., & Yamashita, F. (2022). Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 17(1), e1977530.

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Episode 399 - "We would have already sacrificed some people"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:00 -0400

In our 400th episode, we take a moment to reflect on some of our favorite past episodes and Fun Paper Fridays that have brought joy, knowledge, and a good laugh to the show. From memorable guests to quirky science papers, this episode is a tribute to everything that makes the Don't Panic Geocast special. Join us for this nostalgia-packed episode where we look back at the highlights of 399 episodes!

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Episode 398 - "Are you going to take our jobs?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0400

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into academic research and writing, offering a range of tools that can help streamline workflows, enhance creativity, and improve productivity. In this episode, John and Shannon dive into some of the AI tools they’ve been experimenting with and discuss broader questions about fairness, disclosure, and the evolving role of AI in academia.

Elsevier’s Policy on Generative AI in Writing
Research Rabbit - AI-powered tool for literature discovery.
GitHub Co-pilot - AI coding assistant.
Elicit - AI for automating literature reviews and generating research insights.
Magic To-Do - AI-based task management tool.
Autodraw - AI-powered drawing tool.

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So if AI takes over the world, what would it take to destory it? A solar flare should do it, and maybe us, in.

The superstorms from space that could end modern life

Episode 397 - "Terps"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0400

This week, we delve into the fascinating world of the ancient dwelling mounds—terps—of the northern Netherlands. These man-made mounds served as elevated homes for communities living in low-lying, flood-prone areas. Join us as we explore the geology of these mounds, why they were essential for survival, and how modern technology is used to monitor soil subsidence and preserve these unique archaeological sites.

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Wierdenland Museum: Information about the museum and its exhibits on dwelling mounds.
Late-Holocene sea-level reconstruction and sedimentological data: An in-depth academic article on the evolution of the coastal landscape and sea-level changes influencing terp construction.

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In this episode’s Fun Paper Friday, we discuss B.F. Skinner’s “Pigeons in a Pelican.” The paper recounts the story of "Project Pigeon," a World War II experiment that explored using pigeons to guide missiles by pecking at visual targets. Though the project faced skepticism and was never implemented in combat, it highlighted the potential of animal training and laid a foundation for behaviorist research. The study is a testament to how creative ideas can push the boundaries of science, even if they seem outlandish at first.

Skinner, B. F. (1960). Pigeons in a Pelican.

Episode 396 - "Please Don't Call the FBI" GEARS 2024

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon summarize the GEARS 2024 workshop, lessons learned, and talk about a record air pressure that was just a fluke.

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Bureau of Meteorology says quality checks reveal air pressure record not broken, miscalculations published online

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Episode 395 - "Pressure Finds a Way"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Learn about the explosion at Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin site and what it means for the park. We also talk about drunk fruit flies and what they are teaching us about alcoholism.

Fun Paper Friday

Heberlein, Ulrike. "Genetics of alcohol-induced behaviors in Drosophila." Alcohol Research & Health 24.3 (2000): 185.

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Episode 394 - "Gates of Hell" Darvaza Gas Crater

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:00:00 -0400

This week we look at a geological oddity in Turkmenistan and see how getting a puppy can give you the blues.

Video of the Burning Crater

Fun Paper Friday

Ståhl, Aada, et al. "Development and validation of the puppy blues scale measuring temporary affective disturbance resembling baby blues." npj Mental Health Research 3.1 (2024): 27.

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Episode 393 - "Fujiwhara Effect!" Twisters Movie Review

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0400

We went to watch Twisters and review it from the standpoint of two people who have chased storms professionally. Also what do philosophers have to say about the original movie and its mythological reconsiliations?

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King, Geoff. "The scientist as pioneer hero: Hollywood's mythological reconciliations in twister and contact." Science as Culture 8.3 (1999): 371-379.

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Episode 392 - "Revisions"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about when and how things get revised from classes to papers to theories. Also we read a paper about a curious cure for poisoning.

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Sasanami, Misa, et al. "Oral ethanol treatment for ethylene glycol intoxication." Cureus 12.12 (2020).

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Episode 391 - "The Things We Take For Granted"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:00:00 -0400

This week we discuss JMARS and how you can explore the planets at home with just a few clicks of the mouse. Field camp is almost over and we'll be back to our regular shorts soon!

JMARS Site

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What happens when scientists look for a fast cup of cold brew coffee? Ultrasonic experiments of course!
Chiu, Shih-Hao, et al. "Coffee brewing sonoreactor for reducing the time of cold brew from several hours to minutes while maintaining sensory attributes." Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 106 (2024): 106885.

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Episode 390 - "Stretch Aquarium"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:00:00 -0400

What is a flume and how do sedimentologists used them to understand depositional systems? This and how likely you are to be bitten by a rattlesnake if you step on it in this summer's first Don't Panic Summer Short!

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Episode 389 - "FieldVolt"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:00:00 -0400

Stop losing power and data in the field. John and Shannon discuss the new FieldVolt open power standard.

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Dean, Isabelle, and Michael T. Siva-Jothy. "Human fine body hair enhances ectoparasite detection." Biology letters 8.3 (2012): 358-361.

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Episode 388 - "Screaming Eagle"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon talk about what some of the weird weather radar terms that get thrown around mean and how you can use them to keep up with storms impacting you. Then things get morbid with a mouse experiment that ended in an idiocrasy style extinction.

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Calhoun, John B. "Death squared: the explosive growth and demise of a mouse population." (1973): 80-88.

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Episode 387 - "Adorable Baby Drilling Rig"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0400

John went to the Geoprobe open house to look at drilling rigs and then we discuss the optimum way to plan a large number of Christmas parties.

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Grüneberg, Reuben. "Hospital Christmas parties." British Medical Journal 281.6256 (1980): 1667.

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Episode 386 - "Rock Colloid"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:00:00 -0400

What's tiny, rocky, and alive? Forams! Learn about forams and what diseases James Bond may get while traveling to study them.

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Graumans, Wouter, William JR Stone, and Teun Bousema. "No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents." Travel medicine and infectious disease 44 (2021): 102175.

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Episode 385 - "Father Sky Goes Away"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon both traveled to see the great eclipse of 2024 and share their experiences this week as well as talk about one of those rare times when ice is not a mineral.

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We always talk about ice being a mineral, but what about when it isn't?
Rosu-Finsen, Alexander, et al. "Medium-density amorphous ice." Science 379.6631 (2023): 474-478.

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Episode 384 - "Glaciers caused the great lakes, now we have them, the end" Alexis Dahl

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0400

This week we interview YouTube science creator, science writer, and communicator Alexis Dahl to learn about the rocks of Michigan's UP and how scientists can do a better job of sharing what they do.

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What should you drink after fondue to prevent "chesse baby" feelings?
Heinrich, Henriette, et al. "Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue: randomised controlled crossover trial." BMJ 341 (2010).

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Episode 383 - "Logarithmically Fades Away"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:00:00 -0400

This week we see how scientists break down the Earth into 7 or more spheres and why that is and isn't a good idea. We also explore a fun paper about graphene that is just full of crap.

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Graphene is an amazing material, but are all of the papers about it full of crap? This one certainly is!
Wang, Lu, Zdenek Sofer, and Martin Pumera. "Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?." ACS nano 14.1 (2020): 21-25.

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Episode 382 - "A world without attenuation would be unbearably noisy"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:00:00 -0400

What can we get from mining the moon? Should we? Who can do it? Why should we do it? That and more in this week's show!

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Do we live in 3D? Can you prove it?
Morley, Tom. "A simple proof that the world is three-dimensional." SIAM review 27.1 (1985): 69-71.

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Episode 381 - "Desk Sedimentology"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about new national parks, sticky notes, and empirical evidence about fly fishing.

Fun Paper Friday

Britton, B. J., J. Grimley Evans, and J. M. Potter. "Does the fly matter? The CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing." BMJ 317.7174 (1998): 1678-1680.

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Episode 380 - "Flame out like a bolide"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about how rocks get magnetic field imparted to them and if scientists are really discovering anything new these days.

Fun Paper Friday

Park, Michael, Erin Leahey, and Russell J. Funk. "Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time." Nature 613.7942 (2023): 138-144.

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Episode 379 - "How would you like to buy Brunton?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0500

This week we're rejoined by the Heerschaps to learn about how they came to own and run Brunton and what's next for the company that is a staple of the geological, recreational, and military navigation world.

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This week's fun paper may make you think before saying "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"
Finsterer, Josef. "Earl Grey tea intoxication." The Lancet 359.9316 (2002): 1484.

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Episode 378 - "I love the font"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -0500

We generally don't think of sedimentary rocks when we think of volcanoes, but they are real! Find out why sedimentologists don't have to be bored in volcanic terranes.

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Torres-Company, Victor. "One ring to multiplex them all." Nature 546.7657 (2017): 214-215.

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Episode 377 - "Definitely Panic - Another Oklahoma Earthquake"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -0500

Oklahoma was rocked by another relatively large earthquake for a mid-continent region. We break it down, compare it to the 2011 earthquake and then talk about the hairy ball theorem.

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McGrath, Peter. "An extremely short proof of the hairy ball theorem." The American Mathematical Monthly 123.5 (2016): 502-503.

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Episode 376 - "Got to get those pizza ovens hot"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:00:00 -0500

This week we tackle the controversial topic of fracking. Learn about how it works and what it does to help get oil and gas out of the ground and into your home.

Fun Paper Friday

Seo, Ki‐Weon, et al. "Drift of Earth's pole confirms groundwater depletion as a significant contributor to global sea level rise 1993–2010." Geophysical Research Letters 50.12 (2023): e2023GL103509.

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Episode 375 - "Squeeze it shut"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 07:00:00 -0500

This week we keep talking about wells. It's all about casing, cementing, bottom hole assemblies, and wet underwear.

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Bakkevig, Martha Kold, and Ruth Nielsen. "Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort in the cold." Ergonomics 37.8 (1994): 1375-1389.

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Episode 374 - "Until you Lick It"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:00:00 -0500

How do you drill a hole in the ground? Turns out that drilling wells is more complicated than you might think!

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“Eating Fossils,” Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017.

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Episode 373 - "Tastes like Animal Crackers"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:30:00 -0500

This show got stuck in processing before sabbatical and did not automatically release, but here it is!

This week we range over several topics on our minds while testing out english biscuits per a fun paper a few weeks ago. Also - do cats understand you but just don't care?

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Do cats understand you, but just not care?
Saito, Atsuko, et al. "Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words." Scientific Reports 9.1 (2019): 5394.

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Episode 372 - "The Rumors of My Death" 2024 Resolutions

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:00:00 -0500

We're back for the 2024 season after our first ever sabbatical and we're ready to talk science, resolutions, and barbie.

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Klamer, Katherine. "Analysis of Barbie medical and science career dolls: descriptive quantitative study." bmj 383 (2023).

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Episode 371 - "Have you tried licking it?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about mudrock - which sounds pretty self explanatory, but of course geologists have made a complex classification scheme around it. Also we delve into if you should "sleep on it" when making big decisions.

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Should you sleep on it when making an important decision?
Dijksterhuis, Ap, et al. "On making the right choice: The deliberation-without-attention effect." Science 311.5763 (2006): 1005-1007.

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Episode 370 - "Siliceous Ooze"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0400

We said if you just pick up a rock, it is probably chert. How does this pervasive rock form? I mean we should have a good idea, right?

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Time for tea and biscuits... and science.
Jones, Ceri, and John Francis. "Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): biscuit based comparative study." bmj 379 (2022).

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Episode 369 - "Collect data in the field, do science at home"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0400

It takes a lot to plan field work, no matter if it is a day rock hounding or a week in the deep field. This week we talk about what you need to know!

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You Can Just Put Up a Poster at IMCL and Nobody Will Stop You

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Episode 368 - "It is Chert"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0400

You walk outside and find a rock - what is it? Well, that's probably a difficult answer. Also, how round are electrons and how do you even measure that?

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Episode 367 - "Summer Break"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:00:00 -0400

Classes are about to start, so let's grab some gear and get to work!

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What do grapes and microwaves have to do with advanced physics? Find out in this week's Fun Paper!
Khattak, Hamza K., Pablo Bianucci, and Aaron D. Slepkov. "Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116.10 (2019): 4000-4005.
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Episode 366 - "I Didn't Blow Away"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:00:00 -0400

This summer while Shannon has been at field camp we took a short hiatus, but we're back! Find out what happened with camp and more as well as what happens when you drop a spinning bottle of water.

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Ehrenstein, David. "Controlling the Bounce of a Bottle." Physics 16 (2023): 102.

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Episode 365 - Salinity Crisis "Smoking Various Meats and WWII"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:45:00 -0400

This week we talk about the Messinian Salinity Crisis and if your mom was right about cracking your knuckles.

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Does cracking your knuckles destory your joints, improve joint health, or neither? Find out how one man has experiented on himself to find a potential answer.
Unger, Donald L. "Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?." Arthritis & Rheumatism: Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology 41.5 (1998): 949-950.

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Episode 364 - Geology of War "I'm glad I listen to this podcast"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:00:00 -0400

Join us as we explore how the intricate interplay between geology and military strategy has shaped history. We unravel the secrets behind the terrain's influence on battles, from its impact on troop movements to the potential for fortifications and natural defenses. Additionally, we investigate an intriguing question: What type of rock is the deadliest? We are astonished by the unexpected ways in which geology has played a pivotal role in shaping the destiny of nations in times of war.

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Don't play with your food - unless it is to write a paper on fluid mechanics *Mathijssen, Arnold JTM, et al. "Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science." arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12128 (2022).

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Episode 363 - "National Natural Landmark"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:00:00 -0400

In this episode of the Don't Panic Geocast podcast, we continue our exploration of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, immersing ourselves in its stunning landscapes and geological wonders. From glacial features to ancient river valleys, each step along the trail reveals new marvels waiting to be discovered. In the "Fun Paper Friday" segment, we dive into the intriguing world of gas marbles, unraveling their peculiar properties and potential applications.

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Roux, Aymeric, Alexis Duchesne, and Michael Baudoin. "Everlasting bubbles and liquid films resisting drainage, evaporation, and nuclei-induced bursting." Physical Review Fluids 7.1 (2022): L011601.

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Episode 362 - "A lot of gray area in geology"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:00:00 -0400

In this episode of the Don't Panic Geocast, we dive into the fascinating world of dolomite, a mineral that is commonly found in sedimentary rocks. They discuss the unique characteristics of dolomite and the different ways in which it is formed. We also highlight a fun paper on equine dietary preferences, which explores the food choices of horses in different environments. The paper reveals interesting insights into the feeding habits of horses and how they adapt to different conditions

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Goodwin, Deborah, Pat Harris, and Nell Davidson. "Behaviour of stabled horses presented with foraging devices in mangers and buckets." (2005): 96.

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Episode 361 - "No Ice Other than in Tea" Ice Age Trail Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon are embarrassed to learn about a "new" national park - the Ice Age National Scenic Trail!

Ice Age Trail

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How can invisible creatures make their eyes invisible? What about their blood? What's going on in the ocean?
Feller, Kate, and Megan Porter. "Photonic tinkering in the open ocean." Science 379.6633 (2023): 643-644.

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Episode 360 - "Third and Fourth Order Nonsense" Lane's Balance

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:00:00 -0400

This week we dive into rivers and what makes them erode, deposit, move and more using an engineering concept called Lane's balance.

River Dynamics Fact Sheet

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Lasers, high speed cameras, lightning, radio observations, and electric fields. It doesn't get better than this!
Houard, Aurélien, et al. "Laser-guided lightning." Nature Photonics (2023): 1-5.

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Episode 359 - "Standing Around Staring"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:00:00 -0400

We've been off air for a bit due to a giant move! Find out more!

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Have we been leaving more that footprints on Mt. Everest? What about other planets?
Humans are leaving behind a 'frozen signature' of microbes on Mount Everest
Nicholas B. Dragone, L. Baker Perry, Adam J. Solon, Anton Seimon, Tracie A. Seimon, Steven K. Schmidt. Genetic analysis of the frozen microbiome at 7900 m a.s.l., on the South Col of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2023; 55 (1) DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2023.2164999

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Episode 358 - "Put a pin in it" Surveillance Balloons

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:00:00 -0500

There's been a lot of buzz about the PRC surveillance balloon, so we unpack the history of using balloons for science and for military.

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Thanks to listener Xavier for this disturbing fun paper on privacy and tech repair.
Ceci, Jason, Jonah Stegman, and Hassan Khan. "No Privacy in the Electronics Repair Industry." arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05824 (2022).

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Episode 357 - "Looks like the iron throne"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0500

Giant crystal in caves sounds more like a plot twist than a geological phenomena, but this week we learn how the Naica Mine crystals were formed!

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Episode 356 - "They'll find me laying in a graben"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:45:00 -0500

This week we talk about basin and range topography, horsts, grabens, and more! Also how similar is your mouth bacteria to someone you kissed?

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Kort, Remco, et al. "Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing." Microbiome 2.1 (2014): 1-8.

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Episode 355 - "Best First Week of Class Ever"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0500

This week John and Shannon discuss some mysterious rocks whose extraterrestrial origin is still debated and if growing a beard is a good defense against a punch.

Arstechnica article on Hypatia Stone

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Beseris, E. A., S. E. Naleway, and D. R. Carrier. "Impact protection potential of mammalian hair: Testing the pugilism hypothesis for the evolution of human facial hair." Integrative organismal biology 2.1 (2020): obaa005.

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Episode 354 - "That's Gneiss"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:00:00 -0500

New York City is a sprawling metropolis, but the design of the city is heavily influenced by the geology of this tortured patch of rock. This week we talk about it and what rocks you'll see as you stroll the city streets.

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Cameras left behind by explorers over 80 years ago found and may unlock secrets of glacial movement
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Episode 353 - "We Didn't Do So Well"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0500

Shannon's Resolutions

Streamline Digital Workflows
Read a lot! (and use goodreads)
Take a sabbatical

John's Resolutions

Read 24 Books
Cut carbs and meal prep lunch
Take quarterly vacations
Systemize, delegate, react

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Do you have a funny walk? It could be healthy!
Gaesser, Glenn A., David C. Poole, and Siddhartha S. Angadi. "Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking: Monty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study." bmj 379 (2022).

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Episode 352 - "Why are things so heavy in the future?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0500

Shannon went to a workshop on determining the provenance of sediments using heavy elements, optical microscopes, and Raman spectra!

Raman Spectroscopy

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Do dogs lie when they mark?
McGuire, B., et al. "Urine marking in male domestic dogs: honest or dishonest?." Journal of Zoology 306.3 (2018): 163-170.

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Episode 351 - "Our Favorite Things"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:00:00 -0500

2022 flew past, so this week John and Shannon review their favorite things, experiences, classes, and more of 2022. Everything from bee keeping to kitchen appliances to multimeters to books!

John's Favorite Things 2022

Shannon's Favorite Things 2022

Goodreads and the Three Body Problem Triology
Camping in the Mohave Desert
Regents Teaching Award
Samsuing Tab S8
Bee Keeping Workshop
17 Inches of snow before field camp

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Did dinos use their tails as a whip and weapon? These scientists think they have the answer.
Conti, Simone, et al. "Multibody analysis and soft tissue strength refute supersonic dinosaur tail." Scientific Reports 12.1 (2022): 1-9.

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Episode 350 - "Borehole to Hell"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:00:00 -0500

How deep have we actually drilled into the Earth? Turns out, not very far, just 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) or about 0.3% of the way to the center of the Earth. We talk about the challenges of this feat and about potty training cows.

Kola Superdeep Borehole

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Cows are a source of many environmental concerns, but what if we could potty train them?
Science News Article
Dirksen, Neele, et al. "Learned control of urinary reflexes in cattle to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions." Current Biology 31.17 (2021): R1033-R1034.

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Episode 349 - "That Sounds Heavy" Tech Replacement

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0500

It's hard to decide when it is finally time to let go. When do you recycle that old tech and replace it? It may still work, but is it the thing holding you back, or do you just want something new and don't really need it? This week Shannon and John grappled with this exact question and talked each other into and out of some potential technology purchases

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Everyone knows that physics can solve any problem if you simplify it enough, but biologists are fed up! This week John Doyle tells us to be more like engineers and embrace complexity in our models.
Doyle, John. "Beyond the spherical cow." Nature 411.6834 (2001): 151-152.

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Episode 348 - "Hot Juicy Magma"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0500

Forms in fractures of rocks already in place, so it an INTRUSIVE feature
Form at right angles to the direction of extension in the area - nature’s frac jobs
Can be super thin or super thick, but generally are self-consistent
Can have multiple periods of injection or even multiple compositions of injection over time
Can get en echelon patterns, rings, and cones (last two common with caldera volcanism)
Magmatic are the most well known and form when magma flows into a crack and cools into a sheet.
The igneous rock is generally more weathering resistant so we get cool weathering features
Can be rhyolitic, but mostly basaltic
Rate of cooling determines grainsize (slow = big) and big near the center
Can have columnar jointing
Big phenocrysts orient with flow direction - cool! AMS studies show this.
These are awesome when you get them radially around a volcano!
Horizontal dikes are called sills
Clastic dikes are formed by sediments episode 177
Can be formed with fluid pressure
Cracks in permafrost that fill in

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One plus one equals two, right? Sure, but you won't get published saying it that way.
Siegfried, John J. "A first lesson in econometrics." Journal of Political Economy 78.6 (1970): 1378-1379.

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Episode 347 - "Tiny Crusty Rocks"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:00:00 -0400

It's all about meteorites, space rocks made from proto planets, metals, and more!

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Ness, E., & Bihm, E. (2018). Short-Term Cognitive Therapy for Authors of Rejected Manuscripts. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity

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Episode 346 - "They Haven't Broke"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400

This week we recap Shannon's travel to GSA and John's travel to Europe before diving into what shaped knobs are best for different applications in an award winning Fun Paper Friday!

Fun Paper Friday

“How to Use Fingers during Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs,” Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, vol. 45, no. 5, 1999, pp. 69-76.

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Episode 345 - "3rd Hoodoo on the Left"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:00:00 -0400

This week its all about the badlands and how they got to be so bad!

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DECEPTIVELY CHONKY LIZARD BREAKS AN UNFORTUNATE, STRANGE RECORD

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Episode 344 - "Pre-Cognated"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:00:00 -0400

Learning new things is hard - and we're talking about how we are trying to do it!

Fun Paper Friday

How is sleep tied to creativity?
Weinberger, Eva, et al. "Having a creative day: Understanding entrepreneurs' daily idea generation through a recovery lens." Journal of Business Venturing 33.1 (2018): 1-19.

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Episode 343 - "Div, Grad, and Curl"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:00:00 -0400

Vector calculus is everywhere, but sadly good explanations are not. This week we talk about the div, grad, and curl operations.

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus

Fun Paper Friday

Yanai, Itai, and Martin Lercher. "The two languages of science." Genome Biology 21.1 (2020): 1-9.

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Episode 342 - "Kiss Me"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:00:00 -0400

How do we remember all of the sequences, facts, and processes in our fields? Mnemonic devices! This week we chat about a few of our favorites.

Fun Paper Friday

Is having a hypothesis a bad thing?
Yanai, Itai, and Martin Lercher. "A hypothesis is a liability." Genome Biology 21.1 (2020): 1-5.

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Episode 341 - "Scrambler Outside the Physics Department"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:00:00 -0400

This week we discuss more about the three apparent forces we feel on a rotating ball:

Fun Paper Friday

How can you get rid of a bad case of the hiccups?
Odeh, M., H. Bassan, and A. Oliven. "Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage." Journal of internal medicine 227.2 (1990): 145-146.

Episode 340 - "Coriolis Thing"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:00:00 -0400

The Coriolis force is a ficticious force that makes winds flow parallel to isobars in the atmosphere - this week we talk about it and how it fights the pressure gradient force to make the geostrophic balance work!

Fun Paper Friday

Can counting crows count to zero?
Kirschhock, Maximilian E., Helen M. Ditz, and Andreas Nieder. "Behavioral and neuronal representation of numerosity zero in the crow." Journal of Neuroscience 41.22 (2021): 4889-4896.

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Episode 339 - "Museum with a crater out back"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about meteor crater.

Fun Paper Friday

Can the pill color change the outcome?
De Craen, Anton JM, et al. "Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of their effectiveness." Bmj 313.7072 (1996): 1624-1626.

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Episode 338 - "GEARS 2022"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:00:00 -0400

John's company ran the second iteration of the GEARS workshop (read about 2021 here). After learning some hard lessons last year, this year's workshop was much different and hopefully even better!

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Darryl for this fun... poster Friday? We'll wrap up the episode talking about wraps!
Tastee Tape Poster

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Episode 337 - "Air Guitar"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:00:00 -0400

Lightning produces many phenomena, but one is pops, clicks, and whistles in the radio frequencies. Learn why, how, and what the upper atmosphere has to do with it!

Fun Paper Friday

Should there be speed bumps that say "rate your pain" at the entrance to the emergency room? These authors say it could be useful!
Ashdown, Helen F., et al. "Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study." Bmj 345 (2012).

Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it.

Sound producing mechanism in the temperature inversion layer and its sensitivity to geomagnetic activity

Fun Paper Friday

What can we do to fight a fierce predator? The cat!
Cecchetti, Martina, et al. "Provision of high meat content food and object play reduce predation of wild animals by domestic cats Felis catus." Current biology 31.5 (2021): 1107-1111.

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Episode 335 - "Fish with a Ray Gun"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:00:00 -0400

Listen to singing ice!

Fun Paper Friday

Science makes you feel stupid and that's okay!
Schwartz, Martin A. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2008): 1771-1771.

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Episode 334 - "Rock Concert"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400

This week we're talking about ringing rocks and why we think they sound just like cast iron bells.

Video of Ringing Rocks in PA

Fun Paper Friday

Krioukov, Dmitri. "The Proof of Innocence." arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0162 (2012).

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Episode 333 - "Sandphony"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 21:30:00 -0400

How can some wind and sand make booming, singing, and wailing sounds? Find out what we know this week and then dive into geo-economics with a short and graphical fun paper!

Example of singing sand

Fun Paper Friday

Smith, Gregor W. "Japan's Phillips curve looks like Japan." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 40.6 (2008): 1325-1326.

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Episode 332 - "Caliche"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:00:00 -0400

If you're new in the field, caliche might fool you the first few times you encounter it. This week we talk about what it is, how it forms, and why you should always carry your hammer and chisel!

Fun Paper Friday

Knuth, Donald E. "The toilet paper problem." The American Mathematical Monthly 91.8 (1984): 465-470.

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EPISODE 331 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 May 2022 16:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more!

Episode 330 - "Blamo"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about fracture of toughness of materials or how resistant they are to cracking.

Fun Paper Friday

Morrill, Kathleen, et al. "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes." Science 376.6592 (2022): eabk0639.

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Episode 329 - "Granite Annulus"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 May 2022 20:00:00 -0400

Hardness, toughness, and brittleness are all unique, but related quantities. In this week's show we explore how they each relate to the atomic structure of the rocks and what they mean for us as geologists.

Fun Paper Friday

Can the ways flamingos pick a mate help us discover new drugs?
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael, et al. "From flamingo dance to (desirable) drug discovery: a nature-inspired approach." Drug discovery today 22.10 (2017): 1489-1502.

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Episode 328 - "Bouma"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

Nikolić, Hrvoje. "Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born?." American Journal of Physics 76.2 (2008): 143-146.

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Episode 327 - "Delta Tesseract"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0400

What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders.

Fun Paper Friday

Beaty, Chester B. "Great big boulders I have known." Geology 17.4 (1989): 349-352.

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Episode 326 - "The Pinky Raise"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0400

This week it's all about conglomerates. How do these sedimentary trash cans form and how can we classify them?

Fun Paper Friday

Turns out it may be difficult to estimate parasite population in poop, but that didn't stop this team!
Krauth, Stefanie J., et al. "An in-depth analysis of a piece of s*@t: distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs in human stool." PLoS neglected tropical diseases 6.12 (2012): e1969.

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Episode 325 - "It turns to mud"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:00:00 -0400

Last week Shannon was out in the field taking samples in the area of the Colorado River. This week we find out what she was doing and the history of that region.

Fun Paper Friday

We have policies on making your data available to journal readers, but are they effective?
Stodden, Victoria, Jennifer Seiler, and Zhaokun Ma. "An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.11 (2018): 2584-2589.

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Episode 324 - "Nanoknots"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:00:00 -0400

This week it's all about hot spots and Hawaii!

Fun Paper Friday

Does removing something take more brain power than adding something?
Adams, Gabrielle S., et al. "People systematically overlook subtractive changes." Nature 592.7853 (2021): 258-261.

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Episode 323 - "Bug light for nerds"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:00:00 -0400

What would we be doing in an alternate universe? We explore careers we almost took and how they relate to things we talk about all the time.

Fun Paper Friday

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

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Episode 322 - "TeX Makes it Beautiful"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:00:00 -0500

LaTeX is a beautiful way to make documents, especially when they have lots of equations, tables, and more. This week we dive into how you too can talk TeX.

Download MikTeX

Fun Paper Friday

Matsui, Takafumi, et al. "The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger." Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2022). ## Contact us:

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Episode 321 - "Big Peas"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:00:00 -0500

John and Shannon are tired of the wintery mix weather they've been getting, but at least now we understand what makes it! We also introduce the term "heated fellowship" and talk about if packs of wolves should be introduced to reduce road kill incidents.

Fun Paper Friday

Are wolves the solution to a deer problem?
Raynor, Jennifer L., Corbett A. Grainger, and Dominic P. Parker. "Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.22 (2021).

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Episode 320 - "Hunga Tonga"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0500

The Hunga Tonga eruption is one of the largest eruptions observed with modern equipment. This week we'll dig into what happened, how it was observed, and what we think is next for the island chain.

Fun Paper Friday

In line with the show (for once!) we look at shock waves on Mars... or lack thereof.
Fernando, Benjamin, et al. "Questions to Heaven." Astronomy & Geophysics 62.LA-UR-21-31668 (2021).

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Episode 319 - "Ions in Solution"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:00:00 -0500

This week it's all about chemistry, not something we say often! We chat chemical weathering and exactly what all those ions mean.

Fun Paper Friday

Leibring, Katharina. "Names of companion animals: Rovers in the onomasticon?." 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow 25-29 Aug, 2014. Vol. 5. University of Glasgow, 2016.

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Episode 318 - "Sandstones are Forever"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0500

Weathering is what breaks the Earth down so it can be recycled, this week we dive into the mechanical methods of weathering the surface.

Fun Paper Friday

What feedbacks can penguin poo have on glaciers?
Wang, Peiyan, et al. "Combined effects of glacial retreat and penguin activity on soil greenhouse gas fluxes on South Georgia, sub-Antarctica." Science of The Total Environment 718 (2020): 135255.

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Episode 317 - "Is your tinfoil hat the same as mine?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:00:00 -0500

There are lots of rumored precursors to earthquakes - everything from dogs acting strange to flashes of light in the sky. This week we take a look at a few of these and discuss how possible or impossible they may be.

Flashbulb Memory Effect
Earthquake Lights
Animal Behavior
Temperature Changes
Gas Emissions
Electromagnetic Changes

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What is hip? When will it be hip again? Will Shannon and John stop saying hip?
Golman, Russell, Aditi Jain, and Sonica Saraf. "Hipsters and the Cool: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Social Identity, Trends and Fads." arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13385 (2019).

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Episode 316 - "A centimeter is good enough"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:00:00 -0500

This week we dive into differential GPS and WAAS - how we can tell exactly where we are on the planet.

Fun Paper Friday

What can we learn from a glowing jellyfish brain? Turns out, quite a bit!
Phys.org article
Weissbourd, Brandon, et al. "A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience." Cell 184.24 (2021): 5854-5868.

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Episode 315 - "Tombstones"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 12:00:00 -0500

Glaciers are huge, weird, and complex systems. This week we talk about some weird glacial terminology and we jump the frog with this fun paper.

Moulin
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Weertman Tombstone
Jökulhlaup

Fun Paper Friday

Astley, Henry C., et al. "Chasing maximal performance: a cautionary tale from the celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County." Journal of Experimental Biology 216.21 (2013): 3947-3953.

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Episode 314 - "We Did Pretty Good"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:00:00 -0500

How did you do on your 2021 resolutions? What are you going to do in 2022?

John

More smaller, allowed breaks
Focus and completion of tasks
Hit the Gym
Get an IFR rating
Be less reactive when appropriate

Shannon

say NO even more! Make a priority of staying within my boundaries (70/15/15)
publish the rest of my dissertation (2 articles)
make my webpage(s) and keep them updated

Fun Paper Friday

Marlow, Robin, and Dora Wood. "Ghost in the machine or monkey with a typewriter—generating titles for Christmas research articles in The BMJ using artificial intelligence: observational study." bmj 375 (2021).

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Episode 313 - "Starts with Dyson"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:00:00 -0500

Fun Paper Friday

Did you get your beauty sleep? If not, others can probably tell!
Axelsson, John, et al. "Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people." Bmj 341 (2010).

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Episode 312 - "Atmospheric Deodorant"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0500

This week John and Shannon talk about ways we could use engineering to save or destroy the planet.

Stratospheric Injection
Ocean Fertilization
Increased Weathering

Fun Paper Friday

When it comes to doing dumb things - are men more likley to participate than women?
Lendrem, Ben Alexander Daniel, et al. "The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour." Bmj 349 (2014).

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Episode 311 - "You know the answer once you know the answer"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:00:00 -0500

This week learn how to make strat columns based on the magnetic direction of rocks! It's time to learn about magnetostratigraphy.

Magnetostratigraphy

Fun Paper Friday

How did the human hand evolve? These authors make no bones about it.
Press Release
Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie, et al. "The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand." Journal of Human Evolution 119 (2018): 14-26.

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Episode 310 - "Paul Bunyan's Potty"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:00:00 -0500

Canyonlands National Park is a beautiful and large display of sedimentary processes, impacts, and more. Learn about the features of this park and how they got there in this week's show!

Fun Paper Friday

What if your dog could call you? Would they? Once scientist dared to ask the question.
Hirskyj-Douglas, Ilyena, Roosa Piitulainen, and Andrés Lucero. "Forming the Dog Internet: Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5.ISS (2021): 1-20.

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Episode 309 - "Assume a Spherical Chicken"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:00:00 -0500

A recent publication tried to determine if strange folded glasses found in the Atacama Desert formed by an extraterrestrial process. Turns out, mineraology and microscopy hold the key!

Schultz, Peter H., et al. "Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile." Geology (2021).

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Can chicken de-feathering be used as a wind speed proxy? Some old experiments might shed some light on the subject.
Vonnegut, Bernard. "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed." Weatherwise 28.5 (1975): 217-217.

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Episode 308 - "Clay is kind of a trash can" Cements

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0500

This week John and Shannon discuss sedimentary rocks and what holds them together. Cements can be made of many different materials and don't change the name of the rock!

Fun Paper Friday

What can we learn from ducks drafting while swimming?
Yuan, Zhi-Ming, et al. "Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 928 (2021).

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Episode 307 - "Up, Up, and Away"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:00:00 -0400

Weather balloons are one of the few ways to really get in-situ atmospheric measurements. John was over in Norman, OK working on a new balloon borne instrument. We talk about what all is involved in a launch!

Launch Video

Fun Papery Friday

What do shark intestines have to do with the inventor of the AC motor? Find out!
Leigh, Samantha C., et al. "Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288.1955 (2021): 20211359.

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Episode 306 - "8 Degrees is a lot!" PETM

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:00:00 -0400

What happens when the Earth is drastically warmer than it is now? How can it get that way? Join us to learn about the PETM and what it could mean for our future.

Fun Paper Friday

Can the Drake equation be applied to love? One author thinks so!
Link is to a video of a talk on the paper - the original PDF seems to have disappeared from the university website.
Backus, P. (2009). Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK.

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Episode 305 - "Trovant down by the river"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:00:00 -0400

Trovants are a mysterious rock formation and we try to understand them this week!

Fun Paper Friday

Tired of zoom meetings? Let's read a paper about them!
Shockley, Kristen M., et al. "The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment." Journal of Applied Psychology 106.8 (2021): 1137.

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Episode 304 - "Bog Clothes" with Dr. Andy Elwood-Madden

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

How many legs does it take to freak you out?
Vetter, Richard S. "Arachnophobic entomologists: when two more legs makes a big difference." American Entomologist 59.3 (2013): 168-175.

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Episode 303 - "But do you need it?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:15:00 -0400

Keeping instruments safe in the field in hard. This week John talks about his favorite disguise for instruments and telemetry.

Fun Paper Friday

Can a photo and some machine learning predict how corrupt you are as a politician?
Blavatskyy, Pavlo. "Obesity of politicians and corruption in post‐Soviet countries." Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 29.2 (2021): 343-356.

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Episode 302 - "Geophysics is Batteries"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:00:00 -0400

Getting power to things in the field is difficult and more complex than you'd think. This week we discuss a few of the many problems you are likely to face and ways we have fought them.

Fun Paper Friday

Reinventing the wheel happens a lot - but how often does it get published? This week we examine an example by looking at a paper that rediscovered the integral.
Tai, Mary M. "A mathematical model for the determination of total area under glucose tolerance and other metabolic curves." Diabetes care 17.2 (1994): 152-154.

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Episode 301 - "Lodestone"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400

Magnetism is a mysterious topic and it took a long time for us humans to understand just the basics. This week we look at the history of magnetism!

Fun Paper Friday

Can whale calls be useful for seismologists? Find out in this week's Fun Paper!
Kuna, Václav M., and John L. Nábělek. "Seismic crustal imaging using fin whale songs." Science 371.6530 (2021): 731-735.

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Episode 300 - "Rock can also act as a fluid"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

de Macedo, Robert Buarque, et al. "Unearthing real-time 3D ant tunneling mechanics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.36 (2021).

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Episode 299 - "Counterfeit Consciousness"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0400

The GEARS workshop is over and we discuss what lessons were learned and how it went. Then we find out how some clever computer scientists found plagiarization in the literature.

Fun Paper Friday

Cabanac, Guillaume, Cyril Labbé, and Alexander Magazinov. "Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals." arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06751 (2021).

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Episode 298 - "Little Nerd Arms"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0400

It's hot! Learn about wet bulb temperature and what it means for your heat-stress this summer! It involves a lot of swinging of wet socks!

Fun Paper Friday

Tamm, Sidney L. "Defecation by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi occurs with an ultradian rhythm through a single transient anal pore." Invertebrate Biology 138.1 (2019): 3-16.

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Episode 297 - "Acid Gel" Shell Formation

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

Thampi, Nisha, Lekha N. Villeneuve, and Yves Longtin. "Wash your hands, Brother John!." BMJ 367 (2019).

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Episode 296 - "Explosive Erosion"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0400

Does the earth change rapidly or slowly? We discuss the competing philosophies and the evolution of.... well, the end of the road for your food!

Fun Paper Friday

Hejnol, Andreas, and José M. Martín-Durán. "Getting to the bottom of anal evolution." Zoologischer Anzeiger-a Journal of Comparative Zoology 256 (2015): 61-74.

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Episode 295 - "Touch the rocks"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:00:00 -0400

Shannon is back from field camp (and another trip) and wants to talk about digital skills. Is field camp even necessary?

Fun Paper Friday

Fukada, Eiichi. "Piezoelectricity of wood." Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 10.2 (1955): 149-154.

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Episode 294 - "enormous catastrophe"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:00:00 -0400

Earthquake shaking is often described on a "felt like" scale known as the Mercalli intensity scale. This episode we delve into the confusing history of the scale and what it really means.

Fun Paper Friday

Can your pasta be packed more efficiently? It can if it turns into its final shape during cooking!
Tao, Ye, et al. "Morphing pasta and beyond." Science Advances 7.19 (2021): eabf4098. ## Contact us:

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Episode 293 - "Hot Hot Field Camp" Spontaneous Potential

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400

What is spontaneous potential? It's an inexpensive technique to learn even more about the porosity, composition, and permeability of rock and soil.

Fun Paper Friday

Does your cat sit in boxes? Turns out, there's proof of why and that a cat's visual perception is quite sophisticated.
Smith, Gabriella E., Philippe A. Chouinard, and Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere. "If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 240 (2021): 105338.

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Episode 292 - "Magic Math Stick"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 May 2021 21:00:00 -0400

This was supposed to be a show on Spontaneous Potential, but we'll get to that next week! We have a potpourri of things to cover and hope you'll enjoy our derailed train!

Fun Paper Friday

Telescopes for seals? It's true!
Mauck, Björn, et al. "How a harbor seal sees the night sky." Marine mammal science 21.4 (2005): 646-656.

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Episode 291 - "Haven't you seen Dante's Peak?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 May 2021 23:00:00 -0400

Mt. St. Helens was a huge event in 1980. This week, 41 years later, we discuss the events leading up to the eruption and what happened!

Fun Paper Friday

*Turpin, Martin Harry, et al. "Bullsh!? Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence." Evolutionary Psychology 19.2 (2021): 14747049211000317.

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Episode 290 - "COAL!"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 May 2021 22:00:00 -0400

This week it's all about coal - what is it, where did it form, and how do we use it!

Fun Paper Friday

Can seismometers be used to spy on industrial processes?
Guenaga, David L., et al. "Seismically Detecting Nuclear Reactor Operations Using a Power Spectral Density (PSD) Misfit Detector." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2021).

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Episode 289 - "Soil Teapot"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:00:00 -0400

How do geysers work? Learn more this week!

Old Faithful

Fun Paper Friday

The title says it all in this week's Fun Paper!
Wang, Lu, Zdenek Sofer, and Martin Pumera. "Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?." ACS nano 14.1 (2020): 21-25.

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Episode 288 - "95% Chance of Chert" Mineral Identification

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0400

How do you identify a mineral? We talk about our favorite ways to identify minerals!

Fun Paper Friday

How does heavy water taste? Will it kill you? Find out by reading this week's Fun Paper Friday!
Abu, Natalie Ben, et al. "Sweet taste of heavy water." Communications Biology 4.1 (2021): 1-10.

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Episode 287 - "Cartoonist in Word Form" Gary McManus

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:00:00 -0400

Gary McManus joins us to talk about state climatology and extremes in Oklahoma!

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Mesonet

Fun Paper Friday

Hurricanes in space? It's raining electrons in this week's fun paper Friday!
Zhang, Qing-He, et al. "A space hurricane over the Earth’s polar ionosphere." Nature communications 12.1 (2021): 1-10.

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Episode 286 - "Big Sandbox for Adults" Maciej Obryk, Kate Allstadt, Thomas Rapstine

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:00:00 -0400

Thanks to Dr. Maciej Obryk, Dr. Kate Allstadt, and Dr. Thomas Rapstine for joining us to talk about the USGS experimental flume!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we see how an undergarment can become a lifesaving bit of technology.
EBbra

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Episode 285 - "We're not going to tell you how to make it" Geology Field Kit

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0400

Field Kit

Sokkia Notebook
Holster/Backpack
Handlens
Hammer
Belt
Pocket Transit
Gilson Grain Size Card
Acid Bottle
Pocket Knife
Pencils/Lead
Protractor Ruler Combo
Streak Plate
Mohs Picks

Fun Paper Friday

What can we learn about the Earth's magnetic field from tree rings?
Cooper, Alan, et al. "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago." Science 371.6531 (2021): 811-818.
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Episode 284 - "Dijon or Yellow" Geomajik Box

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:00:00 -0400

What's in the box?

Geophones
Load Cell
Resistivity Setup
Color
Magnetometer
Accelerometer
Turbidity Sensor
Water Velocity Sensor

Fun Paper Friday

What happens when no AI research can be reproduced? Any angry site to shame those authors!

One researcher’s mission to encourage reproducibility in machine learning

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Episode 283 - "There are spectrograms"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about flow regimes in streams, more bedforms, and then wrap it up with a discussion of what crocodiles sound like after breathing helium!

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Teresa for this week's fun paper!
Reber, Stephan A., et al. "A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.15 (2015): 2442-2447.

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Episode 282 - "Antidunes"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:23:25 -0500

This week we talk all about sediment bedforms and everyone's favorite - antidunes!

Watch John's Flume Experiments from 11 years ago
Froude Number

Fun Paper Friday

Smarandache, Florentin. Funny Problems. Infinite Study, 2000.

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Episode 281 - "Bill's over there chewing on his buddy" The Cambrian Explosion

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:00:00 -0500

When and why did life diversify? This week we go WAY BACK to the Cambrian and hang out with hungry worms and trilobites to discover what happened.

Fun Paper Friday

Did you know that Wombats poop cubes? Now you do!
Yang, Patricia J., et al. "Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces." Soft Matter (2021).

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Episode 280 - "Red sky in the morning" Weather Proverbs

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:00:00 -0500

This week we look at the origins and science behind common weather proverbs, discuss the weather forecast rock found in every southern craft fair, and then play some video games!

Fun Paper Friday

Can playing video games teach us about volcanoes? Should it?
McGowan, Edward G., and Jazmin P. Scarlett. "Volcanoes in video games: the portrayal of volcanoes in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games and their learning potential." Geoscience Communication 4.1 (2021): 11-31.

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Episode 279 - "They forgot how to walk" Teaching Field in a Ballroom

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:00:00 -0500

Shannon is teaching intro to field inside a ballroom and we grapple with what field skills students need in the real world.

Fun Paper Friday

Cats go wild over catnip - but why?
Lichman, Benjamin R., et al. "The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip." Science Advances 6.20 (2020): eaba0721.
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Episode 278 - "Millimillidarcy" Permeability

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:00:00 -0500

This week it's all about permeability - how water flows through rocks!

Fun Paper Friday

Yam, Kai Chi, et al. "Association of high profile football matches in Europe with traffic accidents in Asia: archival study." bmj 371 (2020).

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Episode 277 - "Water holding the rock" Porosity

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about porosity - or what all of the empty space in a rock is and why it is important.

Primary Porosity
Secondary Porosity
Fracture Porosity
Vuggy Porosity
Effective/Open Porosity
Ineffective/Closed Porosity
Dual Porosity
Macroporosity
Mesoporosity
Microporosity

Fun Paper Friday

Hungry? Eat the same thing as others at the table to gain their trust!
Woolley, Kaitlin, and Ayelet Fishbach. "A recipe for friendship: Similar food consumption promotes trust and cooperation." Journal of Consumer Psychology 27.1 (2017): 1-10.

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Episode 276 - Goodbye 2020

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:00:00 -0500

This week we show 2020 out the door with our 2021 resolutions and yearly planning show!

John

be more decisive and reactive but in a good way
less reflection on made decisions more forward focus
work on something and focus
get out of team task tracking
get back into GTD, especially 2 min rule
learn to fly
leadership at work

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In our first ever revisit - we come back to a new way to classify minerals.
Cleland, Carol E., Robert M. Hazen, and Shaunna M. Morrison. "Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.1.

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Episode 275 - "Should we just start with maniacal laughter?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 07:00:00 -0500

This week we update you on the 2020 status and that we'll be back in 2021!

Fun Paper Friday

We start our first ever two part fun paper!
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-scientists-philosopher-team-categorize-minerals.html

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Episode 274 - "Haboobs"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about dust storms or haboobs and why they occur.

Haboob

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What's a monotreme? We take a biology 101 refresher and discover that the platypus was glow in the dark with this week's fun paper!
Anich, P. S., Anthony, S., Carlson, M., Gunnelson, A., Kohler, A. M., Martin, J. G., & Olson, E. R. (2020). Biofluorescence in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Mammalia, 1(ahead-of-print).

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Episode 273 - "Very special ways to pick people up" Capt. Jeff Grass

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:00:00 -0500

This week Capt. Jeff Grass talks to us about being prepared for natural disasters!

Fun Paper Friday

Can a can of Coke make solar cells more efficient?
Wang, Rui, et al. "Caffeine improves the performance and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells." Joule 3.6 (2019): 1464-1477.

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Episode 272 - "Adiabatic Bog"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about how conferences have adapted to covid, why John is building hands on learning tools, and about nutrient exchange in bogs for meat eating plants!

Fun Paper Friday

Carnivorous plants just eat flies right? Think again!
Moldowan, Patrick D., et al. "Nature's pitfall trap: salamanders as rich prey for carnivorous plants in a nutrient‐poor northern bog ecosystem." Ecology 100.10 (2019): e02770.

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Episode 271 - "Guess Again Dummy" Ryan May

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:45:00 -0400

This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more!

Fun Paper Friday

Vampires - a classic predator prey problem?
Hartl, Richard F., Alexander Mehlmann, and Andreas Novak. "Cycles of fear: periodic bloodsucking rates for vampires." Journal of optimization theory and applications 75.3 (1992): 559-568.

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Episode 270 - "Why God made the evening shift" Steve Piltz

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:00:00 -0400

This week National Weather Service Tulsa WFO Meteorologist In Charge Steve Piltz joins us to talk about a career in the weather service and finding unique ways to solve forecast problems!

Fun Paper Friday

Do ants count their steps to get home?
Wittlinger, Matthias, Rüdiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf. "The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps." science 312.5782 (2006): 1965-1967.

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Episode 269 - "I thought about something totally different" Playas

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon agree to talk about playas, only to discover that they think about very different things.

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Episode 268 - "A Horta?" Machine Learning

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about machine learning - what is it exactly and how can we leverage it as geologists? Will it be as useful as the horta?

Fun Paper Friday

How do we know about Earth's past climate? Well, here are a few unusual ideas!
Five Weird Climate Archives

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Episode 267 - "It's digital, you turn it with your hands" Analog Experiments

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about analog experiments, what they are, and how you can do them!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we do the worm! Find out how worms dance on speakers in this week's Fun Paper!
Maksymov, Ivan S., and Andrey Pototsky. "Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms." Scientific Reports 10.1 (2020): 1-11.

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Episode 266 - "That's why they repaint runways" Earth's Magnetic Field

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:00:00 -0400

How did the Earth get its magnetic field? Why do we still have it? Find out that and more this week!

Chris Finlay's Research

Fun Paper Friday

Can animals sense earthquakes? Can we sense animals sensing earthquakes?
Wikelski, Martin, et al. "Potential short-term earthquake forecasting by farm-animal monitoring." bioRxiv (2020).

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Episode 265 - "Cold Air Bulldozer"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about fronts and the warm air conveyor belt!

Fun Paper Friday

Do you think you have a good sense of direction? Maybe it's the magnetite in your brain! Researchers put brains in a magnetometer to find out!
Human Brains Have Tiny Bits of Magnetic Material

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Episode 264 - "Travel Brochure for Antarctica"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about why we go to Antarctica and what kinds of work happens there each year!

Fun Paper Friday

What happens if you hold a cat in your dating profile photo? This important question answered by this week's fun paper!
Kogan, Lori, and Shelly Volsche. "Not the Cat’s Meow? The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability." Animals 10.6 (2020): 1007.

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Episode 263 - "Hurricanitic" Iowa Derecho

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 11:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about derechos - what are they and why did one sweep across the upper midwest bringing wide spread distruction? Find out that and how sword swallowers do what they do in this week's show!

NWS Derecho Page

Fun Paper Friday

How to sword swallowers do it? Do they ever get injured? We touch on this pointy topic with a fun paper!
Witcombe, Brian, and Dan Meyer. "Sword swallowing and its side effects." Bmj 333.7582 (2006): 1285-1287.

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Episode 262 - "My Teddy Bear and Rosary"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we interview Shannon about her career path to becoming a dual degree student and professor in geology!

Fun Paper Friday

Barnett, Adrian, Inger Mewburn, and Sara Schroter. "Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time." bmj 367 (2019).

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Episode 261 - "Pele Searches for a Home"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:00:00 -0400

Hot spots - what are they? We don't know either! Explore with us on this week's show.

Fun Paper Friday

Nawroth, Christian, et al. "Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions." Royal Society open science 5.8 (2018): 180491.

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Episode 260 - "Highly elliptic" Comet NEOWISE

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:00:00 -0400

Comet NEOWISE is in the sky - learn all about it and comets in general!

Fun Paper Friday

The Earth hums with normal modes - learn how scientists are picking them up with seismometers on the bottom of the ocean.
Deen, M., et al. "First observation of the Earth's permanent free oscillations on ocean bottom seismometers." Geophysical Research Letters 44.21 (2017): 10-988.

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Episode 259 - "Discoveries from the massive funding of the department of defense"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we learn how searching for a downed aircraft may have helped us better understand how plate tectonics work... we think... maybe. It's not an exact science.

Fun Paper Friday

Fans - hot or not? Find out by sticking undergrads in a thermal chamber!
Ravanelli, Nicholas M., et al. "Heart rate and body temperature responses to extreme heat and humidity with and without electric fans." Jama 313.7 (2015): 724-725.

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Episode 258 - "You need a trained geologist"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about why we don't believe that a rock ID app is a possibility now or potentially ever.

Fun Paper Friday

How do you convert human years to dog years? Turns out it is a bit more complicated than we thought.
Wang, Tina, et al. "Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging by Conserved Remodeling of the DNA Methylome." Cell Systems (2020).

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Episode 257 - "And, you know"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:30:00 -0400

This week it's all about rainbows, light, reflection, refraction, and how it's just like an earthquake!

Fun Paper Friday

Have you seen products marketed as "chemical free"? This weeks paper looks at those claims with an analytical eye.
Goldberg, Alexander FG, and C. J. Chemjobber. "A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products."

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Episode 256 - "We Don't Know What We're Doing" Episode 0 MST3000

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:00:00 -0400

This week we Mystery Science Theater 3000 our own Episode 0 to celebrate the 8-bit rollover of our show!

Episode 255 - "Reddish Orange" with Stacey Evans

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:00:00 -0400

This week we learn what life is like as a state geologist with Stacey Evans and how fish fart.

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Episode 254 - "Continental Condensation Nuclei" Yosemite

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we explore the geology of Yosemite and how continents are built!

Fun Paper Friday

Think dad jokes are bad? Try professor jokes! But do they work?
Wandersee, James H. "Humor as a teaching strategy." The American Biology Teacher 44.4 (1982): 212-218.

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Episode 253 - "Googling Under the Table"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 May 2020 22:00:00 -0400

This week we have guest John Leeman? That's right! Shannon wants to know why John took the path he did and how her students can find their own. We're also buzzing about this great un-beeelievable fun paper.

Fun Paper Friday

Pashalidou, Foteini G., et al. "Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce." Science 368.6493 (2020): 881-884.

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Episode 252 - "People like craters" Upheaval Dome

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 23 May 2020 11:00:00 -0400

You'd think we'd know what caused a big hole in the ground, but we don't. Learn why upheaval dome remains a mystery in this week's show!

Fun Paper Friday

Are there environmentally conscious aliens out there? Find out in this week's fun paper!
Montet, Benjamin, and Ryan Loomis. "SET-E: The Search for Extraterrestrial Environmentalism." arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09428 (2016).

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Episode 251 - "Teaching Field Geology on a Computer"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 May 2020 23:00:00 -0400

This week Shannon walks us through how she's planning to teach students field geology online and talks about the pains of learning to delegate in the field.

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to Darryl for bringing us this harrowing flight related fun paper!
AAIB Bulliten S1-2020

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Episode 250 - "Pretty Radioactive Down There"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 03 May 2020 18:00:00 -0400

This week we delve into the hot world of radiometric methods in geophysics. Find out how gamma rays help us find natural resources and why radioactive materials are concentrated in certain formations.

Fun Paper Friday

Pressure is on to find a new way to sterilize medical tools. Find out what household appliance is helping!
Swenson, Vaille A., et al. "Assessment and verification of commercially available pressure cookers for laboratory sterilization." PloS one 13.12 (2018).

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Episode 249 - "Herzprung-Russell"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0400

This week up look upward to the stars! Learn about stellar classification and how it is important to a geologist!

Fun Paper Friday

You look older - were you an elected official?
Olenski, Andrew R., Matthew V. Abola, and Anupam B. Jena. "Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries." bmj 351 (2015): h6424.

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Episode 248 - "Palinspastic"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:00:00 -0400

This week we get palinspastic! Find out how geologists can "unfold" time and reconstruct what past landscapes looked like from a geologic cross-section!

Fun Paper Friday

Which type of doctor speeds the most? (Well, medical doctors that is.) Find out in this week's Fun Paper!
Zimerman, André, et al. "The need for speed: observational study of physician driving behaviors." bmj 367 (2019).

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Episode 247 - "Mind Blown"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:00:00 -0400

What's it like to be told you need to teach field geology online? This week we talk about distance learning in higher-ed.

Fun Paper Friday

What's special about 33?
Booker, Andrew R. "Cracking the problem with 33." Research in Number Theory 5.3 (2019): 26.

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Episode 246 - "Zone of suspended water" ABCs Part 2

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:00:00 -0400

It's time to finish our ABC's! Also we discuss things of a fecal culinary nature on Fun Paper Friday!

N - Neap tide

O - Ophiolite

P - Placer Deposit

Q - Quadrangle

R - Rating Curve

S - Seamount

T - Tidewater Glacier

U - Unconformity

V - Varve

W - Womble Shale

X - Xyloid Coal

Y-Yazoo Stream

Z - Zone of Aeration

Fun Paper Friday

This week... pooopknives.pdf!
Eren, Metin I., et al. "Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27 (2019): 102002.

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Episode 255 - "Floppy Clay-stone" ABCs Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:00:00 -0400

This week we learn the ABC's again! It's time for another geology ABC's series with some great new words to learn. Join us for part one of this two part series.

Fun Paper Friday

Brucks, Désirée, and Auguste MP von Bayern. "Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards." Current Biology (2020).

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Episode 244 - "Stress, Strain, What's the Difference?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different!

Fun Paper Friday

See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week's Fun Paper!
Iyer, Vikram, et al. "Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects." The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019.

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Episode 243 - "I want four awesome seasons"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0500

This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware!

Fun Paper Friday

Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. "Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014.

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Episode 242 - "I'm a taxi driver for my students" Dr. Alison Nugent

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:00:00 -0500

This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii.

Alison's Website
Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent
Instagram: cloudyday24

Fun Paper Friday

Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. "Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols." Analytical Chemistry (2020).

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Episode 241 - "This circle is full of paleomagnetists"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out!

Fun Paper Friday

Neuroskeptic. "The nine circles of scientific hell." Perspectives on Psychological Science 7.6 (2012): 643-644.

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Episode 240 - "Half a Unicorn"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

This week it's all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction.

Fun Paper Friday

Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”." Journal of applied behavior analysis 7.3 (1974): 497.

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Episode 239 - "I went to Cheers" and other AMS stories

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:00:00 -0500

This week John recaps his trip to AMS and Shannon teases a show on her field work!

Fun Paper Friday

This week it's a meaty subject!
Cole, James. "Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic." Scientific reports 7 (2017): 44707.

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Episode 238 - "Big Long Honkies"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 09:00:00 -0500

What's that in the sky? A bird? A plane? No, it's a scary looking cloud! Find out what it was this week!

Fun Paper Friday

Hart, Vlastimil, et al. "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field." Frontiers in zoology 10.1 (2013): 80.

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Episode 237 - "Just archive it" New Years!

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:00:00 -0500

This week we go over the last year and discuss our plans for 2020 before diving into a discussion on pupil shapes in various animals. Don't miss it!

Fun Paper Friday

Banks, Martin S., et al. "Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?." Science advances 1.7 (2015): e1500391.

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Episode 236 - "Crop circles of geology"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:00:00 -0500

This week we finish up talking about deserts with some of our favorite features - dunes, ventifacts, and more!

Fun Paper Friday

How can math and physics "improve" hunting a lion?
Pétard, H. "A contribution to the mathematical theory of big game hunting." Amer. Math. Monthly 45 (1938): 446-447.

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Episode 235 - "That's how the arches formed"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:00:00 -0500

This week we stick to a dry subject - deserts! Learn about how rocks weather in a place where there isn't much.

Fun Paper Friday

What if the Earth were replaced with blueberries?
Sandberg, Anders. "Blueberry Earth." arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10553 (2018).

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Episode 234 - "That's what they're called"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:00:00 -0500

Deserts - hot and dry right? Wrong! There's so much more to them!

Fun Paper Friday

Synthetic Uranus? Magnetic Fields? Learn more in this week's fun paper.
Chau, Ricky, Sebastien Hamel, and William J. Nellis. "Chemical processes in the deep interior of Uranus." Nature communications 2 (2011): 203.

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Episode 233 - "I'm out - I took linear algebra" Stereonets

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 10:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about the dreaded stereonet and why it's useful and somewhat... odd.

Fun Paper Friday

What's the best way to make a uniform crepe or pancake? Find out with just a bit of math!
Boujo, E., and M. Sellier. "Pancake making and surface coating: optimal control of a gravity-driven liquid film." Physical Review Fluids 4.6 (2019): 064802.

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Episode 232 - "Mostly we went camping"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about how YOU can contribute to science with citizen science efforts and what it takes to make a successful citizen science project.

Fun Paper Friday

How to run a successful citizen science project

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Episode 231 - "Prison Tools" Dr. Matt Hall

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:00:00 -0500

This week Matt Hall of Agile Scientific joins John to talk about teaching Python, the ways scientists get around learning programming, and how to help them learn these tools!

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Episode 230 - "Fire Triforce" Wildfires

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about fire weather and wildfires! It's a hot topic. We also visit a somewhat Halloween appropriate fun paper from the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Fun Paper Friday

It's Halloween Fun Paper Time! Hands, guitar tuners, and accelerometers.
Horns, Joshua, Rebekah Jung, and David R. Carrier. "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.20 (2015): 3215-3221.

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Episode 229 - "Wooden Dowel Budget" Dr. Jeffrey Wagman

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:00:00 -0400

This week we talk to Dr. Jeffrey Wagman about experimental psychology, perception, and what it takes to write a "Fun Paper" worthy paper!

Jeff's Website

Fun Paper Friday

This week we discuss knights in shining armor!
Askew, Graham N., Federico Formenti, and Alberto E. Minetti. "Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers' locomotor performance." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279.1729 (2011): 640-644.

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Episode 228 - "The other answer to everything"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:00:00 -0400

This week we wrap up our discussion of how plate tectonics can influence climate, then discuss zebra stripes on a fascinating fun paper Friday!

Fun Paper Friday

Kojima, Tomoki, et al. "Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack." PloS one 14.10 (2019): e0223447.

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Episode 227 - "I'm going to need to see those carbon receipts"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:00:00 -0400

This week we chat about how tectonics can influence the climate and the many ways in which this happens.

Fun Paper Friday

Here's egg in your eye! Find out about the severity of ocular injuries from thrown eggs!
Stewart, R. M. K., J. M. Durnian, and M. C. Briggs. "“Here’s egg in your eye”: a prospective study of blunt ocular trauma resulting from thrown eggs." Emergency medicine journal 23.10 (2006): 756-758.

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Episode 226 - "Crick is the Correct Pronunciation"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about how rivers work. Rivers are all around - on the surface, underground, even under glaciers and upside-down!

Fun Paper Friday

Cooper, Katelyn M., et al. "To be funny or not to be funny: Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses." PloS one 13.8 (2018): e0201258.

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Episode 225 - "chickens.F90"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:00:00 -0400

Shannon is back from GSA, John is back from London and we talk about teaching revelations, new things happening in magnetics, and learning programming on this catch-up themed episode!

Fun Paper Friday

Dandelion seeds breaking new group in fluid dynamics!
Middleton, Christine. "Dandelion seeds are optimized for wind-based travel." Physics Today 72.1 (2019): 17-19.

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Episode 224 - "Reading the stick to 16 decimal places"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about the age of the Earth and how we think we know it!

Wiki Summary

Fun Paper Friday

This week we revisit the perceived weight of things... it's heavy!
Wagman, Jeffrey B., and Samantha J. Aspel. "When can an object feel heavier than itself? Perceived heaviness of a wielded object depends on grasp position." Perception 40.11 (2011): 1384-1386.

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Episode 223 - "Elf Shoe of Rain"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 21:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about the opposite of convection - microbursts! Learn how air accelerates downward to cause tornado like destruction and aircraft accidents on this week's show!

Fun Paper Friday

Think birds are scary? Wait till you see this monster!
Worthy, Trevor H., et al. "Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand." Biology letters 15.8 (2019): 20190467.
Washington Post Article

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Episode 222 - "Be fancy and call it an outflow boundary"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:00:00 -0400

This week the crew discusses thunderstorms - where they come from and how they are actually really similar to some geological processes.

Fun Paper Friday

What makes a good pizza? Physics to the rescue!
Varlamov, Andrey, Andreas Glatz, and Sergio Grasso. "The physics of baking good pizza." Physics Education 53.6 (2018): 065011.

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Episode 221 - "I don't think like that" Plotting

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about plotting and how we think (or don't) in graphs and charts.

Fun Paper Friday

It's the weekend - do you know what your doctor is doing?
Caverly, Tanner J., Rodney A. Hayward, and James F. Burke. "Much to do with nothing: microsimulation study on time management in primary care." bmj 363 (2018): k4983.

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Episode 220 - "In the Cow Case"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:00:00 -0400

Eric Brunning (@deeplycloudy) returns to talk about doing science in the field in this crossover episode with the Embedded Podcast!

Eric on Embedded: 268: Cakepan Interferometry

Eric on our show: 134: Launching Balloons out of a UHaul.

Fun Paper Friday

The paper was Reconstructing David Huffman’s Legacy in Curved-Crease Folding by Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine and Duks Koschitz. Elecia is working her way through Erik Demaine’s Phd thesis on the same topic as well as Jun Mitani’s excellent book Curved-Folding Origami Design. Geology also has folds.

For 3D printed origami, Eric mentioned Henny Seggerman’s twitter @henryseg.

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Episode 219 - "Like the seabreeze"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 19:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about the summer monsoon, humidity, and magnetic potbelly sculptures.

Monsoon

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 218 - "Terror Bird Flu"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we're terrified... of giant ancient birds!

Fun Paper Friday

Hemlock poisoning in modern day?
Korkmaz, İlhan, et al. "Quail consumption can be harmful." The Journal of emergency medicine 41.5 (2011): 499-502.

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Episode 217 - "It almost wasn't" Apollo 11

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing!

Smarter Everyday Moon Sample Video

Fun Paper Friday

Scientific software is important, but what about snakes on a spaceship? Python in Heliophysics!
Burrell, A. G., et al. "Snakes on a spaceship—An overview of Python in heliophysics." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 123.12 (2018): 10-384.

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Episode 216 - "Different set of knowledge"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week John discusses his recent experience teaching a large group at SciPy and why software testing is important.

Fun Paper Friday

Beer bubbles - turns out there is more than you'd think to explain their physics!
Shafer, Neil E., and Richard N. Zare. "Through a beer glass darkly." Physics Today 44.10 (1991): 48-52.

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Episode 215 - "I like this one"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0400

This week we dive into Dunham classification and golf habits!

Dunham Classification

Fun Paper Friday

Do doctors play more golf than the rest of us? Are they better at it?
Koplewitz, Gal, et al. "Golf habits among physicians and surgeons: observational cohort study." bmj 363 (2018): k4859.

Episode 214 - "Carbonates matter too!"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about classification again, but this time how Folk looked at carbonate rocks and why the naming scheme has to be so much different than with sedimentary systems!

Folk Carbonate Classification

Fun Paper Friday

Winter is coming, but why? Orbital mechanics to the rescue!
Paradise, Adiv, et al. "The Long Night: Modeling the Climate of Westeros." arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12195 (2019).

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Episode 213 - "Terratonnes"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we take on geoengineering and mimicking behaviors!

Fun Paper Friday

Persson, Tomas, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Alenkær Madsen. "Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors." Primates 59.1 (2018): 19-29.

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Episode 212 - "Give it a Folk Name"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:00:00 -0400

This week - what is a sandstone by any other name? Its Folk name that is!

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 211 - "Rock Colloid"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Thu, 30 May 2019 22:00:00 -0400

Is it a nodule, is it a concretion, it is rock lightning? Find out on this week's summer short!

Fun Paper Friday

Is there carbon from outside this world?
Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Volcanic Rock

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Episode 210 - "Capital M Muddy"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about the Dakota group and how it formed those beautiful hogback structures we all love!

Fun Paper Friday

Can dead fish really see emotion in humans?
fMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish

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Episode 209 - "Sand that does math"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:00:00 -0400

This week we continue our instrument journey and talk about controlling the physical world with tiny electrons!

Fun Paper Friday

Can the music you listen to change your reaction to violence?
Sun, Yanan, et al. "Implicit violent imagery processing among fans and non-fans of music with violent themes." Royal Society Open Science 6.3 (2019): 181580.

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Episode 208 - "It's all just voltage"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:00:00 -0400

This week we explore how does your data go from a physical thing to a digital representation.

Fun Paper Friday

Security is a scary topic, but we might be looking at the wrong problems!
Mickens, J., 2014. This World of Ours. USENIX.

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Episode 207 - "Baby little crystal faces"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

This week it’s all about microscopic indications of impacts and some fun mineral names. We wrap up with a fun paper on making project acronyms!

Fun Paper Friday

Cook, B.A., ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me

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Episode 206 - "The saddest of the breccias"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0400

This week we continue to chat about impact events and the macroscopic evidence of them. We wrap up with a chat about primate sleep patterns.

Fun Paper Friday

Did our sleep patterns help us grow our cognitive ability? Find out on this week's Fun Paper Friday!
NYTimes Interview
Samson, David R., and Charles L. Nunn. "Sleep intensity and the evolution of human cognition." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 24.6 (2015): 225-237.

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Episode 205 - "Mellon Baller to the Surface"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:00:00 -0400

This week we start a series on impact crates and how to tell if you have one - turns out it’s a lot more complicated than you’d think! We’ll wrap up the show with an analysis of pocket sizes on men’s and women’s clothing.

Fun Paper Friday

Diem and Thomas (2018) Someone clever once said Women were not allowed pockets

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Episode 204 - "Take the blue pill"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:00:00 -0400

This week we’re petrified.. petrified wood that is. Learn what it is and how it’s made - then we tie it all up with a fun paper about mathematical ways to tie neckties.

Fun Paper Friday

How many ways are there to tie a necktie? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
Fink, Thomas M., and Yong Mao. “Designing tie knots by random walks.” Nature 398.6722 (1999): 31.

Episode 203 - "Evian of Light"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:00:00 -0500

This week we wrap up talking about magnetometers with the alkali vapor magnetometer - a strange optical instrument that is incredibly precise!

Fun Paper Friday

Why do grapes turn into balls of plasma in a microwave. New research tells us and hints towards advanced manufacturing techniques.
Khattak, Hamza K., Pablo Bianucci, and Aaron D. Slepkov. "Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): 201818350.

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Episode 202 - "Little Tiny Bar Magnets"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:00:00 -0500

This week it is all about the proton procession magnetometer and the Earth's underground mountain range. Don't miss it!

Proton Magnetometer

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 201 - "Homogeneous Background" Fluxgate Magnetometers

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:00:00 -0500

This week it's all about the fluxgate magnetometer - funny name, awesome instruments.

Fun Paper Friday

Have you ever crashed your bike on the tracks? This paper might tell you why!
Ling, Ziwen, Christopher R. Cherry, and Nirbesh Dhakal. "Factors influencing single-bicycle crashes at skewed railroad grade crossings." Journal of Transport & Health 7 (2017): 54-63.

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Episode 200 - "Greenland is conjoined" climate part 3

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:00:00 -0500

This week we finally finish up the climate series! In the mean time don't forget to take the listener survey and help us make the show better!

Fun Paper Friday

Where do you go to find mythical creatures? There's a paper for that!
Beconytė, Giedrė, Agnė Eismontaitė, and Jovita Žemaitienė. "Mythical creatures of Europe." Journal of Maps 10.1 (2014): 53-60.

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Episode 199 - "Pour one out"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:00:00 -0500

It’s our 200th show! This week we reflect on why we do this and ask for your feedback in a listener survey. We wrap it all up with a fun paper to help us answer the question “are we cool?”

Listener Survey

Fun Paper Friday

This week we decide if we’re “cool” or not.
Dar-Nimrod, Ilan, et al. “Coolness: An empirical investigation.” Journal of Individual Differences (2012).

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Episode 198 - (Rebroadcast) “Launching balloons out of a UHaul” Eric Bruning

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:00:00 -0500

This week Dr. Eric Bruning (@deeplycloudy) joins us to talk about locating lightning, the lightning process, and space based lightning instruments. Don’t miss this week’s electrifying show!

Fun Paper Friday

Cipra, Barry. “A prime case of chaos.” What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences 4 (1999): 2?17.

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Episode 197 - "I fell in a bog once"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:00:00 -0500

This week John sums up his time at the AMS meeting and we discuss the highland haggis.

AMS 2019

Fun Paper Friday

McNOLEG, O. L. E. G. “The integration of GIS, remote sensing, expert systems and adaptive co-kriging for environmental habitat modeling of the highland haggis using object-oriented, fuzzy-logic and neural-network techniques.” Computers & Geosciences 22.5 (1996): 585–588.

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Episode 196 - "Run a weather model properly" Dr. Nick Heavens

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:00:00 -0500

This week we are joined by Dr. Nick Heavens to talk about the past and present climate, and the climate of Mars!

@weatheronmars

Fun Paper Friday

Legos and children - the ingredients for a hilarious study about ingestion of toy parts!
Tagg, Andrew, et al. “Everything is awesome: Don’t forget the Lego.” Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (2018).

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Episode 195 - "Take the toaster apart" Walter Smith

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 06:00:00 -0500

This week Dr. Walter Smith joins us to talk about GMT, satellite altimetry, gravity, racing cars, and more!

Walter’s Webpage

Fun Paper Friday

This week we examine parachutes… again. Do they work? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper!
Yeh, Robert W., et al. “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial.” BMJ 363 (2018): k5094.

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Episode 194 - "Communism for Temperature"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:00:00 -0500

This week it’s more about climate, but at a time when we didn’t have any ice on the Earth and when most of our fossil fuel storage formations were being deposited!

Fun Paper Friday

Chickens - the dominant life marker in human-era strata? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
Carys E. Bennett, Richard Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Matt Edgeworth, Holly Miller, Ben Coles, Alison Foster, Emily J. Burton and Upenyu Marume The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere5Royal Society Open Science http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180325

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Episode 193 - "Cactus Sausage"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500

This week John and Shannon continue talking about Earth’s past climate and snowball Earth, then delve into the physics of cactus.

Geologic Timescale

Fun Paper Friday

Which cactus is the worst to get stuck by? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
Crofts, S. B., and P. S. L. Anderson. “The influence of cactus spine surface structure on puncture performance and anchoring ability is tuned for ecology.” Proceedings. Biological sciences 285.1891 (2018).

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Episode 192 - "Closet we keep the mars rover in"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about the InSight landing and seismology on Mars.

Fun Paper Friday

Could minerals be the keys to solving the dark matter puzzle?
Drukier, Andrzej K., et al. “Paleo-detectors: Searching for Dark Matter with Ancient Minerals.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06844 (2018).

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Episode 191 - "You look tasty " Snowball Earth

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0500

This week it’s all about snowball Earth, how we got there, how we got back.

Fun Paper Friday

Small dinosaurs making tools in the lab!
Gizmodo Article
Auersperg, A. M. I., et al. “Tool making cockatoos adjust the lengths but not the widths of their tools to function.” PloS one 13.11 (2018): e0205429.

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Episode 190 - "Friends of Hoth"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about the GSA meetings, stream tables, and bug dorms.

GSA

Fun Paper Friday

What’s that buzzing sound? Find out on this week’s fun paper.
Chung, H. N., et al. “Toward Implementation of Mosquito Sterile Insect Technique: The Effect of Storage Conditions on Survival of Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) During Transport.” Journal of insect science (Online) 18.6 (2018).

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Episode 189 - "Glass and light"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:00:00 -0400

This week John talks about an instrumentation meeting he was at and what the future looks like for seismologists.

Fun Paper Friday

Can a fly ruin a glass of wine? Find out in this week's fun paper!
Becher, P.G., Lebreton, S., Wallin, E.A. et al. J Chem Ecol (2018) 44: 431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0950-4

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Episode 188 - "Fossil Record" The Amoeba People

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:00:00 -0400

This week The Amoeba People join us to talk about creating science music and geology dance moves.

Fun Paper Friday

Dear College Students: You Should Take Geology

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Episode 187 - "It's real pretty"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon talk about their transitions to Windows and Mac, and what to do when things just stop working.

Back to Work #393

Fun Paper Friday

What’s the half-life of a chocolate box in a hospital? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday.
Gajendragadkar, Parag R., et al. “The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study.” Bmj 347 (2013): f7198.

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Episode 186 - "It's called rewriting history"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:00:00 -0400

Shannon goes to a software carpentry workshop and we do a post workshop discussion on using the tools she learned.

Workshop

Fun Paper Friday

Lizards and hurricanes, this week’s fun paper has it all
UCDavis Blog Post
Donihue, Colin M., et al. “Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard.” Nature 560.7716 (2018): 88.

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Episode 185 - "I didn't stop running" David Jewitt

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:45:00 -0400

This week Dr. David Jewitt joins us to talk about interstellar objects, jovian moons, and the Kuiper belt!

Fun Paper Friday

Should insurance be paying for you to ride the roller coaster? Find out on this week’s fun paper friday!
Mitchell, Marc A., and David D. Wartinger. “Validation of a functional pyelocalyceal renal model for the evaluation of renal calculi passage while riding a roller coaster.” J Am Osteopath Assoc 116.10 (2016): 647–652.

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Episode 184 - "Organic BBQ Gunk" Jason Hofgartner

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:00:00 -0400

This week Jason Hofgartner of JPL joins us to talk about Pluto and New Horizons!

Pluto

Fun Paper Friday

Is it possible to publish a paper every five days? Do they mean anything? Can you sleep? Join us this week for an analysis of hyper-prolific authors.
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
Free Agents #55

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Episode 183 - "Your compass would be a mess" Dr. Amy Simon

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Amy Simon joins us to talk about Uranus and Neptune as we continue our march through the solar system!

Uranus and Neptune

Fun Paper Friday

What would you do if you could make a meteor shower?
Mirror Article
ALE Website

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Episode 182 - "Titan is for the chemists" Dr. Mike Malaska

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Mike Malaska joins us to talk about the wild world of Titan - its methane rivers, organic clouds, and disappearing islands!

Titan

Fun Paper Friday

Can machine learning tell us where aftershocks are most likely to happen? Find out in this week’s Fun Paper Friday!!
Machine learning improves forecasts of aftershock locations

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Episode 181 - "I'd go to Titan" Dr. Amanda Hendrix

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Amanda Hendrix joins us to talk about Saturn, it’s moons, and exploring Titan.

Fun Paper Friday

Why do old men have big ears? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
Heathcote, James A. “Why do old men have big ears?.” BMJ 311.7021 (1995): 1668.

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Episode 180 - "I was in the Guinness book of world records” Io w/ Dr. Rosaly Lopes

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week, it’s all about the most volcanically active place in the solar system - Io! Join Dr. Rosaly Lopes of JPL for a tour of this strange world.

Fun Paper Friday

Can you burn more calories by watching a scary movie? Find out on this weeks fun paper friday!
Cooper, B. G., J. N. Matthews, and K. G. Alberti. “Resting energy expenditure, substrate use, and video tapes.” BMJ: British Medical Journal 311.7021 (1995): 1664.

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Episode 179 - "The Equation of State Gets a Little Messy" Dr. Fran Bagenal

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Fran Bagenal joins us to talk about the Juno mission and Jupiter as we start our march through the outer planets.

Jupiter

Fun Paper Friday

If the Script for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Was Peer-Reviewed

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Episode 178 - "This can all be replaced with 10 lines of python"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week, it's all about stereonets and magnets!

Stereonets

Fun Paper Friday

McCormick, S., et al. "Children and mini-magnets: an almost fatal attraction." Emergency medicine journal 19.1 (2002): 71-73.

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Episode 177 - "Give it more names" Sandstone Dykes

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week it's all about the sandstone! Join us to find out how sandstone dykes form!

Sandstone Dykes

Fun Paper Friday

Is chocolate milk the best workout drink? We're still wondering.
Amiri, Mojgan, et al. "Chocolate milk for recovery from exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials." European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2018): 1.

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Episode 176 - "I'm glad somebody finally got around to that" SciPy 2018

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:15:00 -0400

This week we have a host of people gathered in a conference room at the scientific python conference to discuss what we've seen and what we're excited about.

SciPy 2018

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Episode 175 - "Physics Knows"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about how quantum magnetometers work and popcorn driven robots!

SQUIDS

Fun Paper Friday

Robots driven by popcorn? Find out how on this week's Fun Paper!
Ceron, S., Kurumunda, A., Garg, E., Kim, M., Yeku, T., & Petersen, K. Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators.

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Episode 174 - "It's a labor of love" with Devin Dennie

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Devin Dennie joins us to talk about making geoscience education fun for everyone!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we find out if two spaces are better than one!
Johnson, Rebecca L., Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt. "Are two spaces better than one? The effect of spacing following periods and commas during reading." Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2018): 1-8.

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Episode 173 - "Opportunity Knocked" Mars w/ Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden joins us to talk about the red planet and geochemistry!

Mars

Fun Paper Friday

Listener Dustin sent in this great fun paper on avalanche triggering!
Reuter, Benjamin, and Jürg Schweizer. “Avalanche triggering by sound: myth and truth.” Proceedings of the International Snow Science Workshop ISSW. 2009.

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Episode 172 - "Quantum rainfall" Earth with Ben Etherington

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:00:00 -0400

This week our friend at The Orbital Mechanics podcast joins us to talk about observing the Earth from space… or something like that.

Earth observing spacecraft

Ben Etherington

Fun Paper Friday

We know music is mathematical, but Donald Knuth takes it to the next level on this week’s fun paper friday!
Knuth, Donald E. “The complexity of songs.” Communications of the ACM 27.4 (1984): 344–346.

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Episode 171 - "Pages 15-27, 48" Venus with Dr. Jim Head

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 06:30:00 -0400

This week we talk to Dr. Jim Head about the planet Venus!

Fun Paper

Jargon - we're been here before, but we're going back for a second dose!
NPR Article
Anderson-Cook, Christine M. "Hidden jargon: Everyday words with meanings specific to statistics." Data and context in statistical education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. 2010.

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Episode 170 - "Dark and Mysterious" Mercury with Dr. Stockstill-Cahill

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 May 2018 06:30:00 -0400

This week it's all about the dark and mysterious planet Mercury!

Fun Paper Friday

John can't tell a Monet from a Picasso, but apparently pigeons can!
Watanabe, Shigeru, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita. "PIGEONS'DISCRIMINATION OF PAINTINGS BY MONET AND PICASSO." Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 63.2 (1995): 165-174.

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Episode 169 - "Breathing Mode" Prof. Bill Chaplin

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 May 2018 12:00:00 -0400

This week Prof. William Chaplin joins us to talk about the sun and helioseismology!

Fun Paper Friday

Which is heavier, a pound of feathers of a pound of lead? Which feels heavier? Find out in this week’s Fun Paper!
Wagman, Jeffrey B., Corinne Zimmerman, and Christopher Sorric. ““Which Feels Heavier—A Pound of Lead or a Pound of Feathers?” A Potential Perceptual Basis of a Cognitive Riddle.” Perception 36.11 (2007): 1709–1711.

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Episode 168 - "Perturbate your nebula"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 May 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week we kick off our solar system show by talking about what we want to know and the recipe for a solar system.

The Solar System

Fun Paper Friday

How long have we had rubber processing skills?
A good many years before Goodyear

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Episode 167 - "Project Management"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 May 2018 10:30:00 -0400

Join us this week as we talk about ways to keep track of the many aspects of geology and personal projects!

Fun Paper Friday

Do cabbies have enhanced areas of their brains to store spatial maps? Find out on this fun paper’s Friday.
Maguire, Eleanor A., et al. “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97.8 (2000): 4398–4403.

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Episode 166 - "You are headed to a warm and sunny place" GMT

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week we’re excited to be talking to Paul Wessel and Leo Uieda about the past, present, and future of GMT.

GMT

Fun Paper Friday

Can you imagine smelling bad for 5 years? Checkout this week’s stinky fun paper.
Guardian Article
Mills, Caroline M., et al. “A man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for 5 years.” The Lancet 348.9037 (1996): 1282.

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Episode 165 - "A is for Anticline" (Rebroadcast)

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week join us for our own alphabet aerobics as we fly through the geologic alphabet!

Fun Paper Friday

What can the continuity equation teach us about vampires and fluid flow? Sadhra, Makita, et al. “P5_2 The Draining of a Lifetime.” Physics Special Topics 14.1 (2015).

Orbital Mechanics Episode 52

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Episode 164 - "Pull people's data and play with it"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon talk about what scientific reproducibility means.

Scientific Reproducibility

Fun Paper Friday

Would a chicken swipe left or right?
Ghirlanda, Stefano, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist. “Chickens prefer beautiful humans.” Human nature 13.3 (2002): 383–389.

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Episode 163 - "Everybody loves Dinos" The Morrison

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:00:00 -0400

This week it’s all about the dinos and how so many ended up in the Morrison Formation. Join us to learn about the upper Jurassic mud-pit.

The Morrison Formation

Fun Paper Friday

Do volcanos slide down hill? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
Murray, John B., et al. “Gravitational sliding of the Mt. Etna massif along a sloping basement.” Bulletin of Volcanology 80.4 (2018): 40.

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Episode 162 - "Glowing ball of valuable metal"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about a big boom that has inspired a 110 year old mystery!

John’s new product!

Tunguska Event

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 161 - "I'm obsessed with Esperanto"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:00:00 -0400

This week we explore the shows you listen to and share our favorites!

The List (in random order)

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 160 - "Giant bolide burning in the background" - Extinctions Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:00:00 -0400

This week we conclude our extinction summary and talk about how robots will take over the world.

Amazing robot video from Steve

Extinctions Part 2

Fun Paper Friday

Will the machines take over? We don’t know. How can we at least secure our private data used for machine learning? Blockchain might be the answer.
AI researchers embrace Bitcoin technology to share medical data. Nature News

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Episode 159 - "Dunkleosteus Art" Extinctions Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0500

Extinctions are pretty common in the rock record, but there are 5 times in Earth’s past where more than 50% of the life on Earth died, these are known as mass extinctions. This week we talk about causes of mass extinctions and some of the strange life that existed.

Mass Extinctions

Fun Paper Friday

How can microbes melt glaciers? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
Ganey, Gerard Q., et al. “The role of microbes in snowmelt and radiative forcing on an Alaskan icefield.” Nature Geoscience 10.10 (2017): 754.
Paper From EarthArXiv

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Episode 158 - "Yelling anticline into my phone" Corey Scheip

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:00:00 -0500

iPads in the field. We’ve talked about it before, but it’s been awhile. This week Corey Scheip joins us to talk about his experiences with tech and large teams.

Corey Scheip

Fun Paper Friday

Running on the water - this is a contender for the most absurd experimental setup we’ve seen this year.
Minetti, Alberto E., et al. “Humans running in place on water at simulated reduced gravity.” PLoS One 7.7 (2012): e37300.

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Episode 157 - "Gave me a helmet and put me in the hail car"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:00:00 -0500

What’s the difference between a weather advisory, statement, watch, and warning? Join us this week to find out!

Watches, Warnings, and more

Fun Paper Friday

Most of us love chocolate, but could it be deadly?
Ainsworth, Claire. “Death by chocolate–is it possible?.” New Scientist 196.2635–2636 (2007): 40–41.

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Episode 156 - "Palinspastic Refactoring"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:00:00 -0500

This week John and Shannon dive into the world of cross-sections, the olympics, and more!

Fun Paper Friday

Ever wonder if these catchy fun paper titles are effective and how common they are? This week’s author did!
Goodman, Neville W. “From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles.” Bmj 331.7531 (2005): 1540–1542.

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Episode 155 - "This is going to look amazing on the TA" Kasey Aderhold

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500

Join our chat with Dr. Kasey Aderhold of IRIS this week as we talk about Alaskan earthquakes, the transportable array, and more! We also feature the shortest seismological abstract on record!

Falcon Heavy Test Flight

Kasey Aderhold

Fun Paper Friday

What’s the shortest abstract possible you ask? This week we look at a paper by @SeismoSue that wins the title and discusses the possible connection between earthquakes and tides!
Hough, Susan E. “Do Large (Magnitude≥ 8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle?.” Seismological Research Letters (2018).

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Episode 154 - "It's raining Zircon"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:00:00 -0500

John and Shannon tackle a listener question about Zircon and then discuss the possibility of flying a drone on Titan. Shannon also ponders how long to wait for late students on field trips.

Fun Paper Friday

Drones on Titan from one of our favorite authors! Thanks to listener Jonathan for sending this our way.
Lorenz, R.D. et al., Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander Concept for Scientific Exploration at Tital. Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest. 2017.

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Episode 153 - "Grad Student Instinct"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:00:00 -0500

John has been off at the American Meteorlogical Society Meeting and Shannon was in the field, so we discuss what we’ve been up to, some exciting announcements, and how fast the grim reaper walks. Don’t miss this week’s show!

Spacepod 116

AMS Meeting

Field Work

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Episode 152 - "I came back from that trip and changed my major"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:00:00 -0500

This week Dan Zietlow and Ryan Vachon join us to talk about outreach, scientific video making, and Dan Rather’s chat at AGU.

Outreach

Fun Paper Friday

In a time of difficult communication and news, Dan Rather offered words of inspiration and vision at the AGU Annual Meeting.
Dan Rather’s Vision for Scientists in an Era of “Fake News”

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Episode 151 - "A 3 year old obsessed with dinosaurs" Dr. Helen Janiszewski

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 06:00:00 -0500

Join us as Dr. Helen Janiszewski discusses the recent Deleware earthquake, subduction, and hurricanes!

Dr. Helen Janiszewski

Fun Paper Friday

When it rains, it pours… and the Earth sinks.
Montanari, S. (2017), Weight of water dropped by Hurricane Harvey flexed Earth’s crust, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO089015. Published on 14 December 2017.

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Episode 150 - "Submit this paper or quit my job"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 06:00:00 -0500

This week we reflect on our past goals and set some new ones for 2018 and the path to show 200!

John

Grow my business with the addition of two products
See some of Colorado
Read 15 Books
Go Paperless for our personal and business records
Get Back to theBlog/Newsletter (Sign up!)
Write another proposal
Learn more about web-app development
Try swift programming
Grow our audience more!
Release more great and more timely content

Shannon

Declutter life!
Read 25 books (at least 5 non-fiction!)
Get back to bike riding
Submit this manuscript or quit my job!
Submit another proposal
Be prepared for field camp at least 2 months out
Clean-up my workspace
Have manuals for all the devices
Field Camp Blog!
Complete person and lab webpages
Incorporate tech in the classroom
Learn to edit the shoe
Start a Don’t Panic! Instagram page

Fun Paper Friday

Teens and rats apparently have the same drinking habits. Find out how on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
Hargreaves, Garth A., et al. “Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats.” Alcohol 43.4 (2009): 305–314.

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Episode 149 - "Suppose you play a C-major chord" Waves Part 2

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:45:00 -0500

Waves Part 2

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Darryl for sending in this fun paper about the number of toys and quality of play in toddlers.
Dauch, Carly, et al. “The influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers’ play.” Infant Behavior and Development 50 (2018): 78–87.

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Episode 148 - "You don't think in per second" Waves Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:00:00 -0500

This week we tackle a tough listener question about waves. What are they and how can we understand and use them? Find out on this week’s show!

Don’t Panic Tee Shirts!

Waves

Fun Paper Friday

Does your dog give you puppy eyes? Learn more about that expression and scientific expression coding in this week’s fun paper friday!
Kaminski, Juliane, et al. “Human attention affects facial expressions in domestic dogs.” Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 12914.

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Episode 147 - "We met in a digital bar" Earth ArXiv

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 11:00:00 -0500

Earth ArXiV

Fun Paper Friday

This week we give you an excuse to eat chocolate and win a Nobel.
“Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates,” Fanz H. Messerli, M.D.
Spurious Correlations

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Episode 146 - "The graphics were so pretty"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:00:00 -0500

This week we keep chatting about what computational devices we want to carry and what our recommendations are.

Apple Smart Keyboard
Apple Pencil
Microsoft Surface

Fun Paper Friday

Have you ever been in a mosh pit? One of us has, and we discuss this model of mosh pit activity in this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
Huff Post Article
Silverberg, Jesse L., et al. “Collective motion of humans in mosh and circle pits at heavy metal concerts.” Physical Review Letters 110.22 (2013): 228701.
Interactive Simulator

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Episode 145 - "I just want to touch your insides"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:00:00 -0500

What operating system is best? Well, it’s complicated. This week we talk tech and science and how we work.

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 144 - "5, 6, 7 extra zeros"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:30:00 -0500

John is holed up working in his workshop and Shannon is preparing for the end of the semester. This week we take some time to talk about when nature out smarted all of us and created a natural nuclear reactor.

Embedded 221 with Jimmy Soni

Oklo Reactors

Fun Paper Friday

The octopus has a facinating set of genes that help explain their extraordinary intellegence and capabilities.

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Episode 143 - "A lot of flannel" GSA

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:00:00 -0400

Shannon was off at GSA while John browsed the history of computing. We talk about our travels and celebrate with a discussion of champagne cork popping and thermodynamics.

Fun Paper Friday

Ever popped a champagne cork? This week we look at the thermodynamics behind the process and use John’s favorite tool - high speed cameras!
Liger-Belair, Gérard, et al. “Unveiling CO2 heterogeneous freezing plumes during champagne cork popping.” Scientific Reports 7 (2017).

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Episode 142 - "Albedo back in the day"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0400

This week we finish up talking about the faint young sun and how some corporations seem to have strange ways of communicating the climate risk that they’ve studied.

Faint Young Sun Part 2

Fun Paper Friday

How did ExxonMobil do in its communications about climate change? Read all about it in this in-depth study!
Supran, Geoffrey, and Naomi Oreskes. “Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014).” Environmental Research Letters 12.8 (2017): 084019.

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Episode 141 - "Linear if a geologist looked at it" Faint Young Sun Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

Stuck in traffic? At least now you know why!
Hanna, Rema, Gabriel Kreindler, and Benjamin A. Olken. “Citywide effects of high-occupancy vehicle restrictions: Evidence from “three-in-one” in Jakarta.” Science 357.6346 (2017): 89–93.

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Episode 140 - "Juicero of Tractors" Open Hardware Summit

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon chat about the Open Hardware Summit in Denver and what it could mean for science.

Fun Paper Friday

Microbes can modify precipitation? Microbes can be transported by hurricanes and destory crops? Is it time to head to the bunkers? We talk about that and drones on this week’s Fun Paper!
High Flying Microbes

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Episode 139 - Rebroadcast "At least there were functions" Greg Wilson

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon are back to doing science instead of troubleshooting and take a break to talk with Dr. Greg Wilson about Software Carpentry, how to teach effectively, and a smattering of related topics about the academic world.

Greg Wilson

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 138 - "Set your kids in front of it" GigaMacro

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:30:00 -0400

This week Gene Cooper from GigaMacro joins us to talk about gigapan imaging, robotics, and how to really capture your samples!

GigaMacro

Fun Paper Friday

Episode 137 - "There's no lake now"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon discuss this week’s Mw 7.1 Earthquake in Mexico and talk about the rheology of cats.

Earthquake

Fun Paper Friday

On the Rheology of Cats," Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16–17 and 30.

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Episode 136 - “Paleozoic Hot Potato” Lynn Soreghan

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

Is your fitness tracker lying to you? An undergraduate researcher investigated several sleep trackers and compared them to research grade quipment.
Comparison article
Data extraction guide

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Episode 135 - "Massive kinetic energy"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon talk about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the physics of heat engines, and determining authorship order!

Hurricanes

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to Taryn for sending in this selection of fun paper author name ordering schemes!
Fun ways of deciding authorship order

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Episode 134 - "Launching balloons out of a UHaul" Eric Bruning

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Eric Bruning (@deeplycloudy) joins us to talk about locating lightning, the lightning process, and space based lightning instruments. Don’t miss this week’s electrifying show!

Fun Paper Friday

Cipra, Barry. “A prime case of chaos.” What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences 4 (1999): 2–17.

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Episode 133 - "Giant orbiting magnifying glass"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:00:00 -0400

Millions looked up to see this week’s solar eclipse. We talk about the eclipse and how it has played a role in human and scientific history.

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Lukas for sending in this fun paper on martian snow!
Spiga, A., Hinson, D. P., Madeleine, J.-B., Navarro, T., Millour, E., Forget, F., & Montmessin, F. (n.d.). Snow precipitation on Mars driven by cloud-induced night-time convection. Nature Geoscience, advance online publication SP - EP . http://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3008

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Episode 132 - "Papa Bear is no longer with us" Scott Dubowsky

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 06:00:00 -0400

This week Scott Dubowsky joins us to talk about plasma and ball lightning. We then dive into the economic theory of intersteller trad with another listener fun paper friday!

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Andrew for this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
Krugman, Paul. “The theory of interstellar trade.” Economic Inquiry 48.4 (2010): 1119–1123.
Golden Fleece Award

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Episode 131 - "Geology is hard to grock" Carolina Bays

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon address a listener question from Mike and then talk about where to find intelligent life.

MetPy Mondays #1

Carolina Bays

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Jonathan for this thought provoking fun paper on life in the universe and where to find it.
Lingam, Manasvi, and Abraham Loeb. “Reduced Diversity of Life Around Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST–1.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07007 (2017).

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Episode 130 - "Aspire Towards Accuracy" Chris Taylor

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:00:00 -0400

This week Chris Taylor joins us to talk about making scientifically accurate gifts. We also learn how ants can modify the world around us.

Rachio

Chris Taylor

Fun Paper Friday

Thank you listener Martin!
Dorn, Ronald I. “Ants as a powerful biotic agent of olivine and plagioclase dissolution.” Geology 42.9 (2014): 771–774.

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Episode 129 - "I learned about rocks from a geophysicist"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:00:00 -0400

John is on the mobile device spirit quest again, Shannon graduated a student, and we both took a break to talk about transform faults. We also learned that they are very complicated!

Transform Boundaires

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Mark, we’ll never sit at a wobbly lunch table again!
Martin, Andre. “On the stability of four-legged tables.” Physics Letters A 360.4 (2007): 495–500.

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Episode 128 - "Super awesome nerd fest"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0400

John just got back from SciPy and updates us on the state of scientific Python.

SciPy 2017

Fun Paper Friday

What’s the chance that you bump noses on your next kiss? Can stats help reduce that? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
Karim, AKM Rezaul, et al. “The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing.” Scientific reports 7.1 (2017): 5398.

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Episode 127 - "Tectonic plate sized bulldozers"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 08:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

Are Sea Pickles just Sea Cucumbers that are really old? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
NOAA Press Release
Livescience (better pictures)

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Episode 126 - "Quantitative Analysis of Cowbell"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0400

Boaty McBoatface Article

Divergent Boundary Rocks

Fun Paper Friday

Thanks to listener Mark for the paper suggestion and to Steve for the new cowbell!
Ronen, Eyal, et al. “IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction.” IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2016 (2016): 1047.
Embedded.fm #175
Embedded.fm #192

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Episode 125 - "Irony Abounds" Density Altitude

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:00:00 -0400

This week it’s hot… so hot that some airplanes cannot takeoff. We talk about atmospheric density and density altitude, as well as look into some histograms of what’s in your bellybutton!

Fun Paper Friday

How much fluff collects in your belly button and why? This author scratched his own itch. Literally.
Steinhauser, Georg. “The nature of navel fluff.” Medical hypotheses 72.6 (2009): 623–625.

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Episode 124 - “I leave you guys alone for three weeks”

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon is back and we take some time to go over your feedback. Our email inbox was clogged all week, but should be running now, so get your sticker requests in!

Fun Paper Friday

Does jargon make you seem more or less professional? Found out in this week’s fun paper!
Berman, Jessica R., et al. “Fellow use of medical jargon correlates inversely with patient and observer perceptions of professionalism: results of a rheumatology OSCE (ROSCE) using challenging patient scenarios.” Clinical rheumatology 35.8 (2016): 2093–2099.

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Episode 123 - "Large crushing amounts of Snow" Dr. Anandakrishnan

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 06:00:00 -0400

This week, we mix things up a bit. This joint show between Embedded.fm and the geocast explores what happens when electrical engineering meets geoscience in cold places. We’re joined by guest Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Penn State to talk about geopebbles, ice, climate, and more!

Fun Paper Friday

The Boring Company

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Episode 122 - "The speed of sound in spaghetti" Open Source

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 06:00:00 -0400

This week Shannon pops a surprise interview on John, asking all about open source. We talk about what it is, why people do it, and what it means for your cat videos. We round out the show talking about a physics problem that has stumped some of the greatest minds.

Fun Paper Friday

What problem could possibly stump the likes of Feynman? Turns out, it’s spaghetti!
Audoly, Basile, and Sébastien Neukirch. “Fragmentation of rods by cascading cracks: why spaghetti does not break in half.” Physical review letters 95.9 (2005): 095505.

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Episode 121 - "I don't see much difference between science and art" Uri ten Brink

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 May 2017 10:00:00 -0400

This week Dr. Uri ten Brink joins us to talk about his field experiences as an observational geophysicst and some thoughts about being a scientist. (Sorry, no fun paper this week - we were not able to record it before Shannon’s leave of absense!)

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Episode 120 - A Stork Visits: Rebroadcast "Dam Nation"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 May 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon just had a baby! We take the week off and celebrate with this classic episode of the geocast... Don't Panic, we'll be back next week!

Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shannon’s mind is wondering (and wandering!) about dams and their impacts, both good and bad. People use dams for electricity, recreation, flood control, and a myriad of other things. Let’s take a look at some huge dams and what they do to both communities and rivers.

Oroville (1968) is the tallest in the US, and earthen dam in CA 770’ high
Hoover (1935) is next at 726’ high on the border of AZ and NV
Tallest dam in the world is Jingping-I dam (2013) in China is 1000’ high
Largest reservoir in the US is Lake Mead, which holds 29 million acre-feet of water
Glen Canyon dam
Lake Powell on the AZ/UT border, and is a close second at 26 million acre-feet capacity.
Colorado River
WPA

Why build dams at all?

Water supply
Irrigation and flood control
Power supply
Recreation

Hydroelectric Power

Hoover dam generates 4.5 billion kw-hr per year, serving 8 million people in AZ, southern CA and NV
Itaipu dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, dams the Parana River, the 7th largest in the world.
Penstock

Fun Paper Friday

Borgonie, G., et al. “Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.” Nature communications 6 (2015).

Contest

Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone!

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Episode 119 - "When Nerds Have Research Instruments" Fulgurite

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 May 2017 06:00:00 -0400

John is installing his weather station and Shannon is still pushing through finals week. On this week’s show we talk about a listener question regarding fulgurites. Can you petrify lightning and study it? Thanks to listener Steve for the show topic and fun paper suggestion!

Fulgarites

Fun Paper Friday

This week we scratch the fun paper itch - literally. Can scratching in a mirror trick your brain?
Helmchen, Christoph, et al. “Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study.” PloS one 8.12 (2013): e82756.

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Episode 118 - "One of those lies we tell in intro"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 May 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Earth Structure

Structure of the Earth
Pitch Drop Experiment Summary
Pitch Drop Webcams
Inge Lehmann
Episode 4 - we talk about plate tectonics on the core
“The Core” Movie Clip
Episode 56 – “A lot people would like to think they’ve got a lunar meteorite” Brad Jolliff

Fun Paper Friday

Mysterious caves and giant animals - this week’s fun paper has all the makings of a good thriller!
Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
Star Trek Silicon Based Life

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Episode 117 - "Everything is a few weeks away" Open Drone Map

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Drones are everywhere, but did you know you can recreate 3D point clouds with images taken from your drone?

Fun Paper Friday

Can Batman fly like in Batman Begins? John hasn’t seen the film, but physics comes to the rescue.
Marshall, David, et al. “A2_9 Trajectory of a falling Batman.” Physics Special Topics 10.1 (2011).

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Episode 116 - "The closest thing to alchemy"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon takes one more field trip and John is ready to hit the road again, but we slow down to talk about metamorphic rocks - and probably get in trouble with the geochemists again.

Fried Pies

Metamorphic Rocks

Fun Paper Friday

Listener Darryl send in this fun paper with a glowing review.
Science Magazine Article
Belkin, Shimshon, et al. “Remote detection of buried landmines using a bacterial sensor.” Nature Biotechnology 35.4 (2017): 308–310.

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Episode 115 - "The three horsemen of the academic apocalypse"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 06:00:00 -0400

John is off teaching a workshop and Shannon is working towards the end of the semester. We take a little time off to talk about academic service - what is it and why do we do it? Being an academic isn’t all fun and games!

Feedback

SEM time is expensive!
BMJ’s Goofy Christmas Papers

Academic Service

Three horsemen: teaching, research, and service
Manuscript Reviewers
How Professors Spend Their Time

Fun Paper Friday

Walk like a chicken? A dinosaur? Find out how chickens doing the dino dance are giving us insight into theropod locomotion!
Grossi, Bruno, et al. “Walking like dinosaurs: chickens with artificial tails provide clues about non-avian theropod locomotion.” PloS one 9.2 (2014): e88458.

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Episode 114 - "Charismatic megafauna" with Shane Loeffler

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 06:00:00 -0400

What is “flyover country”? Is it the states in the middle of the US? A band name? A geoscience education app? One of these is true and the creator joins us to chat about it. A big thank you to listener Gary for pointing us to this topic!

Feedback

Shane Loeffler

Fun Paper Friday

This week we talk about a one of a kind recording of a single-couple seismic source. Thanks for the suggestion Taryn Black!
Cassidy, John F., and Art Whitford. “Unusual “Love Waves” Recorded Above the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Seismological Research Letters 67.6 (1996): 49–51.
Scientific American Article

Episode 113 - "Enjoy your symbol of eternal love" Bowen's Reaction Series

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Bowen’s Reaction Series

Fun Paper Friday

Can open table reservations be used to help determine how bad the flu is?
Nsoesie, Elaine O., David L. Buckeridge, and John S. Brownstein. “Guess who’s not coming to dinner? Evaluating online restaurant reservations for disease surveillance.” Journal of medical Internet research 16.1 (2014): e22.

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Episode 112 - "Enchantment Under the Troposphere Dance"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:00:00 -0400

Bombogenesis

Fun Paper Friday

Freezing water can explode? Yep! Find out how in this week’s fun paper friday!
Live Science Summary w/ Video
Wildeman, Sander, et al. “Fast Dynamics of Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In.” Physical Review Letters 118.8 (2017): 084101.
Sessile drop (contact angle) technique

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Episode 111 - "Adiabatman"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:00:00 -0500

John and Shannon both had windstorms this week and decided it was a great chance to talk about strange thermodynamics. Also halloween costumes and popcorn. Don’t miss this week’s mountain winds show!

Mountain Winds

Fun Paper Friday

Virot, Emmanuel, and Alexandre Ponomarenko. “Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12.104 (2015): 20141247.

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Episode 110 - "An instrument at every Starbucks" Robert Busby

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:00:00 -0500

This week we tackle a listener requested show - the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project.

Transportable Array

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 109 - "Really sad Michael Bolton music" Lauren and Dave Heerschap

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 06:00:00 -0500

Lauren and Dave Heerschap

Fun Paper Friday

Did mountains growing make our brains bigger? Explore this tongue in cheek paper on the geo-cranial relation. Get ready for a good chuckle!
Molnar, Peter. “The rise of mountain ranges and the evolution of humans: a causal relation?.” Irish journal of earth sciences (1990): 199–207.

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Episode 108 - "Physics should work the same everywhere"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:00:00 -0500

John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you!
Meseum of Osteology
XKCD Thesis Defense
Origin of the Thesis
NZ Earthquake Lights
Hydraulic Press Channel
Biaxal deformation press

Fun Paper Friday

How can we understand the brain? Is a processor the same thing? This study examines the classic 6502.
Economist Column
Jonas, Eric, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?.” PLOS Computational Biology 13.1 (2017): e1005268.

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Episode 107 - "How many will ever make a map?" Field Skills

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:00:00 -0500

How many students will ever make a professional geologic map? Not many most likely. Is it still essential to learn? You bet! This week we discuss why and how it’s done.

Field Methods

Fun Paper Friday

Slime molds predict best transportation routes? Internet comments misinterpret a paper and use sensational headlines? Find out with this week’s fun paper!
Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis I., Georgios Ch Sirakoulis, and Andrew I. Adamatzky. “Evolving transport networks with cellular automata models inspired by slime mould.” IEEE transactions on cybernetics 45.9 (2015): 1887–1899.
Gizmodo Article

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Episode 106 - "Creepy Rotating Ice Disks"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:00:00 -0500

This week we take some time to discuss YOUR feedback.- and there’s a lot! Also, how can disks of ice start rotating spontaneously? Listen this week to find out!

Feedback

Ice Circles

Fun Paper Friday

How do high heels change how people perceive the wearer? Can a new pair of shoes give you more confidence?
Scientopia summary
Morris, P., White, J., Morrison, E., & Fisher, K. (2012). High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness Evolution and Human Behavior DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.11.006

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Episode 105 - "Nuggets of Nature" with Jay Minton

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:00:00 -0500

This week Jay Minton stops by to tell us about working at some of the largest boy scout camps around and all of the planning that goes into nature trails. Shannon brings us another fun paper from BMJ and John laments about painting.

Jay Minton

Philmont Scout Ranch (official site)
Philmont Scout Ranch (Wikipedia)
Waite Phillips
Phillips Petroleum Company
Boy Scouts of America
Northern Tier (official site)
Northern Tier (Wikipedia)
Java Press Coffee Maker
Scouting YouTube Video Look for Jay around 0:59

Fun Paper Friday

We all know children swallow coins, but can they predict the stock market prices? Researchers follow their patients guts to the answer.
Firth, P. G., Hongming Zheng, and J. A. Biller. “Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins.” BMJ 339 (2009): b5066.

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Episode 104 - "I can't eat mashed potatoes" Devil's Tower

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 06:00:00 -0500

This week, John is moving and Shannon is getting started with the semester, but we take a break to talk about Devil’s Tower, why Shannon has to play with her food, and if we can swim faster in syrup!

Devil’s Tower

Fun Paper Friday

Syrup or water for your morning swim?
Nature Summary
Gettelfinger, Brian, and E. L. Cussler. “Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup?.” AIChE journal 50.11 (2004): 2646–2647.
Mythbusters Clip

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Episode 103 - "Itsy Bitsy Cracks"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 06:00:00 -0500

Listener Graeme asked us why rocks are hard. We explore the simple and hard explanations and then tackle the science of the perfect Martini in this week’s show!

Why are Rocks Hard

Fun Paper Friday

Trevithick, C. C., et al. “Shaken, not stirred: bioanalytical study of the antioxidant activities of martinis.” BMJ 319.7225 (1999): 1600–1602.

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Episode 102 - "Hey Yo Shan" Academia

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about academia. How does it work? The career track is long and has many twists and turns. There are also a lot of jobs many people never think about. And what is this elusive colloquium we speak of?

Fun Paper Friday

Do parachutes really work? How do we know without double blind, randomized, placebo controlled, crossover trials? (Thanks for Nick H. for this fun paper!)
Smith, Gordon CS, and Jill P. Pell. “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.” British Medical Journal 327.7429 (2003): 1459.

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Episode 101 - "Cure your hangover with science"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:00:00 -0500

John and Shannon ring in the new year talking about native science and Enchanted Rock State Park. Why are the rocks enchanted and what can we learn from the native stories?

Enchanted Rock State Park

Fun Paper Friday

What can lake deposits tell us about historical storms? Were the gods protecting Japan from attack with typhoons? Find out this this week’s fun paper!

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Episode 100 - "Mineralogists are Yelling" EBSD

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 04:00:00 -0500

John made it back from San Francisco and Shannon is getting her new laptop setup. This week we took a break to talk about electron backscatter in scanning electron microscopes and think about what can modify the size of animals.

EBSD Measurements

Fun Paper Friday

What can change the size of an animal? This week we find out with a listener submitted Fun Paper Friday! Thank you to listener Steve Bryant for finding this paper.
Thomas, R., Holmes, M., and Morris, J. 2013. “So bigge as bigge may be”: tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220–1900). Journal of Archaeological Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.032

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Episode 99 - "Happy Funhundredth!"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0500

It’s our 100th episode! Join us as we revisit some of our favorite Fun Paper Friday segments. Are you musically inclined? We are looking for new show music! Send us your audio, ideas, and suggestions for royalty free music!

Fun Paper Revisits

Fun Paper Friday

Do you have facial hair? Do you think it changes other’s impressions of you? This week we look at the evidence!
Dixson, Barnaby J., and Paul L. Vasey. “Beards augment perceptions of men’s age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness.” Behavioral Ecology (2012): arr214.
Bonus: Scientists Make Discovery About World’s Silt Deposits But Understand If You Aren’t Interested In That

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Episode 98 - "You get a can of electron beam" SEM

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:00:00 -0500

John and Shannon wrap up the semester by taking a break to talk about scanning electron microscopes and the health benefits of beer.

Scanning Electron Microscopes

Fun Paper Friday

Can beer have health benefits? Geologists certainly hope so!
Fuchimoto, Jun, et al. “Humulone suppresses replication of respiratory syncytial virus and release of IL–8 and RANTES in normal human nasal epithelial cells.” Medical molecular morphology 46.4 (2013): 203–209.
NY Daily News Article

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Episode 97 - "Ridiculous Ear Tufts" Elecia White

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:00:00 -0500

This week Elecia White from Embedded.fm joins us to talk about embedded electronics, beach sand pirates, and bear bells. Also John has microphone issues, sorry about that!

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Episode 96 - "Party with Engineers" Learning New Skills

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:00:00 -0500

Shannon has been learning how to play engineer. This week we talk about getting your hands dirty and how we learn new skills.

Learning New Skills

Fun Paper Friday

Tuk, Mirjam A., Debra Trampe, and Luk Warlop. “Inhibitory spillover increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains.” Psychological Science 22.5 (2011): 627–633.

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Episode 95 - "At least there were functions" Greg Wilson

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:00:00 -0500

Greg Wilson

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 94 - "It sounds better than piece of string"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:30:00 -0500

Shannon has been in the field sampling the great unconformity and John has been traveling to prepare for an exciting change. Join us this week to learn about discontinuities of all kinds!

Unconformities

Fun Paper Friday

Peters, Shanan E., and Robert R. Gaines. “Formation of the Great Unconformity as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion.” Nature 484.7394 (2012): 363–366.

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Episode 93 - "It has a capital letter" Air Pressure

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we address a listener question about air pressure. What is it? Is the Earth’s atmosphere different thicknesses at different places? Find out, along with the answer to the age old question: “Where are all the teaspoons?”

Air Pressure

Fun Paper

Lim, Megan SC, Margaret E. Hellard, and Campbell K. Aitken. “The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.” BMJ 331.7531 (2005): 1498–1500.

Episode 92 - "I fell into your trap" Ben Crosby

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon are still fighting lab equipment, but take a break to talk to a guest suggested by listener Angie about how climate change is forming our landscape.

Ben Crosby

Fun Paper Friday

Butcher, F. E. G., et al. “The Dorsa Argentea, Mars: Comparison to> 5900 Terrestrial Esker Systems and Statistical Tests for Topographic Relationships.” (2016).

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Episode 91 – “I've seen buoys before” Hurricanes Part 2

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:00:00 -0400

John and Shannon are fighting lab equipment, but they take a break to continue their discussion of hurricanes. This week we talk about how we measure hurricanes - from airplanes to buoys.

Hurricane Hunters

Instruments

Fun Paper Friday

This week’s fun paper is all about woodpeckers, how their eyes stay in their skulls, their skull structure, and other fascinating adaptations to handle literally beating their heads into a wall.
Schwab, Ivan R. “Cure for a headache.” British Journal of Ophthalmology 86.8 (2002): 843–843.

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Episode 90 - "It's like a big straw" Hurricanes Part 1

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:00:00 -0400

We’ve had a fairly active hurricane season, so we thought that maybe now would be a good time to discuss what exactly a hurricane is, especially for those of us non-coastal dwellers who maybe don’t think about them as much as say…tornadoes!

Fun Paper Friday

Bantoft, Christina, et al. “Effect of Standing or Walking at a Workstation on Cognitive Function A Randomized Counterbalanced Trial.” Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58.1 (2016): 140–149.

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Episode 89 - "I had lunch with some ghostbusters" Maker Faire

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 06:00:00 -0400

John visits Maker Faire and Shannon found another paper about video games to answer questions we raised last week.

Maker Faire

Fun Paper Friday

Greitemeyer, Tobias, and Dirk O. Mügge. “Video games do affect social outcomes a meta-analytic review of the effects of violent and prosocial video game play.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2014): 0146167213520459.

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Episode 88 - "Helene is made of mayo" GSA 2016

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon has been at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver and John is about to head off to Maker Faire. Join us to hear about the latest in geology and a fun paper we almost chickened out on.

Fun Paper Friday

Who knew there was so much work on human-chicken relationships? Apparently listener Steve did!
Fothergill, B.T. and Flick, C. 2015. The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken. Computers and Society - Special Issue on Ethicomp 45 (3) 100–108

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Episode 87 - "Dr. Lagomorph" Happy Birthday NPS

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:00:00 -0400

Feedback

Babylon 5 Effects
John was on Embedded.fm this week!

Big year for NPS

Lots of press about NPS turning 100 this year
Every Kid in a Park
NPS Timeline
Yellowstone
Antiquities Act
Organic Act

Shannon’s top picks

John’s top picks

Arches National Park Canyon Lands National Park

Fun Paper Friday

All of your selfies can help the national parks understand visitor patterns and determine what attractions are the most popular at each site.
Sessions, Carrie, et al. “Measuring recreational visitation at US National Parks with crowd-sourced photographs.” Journal of Environmental Management (2016).

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Episode 86 - "There's all kinds of terror" Laura Wallace

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we take it slow. Laura Wallace joins us to talk plate tectonics and slow slip in New Zealand. Also a project that gets the best acronym of the year award.

Laura Wallace

Fun Paper Friday

The David is one of the most famous sculptures in the world, but will rock failure ultimately bring him down? What’s the Achilles’ heel for David?

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Episode 85 - "Please buy tickets to Oklahoma today"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 09:00:00 -0400

Earthquake! Last week Oklahoma was rocked by the largest recorded earthquake recorded in the state’s history. We talk with Dr. Katie Keranen who is in the field deploying seismic instruments to study the event.

Sorry for the audio quality this week - we were recoding the interview as a phone call since Dr. Keranen was in the field and there are occasional dropouts.

Ground Motion Videos

Episode 84 - "It might be too soon" (The Limerock Challenge)

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:00:00 -0400

A few weeks ago we finished collecting all of your limericks in our contest to win some sweet geo-swag from Chris at Taylor Custom. This week we are joined by special guest Katie Shearer to announce the winners and read more of our favorites! If you didn’t win, don’t fret, we are working with Chris on a top secret project and will be running another contest soon!

Fun Paper Friday

Sneezes and coughs turn out to be a treasure trove of fluid dynamics effects and import for disease spread. In this paper we explore the gross side of multiphase turbulent flow (snot) research.
Scharfman, B. E., et al. “Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets.” Experiments in Fluids 57.2 (2016): 1–9.

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Episode 83 - "Out of the country" (Brad Jolliff Rebroadcast)

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:00:00 -0400

We are teaching and traveling with the start of the semester. Since John has no solid cell phone signal at a conference in New Hampshire and Shannon is swimming in lecturing, we wanted to share one of our favorite interviews from this year!

This week a special guest takes us to the moon by talking about lunar rocks and meteorites! The moon turns out to be a fascinating place, but probably won’t break up like in Seveneves.

Fun Paper Friday

“Age Rules” from PSRD

Borg, L. E., Gaffney, A. M., and Shearer, C. K. (2015) A Review of Lunar Chronology Revealing a Preponderance of 4.34–4.37 Ga Ages, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 50, p. 715–732, doi: 10.1111/maps.12373.

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Episode 82 - "What Summer?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Classes start next week - it’s time to evaluate what we did over the summer. How did our summer manifestos work out and what are we going to accomplish this fall?

John’s Fall Goals

Figure out my future job
Finish up a couple of instrumentation projects
Assemble my dissertation
Don’t let this class kill me

Shannon’s Fall Goals

Look for my replacement for Evernote
Actually look at my to-do better next time list for classes
Read all the literature!
Submit a manuscript
Have fun with my new class…geology of extreme climates

Limericks

We are setting up a time to record with our judge, it may be a week or two, but hang in there. If you want to send in an audio recording of you performing your limerick, that would be awesome. Don’t forget - we have STICKERS!

Fun Paper Friday

Andrade, Marco AB, Anne L. Bernassau, and Julio C. Adamowski. “Acoustic levitation of a large solid sphere.” Applied Physics Letters 109.4 (2016): 044101.

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Episode 81 - "Landscape Bulldozers" The Driftless

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we address a listener show request from Mike about the Driftless region and address the phenomena of Pokemon Go. Can it improve our spatial reasoning?

Cliff Clavin Example

Driftless Region

Fun Paper Friday

What are the effects of Pokemon Go on our social interactions and spatial reasoning?
The Psychology of ‘Pokemon Go’: What’s Fueling the Obsession?

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Episode 80 - "Dam Nation"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Oroville (1968) is the tallest in the US, and earthen dam in CA 770’ high
Hoover (1935) is next at 726’ high on the border of AZ and NV
Tallest dam in the world is Jingping-I dam (2013) in China is 1000’ high
Largest reservoir in the US is Lake Mead, which holds 29 million acre-feet of water
Glen Canyon dam
Lake Powell on the AZ/UT border, and is a close second at 26 million acre-feet capacity.
Colorado River
WPA

Why build dams at all?

Water supply
Irrigation and flood control
Power supply
Recreation

Hydroelectric Power

Hoover dam generates 4.5 billion kw-hr per year, serving 8 million people in AZ, southern CA and NV
Itaipu dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, dams the Parana River, the 7th largest in the world.
Penstock

Fun Paper Friday

Borgonie, G., et al. “Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.” Nature communications 6 (2015).

Contest

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Episode 79 - "Secret Balloon Barn"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Forecasting the weather is tricky business. You need a lot of information. While surface observations can get us a lot of data, we still need information about what is happening far into the atmosphere to make meaningful models and predictions. Thats where weather balloons come in. This week we talk about how upper air observation works as well as Jupiter’s atmosphere on Fun Paper Friday!

Weather balloons

Contest

John’s Example Lymerick

The stress the fault is feeling Built up by plates never healing Energy release is due Too much strain cannot accrue The rock will soon be yielding

Fun Paper Friday

Why is Jupiter so hot? Turns out we didn’t know until recently.
O’Donoghue, J., Moore, L., Stallard, T. S., & Melin, H. (n.d.). Heating of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. Nature Communications, advance online publication SP - EP . http://doi.org/10.1038/nature18940

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Episode 78 - "Just trying to narrow down the issue" Apollo 11

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:00:00 -0400

This week we discuss the anniversary of the first manned lunar landing and how a software glitch puts over 40,000 brain studies at risk.

Apollo 11

Fun Paper Friday

Contest

Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket.” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone and thank you Chris!

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Episode 77 - "It's Swedish Fish day" SciPy 2016

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:00:00 -0400

A few SciPy talks

Feedback

Nature Podcast Episode

Contest

Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket.” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone and thank you Chris!

Fun Paper Friday

Interference puts satellite data at risk

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Episode 76 - "You can't runaway in an oxbow lake"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week a massive landslide took place in Alaska. Join us to discuss it, Jupiter’s wife, and electric eels on a geo-news episode!

Fun Paper Friday

Electric eels are creepy, but did you know that they can jump out of the water to better shock intruders? Neither did eel scientists!
Catania, Kenneth C. “Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt’s account of a battle with horses.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016): 201604009.
Eel experiment videos
Eeliad Project Summary

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Episode 75 - "It tells you where they like to vacation"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:00:00 -0400

What’s your favorite formation? It’s like asking a geologist what their favorite book is. Find out what Shannon has to say about the Fountain formation and then we connect it to metal music.

Fun Paper Friday

What are the risks of headbanging to music? Would you believe there is a paper about it?
Patton, Declan, and Andrew McIntosh. “Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass.” (2008): a2825.

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Episode 74 - "You pay $5000, then leave"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about how academic papers get published and all the strange things they go through before you read them. Shannon also found us a fascinating fun paper about trees sleeping.

Feedback

Video of SF before and after the earthquake

Publishing

Fun Paper Friday

Do trees sleep? The answer may surprise you. And LASERS!
Live Science Article
Puttonen, Eetu, et al. “Quantification of overnight movement of birch (Betula pendula) branches and foliage with short interval terrestrial laser scanning.” Frontiers in plant science 7 (2016).

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Episode 73 - "A gigapan from 1906"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 01:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about how one very famous aerial photograph was taken and how it relates to one of the most devastating earthquakes of the last century.

Feedback

The most famous kite based photograph

Fun Paper Friday

Zink, Katherine D., and Daniel E. Lieberman. “Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans.” Nature(2016).

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Episode 72 - "I have a lot of words"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon has been feeling the effects of topography, temperature, and field weather conditions. This week we link geology and meteorology talking about Orographic lift and other made up words.

Fun Paper Friday

Swearing could make it hurt less, unless you’re a sailor…
Stephens, Richard, and Claudia Umland. “Swearing as a response to pain—Effect of daily swearing frequency.” The Journal of Pain 12.12 (2011): 1274–1281.

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Episode 71 - "My New MacBook" Summer Manifestos

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:00:00 -0400

This week we kick off summer shorts with our 2016 summer manifestos and talk about a relieving #FunPaperFriday.

Shannon’s Manifesto

Work (again) on my first proposal
Work with grad students on their projects
High School Geoscience Academy
Publish Dissertation Papers
Setup a webpage
Master the Mac

John’s Manifesto

Begin to tie together dissertation document
Make a web application
Get my General Class Ham License
Prepare for my first class

Fun Paper Friday

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Announcement - Book Club!

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Tue, 31 May 2016 17:00:00 -0400

Hey everyone! We've teamed up with The Orbital Mechanics to start a book club. Head over to theorbitalmechanics.com/bookclub and vote for what we should read together.

Episode 70 - "Lake Bottom Seismometers" Natalie Accardo

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 May 2016 08:00:00 -0400

This week we interview guest Natalie Accardo to learn about various seismic projects and lake bottom seismometers! We then pack pears with a behavioral #FunPaperFriday.

Fun Paper Friday

Chang, Tom, and Tal Gross. “How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates?.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 99 (2014): 1–17.

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Episode 69 - “Pretentious way to say raindrop”

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 May 2016 06:00:00 -0400

It’s raining. A lot. This week we talk about how we measure precipitation. We then discuss how beetles use stars to navigate in this week’s Fun Paper Friday.

Rain Measurement

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 68 - "It's kind of magical down there" Kiya Riverman

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 May 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we interview Kiya Riverman about crawling around in caves… underneath a glacier! Join us to learn about glacial hydrology and what it’s like being inside the glacier.

Fun Paper Friday

Chameleons, they have a reputation for blending in, but it turns out their tongues are amazing. They can release energy with accelerations of over 200 gs!

Anderson, Christopher V. “Off like a shot: scaling of ballistic tongue projection reveals extremely high performance in small chameleons.” Scientific reports 6 (2016).

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Episode 67 - "Rock Drills and Beer" Undersampled Radio

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:00:00 -0400

We’re back! On this surprise Tuesday show we talk with the hosts of Undersampled Radio.

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Episode 66 - "I'm going to stomp my hat now" Stress, Strain, Folding, and Faulting

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about all the wonderful feedback we’ve been getting, plus about how rocks can bend and break. We then tie it all up by talking about material properties of wood and how staining a violin can change its sound.

REPRODUCIBLE COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH: A history of hurdles, mostly overcome

Folding and Faulting

Fun Paper Friday

I’ve chuckled at people who go on about the finish affecting the sound of an instrument… I’m so sorry:

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Episode 65 - "If it's not in the index, I'll be in my office" Katy Huff

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:00:00 -0400

Fun Paper Friday

You are getting sleepy, very sleepy. On the count of three you will read this fun paper about hypnotic suggestion! Oakley, David A., and Peter W. Halligan. “Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14.8 (2013): 565–576.

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Episode 64 - "A is for Anticline"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week join us for our own alphabet aerobics as we fly through the geologic alphabet!

Fun Paper Friday

What can the continuity equation teach us about vampires and fluid flow? Sadhra, Makita, et al. “P5_2 The Draining of a Lifetime.” Physics Special Topics 14.1 (2015).

Orbital Mechanics Episode 52

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Episode 63 - "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 06:00:00 -0400

We spend a lot of time working with our hands, in fact that’s why we can do science at all. It’s shocking the amount of science ignorance and lack of skill floating around. This got us wondering we are bad at science and where the practical skills we have are going. Then we found some articles!

Fun Paper Friday

Art, science, math, and pizza. Checkout this delicious fun paper friday!
Haddley, Joel, and Stephen Worsley. “Infinite families of monohedral disk tilings.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03794 (2015).
Gizmodo Summary
Starfleet Insignia

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Episode 62 - "A perpetually fresh hot tub" Hot Springs, AR

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about Hot Springs, the geologic feature and the town in Arkansas. Shannon is going there to visit and have students map the town’s complex geology and see the hot waters. We also scream about this week’s fun paper and the spectral characteristics of screams, alarms, and music.

Feedback

Hot Springs

Interesting Rock Types

Fun Paper Friday

Do you ever want to just scream? Now you’ll understand the spectral character of your scream and how it triggers the flight or fight response in those around you!
Arnal, Luc H., et al. “Human screams occupy a privileged niche in the communication soundscape.” Current Biology 25.15 (2015): 2051–2056.
Gizmodo Article about this Research

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Episode 61 - "Squiggly McSquiggleface"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we catchup on feedback and news, discuss ship naming conventions, and learn about an old gravity experiment! What do the Apollo missions and a Scottish mountain have in common? Listen to find out!

Feedback/News

RSS Boaty McBoatface
Undersampled Radio
Neat geological time scale from listener Martin
Listener Bart recommended an app called “Start10”
The Orbital Mechanics Episode 48
GNU Octave

The Apollo Story

Bizarre Lunar Orbits Article
Lunar Mare
There are four inclinations of orbits that are stable 27, 50, 76, and 86 degrees.

Schiehallion

Fun Paper

Is Moore’s law about to break and change the way we innovate our microprocessors?
More Than Moore by Waldrop

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Episode 60 - "Open Source is Magical" Martin Pratt

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 06:00:00 -0400

This week we are joined by guest Dr. Martin Pratt to discuss new ways to visualize your data and express the frustrations we still deal with on a daily basis.

Martin Pratt

Fun Paper Friday

Can your smartphone help warn of an impending earthquake? Find out with this week’s Fun Paper Friday!

Kong, Qingkai, et al. “MyShake: A smartphone seismic network for earthquake early warning and beyond.” Science Advances 2.2 (2016): e1501055.

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Episode 59 - "You get a lot of bloat-ware, but you don't get a compiler"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 06:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about mounds of feedback, learning new skills, and where to tackle the problem of computer programming. It’s for everyone and it’s really not scary!

Fun Paper Friday

What happens when a few Goodmans write a paper? You get a study on authorship that is paralleled by none! Thanks for the paper Andrew!

Goodman, Allen C., et al. “A Few Goodmen: Surname‐Sharing Economist Coauthors.” Economic Inquiry 53.2 (2015): 1392–1395.

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Episode 58 - "The background on my phone is a thin section" Hannah Rabinowitz

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Fun Paper Friday

In this week’s Fun Paper Friday we find out what your eyes were doing when they weren’t rolled back in your head during those long classroom powerpoint presentations.

Slykhuis, D. A., Wiebe, E. N., & Annetta, L. A. (2005). Eye-Tracking Students’ Attention to PowerPoint Photographs in a Science Education Setting. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 14(5–6), 509–520. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10956–005–0225-z

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Episode 57 - "You go to a cave and do math problems"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:00:00 -0500

This week we’re going underground…to caves that is. We review the basics of how caves form, some unique features, and a lot of fun vocabulary. We also talk about the latest and greatest scientific discovery!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn about one of the most exciting physics discoveries in modern physics - the measurement of gravitational waves.

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Episode 56 - "A lot people would like to think they've got a lunar meteorite" Brad Jolliff

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 06:00:00 -0500

This week a special guest takes us to the moon by talking about lunar rocks and meteorites! The moon turns out to be a fascinating place, but probably won’t break up like in Seveneves.

Fun Paper Friday

“Age Rules” from PSRD

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Episode 55 - "Every time you clip your fingernails" Plate Tectonics

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Why do mountains form, earthquakes happen, and volcanoes form where they do? The answer is plate tectonics. This week we explore the history of being wrong about how the Earth works.

Shannon’s Keyboard

Plate Tectonics

Tectonics is from the Greek tekton or “builder”
Ben Franklin’s Letter
Alfred Wegener
The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Book by Wegener)
Mesosaurus
Arthur Holmes (1928)
NOAA Seafloor Spreading Activity
Seafloor spreading proposed by Hess and Dietz
B.O.B and NDGT rap battle about the shape of the Earth
John Tuzo Wilson
Mantle Convection
Slab Pull
Chain demonstration

Plate Boundaries

Fun Paper Friday

How does cement harden? Does it turn into a continuous material or is it still a bunch of grains stuck together? Find out with this week’s Fun Paper Friday!

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Episode 54 - "We use statistics"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 06:00:00 -0500

We’ve already talked a little bit about the Earth’s magnetic field, but where does that fall in terms of geoscience? Lots of physicists look at the magnetic field, but so do geologists. Not just our current field, but the ancient magnetic field, which is called paleomagnetism.

Paleomagnetism

Fun Paper Friday

What can chopsticks tell us about earthquakes? Find out by reading this week’s fun paper!

Tsai, S.-T., Wang, L.-M., Huang, P., Yang, Z., Chang, C.-D., & Hong, T.-M. (2016). Acoustic Emission from Breaking a Bamboo Chopstick. Physical Review Letters, 116(3), 035501–5. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.035501

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Episode 53 - "They call it the snowtron"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:00:00 -0500

With the first winter storm of 2016 over with, we figured we would jump on the bandwagon and talk about some different types of winter precipitation.

Feedback

Bending Spacetime in the Basement (Thanks Mark!)
Cavendish Experiment

Winter Precipitation

Snowtron
John’s Drone Experiments
Pickle Juice and Cheese brine!
Atmospheric Temperature Profiles
Freezing Rain
Freezing Fog
Sleet
Ice Storms
Types of Frost
Hail
John’s Article “Highway to Hail"
Graupel
Inupiat Dictionary - Turn to page 104 in the pdf and you can see all the different words for snow!
Many Snow Crystals!
Snow Rollers (lots of photos!)
NWS Warnings and Watches - Definitions

Fun Paper Friday

This week we use seismology to find… a burglar?

Hinzen, K. G., Reamer, S. K., & Fleischer, C. (2016). Analysis of a Burglargram. Seismological Research Letters, 87(1), 193–195. http://doi.org/10.1785/0220150253

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Episode 52 - "You pay for significant digits"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Last week we talked about glaciers, a basic staple of any geology education. That means it’s only fair to talk about a geophysics staple this week. We can measure gravity at different locations and use it to help figure out what’s under our feet. That and another great Fun Paper this week!

It’s All About Pentiums (Weird Al)

Gravity Basics

All geophysical methods are based on measuring some kind of physical property difference.
Gravity is sensitive to the density of the material below the measurement.
“Big G"
gal (unit)
Density for any rock varies widely.
Gravity from impact structures

Measuring gravity

Corrections

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 51 - "Regelation. I think I had that for lunch the other day" Glaciers

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn about low frequency sound waves in the atmosphere and how we can use them to determine the winds at high altitudes and improve numerical weather prediction.

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Episode 50 - "Some serious geometric voodoo" Projections Part 2

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Last week we told you about many different map projections and talked about why they are all wrong. This week we’ll discuss a few of our favorites, why we like them, and when they fail us. We also have another Star Wars themed Fun Paper Friday!

How’s your 2016 so far? (PhD Comics)

Nuclear Test

Picking a Projection

Consider what you need
For dot density plots, equal area is important
Mercator projection
Gnomonic projection
Great circle distance
Great circle

Our Favorites

Compare landmasses to Africa.
Mercator puzzle
Wikipedia lists over 60 different projections!
Strangest: Hammer retroazimuthal projection or Waterman Butterfly Projection
Most boring/overused: Mercator Projection or Web Mercator
Pleasing whole-world: Robinson , Winkel tripel projection, or Armadillo
Polar Regions: Stereographic Projection or Pierce Quincuncial Projection

Fun Paper Friday

Feinstein, Zachary. “It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09054 (2015).

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Episode 49 - "Would it blow your mind if I told you Africa is 14x larger than Greenland?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 06:00:00 -0500

Maps are useful things, but it turns out that projecting a 3D object on a 2D map can cause a lot of unexpected problems. They even inspired an XKCD comic. This week we explore maps and map projections. We also chat about machine learning as part of #FunPaperFriday.

What’s the big problem?

The Earth is a sphere, actually it’s an ellipsoid, actually it’s really bumpy and messy
Taking 3D information and pushing in onto a 2D medium means that you must sacrifice something, you are losing a dimension with which you can express information.
Projections are a well thought out as researched problem, even in pure mathematics.
You have to pick a projection that will tell you want you need to know accurately, and know that you lose some other information.
There is even a West Wing clip about this

A few examples of projection problems

There are geographical properties that we care about: area, shape, direction, conformality, distance, scale… and you can’t get them all at once. In fact, some it’s hard to get more than approximately the right answer.
Area: Maps that preserve area relationships between things on the globe are called equal area maps.
Distance: Some maps (equidistant maps) show an accurate distance from the center of the projection to all points.
Scale: The same scaling relation applied across the map will give accurate values for scale relations on the globe.
Conformality: Scale in any direction at any point is identical. This means that parallels and meridians are at right angles. (Local shape preserved)
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html

A few projections

Projections can be generally classified as cylindrical, conic, azimuthal, or other. These are as you would think, projections onto cylinders, cones, planes, or with rules of “rectangular meridians” or something else. There are lots of sub-classes, you can view them here.
Wikipedia lists over 60 different projections!

Fun Paper Friday

That’s what she said. Can we teach computers to better understand human speech patterns? This paper takes a humorous problem as a test case.

Kiddon, C., & Brun, Y. (2011). That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification (pp. 89–94). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Episode 48 - "You know you're going to be inspired" AGU

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 01:00:00 -0500

We want to wish you happy holidays and invite you to join us while John was at AGU. This show should have been released a week ago, but John got very ill at AGU and took several days to recover. Thank you for the well wishes and sticking with us!

AGU Fall Meeting
5 Tips for Surviving your First Conference
John didn’t get to see the Elon Musk lecture.
He did get to sit in a car from Tesla Motors though.
ObsPy
Orbital Mechanics - Check them out!

Fun Paper Friday

Can plants remember and learn? The answer may surprise you, it did us!

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Episode 47 - "That's nerd points" Holiday Gift Guide

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:00:00 -0500

The holiday season is approaching and you may be wondering what to get that geoscientist or science nerd in your life. Look no further as we discuss our recommendations on the Don’t Panic gift guide!

John’s Picks
Gear

Books

Thing Explainer
What If?
The Annotate Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory, checkout author interview here
Seveneves
The Three-Body Problem

Misc

Shannon’s Picks
Gear

Books and Movies

Misc

Fun Paper Friday

Star Wars! Need we say more? Learn about Dunes and Tatooine with this week’s fun paper!

Dunes on planet Tatooine: Observation of barchan migration at the Star Wars film set in Tunisia Lorenz, Ralph D., et al. “Dunes on planet Tatooine: Observation of barchan migration at the Star Wars film set in Tunisia.” Geomorphology 201 (2013): 264–271.

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Episode 46 - "The sweet sounds of square wheels rolling" Posters Continued

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 06:00:00 -0500

This week we continue our discussion of posters, presentation, and talk about splashing around with our fun paper Friday!

Graphing Software

Poster Tools

Fun Paper Friday

This week we talk about urine splashing and industrial uses of carbon nanotubes.

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Episode 45 - Revisit "What if you calibrated your candles differently?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:00:00 -0500

This week we re-visit one of our favorite shows while everyone is outside or in their turkey food-coma here in the US. We also read some listener mail about last week's episode on earthquake magnitudes!

Time is a very complex subject that you can devote your entire life to. Today we’ll cover a few of the basics and enough to get your interest up! We’ll see that it’s difficult to know what a second is and how long relative times are, but absolute time is even messier! We also discuss dried coffee and tetris!

Importance of Time (and why it’s on a geology show)

It synchronizes the world and our human interactions (need minutes - hours accuracy generally)
It allows us to talk about events in a common coordinate system
Allows synchronization of scientific measurements and comparison of data sources. This is really important for seismometers for EQ location!
Let’s us use GPS! 1 billionth of a second (nano second) error in 1 GPS satellite, GPS receiver is +/- 1 ft to satellite, which is 2–3 feet on Earth.

Early Timekeeping

Burning candles in marked cases
Hourglass
Water powered clocks
Pendulum clocks Galileo and Huygens (fancy temperature compensation as well)
Video on Galileo

Modern Time Keeping (Atomic Clocks)

First clock was ammonia maser at National Bureau of Standards in 1949, but it really wasn’t all that accurate. It was more of a proof on concept device
First cesium clock was in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory (UK)
Leads us to the definition of the SI second he duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium–133 atom
The NIST-F2, a cesium atomic fountain clock, is good to one second in 300 million years. How F2 works is a combination of feedback control loops, lasers, and really cold atoms.
Remember, atomic clocks tick away seconds, they say nothing about the hours, minutes, seconds notation we use to write time. We just define a frequency

Leap seconds

Can’t predict them far into the future because of irregularities in Earth’s rotation
Announced ahead of time in a bulletin by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
25 leap seconds since 1972
Next leap second is this year! June 30, 2015
Real problem in computing, has caused software and GPS hardware crashes/issues before
Google smears the second out over a period prior to the leap

Time Standards

There are TONS of time standards, we’re only going to touch on a few. Most are known with highest precision in retrospect!

Solar time

Exactly what you would think, it’s about using the sun’s position as a time source. There is the sundial time (apparent solar time) that changes throughout the year, and the mean solar time which is like a clock time.
The equation of time represents the difference between the mean and apparent solar day
Star clock

International Atomic Time (TAI)

A measurement of proper time (it’s a relativity thing)
Weighted average of over 400 atomic clocks
If there is an error, it isn’t corrected. This makes it into terrestrial time.

Universal Time (UT)

This is what we used to call GMT!
Based on Earth’s rotation w.r.t different bodies (why there is UT0,UT1,UT1R,UT2,UTC)
UT1 is really mean solar time at the equator

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Formalized in 1960
Adjustments were accommodated by leap seconds starting in 1972
Generally considered to be GMT, but GMT isn’t defined/recognized by the scientific community
This comes from TAI by accounting for leap seconds!

Epoch time (Unix Time)

Epoch time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970
No leap seconds by definition, but implementation is actually messy
Stored is an integer (32-bits) meaning that it will run out and roll over on Tuesday 2038–01–19 One second after 03:14:07 UTC, it’s the year 2038 problem.

The Timekeeper Video

Audio after the outro is David Allen

FunPaperFriday

Coffee rings and coffee disks: Physics on the edge
Particle shape controls movement during drying
The can be applied to surface design, paints, and more

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Episode 44 - "It's not Richter magnitude!"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about Bill Nye, earthquake magnitudes, and coffee.

Bill Nye

John got to see Bill Nye (@BillNye) talk at Penn State!
News article with photos!

Earthquake Magnitudes

Earthquake Size (C. Ammon)
Challenge is that earthquakes span a huge dynamic range. We measure ground displacements over about 9 orders of magnitude.
Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900
Kiyoo Wadati
Richter magnitude scale
Book: Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
Wood Anderson Seismometer
Body wave magnitude
Core Shadow Zone
Surface wave magnitude
Seismic moment
Moment magnitude
Example Seismogram

Resources

Fun Paper Friday

Do you like bitter tasting things? A study says that it tells something about your personality. Do you buy it?
Article about paper “Black Coffee Equals Black Hearts"
Sagioglou, Christina, and Tobias Greitemeyer. “Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits.” Appetite 96 (2016): 299–308.

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Episode 43 - “Life should be more than turning off drop shadow defaults”

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 06:00:00 -0500

This week Shannon is grading, John is modeling (numerically), and they both are mad about some graphs they have seen.

Data Visualization

We are colorblind
Tableau20 Colors
Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful
A Better Default Colormap (video)
Perceptual Color Maps in matplotlib for Oceanography (video)
Evaluation of Artery Visualization for Heart Disease Diagnosis (Borkin et al.)
Make everything bigger than you think it needs to be!

Resources

Edward Tufte
Flowing Data
Visualize This (Book)
Data Points (Book)
The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Book)
Presentation Zen (Book)
Data Fluency (Book)
Ask people that make things you like!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we talk about thundersnow and the Trump tower. How can buildings strike clouds?

Episode 42 - "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Shannon was at the GSA 2015 meeting in Baltimore Maryland. She also won a raffle there for a Rite in the Rain notebook and holder.
The meeting app worked well, but we’re both nervous after the AGU app last year.
This is episode 42. A very important number to the show!

Life

Art of the Hadean Era
The Hadean sounds kind of like Seveneves
Geologic Time Scale
Shark Bay Stromatolites
Cambrian Explosion
Cambrain Arthropod Story (Berkeley)
Cambrian Creatures Slideshow
Rodinia (“The Motherland” supercontinent)
Deepest Volcanic Vent Video
Trilobite Guide

The Universe

Everything

We do a Fun Paper Friday from listener Angie!
Heierli, J., et al. “Anticrack model for skier triggering of slab avalanches.” Cold Regions Science and Technology 65.3 (2011): 372–381.
Show Pumpkin

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Episode 41 - "The Nino (Pumpkin Spice Latte Season)"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about El Nino, what it is, how it works, and what it means for this winter. We also discuss pumpkin carving injuries on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!

ENSO

El Nino

Consequences

Triple Hurricane Picture
Hurricane Patricia
Exacerbating an already bad drought in the Pacific NW.
Helping to alleviate drought in the SW and OK.
El Nino years usually mean much lower chances of Atlantic Hurricane development and landfall

Fun Paper Friday

This week we look at experiments about how safe different pumpkin carving tools are. Not for the faint of heart!

Marcus, A. M., Green, J. K., & Werner, F. W. (2004). The safety of pumpkin carving tools. Preventive Medicine, 38(6), 799–803. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.01.008

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Episode 40 - "Pumpkin Sedimentation"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week Shannon talks about back to back field trips, broken airplanes, and rain. John relates a story about a strange northeast tradition and shares a traffic related fun paper.

Shannon’s Trip

Punkin’ Chunkin’

Fun Paper Friday

Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wondered why the traffic jam moves like a wave? This week we discuss the dynamics of traffic jams.
Giant traffic jam in China
Kerner, B. S. (1998). Experimental features of self-organization in traffic flow. Physical Review Letters, 81(17), 3797–3800. http://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.3797
Flynn, Morris R., et al. “Self-sustained nonlinear waves in traffic flow.” Physical Review E 79.5 (2009): 056113.

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Episode 39 - "There are some blow up bubbles" Mars

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about water on Mars and aeroelastic flutter of bird wings.

John got married with drones and garter cannons. Keep an eye on his Twitter feed for more videos soon.
We have a GSA poster and AGU Talk!

Mars

Water on mars

Recurring Slope Linea (RSL), identified in 2011 by Lujendra Ojha (then student, now at Georgia Institute of Technology)
Great pictures of RSLs
Recurring slope lineae in equatorial regions of Mars (Nature Geoscience)
HiRISE observations of Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) during southern summer on Mars (Icarus)
Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site (Science)
Phoenix Lander *Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars (Nature Geoscience)

Fun Paper Friday

Clark, C. J., Elias, D. O., & Prum, R. O. (2011). Aeroelastic flutter produces hummingbird feather songs. Science, 333(6048), 1430–1433. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1205222

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Episode 38 - "I was kind of crafty about it, switching aisles"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we interview Kina McAllister to talk about her science activity kits for girls and then talk about the optimal office temperature setting in this week’s Fun Paper Friday!

Fun Paper Friday

This week we have a paper with a horrible title, but a very interesting study of what the best temperature is for an office space.
Kingma, B., & van Marken Lichtenbelt, W. (2015). Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand. Nature Climate Change, 1–5. http://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2741

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Episode 37 - "We solved all those problems, for all time" Open Hardware Summit

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Talks

AnnMarie Thomas (Univ. St. Thomas) “Making Makers”
Jason Kessler and Jon Ruston talked about ULTRASCOPE
Mach 30 president J. Simmons showed new cad/modeling linked tools that they are using to create open thrusters, rockets, etc.
Yavin cold gas thruster as test bed
Joshua Pearce showed how open hardware in science can save us a bundle think of all the outdated lab equipment sitting around unsupported.
Checkout Joshua’s book “Open-Source Lab” and new “Building open source hardware” by Alicia Gibb
Bruce Boyes on the Wright Brothers and Patents
Open prosthetic development
Open fluid chemistry for biology studies with an Arduino shield
Open Hardware Certification

Fun Paper Friday

This fun paper looks at how using ice shells can reduce drag and some of the non-intuitive physics behind it.
Gizmodo article
Pykrete
Vakarelski, I. U., Chan, D. Y. C., & Thoroddsen, S. T. (2015). Drag Moderation by the Melting of an Ice Surface in Contact with Water. Physical Review Letters, 115(4), 044501–4. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.044501

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Episode 36 - "We're looking at something the size of Connecticut" with Prof. Charles Ammon

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:00:00 -0400

This week special guest Prof. Charles Ammon joins us to discuss the recent magnitude 8.3 Chile earthquake. We then talk about coffee and how it can move your body clock around.

Show Links

Fun Paper Friday

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Episode 35 - "So often we disconnect these things" Why study geology?

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we discuss how geoscience can enrich anyone’s life. Join the discussion and then learn about how much cosmic dust falls on us every day!

John was on The Orbital Mechanics Episode 24 talking about SMAP.

Why Learn Geology

Your World Rocked (Slate)

Spatial thinking/reasoning

Thinking in 3D is hard… 4D is harder
3D Mouse

Resources

We need resources for our modern lifestyle
Earth is continuously changing (as pointed out in the article), so preserving it as is should NOT be the goal, but preserving a habitable planet.

Place based knowledge

Connects you directly to the land. Everyone has a “place” and by further exploring it through geology it can create a deeper connection.

Time

“Any good intro geology course is actually a course in time”
Geologic time…it’s really big!
Pale Blue Dot Photo
Puts things in perspective. Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot commentary does a great job of showing spatial and temporal smallness. It doesn’t make you feel small though, it makes you feel free. Chokes me up every time; Watch it here

Fun Paper Friday

How much cosmic dust falls on the Earth everyday? Kilograms, tons? Find out on this week’s segment!

Gardner, C. S., Liu, A. Z., Marsh, D. R., & Feng, W. (2014). Inferring the global cosmic dust influx to the Earth’s atmosphere from lidar observations of the vertical flux of mesospheric Na. Journal of …, 119(9), 7870–7879. http://doi.org/10.1002/2014ja020383

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Episode 34 - "The Earth isn’t a big bar magnet"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Join us to talk about the Earth’s magnetic field. It protects us and has complication on more levels than you think. It produces the aurora and helps us date rocks and structures!

Magnetic Field History

Geodynamo

The Magnetic Field

Magnetic inclination
Magnetic declination
Been around about 3 billion years
Reverses from time to time (some details)
Secular variation
Archaeomagnetic dating
USGS Geomagnetism Program
Find your magnetic field at the NGDC
Aurora
Tesla (unit)
Ionospheric dynamo
Radio propagation
National High Magnetic Fields Laboratory

Magnetic Field Sensors

Fun Paper Friday

Studying rockfalls with seismometers and infrasound could save lives and turns out to be both challenging and interesting!

Zimmer, V. L., & Sitar, N. (2015). Detection and location of rock falls using seismic and infrasound sensors. Engineering Geology, 193(C), 49–60. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.04.007

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Episode 33 - "Where's that little nerdy guy?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we thought we would go through our every day carry (EDC) essentials for braving the academic jungle. As most of us go back to the academic year, it’s important to fine tune what we carry to do our job anywhere.

John
Nothing Special

Notebook(s)
Pencil/Pen Bag
iPad
iPhone
MacBook Air
Apple Watch

Unusual

Grid it for cables
USB cables of every type
USB to DC breakout cable
Arduino
Wildfire
Slide Clicker
Every possible video adapter for my laptop (VGA, HDMI, DVI)
Goal Zero Venture 30
Jackery Charger
Swiss army tinker
Folding knife
Wireless headphones

Shannon
Nothing special

Windows 10 laptop (maybe not the best to carry around)
Field notes notebook
Bullet journal
Paper planner
Tablet(s)

Unusual

Leatherman Micra
Handlens

Fun Paper Friday

Do you like beer? This week we discuss how it could be affecting your paper output!

Grim, T. (2008). A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists. Oikos, 0(0), 080208022927783–0. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.2008.0030–1299.16551.x

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Episode 32 - "I mean, they still make rulers with inches too"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Classes are back in session, and we’re back to normal episodes. Join us to talk about Brunton pocket transits, argue about strike and dip, and discuss the zombie apocalypse.

AAPG abstracts are due September 24!
Windows 10 isn’t supporting external USB microphones right now. What?
Checkout Angie’s beautiful photos. Part 1 Part 2

What is a Brunton?

A compass, but a really expensive one with lots of features
Generally referring to the conventional pocket transit
About the size of a deck of cards, but worth $500
It’s a very accurate compass/clinometer combination that we use to take strike and dip measurements amongst others
Can also sight bearings to objections or angle from horizontal by using the sights and mirror
Can set the magnetic declination. Just don’t forget!

Strike and Dip

Two numbers that define the orientation of a plane in 3-dimensional space using an agreed upon handedness convention
Dip direction is the direction water would run if poured on the rock, angle is how steep that rock is inclined to horizontal.
Strike is 90 degrees to dip, but conventions are mixed and messy

Azimuth vs. Quadrant

Compasses are available in two formats.
This has started holy-wars

History of the Brunton

Pocket transit invented by David W. Brunton (1849–1927) and patented in 1894
He was a Canadian mining engineer that was tired of carrying heavy survey equipment… any of us can relate
Neat photo of early Brunton
A bunch of businessmen in WY bought it and started Brunton Inc. in Riverton. (1972)
Silva of Sweden
Fiskars (Finnish company)

Issues

Needs to have the needle weighted when at very high magnetic dip angles.
Cheap knock-off compasses are everywhere
Changed the way the needle is balanced, and oftentimes it comes unscrewed with no way to fix it. This was a change in manufacturing that many people are unhappy about.

Fun Paper Friday

Zombies! This week we learn about mathematical modeling of zombie disease spread an how it relates to real world problems… mainly politics.

Munz, P., Hudea, I., Imad, J., & Smith, R. J. (2009). When zombies attack!: mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection. Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, 4, 133–150.

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Episode 31 - "Galveston just gets it" Pt.2

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 06:00:00 -0400

We continue our quest form last week to hit the most interesting mechanisms of catastrophic sedimentation, talk about a new notebook, and learn how to give cosmic CT scans.

Floods

Oklahoma flooded significantly this year!
I–35 Rockslide
Oregon Landslide
Afghanistan river of rock
Colorado Springs, CO flash flooding

Bolide Deposits

Weather Related Sedimentation

Flood deposits
The Emerald Mile - Kevin Fedarko
Hurricane Deposits
Hurricane Sandy deposited 3cm in Delaware Bay
1900 Galveston Storm
Isaac’s Storm - Erik Larson

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn how cosmic rays can be used to see through buildings, insulation, and concrete to provide easy scans without the need for expensive and complex radiation sources.

Durham, J. M., Guardincerri, E., Morris, C. L., Bacon, J., Fabritius, J., Fellows, S., et al. (2015). Tests of cosmic ray radiography for power industry applications. AIP Advances, 5(6), 067111–9. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922006

News Article

Book Block

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Episode 30 - "YouTube is rife with turbidite videos"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:00:00 -0400

This week we start an accidental two-part show on catastrophic sedimentation, John’s drone experiments, and a revisit of some stories from the past. Don’t miss this not so short summer short!

Catastrophism

Wikipedia article on catastrophism
Originated with Bishop J. Usher
Mountains, etc. were formed by unknowable, quick cataclysms…

Uniformitarianism

Wikipedia article on uniformitarianism
James Hutton - 1795 Theory of the Earth
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Turbidites

Lab experiments
Bouma Sequences
Density-flow, not tractional or frictional
Wikipedia article with nice pictures

Landslides et al.

Can be triggered by earthquakes, volcanoes, rain, etc.
Lahars are also density flows
Wikipedia article on landslides
Video of huge lahar in Semeru

Fun Paper Friday

This week we get ready for one of our future topics by talking about bolides and airblasts. Also good timing with the perseid meteor shower!

Kring, D. A. (1997). Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 32(4), 517–530.

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Episode 29 - "Dear NASA, these are a few of our favorite things”

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Intro

The Orbital Mechanics highlighted how little we know about planetary formation, so let’s talk about Pluto and what we’ve learned from the New Horizons Mission.

Pluto Basics

Officially a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt
About 0.18 the radius of Earth
Mass 0.178 of the moon’s
Very low density
Gravity 0.63 g
Neptune and Pluto were both predicted to exist from orbital perturbations of Uranus
Percival Lowell (founder of Lowell observatory) started the hunt for pluto in 1906.
Tombaugh found Pluto using a blink comparison technique
Moons of Pluto
Orbit is chaotic, we can predict forwards and backwards for several million years, but over the Lyapunov time we have no idea.

New Horizons

New Horizons Wiki Page
Launched January 20, 2006
Fly-by July 14, 2015
Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)
Solar Wind At Pluto (SWAP)
Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI)
Alice (UV imaging spectrometer)
Ralph telescope
Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC)
Radio Science Experiment (REX)

The Glitch

July 4, 2015 the software went into safe mode
Turned out to be a flaw in the timing of the commands in the fly-by prep software.
Full functionality restored July 7
9 hour round trip radio delay

Glaciers/Geology

Bright heart shape observed on the side of the planet during approach is ice (Tombaugh Regio)
Nitrogen ice flows like glaciers on Earth. Water ice is very brittle at surface conditions –390 F (–234 C)
Active surface is exciting, it’s not a dead planet!
Glacier Like Flows News Article from Science

Atmosphere

As UV light from the sun strikes the thin atmosphere, eventually making tholins that color the surface of the planet
Some particles remain suspended, shouldn’t be over 30 km (20 mi) off the sfc.
Particles were found to be up to 130 km (81 mi) above the surface
Atmospheric pressure is dropping

Charon

Space.com Article
Just as geologically exciting as Pluto
Likely atmospheric in origin, but could still be geologic
Low gravity of Pluto means it won’t hold onto its atmosphere…and Charon is near its same size, so it can pick up gravitationally what Pluto is putting down.
Red coating could take less than a million years to form

Near loss of the image

Science Magazine Article
Team opened the image file, but it was of Charon. They momentarily freaked wondering if the spacecraft wasn’t in the right position.
Ended up that they were looking in the wrong directory on a FTP server.

Future

2 months of particle and plasma instrument gathering
Will choose between two Kuiper belt objects and head that way to meet in 2019
Data transmission home for about 16 months

Getting the data back

Tops out about 1 kilobit per second on the 70 m dishes of the deep space network
Can double the rate using different polarization transmissions from the two amps “twittas”, but something else must be shut down to have enough power to run both at the same time

Links

Super Planet Crash APOD
Pluto time tool shows you when your lighting matches that on Pluto. Tweet your photos to us and NASA!
Article Announcing Haze and Ice Flows

Fun Paper Friday

This week’s fun paper sounds a little bit like Jurassic Park to us. What do you think? Blood vessels recovered from fossils.

Schweitzer, Mary H., et al. “Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex.” Science 307.5717 (2005): 1952–1955.

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Episode 28 - "You can tag your abstract with emoji. Wait, what?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we get ready for conference abstract deadlines and talk about how we prepare abstracts. Everyone is finally back in town, but not for long!

Pluto show next week!
Abstract deadlines: AGU 8/5, GSA 8/11
GSA, new topical abstracts (search visually by emoji!)

How we prepare to write abstracts

Choosing the topical material. When do you stop reporting on research?*
Think about what session to submit to
Mind maps
Outlines
Stream of conscience writing
Abstract Madlibs
Don’t do this steps hours before it is due. Leave days to mull it over
How preliminary is your data? Is it ready for an abstract?

Writing the abstract

Check the conference guidelines… then check them again.
Open an editor. John uses plain text editors initially.
Send it around for others to look at
Decide on authorship early

Tools for collaborating (a whole other show)

Google docs
Word/dropbox
Evernote (although everyone involved needs premium)
Email… if you do this, please don’t admit it

Other Notes

AGU offering free conference registration
Be sure to submit a 5-minute Pop-Up Talk

Problems

How to pick a session (look for others you know?)
Submission system crashing
Getting people to edit it!
Over-reporting

Fun Paper Friday

This week we read about recovering old sounds from recordings with a microscope. Also hearing cursing at lab instruments in the old days. Nothing changes.

A Sweet Sound: Physicists Reconstruct Primitive Recordings

Applied Science SEM vinyl image

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Episode 27 - "They are terrifying" a volcanic road trip

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Shannon hits the road again, so we talk about volcanics, earthquakes, and other disasters that can occur in the pacific northwest. We even talk about native stories of earthquakes and tsunamis.

Fun Paper Friday

When could Yellowstone erupt again? This week’s fun paper examines magma chamber refueling. Lots of neat geochemical profiles and diffusion techniques.

Till, Christy B., Jorge A. Vazquez, and Jeremy W. Boyce. “Months between rejuvenation and volcanic eruption at Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming.” Geology (2015): G36862–1.

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Episode 26 - "Can I speak to your online librarian?" Top 10 Google Tips

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Top 10 Google Search Tips

Use the tabs
Use quotes
Exclude results with -
Google Scholar
Broaden the scope of your search by removing words
Think like the person writing the article
Search for a filetype:
Use Google Books
Use the forums
Mine references and link lists

Episode 25 - "Scientists studying scientists" with Dr. Elizabeth Seiver

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:00:00 -0400

Join John and special guest Dr. Elizabeth Seiver of PLOS (Public Library of Science) in Austin, TX at the scientific Python (SciPy) conference to talk open science and geek tools! Sorry for the slight echo in the room, we did what we could with the audio!

FunPaperFriday

Keller, Joseph B. “Ponytail motion.” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 70.7 (2010): 2667–2672.

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Episode 24 - "Are you staying with Doc Brown?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 06:00:00 -0400

John is on the road headed to the SciPy conference and Shannon is done with field camp. Join us to hear the wrap up and talk about how geology was used strategically in the Revolutionary War on this fourth of July weekend episode.

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn about perchlorate from fireworks and how long it can reside in lakes.

Wilkin, R. T., Fine, D. D., & Burnett, N. G. (2007). Perchlorate Behavior in a Municipal Lake Following Fireworks Displays. Environmental Science & Technology, 41(11), 3966–3971. http://doi.org/10.1021/es0700698

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Episode 23 - "If there's one glacial feature, everything is named after it"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week Shannon summarizes her field trip and John talks about rock slides and his coming travel. We also talk about organized patterns of dripping syrup.

John will be at the SciPy Conference
Tropical Storm Bill has caused a lot of problems!
Oklahoma Rock Slide
Turner Falls
John’s 3D Compass
Shannon found a unique use for her field notes notebooks
Rocky Mountain National Park
Glacial Moraine
Cirques
Paternoster Lakes
Sheep Mountain Anticline
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Tetons National Park
OU Fieldcamp Blog
Big Thompson Canyon Flood

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn about stick patterns formed by viscous fluids falling on a surface. It could be honey on toast or telecommunications cable on the ocean floor. Check out the video as well!

Brun, P. T., Audoly, B., Ribe, N. M., Eaves, T. S., & Lister, J. R. (2015). Liquid Ropes: A Geometrical Model for Thin Viscous Jet Instabilities. Physical Review Letters, 114(17), 174501–5. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.174501

Video of different fluid patterns

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Episode 22 - "It was like two Volkswagens Battling" National Parks

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Join us this week as we talk about our favorite national parks while Shannon is on the road. Then we’ll talk about kinetic energy of empty and full beer bottles as part of Fun Paper Friday!

Fun Paper Friday

Have you ever thought about how much force a beer bottle can exert when you strike something with it? Bollinger et al. have! Do you think full or empty bottles are more dangerous?

Bolliger, S. A., Ross, S., Oesterhelweg, L., Thali, M. J., & Kneubuehl, B. P. (2009). Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 16(3), 138–142. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013

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Episode 21 - "Think of an anticline, that's what you're thinking of"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we catch up with Shannon’s field adventure and John’s poster and pitch competition.

Sheep Mountain Anticline
Grand Teton National Park
John participated in a 2 minute pitch contest as part of Millennium Cafe. PPG Industries sponsored the event and it was a great success!

Fun Paper Friday

What’s the best use for an onion? To make artificial muscles of course!

Chen, C.-C., Shih, W.-P., Chang, P.-Z., Lai, H.-M., Chang, S.-Y., Huang, P.-C., & Jeng, H.-A. (2015). Onion artificial muscles. Applied Physics Letters, 106(18), 183702–6. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4917498

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Episode 20 - "It was like 1.5 Cores plus a Twister" San Andreas Movie

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we talk more about your field photos, the movie San Andreas, mining country in Colorado, and chocolate blooming!

Your Photos!

Last week we talked about the Manefay Slide instead of the Jordan slide that Mark sent photos of. Sorry Mark!
Hannah and Martin’s Photos
Siccar Point
Old Red Sandstone
Hutton’s Unconformity
How a geologist sees the world

San Andreas

Ok movie, lots of bad science
Talks about earthquake triggering!
Also does a good job with duck and cover examples
Check out the trailer!

Shannon’s Field Trips

Fun Paper Friday

What causes chocolate to get that white growth? This week we find out that it’s very similar to geological growths and investigated with similar techniques!

Reinke, S. K., Roth, S. V., Santoro, G., Vieira, J., Heinrich, S., & Palzer, S. (2015). Tracking Structural Changes in Lipid-based Multicomponent Food Materials due to Oil Migration by Microfocus Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7(18), 9929–9936. http://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b02092

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Episode 19 - "The whole office is batteries"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 29 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400

TOPCON GPS Instruments
Listener Mark sent in field photos from the Bingham Canyon Mine
Checkout Mark’s Images
Jordan Slide
Some general RADAR information
Greenwood Furnace State Park
Blast Furnace Basics
LightSail Mission

Fun Paper Friday

This week we learn about pressure. Pressure has to be generated for Penguins to poo outside of thier nest. How much pressure? We know the answer!

Meyer-Rochow, V. B., & Gal, J. (2003). Pressures produced when penguins pooh?calculations on avian defaecation. Polar Biology, 27(1), 56–58. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00300–003–0563–3

Episode 18 - "I remember having to buy a sweatshirt" Canon City, CO

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 22 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week Shannon talks about the cold weather at field camp, we discuss the Jacob’s staff, and methane rain. You’ll want to listen to this fun summer short!

Fun Paper Friday

What could cause dunes on Titan to migrate opposite the surface winds? Turns out the answer is a story about deep convection and storms with methane rain!

Charnay, B., Barth, E., Rafkin, S., Narteau, C., Lebonnois, S., Rodriguez, S., et al. (2015). Methane storms as a driver of Titan’s dune orientation. Nature Geosci, 8(5), 362–366. http://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2406

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Episode 17 - "What's your summer manifesto?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 15 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Summer is an ideal time to learn new things and explore new ideas. This week we discuss what we want to learn over the summer and how we are going to accomplish these goals. What’s your summer manifesto? Also we get showered by cosmic rays and lightning as part of #FunPaperFriday.

John’s Summer Manifesto
Learn Swift programming language for mobile computing development

Lynda.com
Books
Having a project is essential to learning a programming language.

Develop classroom materials to go with some demonstrations and videos I have collected

Using screen flow to capture computer screen with voice overs
Use Python notebooks to capture data analysis
Host materials on GitHub for free and open access

Setup more effective task automation to free mind space for work

Submit one manuscript and have another draft ready with all data processing in reproducible notebooks

Editorial for writing on the mobile
LaTex for writing the final paper (try Lyx)
KaleidaGraph

Shannon’s Summer Manifesto

I also want to spend more time on Lynda.com
Learn learn!

Working on my first proposal

Setting up my research paperwork so I can start looking into grants

Getting the first chapter of my dissertation ready for submission

Hone my figure making skills
Learn to talk/write less!!

Actually review what I did right and wrong in my classes

Try to keep a doc of these things so I can revisit them.
Use more Evernote

Prep for Fall

Teaching a new grad class - catastrophic sedimentation (if anyone has ideas, please send them to me!)

FunPaperFriday

This week we read a paper about how cosmic rays could give us new insight into how lighting works. Lots of places have been experiencing storms recently with severe weather and flooding. Lighting can do lots of strange things like explode trees and make glass. It has incredible power in each strike.

Schellart, P., Trinh, T. N. G., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Enriquez, J. E., Falcke, H., et al. (2015). Probing Atmospheric Electric Fields in Thunderstorms through Radio Emission from Cosmic-Ray-Induced Air Showers. Physical Review Letters, 114(16), 165001–5. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.165001

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Episode 16 - "We are scared" Nature Calls

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 08 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week John and Shannon discuss going outside and how important it is to our learning processes. Are we suffering from “nature deficit disorder”? We follow up the discussion with a #FunPaperFriday about playing outside.

Fun Paper Friday

Dyment, Janet E. “Green school grounds as sites for outdoor learning: Barriers and opportunities.” International Research in Geographical & Environmental Education 14.1 (2005): 28–45.

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Episode 15 - "If it didn't, that seismometer probably wasn't working" The Nepal Earthquake

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 01 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we are joined by a guest co-host in Shannon’s absence. Matt Herman talks to us about the recent earthquake in Nepal. We had to record in an empty classroom, so sorry about the audio quality. We’ll be back to our normal location and setup next week!

Earthquake USGS Event Page
Plate Map
PAGER Report
John’s Ground Motion Movie
Everest Avalanche Movie
Matt uses INSAR and GPS to look at static displacements.
USArray Ground Motion Visualizations
Coulomb Stress
Geologic Cross-section
Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Fun Paper Friday

This week we read about a mysterious mist above your coffee and tea. This is a great reason to film your coffee cup!

Umeki, T., Ohata, M., Nakanishi, H., & Ichikawa, M. (2015, January 2). Dynamics of microdroplets over the surface of hot water. arXiv.org. http://doi.org/10.1038/srep08046

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Episode 14 - "I basically need a holodeck"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Taking notes is an essential part of your job, no matter what you do. This week we discuss note taking strategies, supplies, and how we work. Also don’t miss out on a sticky #FunPaperFriday!

Note Taking Systems

Don’t bother with highlighting, underlining, re-reading, etc. Those have been shown to be ineffective. (Dunlosky et al., 2013)
Bullet Journal
Outlining
Cornell Method
Sketch Notes. There is a book and workbook by Mike Rohde available to help you learn.
Mind Mapping

Note Taking Tools
Digital vs. Analog

We can talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each forever.
Digital is re-workable (like lasso and move in penultimate).
Paper is easier to write/shade/make more detailed and elegant notes
Digital can embed media
Paper doesn’t crash or run out of battery
Digital can be backed up against loss

Digital

iPad
Apps to write or type (omnioutliner for example)
Smart pens like the Neo smartpen or the Livescribe
Apps on laptops

Analog

Good notebooks include Moleskine, Field Notes, Rhodia, and Whitelines
Pen and pencil are important. John likes Palomino Blackwing 602 pencils and the Lamy Safari pen with Noodler’s ink.
There was an excellent episode of Technical Difficulties that discussed pens, paper, and how they preserve notes.
If you are into pens, there is also The Pen Addict Podcast

Fun Paper Friday

Did you know that the bug-on-windshield effect greatly impacts the fuel efficiency of an airliner? This week we read about some clever solutions to stop the waste of fuel and excessive, unnecessary carbon emissions.

Siochi, E. J., Smith, J. G., Wohl, C. J., Gardne, J. M., Penner, R. K., & Connell, J. W. Engineered Surfaces for Mitigation of Insect Residue Adhesion (pp. 1–15).

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Episode 13 - "One of my best friends is a poet" Phoebe Cohen

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we are joined by paleontologist Dr. Phoebe Cohen (@PhoebeFossil) from Williams. She studies microscopic single-cell fossils from before there were animals.

Undergrad at Cornell, wanting to be in biology… landed in earth system science
Strongly influenced by the book “Life on a young planet”
Grad school at Harvard
1/2 post-doc, 1/2 education-outreach at MIT
Gigapan Photography
Cambridge Science Festival
The Story Collider Podcast
Phoebe’s TEDed video

Useful Apps/Programs

Fun Paper Friday

This week we read about the nutrition of gut bacteria in a baby and how it can influence their behavior. You can also follow the author on Twitter: @Mammals_Suck

Allen-Blevins, C. R., Sela, D. A., & Hinde, K. (2015). Milk Bioactives May Manipulate Microbes to Mediate Parent-Offspring Conflict. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, eov007. http://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov007

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Episode 12 - "You want to filter out the ducks" Tides

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:00:00 -0400

Tides pull and deform the surface of the ocean and the surface of the Earth. This week we’ll take a quick tour of tidal forces, address some show feedback, and then talk about a revision on a classic physics problem.

Tides

Tides are a result of gravitational interaction of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, but are of course a factor on many other planets as well.
Gravity is the key to remember and that it varies linearly with mass, but with the inverse square of displacement.

Ocean Tides

The most familiar example is ocean tides. These are important for commerce, safety, and for sedimentary processes.
Sedimentary layers called tidal rythmites
Cool tide visualization from Calculated Images
General cycle is a flood tide raises water levels until high tide. Then an ebb tide takes water back out until low tide is reached. When the tidal stream stops and reverses it is a slack tide.
Generally occur with 24-hour or 12-hour period, can have a complex shape.
Another kind of clock, a tide clock, has been made to show this.
Spring tide has nothing to do with the season.
When planets are aligned, it’s called a syzygy. Word of the week.
A really nice mathematical introduction can be found here.

Tide Gauges

A pole with markings that we read off of
A float and weight on a pulley attached to a paper chart recorder
Pressure gauges or bubbler pressure measurement
Acoustic gauges or radar gauges (time of flight)
There is a whole mess of datums and standards that go into this, but let’s not go there today!
And rocks of course!!

Solid Earth Tide

The same forceings as ocean tides, but we are actually moving the surface of the planet here. Very important for GPS and scientific measurements. Large particle accelerators actually compensate for their deformation.
The largest displacements are around 55 cm!
Needed to explain the Earth’s nutation
Lunar Tidal Heating

Tidal Locking

We can only see one side of the moon because it is tidally locked. It rotates at the same rate that it orbits the Earth.
Checkout the Minute Earth video on tidal locking!

Feedback/Followup

We got an audio suggestion from listener Stacey about Episode 2 (field gear). She suggested attaching your field pencil to a retractable ID clip so you don’t lose it.
John has an update on the Jot Script 2 stylus!

Fun Paper Friday

We’ve all had to solve the classic physics problem of what would happen if you dug a tunnel through the center of the Earth and jumped in. The classic answer has been that you’ll move like a damped oscillator and that your fall will take about 42 minutes. By improving some of the assumptions that are used, that answer has been improved.

Klotz, A. R. (2015). The gravity tunnel in a non-uniform Earth. American Journal of Physics, 83(3), 231–237. doi:10.1119/1.4898780

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Episode 11 - "It was windy"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we talk about another branch of earth science, meteorology. We discuss the upcoming severe weather season and Shannon’s close call with a tornadic storm. Also updates on past stories, feedback, and fun paper friday!

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
The Brunt Väisälä frequency

Story Updates and Feedback

Nasa has decided to go with the boulder snatch technique for an asteroid mission launching in 2020
If you like space news and talk, checkout “The Orbital Mechanics” podcast.
A very early copy of William Smith’s map has been rediscovered at the geological society. You can view a digitized version of the map online.
More on the mysterious radio bursts
We got some feedback about levels (thanks Celena B.) and a problem with the show logo (thanks Ross K.). We hope we have corrected both. Please keep the feedback coming in!

Severe Weather

We encourge you to learn your way around and use the National Weather Service webpage.
Also checkout the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Storm Prediction Center.
For one of the most severe weather prone areas, Oklahoma, these three organizations are co-located in the National Weather Center
Communicating weather information, or an probabilistic information is actually really difficult.
Doing a hand analysis of data is still crucial to weather prediction. For example the analyst knows about isobar kinking.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Checkout the email “The Ticker" from the mesonet
Checkout if your local weather service office offers storm spotter training classes and get to know your branch meteorologist
John had a relevant blog post that talked about what an expert is and how important it is to know the fundamentals.
Have a disaster plan and know what to do during an emergency! This applies to field geology work just as much.

Fun Paper Friday

This week is April fools, so we have a laugh with the Journal Nature. This week we learn about the coming back of dragons and climate change.

Hamilton, A. J., May, R. M., & Waters, E. K. (2015). Zoology: Here be dragons. Nature, 1–2. doi:10.1038/520042a

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Episode 10 - "I've been everywhere man"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:00:00 -0400

We’ve both been on the road recently and decided to cut together a show to share our travels with you. This week Shannon will take us into the field in NM with her students, and John will take us to Lamont for a seismology student workshop.

Shannon’s Trip

Shannon took her mapping class to the field for a mapping exercise. Her trip went far better than imagined.

Palo Duro Canyon “The Grand Canyon of Texas"
Field Guide for NM Site
A surprising number of student’s hadn’t been camping before, but the school’s rec. center will rent camping equipment out to students.
BLM Hoodoo trail hike
Students got to look for gastroliths

John’s Trip

John was at the Third Annual Seismology Student Workshop at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. We got to interview one of the organizers, Zach Eilon.

A few of the talks that appealed to the instrumentation nut in John were about the MERMAIDS project and using trains as a seismic source.
Organizers had students introduce themselves and make a crowd-sourced mind-map of what people wanted to talk about in breakout sessions. This worked incredibly well and there were many great discussions.
There is also a google doc setup so that everyone can continue discussing and recommending papers related to discussions we had.
John met more people interested in combining science and technology development in their academic career.

Fun Paper Friday

Have you ever tried to parallel park and thought that there just has to be a better way? As part of our “better living through math” series, we bring you: Blackburn, S. R. (2009). The geometry of perfect parking.

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Episode 9 - "There's an app for that"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:00:00 -0400

This week we thought it would be a good idea to recap some of the apps that we use on a daily basis to get our work done. We want to explicitly state that we are fully unsponsored and that these are just our opinions, not official recommendations or endorsements We chose iPhone/iPad apps since that’s what we and many of our colleagues use. A lot of these are transferrable to the Android or other platforms. Don’t tune out or you’ll miss some tips that will help you, no matter what the platform you use is.

John’s App Picks

Omnifocus (Task management)
Overcast (Podcasts)
Drafts (Quick notes)
DarkSky (Weather)
RadarScope (Weather)
ScannerPro/Smile PDFpen Scan+ (Mobile document scanning)
Dropbox/Carousel (Mobile access to documents and photo sync)
Fantastical (Easy calendar viewing/entry)
Newsify (Keep up with RSS feeds)
Papers3 (Reading papers and paper management)

Shannon’s App Picks

Evernote
Penultimate
WxTap
EarthPrimer
clinoFieldMove
iGeolog
Trimble outdoors MyTopo maps
GeoFieldBook
iGeology (Britain’s rocks in your pocket)

Misc Links

Fun Paper Friday

This week we read about building sandcastles! Turns out that a lot of the worlds energy (about 10%) goes to handling granular materials and that we can learn a lot by examining simple sand.

Pakpour, M., Habibi, M., Møller, P., & Bonn, D. (2012). How to construct the perfect sandcastle. Scientific Reports, 2. doi:10.1038/srep00549

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Episode 8 - "Canal Side Geologist" Making Maps

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:00:00 -0400

What is a geologic map?

Conveys many sorts of geologic information
The whole basis of field geology
Can be a surface,bedrock, subsurface, resource, soil, etc. map

Making the Map

Start off with your field gear…like we talked about in episode 2. We said episode 1 in the show, but that was wrong!
Have a base map (Geomorphologic map—we call these topos)…you need to know where you are at
You can use an iPad/GPS with pre-loaded topo maps, or you just have your paper basemap.
John likes the Garmin 62S GPS unit
You don’t want to become too reliant technology in the field because it could be a life or death situation
You need to have done your research before you go

History of geologic maps

Book: The map that changed the world, by Simon Winchester
1793 [William Smith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(geologist), who was a surveyor working for canal builders, was paying attention to all the layers of rock that he was digging through
He noticed that he could trace the different layers of rock that were stacked on each other
He also noticed the different fossils inside them meant that the rocks were the same age and could be traced all over
Would study coal seams, which could be easily traced and spent much time in coal mines all over England
His work was highly plagiarized, causing him to go bankrupt and into debtor’s prison
Bestowed the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1831
Known as the father of English geology

Modern Tools

Fun Paper Friday

This week we go over a paper that discusses one of Shannon’s favorite sayings: All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful, Field (2015)

Three main points:

1) “Given all models are wrong, what we really hope is that any new model is more useful than its predecessors and that the value added exceeds the total development costs.”

2) “It still remains to be seen how long we will need to wait for definitive results on usefulness under various conditions.”

3) “Not only are all models wrong, but their relative usefulness varies depending on location and the specific loss metric of interest.”

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Episode 7 - "We don't have ancient Greeks on other planets"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about how sciences can weight a planet, discuss gravity, and the explosion of a military weather satellite while in orbit.

Weather Satellite Explodes

Ways to Measure Planetary Mass

Geometric (size and density), this doesn’t always work well
By triangulation and measurement of orbits of natural or artificial satellites.

Gravity

All stems from Newton’s Law of Gravitation. Which is really a controversy between Newton and Hooke.
Gravitational constant based on the Cavendish torsion balance experiment.
Measurement of the constant is difficult since it is small and we cannot measure outside of a gravitational field.
With this and Kepler’s Laws, we can solve most simple problems by hand!

Planetary Ranging

A variety of ranging techniques can be used, including:

Fun Paper Friday

THE ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION AND SUSTAINABLE HUMAN EXPLORATION, Gates et al.

This week we talk about capturing an asteroid with a bag and a pull string, or a spider like lander. The asteroid is then explored and moved into a lunar-like orbit for further study. The best part of all is that the ship will have an international docking system so anyone can go do science. A step towards open source science!

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Episode 6 - "What if you calibrated your candles differently?"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Importance of Time (and why it’s on a geology show)

It synchronizes the world and our human interactions (need minutes - hours accuracy generally)
It allows us to talk about events in a common coordinate system
Allows synchronization of scientific measurements and comparison of data sources. This is really important for seismometers for EQ location!
Let’s us use GPS! 1 billionth of a second (nano second) error in 1 GPS satellite, GPS receiver is +/- 1 ft to satellite, which is 2–3 feet on Earth.

Early Timekeeping

Burning candles in marked cases
Hourglass
Water powered clocks
Pendulum clocks Galileo and Huygens (fancy temperature compensation as well)
Video on Galileo

Modern Time Keeping (Atomic Clocks)

First clock was ammonia maser at National Bureau of Standards in 1949, but it really wasn’t all that accurate. It was more of a proof on concept device
First cesium clock was in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory (UK)
Leads us to the definition of the SI second he duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium–133 atom
The NIST-F2, a cesium atomic fountain clock, is good to one second in 300 million years. How F2 works is a combination of feedback control loops, lasers, and really cold atoms.
Remember, atomic clocks tick away seconds, they say nothing about the hours, minutes, seconds notation we use to write time. We just define a frequency

Leap seconds

Can’t predict them far into the future because of irregularities in Earth’s rotation
Announced ahead of time in a bulletin by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
25 leap seconds since 1972
Next leap second is this year! June 30, 2015
Real problem in computing, has caused software and GPS hardware crashes/issues before
Google smears the second out over a period prior to the leap

Time Standards

There are TONS of time standards, we’re only going to touch on a few. Most are known with highest precision in retrospect!

Solar time

Exactly what you would think, it’s about using the sun’s position as a time source. There is the sundial time (apparent solar time) that changes throughout the year, and the mean solar time which is like a clock time.
The equation of time represents the difference between the mean and apparent solar day
Star clock

International Atomic Time (TAI)

A measurement of proper time (it’s a relativity thing)
Weighted average of over 400 atomic clocks
If there is an error, it isn’t corrected. This makes it into terrestrial time.

Universal Time (UT)

This is what we used to call GMT!
Based on Earth’s rotation w.r.t different bodies (why there is UT0,UT1,UT1R,UT2,UTC)
UT1 is really mean solar time at the equator

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Formalized in 1960
Adjustments were accommodated by leap seconds starting in 1972
Generally considered to be GMT, but GMT isn’t defined/recognized by the scientific community
This comes from TAI by accounting for leap seconds!

Epoch time (Unix Time)

Epoch time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970
No leap seconds by definition, but implementation is actually messy
Stored is an integer (32-bits) meaning that it will run out and roll over on Tuesday 2038–01–19 One second after 03:14:07 UTC, it’s the year 2038 problem.

The Timekeeper Video

Audio after the outro is David Allen

FunPaperFriday

Coffee rings and coffee disks: Physics on the edge
Particle shape controls movement during drying
The can be applied to surface design, paints, and more

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Episode 5 - "We actually don't call it the Tertiary anymore"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500

This week we discuss the geologic time scale, meteorites, and fitness trackers!

Pittsburgh Fireball Feb. 17, 2015

Geologic Time-it’s really big (and deep)

The geologic time scale
Despite all kinds of fun things to demo how vast it is…still hard to understand
Cosmic Calendar
Pneumonic devices for timescale-and why do we need to know it? (several examples)
We make all kinds of assumptions about rocks that span millions of years, but an outcrop can change over the course of just a few years/ten years
Example of things changing in days to hours
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle

How do we begin to define Geologic time?

International Commission on Stratigraphy: “ International Geologic Time Scale; thus setting global standards for the fundamental scale for expressing the history of the Earth”
We have to have a baseline so that we can all talk about the “same” rocks across the world

Age-dating rocks

Many techniques, and the actual dates between our epochs change all the time as our age-dating techniques evolve
Many periods/eras/epochs are marked by “catastrophic” occurrences, hence making them natural boundaries, but the dates change.
5 major extinction events

Time as an arrow v. time as a cycle

Catastrophism vs. uniformitarianism and gradualism
Constantly evolving and vastly interesting
Thinking about the definitions of time and how we as humans try to grasp the enormity of geologic time in particular is humbling.

Fun Paper Friday

In an attempt to prolong our time on Earth, we’ll talk about accuracy of fitness apps. (John wears a Fitbit Flex and uses the Fitbit Aria scale.)
“Accuracy of Smartphone Applications and Wearable Devices for Tracking Physical Activity Data”, Case et al., Feb 2015, Journal of the American Medical Association

Episode 4 - "Is that cumulonimbus cloud storage?" Data Backups

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Technicians at the KGRK weather radar encountered a rattlesnake during an upgrade this week. The official NWS statement says “DUE TO COMPLICATIONS INVOLVING A RATTLESNAKE DURING TODAYS UPGRADE…THE KGRK RADAR WILL REAMIN DOWN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND POSSIBLY INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.”

Why should you backup?

Not lose your data
Not waste money, effort
Legal obligation (taxes, grant data policy, etc)

What makes a good backup?

Local and offsite
Multiple backups
Harward and software independence
Copies of raw and processed data (if possible)
Archivable formats
Incremental snapshots and clones

It’s not okay to “backup” versions of files like this!

Backup Solutions

Backblaze (cloud, $50/yr) - This is what John uses for one of his backups
Carbonite (cloud, $varies) - Not carbon copy cloner as said in the show
Time Machine for Mac - Another backup method John uses
Super Duper (Mirroring)
Carbon Copy Cloner (bootable backups)

Fun Paper Friday

The Earth’s core is complex with possible tectonics happening at the inner core interface.
Also, the inner core has been divided into two regions with the names: outer-inner core and inner-inner core.
Geophysics: Tectonics in the Earth’s core (Olson, 2009)
Equatorial anisotropy in the inner part of Earth’s inner core from autocorrelation of earthquake coda (Wang et al)

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Episode 3 - “Computers don’t like -20 degree temperatures” with Nick Holschuh

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Feedback

We received an article from listener Hannah about using tech in education. Thanks Hannah!

Interview with Nick Holschuh

Nick is a graduate student at Penn State. He tells us about his field experience, getting to Antarctica, and dealing with equipment malfunction in the field!

Fun Paper Friday

Dread Risk, September 11, and Fatal Traffic Accidents
Economic theory is built on the idea that humans, in aggregate, behave rationally. But in individual instances, under specific conditions, we find that humans rarely exhibit rationality, and so the study of these individual instances of decision-making gave birth to its own field (Behavioral Economics). It is super interesting, and is relevant to the world of science policy and public education. Here’s a crazy example of what we, as humans, do, when we fail to be rational.

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Episode 2 - If you’re doing geology in pen, you’re just not doing geology right

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500

This week we discuss field tools - everything from clothing to pens and notebooks! Shannon panics due to Earth’s close encounter with an asteroid and John talks about the smell after rainstorms. We want to hear your feedback!

John has been playing more with radar during the northeast blizzard.
Shannon has been keeping an eye on asteroid 2004 BL86 as it passed near the Earth Monday. There are already a lot of neat radar images coming from this event.
Shannon is also planning her first class field trip for a field methods class.

Field Packs

People use everything, backpacks, fanny packs, etc.
John has a holster thing like SWAT teams. Looks a little like a weapon holster though, so be careful. (He also can’t find anyone that still sells them.)
Shannon uses a wait-pack.
John and Shannon use stretchy belts to hold their hammers.
Lots of folks use their hammer as a ruler in the field.

Clipboards

John has a clipboard with storage under it. The black ones gets really hot in the sun though.
Shannon uses a taped together fiber-board/lexan map board. It’s large!

Field Clothing

Clothing tech revolutionized geology!
Drilling with quick-dry pants vs. carrying rainsuits that you sweat in anyway.
All drab colors! Consider wearing a safety vest!
Hat suggestions? Maybe we should go back to full academic dress?
Polarized sunglasses are a must. Just beware that they can alter the color of things!

Field Notebooks

Traditional Write-in-the-Rain/Field books. Shannon doesn’t like these because of pencil writing quality.
Extras in the back of different series of notebooks can be problematic
Notebook closures: Binder clip, rubberband, or elastic over notebook
If you’re really into this stuff, you would probably like the Pen Addict Podcast.
Do you attach your pen/pencil to your field book?
Pocket protectors, John has the stealth.

Writing Instruments

0.5 mm pencils for writing in the field books
For sketching/musing Palomino Blackwing 602
Shannon misses the Zebra301 ultra

Compasses/Hand-lenses

Bruntons are the standard, with really no substitue
Handlens are now available with led lights (and uv if you’re that into it)
iPads vs. regular topo map concerns
Battery life
Weather resistance
Overheating
GPS (integrated or separate)
Does it take too much away from basic navigation skill development?

Fun Paper Friday

“Aerosol generation by raindrop impact on soil” Nature Communications, Jan 2015
There is great high speed video to go with the paper.
Carl Sagan did his own version of outside of field reading! See his notes.
A good fiction work to start with is “The Martian”

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Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:30:00 -0500

Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help

We discuss paper writing, figure making, debate the merits of our favorite software, and discuss a possible explanation of last week’s mysterious booms in Oklahoma. Shannon also discovers that John does strange things with his spare time and a police radar gun. We discuss the demise of clippy, the MS Word virtual assistant.

Global Warming Trend Graphic
John’s blog post on using a police radar gun for raindrop speed

Paper and Report Writing

John uses LaTeX, specifically MacTeX
Shannon uses MS Word mostly
There is value in features like track changes, scripting, distraction free environments, formatting, figure numbering, etc.
John uses markdown initially to have a distraction free writing environment (in the atom editor)
LaTeX help is easy to find!

Poster and Figure Making

Many options, but some are better than others
Powerpoint (please don’t use this for posters or figures)
Adobe Illustrator (expensive, steep learning curve, but good)
Inkscape (free clone of Illustrator at the slight expense of install/usability headache)
Photoshop
InDesign
KalidaGraph
IGOR Pro
Python
Plot.ly

Update on Oklahoma Booms

There was talk that these could have been a result of a thermal inversion
Demo of how sound bends in an inversion can be found on Dr. Dan Russell’s site and this YouTube video.
Civil War may have been influenced by acoustic propagation. There is a summary article and book about it.
We found a 1984 newspaper article from Oklahoma mentioning this phenomena.

FunPaperFriday - Radio Bursts from Blitzars

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Episode 0 - "Hello World!"

kd5wxb@gmail.com (John Leeman and Shannon Dulin) — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:00:00 -0500

Episode 0 - “Hello World!”

In this episode, we discuss what this podcast is, who we are, and wrap up our conference travels. We also throw out our nominations for this week’s “Fun Paper Friday.”

The Podcast

We’ll be discussing: - Recent news/discoveries in geoscience - Technology that helps get the job done - Interviews with leaders in the field or interesting people - Conference stories - Bantering about any geo vs. tech topic - #FunPaperFriday articles

This podcast is for anyone working in, interested in, or vaguely associated with the Earth sciences. As Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers would say, we will often discuss things “unencumbered by the thought process.”

Who we are

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin, meteorology and geology geeks.

Winter Conference Wrap-Up
GSA - Vancouver, BC

Woolard Award winner-using paleomagnetism and continental reconstructions to determine how extinctions occurred.
Digital poster sessions integrating google earth and structural geology
Digital posters showing how drones are becoming more used to bring geology to students

AGU - San Francisco, CA

Nearly 24,000 people, about 30% students!
Interesting talks on friction as a fracture process, coaxial cable Bragg grating strain-meters, and slow-slip being stopped by earthquakes in NZ.
John co-chaired a student pop-up session and presented both science and a fun talk on using sensors in education. You can build a copy of his 3D Compass.

FunPaperFriday

John’s Paper - Frostquakes in New England - Barosh (2000), especially relevant after the mysterious booms reported in Oklahoma last week. Frostquakes have caused ground fracture before.

Shannon’s Paper - (Okay, not a paper, but a cool website from me this week!) http://scieastereggs.tumblr.com/

Show

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@dontpanicgeo
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John Leeman

Shannon Dulin

@ShannonDulin