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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 Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Central Atlantic Magmatic Provine Conodont Alternation Index Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction Chicxulub crater Episode 92 – “I fell into your trap” Ben Crosby “Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction” Fun Paper F...

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 Ordovician Silurian Extinction Devonian Extinction Permian Triassic Extinction The Dunkleosteus Fun Paper Friday How...

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 Notability App Dropbox Business Collector App Dioptra App Theodolite App Corey on LinkedIn Fun Paper Friday Running on the water - this is a contender for the most absurd experimental setup we’ve seen this year. Minetti, Alber...

What’s the difference between a weather advisory, statement, watch, and warning? Join us this week to find out! Watches, Warnings, and more Current watches, warnings, etc NWS Definitions Norman Spotter Resources Definitions CPC Outlooks AMS Glossary Fun Paper Friday Most of us love chocolate, but could it be deadly? Ainsworth, Claire. “Death by chocolate–is it possible?.” New Scientist 196.2635–26...

This week John and Shannon dive into the world of cross-sections, the olympics, and more! Creating a cross section Cross-section example Strike and dip Brunton Axis Section restoration 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 litera...

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 Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology M7.9 Event Page DART Buoy Network Strike Slip Faults IRIS Ground Motion Visualization @kaseyaderhold Kasey’s Website F...

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. Silicate Minerals Nesosilicates Brilliance, Luster, and Fire Mohs Scale Zircon Zonation Uranium-Lead Dating Laser Ablation Detrital zircon geochronology Tishomingo Granite Jack Hills Zircon Fun Paper Friday Dro...

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 AMS 98th Annual Meeting Anemoment FT Technologies Field Work Lake Mohave Magnetostratigraphy Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale Safe use of HF Fun Paper...

This week Dan Zietlow and Ryan Vachon join us to talk about outreach, scientific video making, and Dan Rather’s chat at AGU. Outreach Email: breaknsci@gmail.com YouTube Breaking Science Facebook Breaking Science @breaknsci Ryan’s Book - Science Videos 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 Ra...

Join us as Dr. Helen Janiszewski discusses the recent Deleware earthquake, subduction, and hurricanes! Dr. Helen Janiszewski Helen’s Website @helenjanisz USGS Earthquake Page Cascadia Initiative 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. Publish...

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 the Blog /Newsletter ( Sign up! ) Write another proposal Learn more about web-app development Try swift programming Grow our audience more! Release mo...

Bill’s Trail Library Vibrations and Waves (A.P. French) Waves Part 2 Superposition Principle Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform JPG Compression 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...

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 Complex numbers Wave properties illustrated (BBC) Engineer Guy Microwave Video 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 frida...

HP15C App Pythonista 3 Earth ArXiV Dr. Chris Jackson Dr. Tom Narock SHERPA/RoMEO EarthArXiv 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 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman...

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 cir...

What operating system is best? Well, it’s complicated. This week we talk tech and science and how we work. Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science DOS PC GEOS Fun Paper Friday Nature writeup Haze heats Pluto’s atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature. Xi Zhang, Darrell F. Strobel, Hiroshi Imanaka. Nature 551, 352–355 (16 November 2017) doi:10.1038/nature24465 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeo...

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 Oklo Reactor Water as a neutron moderator Neutron poisoning Windscale fire CP1 Reactor Book: Atomic Awakening Fun Paper Friday The octopus has a fa...

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. First Starbucks Store GSA Computer History Museum Diplocaulus (Boomerang Head) Red beds Fun Paper Friday Ever popped a champagne cork? This week we look at the thermodynamics behind the process and use John’s favorite tool - hig...

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 Faint Young Sun Paradox Albedo Main sequence 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. “Asse...

Faint Young Sun LIGO Kilonova Greenhouse/Icehouse Earth 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. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeoca...

John and Shannon chat about the Open Hardware Summit in Denver and what it could mean for science. PhD Movie “Do You Expect Me to Just Give Away My Data?” 2017 OHS in Denver Doti Open Robotics Field Ready NGO IUWASH Program Conservify 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 tha...

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 Software Carpentry Data Carpentry Library Carpentry It Will Never Work in Theory The Architecture of Open Source Applications Request a Software Carpentry Work...

This week Gene Cooper from GigaMacro joins us to talk about gigapan imaging, robotics, and how to really capture your samples! GigaMacro GigaMacro GigaPan GigaMacro Twitter GigaMacro Gallery Fun Paper Friday Brown, J. B. “Thermodynamics of a rubber band.” American Journal of Physics 31.5 (1963): 397–397. Applied Science Video Feynman on Rubber Bands  

John and Shannon discuss this week’s Mw 7.1 Earthquake in Mexico and talk about the rheology of cats. Earthquake Mw 7.1 Event Mw 8.1 Event 1985 Mexico City Mw 8.0 Lake Texcoco Tuned Mass Damper in Action Fun Paper Friday On the Rheology of Cats," Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16–17 and 30. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicge...

Lynn Soreghan Paleozoic Loess Greenhouse vs. Icehouse Snowball Earth 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 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnr...