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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. Shatter Cones Breccia Suevite Pseudotachylite 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...

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. Earth Impact Database Vredefort Crater Fun Paper Friday Diem and Thomas (2018) Someone clever once said Women were not allowed pockets Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www...

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. AVE Clear Wood Wiki Petrified Wood Petrified Forest 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...

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 res...

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 phys.org article Wu, Wenbo, Sidao Ni, and Jessica CE Irving. "Inferring Earth’s discontinuous chemical layering from the 660-kilometer boundary topography." Science 363.6428 (2019): 736-740. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpani...

  This week it's all about the fluxgate magnetometer - funny name, awesome instruments.   Fluxgate Video (NASA) Listener Survey! 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 & He...

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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www...

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). Contact us: Show Support us...

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! Dr. Bruning’s Website VORTEX Program West Texas LMA COLMA Sprite Chasing Lightning (Tim Samaras) NOAA Lightning Safety Website Fun Paper Friday Cipra, Barry. “A prime case of chaos.” What’s Happening in the M...

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. Contact us:...

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). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontp...

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. Contact us: Show...

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...

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.”...

This week we talk about the InSight landing and seismology on Mars. InSight Mission The Onion Article 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). Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack...

This week it’s all about snowball Earth, how we got there, how we got back. Snowball Earth Albedo 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. Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG...

This week we talk about the GSA meetings, stream tables, and bug dorms. GSA GSA 2018 EM River 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 (...

This week John talks about an instrumentation meeting he was at and what the future looks like for seismologists. Blueseis Sensor John's Company 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 Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanic...

This week The Amoeba People join us to talk about creating science music and geology dance moves. The Band Website Band Facebook Band Twitter Band YouTube Band Patreon Fun Paper Friday Dear College Students: You Should Take Geology Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_...

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. Contact u...

Shannon goes to a software carpentry workshop and we do a post workshop discussion on using the tools she learned. Workshop Embedded.fm #250 Software Carpentry 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. Contact us: Show - Suppor...

This week Dr. David Jewitt joins us to talk about interstellar objects, jovian moons, and the Kuiper belt! Kuiper Belt ‘Oumuamua David’s Website 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...

This week Jason Hofgartner of JPL joins us to talk about Pluto and New Horizons! Pluto New Horizons Jason Hofgartner 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 Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! -...

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 Uranus Neptune Amy’s website Fun Paper Friday What would you do if you could make a meteor shower? Mirror Article ALE Website Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman...

This week Dr. Mike Malaska joins us to talk about the wild world of Titan - its methane rivers, organic clouds, and disappearing islands! Titan Titan UnmannedSpaceflight.com Image Processing Tutorials Mike’s Twitter 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...