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).  Contact us: Show  Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com  John Leeman  www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman  Shannon Dulin  @ShannonDulin 

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

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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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St. Anthony Falls Lab


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Educational Outreach Programs."  Biology of Rattlesnakes II


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Episode 390 - "Stretch Aquarium"

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


FieldVolt 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 389 - "FieldVolt"

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 388 - "Screaming Eagle"

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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Geoprobe


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


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Episode 387 - "Adorable Baby Drilling Rig"

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

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