Don't Panic Geocast

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October 08, 2022Episode 345 - "3rd Hoodoo on the Left"
This week its all about the badlands and how they got to be so bad!
Fun Paper Friday
DECEPTIVELY CHONKY LIZARD BREAKS AN UNFORTUNATE, STRANGE RECORD
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35 min
October 01, 2022Episode 344 - "Pre-Cognated"
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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1 hr 7 min
September 23, 2022Episode 343 - "Div, Grad, and Curl"
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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54 min
September 10, 2022Episode 342 - "Kiss Me"
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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52 min
September 03, 2022Episode 341 - "Scrambler Outside the Physics Department"
This week we discuss more about the three apparent forces we feel on a rotating ball:
Coriolis Force
Centrifugal Force
Euler Force
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.
41 min
August 27, 2022Episode 340 - "Coriolis Thing"
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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1 hr 4 min
August 20, 2022Episode 339 - "Museum with a crater out back"
This week we talk about meteor crater.
Meteor Crater
Kring, David A. "Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 32.4 (1997): 517-530.
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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45 min
August 12, 2022Episode 338 - "GEARS 2022"
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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1 hr 2 min
July 23, 2022Episode 337 - "Air Guitar"
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!
Listen to a Whistler
Listen to Sferics
Radio Jove
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).
29 min
July 15, 2022Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"
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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42 min

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John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments.…