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

• Haboob

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

• 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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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!

• 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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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!

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• Unidata

• 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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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!

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

• Man eating deer? Looks like it!
• Meckel, Lauren A., Chloe P. McDaneld, and Daniel J. Wescott. "White‐tailed deer as a taphonomic agent: photographic evidence of white‐tailed deer gnawing on human bone." Journal of forensic sciences 63.1 (2018): 292-294.

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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?

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

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

• Geologists' Squeeze Box
• Squeeze Box Core Tubes

• 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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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

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

• 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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