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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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This week we talk about why we go to Antarctica and what kinds of work happens there each year!

• What happens if you hold a cat in your dating profile photo? This important question answered by this week's fun paper!
• Kogan, Lori, and Shelly Volsche. "Not the Cat’s Meow? The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability." Animals 10.6 (2020): 1007.

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This week we talk about derechos - what are they and why did one sweep across the upper midwest bringing wide spread distruction? Find out that and how sword swallowers do what they do in this week's show!

• NWS Derecho Page

• How to sword swallowers do it? Do they ever get injured? We touch on this pointy topic with a fun paper!
• Witcombe, Brian, and Dan Meyer. "Sword swallowing and its side effects." Bmj 333.7582 (2006): 1285-1287.

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This week we interview Shannon about her career path to becoming a dual degree student and professor in geology!

• Barnett, Adrian, Inger Mewburn, and Sara Schroter. "Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time." bmj 367 (2019).

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Hot spots - what are they? We don't know either! Explore with us on this week's show.

• J. Tuzo Wilson
• Pele Searches for a Home
• Pele Honua Mea

• Nawroth, Christian, et al. "Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions." Royal Society open science 5.8 (2018): 180491.

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Comet NEOWISE is in the sky - learn all about it and comets in general!

• The Earth hums with normal modes - learn how scientists are picking them up with seismometers on the bottom of the ocean.
• Deen, M., et al. "First observation of the Earth's permanent free oscillations on ocean bottom seismometers." Geophysical Research Letters 44.21 (2017): 10-988.

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This week we learn how searching for a downed aircraft may have helped us better understand how plate tectonics work... we think... maybe. It's not an exact science.

• Fans - hot or not? Find out by sticking undergrads in a thermal chamber!
• Ravanelli, Nicholas M., et al. "Heart rate and body temperature responses to extreme heat and humidity with and without electric fans." Jama 313.7 (2015): 724-725.

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This week we talk about why we don't believe that a rock ID app is a possibility now or potentially ever.

• How do you convert human years to dog years? Turns out it is a bit more complicated than we thought.
• Wang, Tina, et al. "Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging by Conserved Remodeling of the DNA Methylome." Cell Systems (2020).

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This week it's all about rainbows, light, reflection, refraction, and how it's just like an earthquake!

• Have you seen products marketed as "chemical free"? This weeks paper looks at those claims with an analytical eye.
• Goldberg, Alexander FG, and C. J. Chemjobber. "A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products."

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This week we Mystery Science Theater 3000 our own Episode 0 to celebrate the 8-bit rollover of our show!