This week Matt Hall of Agile Scientific joins John to talk about teaching Python, the ways scientists get around learning programming, and how to help them learn these tools!

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This week we talk about fire weather and wildfires! It's a hot topic. We also visit a somewhat Halloween appropriate fun paper from the Journal of Experimental Biology.

• National Fire Danger Rating Index
• Mesonet Fire Weather Page
• Burning Index
• Ignition Component
• Spread Component
• Fuel Moisture
• Keetch-Byram Drought Index

• It's Halloween Fun Paper Time! Hands, guitar tuners, and accelerometers.
• Horns, Joshua, Rebekah Jung, and David R. Carrier. "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.20 (2015): 3215-3221.

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This week we talk to Dr. Jeffrey Wagman about experimental psychology, perception, and what it takes to write a "Fun Paper" worthy paper!

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• This week we discuss knights in shining armor!
• Askew, Graham N., Federico Formenti, and Alberto E. Minetti. "Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers' locomotor performance." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279.1729 (2011): 640-644.

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This week we wrap up our discussion of how plate tectonics can influence climate, then discuss zebra stripes on a fascinating fun paper Friday!

• Kojima, Tomoki, et al. "Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack." PloS one 14.10 (2019): e0223447.

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This week we chat about how tectonics can influence the climate and the many ways in which this happens.

• Here's egg in your eye! Find out about the severity of ocular injuries from thrown eggs!
• Stewart, R. M. K., J. M. Durnian, and M. C. Briggs. "“Here’s egg in your eye”: a prospective study of blunt ocular trauma resulting from thrown eggs." Emergency medicine journal 23.10 (2006): 756-758.

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This week we talk about how rivers work. Rivers are all around - on the surface, underground, even under glaciers and upside-down!

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• Law of the Wall
• Dam Nation

• Cooper, Katelyn M., et al. "To be funny or not to be funny: Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor in college science courses." PloS one 13.8 (2018): e0201258.

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Shannon is back from GSA, John is back from London and we talk about teaching revelations, new things happening in magnetics, and learning programming on this catch-up themed episode!

• Dandelion seeds breaking new group in fluid dynamics!
• Middleton, Christine. "Dandelion seeds are optimized for wind-based travel." Physics Today 72.1 (2019): 17-19.

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This week we talk about the age of the Earth and how we think we know it!

• Wiki Summary

• This week we revisit the perceived weight of things... it's heavy!
• Wagman, Jeffrey B., and Samantha J. Aspel. "When can an object feel heavier than itself? Perceived heaviness of a wielded object depends on grasp position." Perception 40.11 (2011): 1384-1386.

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This week we talk about the opposite of convection - microbursts! Learn how air accelerates downward to cause tornado like destruction and aircraft accidents on this week's show!

• Microburst
• Ted Fujita

• Think birds are scary? Wait till you see this monster!
• Worthy, Trevor H., et al. "Evidence for a giant parrot from the Early Miocene of New Zealand." Biology letters 15.8 (2019): 20190467.
• Washington Post Article

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This week the crew discusses thunderstorms - where they come from and how they are actually really similar to some geological processes.

• Squall Line/QLCS
• Outflow Boundary

• What makes a good pizza? Physics to the rescue!
• Varlamov, Andrey, Andreas Glatz, and Sergio Grasso. "The physics of baking good pizza." Physics Education 53.6 (2018): 065011.

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