Don't Panic Geocast

This week we stick to a dry subject - deserts! Learn about how rocks weather in a place where there isn't much.

• Peltier diagram on weathering
• Desert Varnish
• Rock Exfoliation Video

• What if the Earth were replaced with blueberries?
• Sandberg, Anders. "Blueberry Earth." arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10553 (2018).

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Deserts - hot and dry right? Wrong! There's so much more to them!

• Synthetic Uranus? Magnetic Fields? Learn more in this week's fun paper.
• Chau, Ricky, Sebastien Hamel, and William J. Nellis. "Chemical processes in the deep interior of Uranus." Nature communications 2 (2011): 203.

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This week we talk about the dreaded stereonet and why it's useful and somewhat... odd.

• Great Stereonet Video Series
• On Teaching Stereonets
• Visible Geology

• What's the best way to make a uniform crepe or pancake? Find out with just a bit of math!
• Boujo, E., and M. Sellier. "Pancake making and surface coating: optimal control of a gravity-driven liquid film." Physical Review Fluids 4.6 (2019): 064802.

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This week we talk about how YOU can contribute to science with citizen science efforts and what it takes to make a successful citizen science project.

• SETI@Home
• Pl@ntNet
• BioBlitz
• OK BioBlitz
• urad Monitor
• Bud Burst

• How to run a successful citizen science project

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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!

• Esker Water
• Strahler Number
• 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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