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This week we dive into Dunham classification and golf habits!

• Dunham Classification

• Do doctors play more golf than the rest of us? Are they better at it?
• Koplewitz, Gal, et al. "Golf habits among physicians and surgeons: observational cohort study." bmj 363 (2018): k4859.

This week we talk about classification again, but this time how Folk looked at carbonate rocks and why the naming scheme has to be so much different than with sedimentary systems!

• Folk Carbonate Classification

• Winter is coming, but why? Orbital mechanics to the rescue!
• Paradise, Adiv, et al. "The Long Night: Modeling the Climate of Westeros." arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12195 (2019).

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This week we take on geoengineering and mimicking behaviors!

• How Cloud Seeding Works
• Iron Dumping Experiment
• Nature on Geoengineering
• Vonnegut Article
• Undiscovered Podcast on Vonnegut

• Persson, Tomas, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Alenkær Madsen. "Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors." Primates 59.1 (2018): 19-29.

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This week - what is a sandstone by any other name? Its Folk name that is!

• Folk Classification
• Remembering Bob Folk

• Live Science Article
• Blaj, Gabriel, et al. "Generation of high-intensity ultrasound through shock propagation in liquid jets." Physical Review Fluids 4.4 (2019): 043401.

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Is it a nodule, is it a concretion, it is rock lightning? Find out on this week's summer short!

• Concretion
• Nodule

• Is there carbon from outside this world?
• Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Volcanic Rock

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This week we talk about the Dakota group and how it formed those beautiful hogback structures we all love!

• Dakota Formation
• Hogback
• Western Interior Seaway

• Can dead fish really see emotion in humans?
• fMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish

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This week we continue our instrument journey and talk about controlling the physical world with tiny electrons!

• Can the music you listen to change your reaction to violence?
• Sun, Yanan, et al. "Implicit violent imagery processing among fans and non-fans of music with violent themes." Royal Society Open Science 6.3 (2019): 181580.

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This week we explore how does your data go from a physical thing to a digital representation.

• Transducer
• ADC

• Security is a scary topic, but we might be looking at the wrong problems!
• Mickens, J., 2014. This World of Ours. USENIX.

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This week it’s all about microscopic indications of impacts and some fun mineral names. We wrap up with a fun paper on making project acronyms!

• Coesite
• Stishovite
• Planar Deformation Features

• Cook, B.A., ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me

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This week we continue to chat about impact events and the macroscopic evidence of them. We wrap up with a chat about primate sleep patterns.

• Shatter Cones
• Breccia
• Suevite
• Pseudotachylite

• Did our sleep patterns help us grow our cognitive ability? Find out on this week's Fun Paper Friday!
• NYTimes Interview
• Samson, David R., and Charles L. Nunn. "Sleep intensity and the evolution of human cognition." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 24.6 (2015): 225-237.

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