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This week Dr. Walter Smith joins us to talk about GMT, satellite altimetry, gravity, racing cars, and more!

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• This week we examine parachutes… again. Do they work? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper!
• Yeh, Robert W., et al. “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial.” BMJ 363 (2018): k5094.

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This week it’s more about climate, but at a time when we didn’t have any ice on the Earth and when most of our fossil fuel storage formations were being deposited!

• Chickens - the dominant life marker in human-era strata? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Carys E. Bennett, Richard Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Matt Edgeworth, Holly Miller, Ben Coles, Alison Foster, Emily J. Burton and Upenyu Marume The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere5Royal Society Open Science http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180325

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This week John and Shannon continue talking about Earth’s past climate and snowball Earth, then delve into the physics of cactus.

• Geologic Timescale

• Which cactus is the worst to get stuck by? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Crofts, S. B., and P. S. L. Anderson. “The influence of cactus spine surface structure on puncture performance and anchoring ability is tuned for ecology.” Proceedings. Biological sciences 285.1891 (2018).

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This week we talk about the InSight landing and seismology on Mars.

• InSight Mission
• The Onion Article

• Could minerals be the keys to solving the dark matter puzzle?
• Drukier, Andrzej K., et al. “Paleo-detectors: Searching for Dark Matter with Ancient Minerals.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06844 (2018).

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This week it’s all about snowball Earth, how we got there, how we got back.

• Snowball Earth
• Albedo

• Small dinosaurs making tools in the lab!
• Gizmodo Article
• Auersperg, A. M. I., et al. “Tool making cockatoos adjust the lengths but not the widths of their tools to function.” PloS one 13.11 (2018): e0205429.

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This week we talk about the GSA meetings, stream tables, and bug dorms.

• GSA 2018
• EM River

• What’s that buzzing sound? Find out on this week’s fun paper.
• Chung, H. N., et al. “Toward Implementation of Mosquito Sterile Insect Technique: The Effect of Storage Conditions on Survival of Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) During Transport.” Journal of insect science (Online) 18.6 (2018).

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This week John talks about an instrumentation meeting he was at and what the future looks like for seismologists.

• Blueseis Sensor
• John's Company

• Can a fly ruin a glass of wine? Find out in this week's fun paper!
• Becher, P.G., Lebreton, S., Wallin, E.A. et al. J Chem Ecol (2018) 44: 431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0950-4

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This week The Amoeba People join us to talk about creating science music and geology dance moves.

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• Band Facebook
• Band Twitter
• Band YouTube
• Band Patreon

• Dear College Students: You Should Take Geology

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This week John and Shannon talk about their transitions to Windows and Mac, and what to do when things just stop working.

• Back to Work #393

• What’s the half-life of a chocolate box in a hospital? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday.
• Gajendragadkar, Parag R., et al. “The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study.” Bmj 347 (2013): f7198.

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Shannon goes to a software carpentry workshop and we do a post workshop discussion on using the tools she learned.

• Embedded.fm #250
• Software Carpentry

• Lizards and hurricanes, this week’s fun paper has it all
• UCDavis Blog Post
• Donihue, Colin M., et al. “Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard.” Nature 560.7716 (2018): 88.

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