This week our friend at The Orbital Mechanics podcast joins us to talk about observing the Earth from space… or something like that.

• GRACE
• Van Allen Probes
• GOES Network
• TRMM
• TERRA
• DSCOVR
• Gravity Probe B
• Earth Missions List

• @orbitalpodcast
• @benetherington

• We know music is mathematical, but Donald Knuth takes it to the next level on this week’s fun paper friday!
• Knuth, Donald E. “The complexity of songs.” Communications of the ACM 27.4 (1984): 344–346.

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This week we talk to Dr. Jim Head about the planet Venus!

• Dr. Jim Head
• Venus
• Venus Missions

• Jargon - we're been here before, but we're going back for a second dose!
• NPR Article
• Anderson-Cook, Christine M. "Hidden jargon: Everyday words with meanings specific to statistics." Data and context in statistical education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. 2010.

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This week it's all about the dark and mysterious planet Mercury!

• Dr. Karen Stockstill-Cahill
• Mercury
• Messenger

• John can't tell a Monet from a Picasso, but apparently pigeons can!
• Watanabe, Shigeru, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita. "PIGEONS'DISCRIMINATION OF PAINTINGS BY MONET AND PICASSO." Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 63.2 (1995): 165-174.

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This week Prof. William Chaplin joins us to talk about the sun and helioseismology!

• Prof. Bill Chaplin
• Music of the Sun (Book)

• Which is heavier, a pound of feathers of a pound of lead? Which feels heavier? Find out in this week’s Fun Paper!
• Wagman, Jeffrey B., Corinne Zimmerman, and Christopher Sorric. ““Which Feels Heavier—A Pound of Lead or a Pound of Feathers?” A Potential Perceptual Basis of a Cognitive Riddle.” Perception 36.11 (2007): 1709–1711.

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This week we kick off our solar system show by talking about what we want to know and the recipe for a solar system.

• Nebula
• Protoplanetary Disk
• Drake Equation

• How long have we had rubber processing skills?
• A good many years before Goodyear

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Join us this week as we talk about ways to keep track of the many aspects of geology and personal projects!

• ThinkPad P51
• Asana
• Trello
• OneNote

• Do cabbies have enhanced areas of their brains to store spatial maps? Find out on this fun paper’s Friday.
• Maguire, Eleanor A., et al. “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97.8 (2000): 4398–4403.

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This week we’re excited to be talking to Paul Wessel and Leo Uieda about the past, present, and future of GMT.

• GMT Website
• GMT/Python
• Leo’s Website
• @leouieda
• Paul’s Website

• Can you imagine smelling bad for 5 years? Checkout this week’s stinky fun paper.
• Guardian Article
• Mills, Caroline M., et al. “A man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for 5 years.” The Lancet 348.9037 (1996): 1282.

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This week join us for our own alphabet aerobics as we fly through the geologic alphabet!

• John’s Deines Lecture

• A - Anticline

• B - Breccia

• C - Coulomb Failure

• D - Dikes

• E - Earthquake

• F - Facies

• G - GPR

• H - Halimeda

• I - Induced Polarization

• J - Jadeite

• K - Knickpoint

• L - Leaverite

• M - Moho

• N - Nappe

• O - Ooids

• P - Paleomagnetism

• Q - Quicksand

• R - Rift

• S - Seismic

• T - Tektites

• U - Uniformitarianism

• V - Veins

• W - Wadi

• X - Xenolith

• Y - Yardang

• Z - Zonation

What can the continuity equation teach us about vampires and fluid flow? Sadhra, Makita, et al. “P5_2 The Draining of a Lifetime.” Physics Special Topics 14.1 (2015).

Orbital Mechanics Episode 52

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This week John and Shannon talk about what scientific reproducibility means.

• MagIC Database
• E.O. Wilson TED Talk
• NumFocus
• Jupyter

• Would a chicken swipe left or right?
• Ghirlanda, Stefano, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist. “Chickens prefer beautiful humans.” Human nature 13.3 (2002): 383–389.

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This week it’s all about the dinos and how so many ended up in the Morrison Formation. Join us to learn about the upper Jurassic mud-pit.

• The Morrison
• Nevadan Orogeny
• Arthur Lakes
• Othniel Charles Marsh
• Edward Drinker Cope
• Garden Park

• Do volcanos slide down hill? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Murray, John B., et al. “Gravitational sliding of the Mt. Etna massif along a sloping basement.” Bulletin of Volcanology 80.4 (2018): 40.

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