Join us as Dr. Helen Janiszewski discusses the recent Deleware earthquake, subduction, and hurricanes!

• Helen’s Website
• @helenjanisz
• USGS Earthquake Page
• Cascadia Initiative

• When it rains, it pours… and the Earth sinks.
• Montanari, S. (2017), Weight of water dropped by Hurricane Harvey flexed Earth’s crust, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO089015. Published on 14 December 2017.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we reflect on our past goals and set some new ones for 2018 and the path to show 200!

• Grow my business with the addition of two products
• See some of Colorado
• Read 15 Books
• Go Paperless for our personal and business records
• Get Back to theBlog/Newsletter (Sign up!)
• Write another proposal
• Learn more about web-app development
• Try swift programming
• Grow our audience more!
• Release more great and more timely content

• Declutter life!
• Read 25 books (at least 5 non-fiction!)
• Get back to bike riding
• Submit this manuscript or quit my job!
• Submit another proposal
• Be prepared for field camp at least 2 months out
• Clean-up my workspace
• Have manuals for all the devices
• Field Camp Blog!
• Complete person and lab webpages
• Incorporate tech in the classroom
• Learn to edit the shoe
• Start a Don’t Panic! Instagram page

• Teens and rats apparently have the same drinking habits. Find out how on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Hargreaves, Garth A., et al. “Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats.” Alcohol 43.4 (2009): 305–314.

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

• Bill’s Trail Library
• Vibrations and Waves (A.P. French)

• Superposition Principle
• Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
• JPG Compression

• Thanks to listener Darryl for sending in this fun paper about the number of toys and quality of play in toddlers.
• Dauch, Carly, et al. “The influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers’ play.” Infant Behavior and Development 50 (2018): 78–87.

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we tackle a tough listener question about waves. What are they and how can we understand and use them? Find out on this week’s show!

• Don’t Panic Tee Shirts!

• Complex numbers
• Wave properties illustrated (BBC)
• Engineer Guy Microwave Video

• Does your dog give you puppy eyes? Learn more about that expression and scientific expression coding in this week’s fun paper friday!
• Kaminski, Juliane, et al. “Human attention affects facial expressions in domestic dogs.” Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 12914.

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

• HP15C App
• Pythonista 3

• Dr. Chris Jackson
• Dr. Tom Narock
• SHERPA/RoMEO
• EarthArXiv

• This week we give you an excuse to eat chocolate and win a Nobel.
• “Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates,” Fanz H. Messerli, M.D.
• Spurious Correlations

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we keep chatting about what computational devices we want to carry and what our recommendations are.

• Apple Smart Keyboard
• Apple Pencil
• Microsoft Surface

• Have you ever been in a mosh pit? One of us has, and we discuss this model of mosh pit activity in this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Huff Post Article
• Silverberg, Jesse L., et al. “Collective motion of humans in mosh and circle pits at heavy metal concerts.” Physical Review Letters 110.22 (2013): 228701.
• Interactive Simulator

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

What operating system is best? Well, it’s complicated. This week we talk tech and science and how we work.

• Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science
• DOS
• PC GEOS

• Nature writeup
• Haze heats Pluto’s atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature. Xi Zhang, Darrell F. Strobel, Hiroshi Imanaka. Nature 551, 352–355 (16 November 2017) doi:10.1038/nature24465

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

John is holed up working in his workshop and Shannon is preparing for the end of the semester. This week we take some time to talk about when nature out smarted all of us and created a natural nuclear reactor.

• Embedded 221 with Jimmy Soni

• Oklo Reactor
• Water as a neutron moderator
• Neutron poisoning
• Windscale fire
• CP1 Reactor
• Book: Atomic Awakening

• The octopus has a facinating set of genes that help explain their extraordinary intellegence and capabilities.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

Shannon was off at GSA while John browsed the history of computing. We talk about our travels and celebrate with a discussion of champagne cork popping and thermodynamics.

• First Starbucks Store
• GSA
• Computer History Museum
• Diplocaulus (Boomerang Head)
• Red beds

• Ever popped a champagne cork? This week we look at the thermodynamics behind the process and use John’s favorite tool - high speed cameras!
• Liger-Belair, Gérard, et al. “Unveiling CO2 heterogeneous freezing plumes during champagne cork popping.” Scientific Reports 7 (2017).

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we finish up talking about the faint young sun and how some corporations seem to have strange ways of communicating the climate risk that they’ve studied.

• Faint Young Sun Paradox
• Albedo
• Main sequence

• How did ExxonMobil do in its communications about climate change? Read all about it in this in-depth study!
• Supran, Geoffrey, and Naomi Oreskes. “Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014).” Environmental Research Letters 12.8 (2017): 084019.

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Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin