Don't Panic Geocast

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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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

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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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

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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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

• Faint Young Sun
• LIGO Kilonova
• Greenhouse/Icehouse Earth

• Stuck in traffic? At least now you know why!
• Hanna, Rema, Gabriel Kreindler, and Benjamin A. Olken. “Citywide effects of high-occupancy vehicle restrictions: Evidence from “three-in-one” in Jakarta.” Science 357.6346 (2017): 89–93.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

John and Shannon chat about the Open Hardware Summit in Denver and what it could mean for science.

• PhD Movie
• “Do You Expect Me to Just Give Away My Data?”
• 2017 OHS in Denver
• Doti
• Open Robotics
• Field Ready NGO
• IUWASH Program
• Conservify

• Microbes can modify precipitation? Microbes can be transported by hurricanes and destory crops? Is it time to head to the bunkers? We talk about that and drones on this week’s Fun Paper!
• High Flying Microbes

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

John and Shannon are back to doing science instead of troubleshooting and take a break to talk with Dr. Greg Wilson about Software Carpentry, how to teach effectively, and a smattering of related topics about the academic world.

• Software Carpentry
• Data Carpentry
• Library Carpentry
• It Will Never Work in Theory
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Request a Software Carpentry Workshop
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Lang)
• How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Ambrose et al.)

• Stefik, Andreas, and Susanna Siebert. “An empirical investigation into programming language syntax.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 13.4 (2013): 19.
• Greg’s Review or Stefik and Siebert
• Whitten, Alma, and J. Doug Tygar. “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0.” Usenix Security. Vol. 1999. 1999.
• Perez De Rosso, Santiago, and Daniel Jackson. “What’s wrong with git?: a conceptual design.” (2013).

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week Gene Cooper from GigaMacro joins us to talk about gigapan imaging, robotics, and how to really capture your samples!

• GigaMacro
• GigaPan
• GigaMacro Twitter
• GigaMacro Gallery

• Brown, J. B. “Thermodynamics of a rubber band.” American Journal of Physics 31.5 (1963): 397–397.
• Applied Science Video
• Feynman on Rubber Bands

John and Shannon discuss this week’s Mw 7.1 Earthquake in Mexico and talk about the rheology of cats.

• Mw 7.1 Event
• Mw 8.1 Event
• 1985 Mexico City Mw 8.0
• Lake Texcoco
• Tuned Mass Damper in Action

On the Rheology of Cats," Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16–17 and 30.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

• Lynn Soreghan
• Paleozoic
• Loess
• Greenhouse vs. Icehouse
• Snowball Earth

• Is your fitness tracker lying to you? An undergraduate researcher investigated several sleep trackers and compared them to research grade quipment.
• Comparison article
• Data extraction guide

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin