Don't Panic Geocast

By John Leeman and Shannon Dulin

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. ... more

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March 29, 2024Episode 383 - "Logarithmically Fades Away"
This week we see how scientists break down the Earth into 7 or more spheres and why that is and isn't a good idea. We also explore a fun paper about graphene that is just full of crap.
Fun Paper Friday
Graphene is an amazing material, but are all of the papers about it full of crap? This one certainly is!
Wang, Lu, Zdenek Sofer, and Martin Pumera. "Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?." ACS nano 14.1 (2020): 21-25.
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March 16, 2024Episode 382 - "A world without attenuation would be unbearably noisy"
What can we get from mining the moon? Should we? Who can do it? Why should we do it? That and more in this week's show!
Fun Paper Friday
Do we live in 3D? Can you prove it?
Morley, Tom. "A simple proof that the world is three-dimensional." SIAM review 27.1 (1985): 69-71.
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March 08, 2024Episode 381 - "Desk Sedimentology"
This week we talk about new national parks, sticky notes, and empirical evidence about fly fishing.
Fun Paper Friday
Britton, B. J., J. Grimley Evans, and J. M. Potter. "Does the fly matter? The CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing." BMJ 317.7174 (1998): 1678-1680.
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March 01, 2024Episode 380 - "Flame out like a bolide"
This week we talk about how rocks get magnetic field imparted to them and if scientists are really discovering anything new these days.
Fun Paper Friday
Park, Michael, Erin Leahey, and Russell J. Funk. "Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time." Nature 613.7942 (2023): 138-144.
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February 23, 2024Episode 379 - "How would you like to buy Brunton?"
This week we're rejoined by the Heerschaps to learn about how they came to own and run Brunton and what's next for the company that is a staple of the geological, recreational, and military navigation world.
Go Get a Brunton!
EPISODE 109 - "REALLY SAD MICHAEL BOLTON MUSIC" LAUREN AND DAVE HEERSCHAP
Fun Paper Friday
This week's fun paper may make you think before saying "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"
Finsterer, Josef. "Earl Grey tea intoxication." The Lancet 359.9316 (2002): 1484.
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February 16, 2024Episode 378 - "I love the font"
We generally don't think of sedimentary rocks when we think of volcanoes, but they are real! Find out why sedimentologists don't have to be bored in volcanic terranes.
Fun Paper Friday
Torres-Company, Victor. "One ring to multiplex them all." Nature 546.7657 (2017): 214-215.
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February 09, 2024Episode 377 - "Definitely Panic - Another Oklahoma Earthquake"
Oklahoma was rocked by another relatively large earthquake for a mid-continent region. We break it down, compare it to the 2011 earthquake and then talk about the hairy ball theorem.
Fun Paper Friday
McGrath, Peter. "An extremely short proof of the hairy ball theorem." The American Mathematical Monthly 123.5 (2016): 502-503.
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February 03, 2024Episode 376 - "Got to get those pizza ovens hot"
This week we tackle the controversial topic of fracking. Learn about how it works and what it does to help get oil and gas out of the ground and into your home.
Fun Paper Friday
Seo, Ki‐Weon, et al. "Drift of Earth's pole confirms groundwater depletion as a significant contributor to global sea level rise 1993–2010." Geophysical Research Letters 50.12 (2023): e2023GL103509.
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January 26, 2024Episode 375 - "Squeeze it shut"
This week we keep talking about wells. It's all about casing, cementing, bottom hole assemblies, and wet underwear.
Fun Paper Friday
Bakkevig, Martha Kold, and Ruth Nielsen. "Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal comfort in the cold." Ergonomics 37.8 (1994): 1375-1389.
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January 20, 2024Episode 374 - "Until you Lick It"
How do you drill a hole in the ground? Turns out that drilling wells is more complicated than you might think!
Fun Paper Friday
“Eating Fossils,” Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017.
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