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Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help

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Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help

We discuss paper writing, figure making, debate the merits of our favorite software, and discuss a possible explanation of last week’s mysterious booms in Oklahoma. Shannon also discovers that John does strange things with his spare time and a police radar gun. We discuss the demise of clippy, the MS Word virtual assistant.

  • Global Warming Trend Graphic
  • John’s blog post on using a police radar gun for raindrop speed

    • Paper and Report Writing

    • John uses LaTeX, specifically MacTeX
    • Shannon uses MS Word mostly
    • There is value in features like track changes, scripting, distraction free environments, formatting, figure numbering, etc.
    • John uses markdown initially to have a distraction free writing environment (in the atom editor)
    • LaTeX help is easy to find!

      • Poster and Figure Making

      • Many options, but some are better than others
      • Powerpoint (please don’t use this for posters or figures)
      • Adobe Illustrator (expensive, steep learning curve, but good)
      • Inkscape (free clone of Illustrator at the slight expense of install/usability headache)
      • Photoshop
      • InDesign
      • KalidaGraph
      • IGOR Pro
      • Python
      • Plot.ly

        • Update on Oklahoma Booms

        • There was talk that these could have been a result of a thermal inversion
        • Demo of how sound bends in an inversion can be found on Dr. Dan Russell’s site and this YouTube video.
        • Civil War may have been influenced by acoustic propagation. There is a summary article and book about it.
        • We found a 1984 newspaper article from Oklahoma mentioning this phenomena.
          • FunPaperFriday - Radio Bursts from Blitzars
          • A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up (Petroff et al.)
          • Related New Scientist Article

            • Contact us:

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            John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

            Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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