Don't Panic Geocast

This week we have a host of people gathered in a conference room at the scientific python conference to discuss what we’ve seen and what we’re excited about.

• SciPy 2018

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This week we talk about how quantum magnetometers work and popcorn driven robots!

SQUIDS

• SQUID
• Josephson Junction
• Phase Locked Loop

Fun Paper Friday

• Robots driven by popcorn? Find out how on this week’s Fun Paper!
• Ceron, S., Kurumunda, A., Garg, E., Kim, M., Yeku, T., & Petersen, K. Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators.

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This week Dr. Devin Dennie joins us to talk about making geoscience education fun for everyone!

• Devin Dennie
• My Book of Rocks and Minerals
• Explorer Multimedia

Fun Paper Friday

• This week we find out if two spaces are better than one!
• Johnson, Rebecca L., Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt. “Are two spaces better than one? The effect of spacing following periods and commas during reading.” Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2018): 1-8.

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This week Dr. Megan Elwood-Madden joins us to talk about the red planet and geochemistry!

Mars

• Mars
• Jarosite
• Opportunity
• Megan’s Website

Fun Paper Friday

• Listener Dustin sent in this great fun paper on avalanche triggering!
• Reuter, Benjamin, and Jürg Schweizer. “Avalanche triggering by sound: myth and truth.” Proceedings of the International Snow Science Workshop ISSW. 2009.

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

Earth observing spacecraft

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

Ben Etherington

• @orbitalpodcast
• @benetherington

Fun Paper Friday

• 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

Fun Paper

• 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

Fun Paper Friday

• 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)

Fun Paper Friday

• 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.

The Solar System

• Nebula
• Protoplanetary Disk
• Drake Equation

Fun Paper Friday

• 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

Fun Paper Friday

• 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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