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

Earthquake

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

Fun Paper Friday

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

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

Fun Paper Friday

• 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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This week John and Shannon talk about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the physics of heat engines, and determining authorship order!

Hurricanes

• Harvey
• Irma
• Carnot engine
• Hurricane hunters
• Storm chasers (Toomey)

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to Taryn for sending in this selection of fun paper author name ordering schemes!
• Fun ways of deciding authorship order

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This week Dr. Eric Bruning (@deeplycloudy) joins us to talk about locating lightning, the lightning process, and space based lightning instruments. Don’t miss this week’s electrifying show!

• Dr. Bruning’s Website
• VORTEX Program
• West Texas LMA
• COLMA
• Sprite
• Chasing Lightning (Tim Samaras)
• NOAA Lightning Safety Website

Fun Paper Friday

• Cipra, Barry. “A prime case of chaos.” What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences 4 (1999): 2?17.

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Millions looked up to see this week’s solar eclipse. We talk about the eclipse and how it has played a role in human and scientific history.

• Algorithms to live by
• Solid angle
• 2017 Solar Eclipse (NASA)
• Shadow from GOES 16
• 1 hour temperature change

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to listener Lukas for sending in this fun paper on martian snow!
• Spiga, A., Hinson, D. P., Madeleine, J.-B., Navarro, T., Millour, E., Forget, F., & Montmessin, F. (n.d.). Snow precipitation on Mars driven by cloud-induced night-time convection. Nature Geoscience, advance online publication SP – EP . http://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3008

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This week Scott Dubowsky joins us to talk about plasma and ball lightning. We then dive into the economic theory of intersteller trad with another listener fun paper friday!

• Scott’s Webpage
• McCall Research Group
• Ball Lightning
• Physics of parallel plate capacitors

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to listener Andrew for this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Krugman, Paul. “The theory of interstellar trade.” Economic Inquiry 48.4 (2010): 1119?1123.
• Golden Fleece Award

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John and Shannon address a listener question from Mike and then talk about where to find intelligent life.

• MetPy Mondays #1

Carolina Bays

• Episode 18 – Titan Dunes Fun Paper
• Carolina Bays (Wikipedia)
• Radiocarbon dating
• Optically stimulated luminescence
• Palynology
• Younger Dryas

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to listener Jonathan for this thought provoking fun paper on life in the universe and where to find it.
• Lingam, Manasvi, and Abraham Loeb. “Reduced Diversity of Life Around Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST?1.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07007 (2017).

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This week Chris Taylor joins us to talk about making scientifically accurate gifts. We also learn how ants can modify the world around us.

• Rachio

Chris Taylor

• Taylor Custom
• Chris’ Comic Book
• Ant Colony Casting

Fun Paper Friday

• Thank you listener Martin!
• Dorn, Ronald I. “Ants as a powerful biotic agent of olivine and plagioclase dissolution.” Geology 42.9 (2014): 771?774.

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John is on the mobile device spirit quest again, Shannon graduated a student, and we both took a break to talk about transform faults. We also learned that they are very complicated!

Transform Boundaires

• John Tuzo-Wilson
• Reid’s elastic rebound theory
• Transform Faults (Good Wikipedia Illustrations)
• Fault Breccia
• Mylonite
• Pseudotachylite

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to listener Mark, we’ll never sit at a wobbly lunch table again!
• Martin, Andre. “On the stability of four-legged tables.” Physics Letters A 360.4 (2007): 495?500.

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John just got back from SciPy and updates us on the state of scientific Python.

SciPy 2017

• Ryan and John’s talk on units
• John’s poster
• Katy Huff’s Keynote
• Sean Gulick’s Keynote
• nbgrader – Jess Hamrick
• Dask
• Scikit Learn
• Numba
• Katy Huff Interview (Episode 65)

Fun Paper Friday

• What’s the chance that you bump noses on your next kiss? Can stats help reduce that? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Karim, AKM Rezaul, et al. “The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing.” Scientific reports 7.1 (2017): 5398.

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