Don't Panic Geocast

This week John discusses his recent experience teaching a large group at SciPy and why software testing is important.

• John’s Tutorial
• Tutorial Page

Fun Paper Friday

• Beer bubbles – turns out there is more than you’d think to explain their physics!
• Shafer, Neil E., and Richard N. Zare. “Through a beer glass darkly.” Physics Today 44.10 (1991): 48-52.

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This week – what is a sandstone by any other name? Its Folk name that is!

• Folk Classification
• Remembering Bob Folk

Fun Paper Friday

• Live Science Article
• Blaj, Gabriel, et al. “Generation of high-intensity ultrasound through shock propagation in liquid jets.” Physical Review Fluids 4.4 (2019): 043401.

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Is it a nodule, is it a concretion, it is rock lightning? Find out on this week’s summer short!

• Concretion
• Nodule

Fun Paper Friday

• Is there carbon from outside this world?
• Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Found in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Volcanic Rock

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This week we talk about the Dakota group and how it formed those beautiful hogback structures we all love!

• Dakota Formation
• Hogback
• Western Interior Seaway

Fun Paper Friday

• Can dead fish really see emotion in humans?
• fMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish

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This week we continue our instrument journey and talk about controlling the physical world with tiny electrons!

Fun Paper Friday

• Can the music you listen to change your reaction to violence?
• Sun, Yanan, et al. “Implicit violent imagery processing among fans and non-fans of music with violent themes.” Royal Society Open Science 6.3 (2019): 181580.

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This week we explore how does your data go from a physical thing to a digital representation.

• Transducer
• ADC

Fun Paper Friday

• Security is a scary topic, but we might be looking at the wrong problems!
• Mickens, J., 2014. This World of Ours. USENIX.

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This week it’s all about microscopic indications of impacts and some fun mineral names. We wrap up with a fun paper on making project acronyms!

• Coesite
• Stishovite
• Planar Deformation Features

Fun Paper Friday

• Cook, B.A., ACRONYM: Acronym CReatiON for You and Me

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