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This week we’re petrified.. petrified wood that is. Learn what it is and how it’s made – then we tie it all up with a fun paper about mathematical ways to tie neckties.

• AVE Clear Wood
• Wiki Petrified Wood
• Petrified Forest

Fun Paper Friday

• How many ways are there to tie a necktie? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Fink, Thomas M., and Yong Mao. “Designing tie knots by random walks.” Nature 398.6722 (1999): 31.

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This week it is all about the proton procession magnetometer and the Earth’s underground mountain range. Don’t miss it!

• Proton Magnetometer

Fun Paper Friday

• phys.org article
• Wu, Wenbo, Sidao Ni, and Jessica CE Irving. “Inferring Earth’s discontinuous chemical layering from the 660-kilometer boundary topography.” Science 363.6428 (2019): 736-740.

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This week we finally finish up the climate series! In the mean time don’t forget to take the listener survey and help us make the show better!

Fun Paper Friday

• Where do you go to find mythical creatures? There’s a paper for that!
• Beconytė, Giedrė, Agnė Eismontaitė, and Jovita Žemaitienė. “Mythical creatures of Europe.” Journal of Maps 10.1 (2014): 53-60.

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It’s our 200th show! This week we reflect on why we do this and ask for your feedback in a listener survey. We wrap it all up with a fun paper to help us answer the question “are we cool?”

• Listener Survey

Fun Paper Friday

• This week we decide if we’re “cool” or not.
• Dar-Nimrod, Ilan, et al. “Coolness: An empirical investigation.” Journal of Individual Differences (2012).

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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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This week John sums up his time at the AMS meeting and we discuss the highland haggis.

• AMS 2019

Fun Paper Friday

• McNOLEG, O. L. E. G. “The integration of GIS, remote sensing, expert systems and adaptive co-kriging for environmental habitat modeling of the highland haggis using object-oriented, fuzzy-logic and neural-network techniques.” Computers & Geosciences 22.5 (1996): 585–588.

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This week we are joined by Dr. Nick Heavens to talk about the past and present climate, and the climate of Mars!

• @weatheronmars

Fun Paper Friday

• Legos and children – the ingredients for a hilarious study about ingestion of toy parts!
• Tagg, Andrew, et al. “Everything is awesome: Don’t forget the Lego.” Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (2018).

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This week Dr. Walter Smith joins us to talk about GMT, satellite altimetry, gravity, racing cars, and more!

• Walter’s Webpage

Fun Paper Friday

• This week we examine parachutes… again. Do they work? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper!
• Yeh, Robert W., et al. “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial.” BMJ 363 (2018): k5094.

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