This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different!

Fun Paper Friday

• See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week’s Fun Paper!
• Iyer, Vikram, et al. “Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects.” The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019.

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This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware!

• Dr. Kelsey’s Plymouth Page
• Mt. Washington Observatory

Fun Paper Friday

• Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. “Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014.

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This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii.

• Alison’s Website
• Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent
• Instagram: cloudyday24

Fun Paper Friday

• Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. “Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols.” Analytical Chemistry (2020).

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This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out!

Fun Paper Friday

• Neuroskeptic. “The nine circles of scientific hell.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 7.6 (2012): 643-644.

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This week it’s all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction.

Fun Paper Friday

• Upper, Dennis. “The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block”.” Journal of applied behavior analysis 7.3 (1974): 497.

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This week John recaps his trip to AMS and Shannon teases a show on her field work!

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• TORUS project
• WX Symbols
• NCAR Dropsonde
• Tim’s Cowbell Video

Fun Paper Friday

• This week it’s a meaty subject!
• Cole, James. “Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic.” Scientific reports 7 (2017): 44707.

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What’s that in the sky? A bird? A plane? No, it’s a scary looking cloud! Find out what it was this week!

• Flammagenitus (with great chart at the bottom)
• Australia Pyrocumulus
• Kelvin Helmholtz Instability
• Lenticular Cloud
• Wired Article on Morning Glories
• Nacreous Clouds
• Noctilucent Clouds
• Arcus Clouds
• Mammatus Clouds

Fun Paper Friday

• Hart, Vlastimil, et al. “Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field.” Frontiers in zoology 10.1 (2013): 80.

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This week we go over the last year and discuss our plans for 2020 before diving into a discussion on pupil shapes in various animals. Don’t miss it!

Fun Paper Friday

• Banks, Martin S., et al. “Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?.” Science advances 1.7 (2015): e1500391.

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This week we finish up talking about deserts with some of our favorite features – dunes, ventifacts, and more!

• Sailing Stones
• Ventifact
• Dunes

Fun Paper Friday

• How can math and physics “improve” hunting a lion?
• Pétard, H. “A contribution to the mathematical theory of big game hunting.” Amer. Math. Monthly 45 (1938): 446-447.

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This week we stick to a dry subject – deserts! Learn about how rocks weather in a place where there isn’t much.

• Peltier diagram on weathering
• Desert Varnish
• Rock Exfoliation Video

Fun Paper Friday

• What if the Earth were replaced with blueberries?
• Sandberg, Anders. “Blueberry Earth.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10553 (2018).

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