Monthly Archives: November 2019

This week we talk about the dreaded stereonet and why it’s useful and somewhat… odd.

• Great Stereonet Video Series
• On Teaching Stereonets
• Visible Geology

Fun Paper Friday

• What’s the best way to make a uniform crepe or pancake? Find out with just a bit of math!
• Boujo, E., and M. Sellier. “Pancake making and surface coating: optimal control of a gravity-driven liquid film.” Physical Review Fluids 4.6 (2019): 064802.

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This week we talk about how YOU can contribute to science with citizen science efforts and what it takes to make a successful citizen science project.

• SETI@Home
• Pl@ntNet
• BioBlitz
• OK BioBlitz
• urad Monitor
• Bud Burst

Fun Paper Friday

• How to run a successful citizen science project

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This week Matt Hall of Agile Scientific joins John to talk about teaching Python, the ways scientists get around learning programming, and how to help them learn these tools!

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This week we talk about fire weather and wildfires! It’s a hot topic. We also visit a somewhat Halloween appropriate fun paper from the Journal of Experimental Biology.

• National Fire Danger Rating Index
• Mesonet Fire Weather Page
• Burning Index
• Ignition Component
• Spread Component
• Fuel Moisture
• Keetch-Byram Drought Index

Fun Paper Friday

• It’s Halloween Fun Paper Time! Hands, guitar tuners, and accelerometers.
• Horns, Joshua, Rebekah Jung, and David R. Carrier. “In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution.” Journal of Experimental Biology 218.20 (2015): 3215-3221.

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