Monthly Archives: November 2019

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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