Monthly Archives: April 2020

This week up look upward to the stars! Learn about stellar classification and how it is important to a geologist!

• Glowy Earthquakes
• Crazy Walls
• H-R Diagrams

Fun Paper Friday

• You look older – were you an elected official?
• Olenski, Andrew R., Matthew V. Abola, and Anupam B. Jena. “Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries.” bmj 351 (2015): h6424.

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This week we get palinspastic! Find out how geologists can “unfold” time and reconstruct what past landscapes looked like from a geologic cross-section!

Fun Paper Friday

• Which type of doctor speeds the most? (Well, medical doctors that is.) Find out in this week’s Fun Paper!
• Zimerman, André, et al. “The need for speed: observational study of physician driving behaviors.” bmj 367 (2019).

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What’s it like to be told you need to teach field geology online? This week we talk about distance learning in higher-ed.

Fun Paper Friday

• What’s special about 33?
• Booker, Andrew R. “Cracking the problem with 33.” Research in Number Theory 5.3 (2019): 26.

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It’s time to finish our ABC’s! Also we discuss things of a fecal culinary nature on Fun Paper Friday!

N – Neap tide

O – Ophiolite

P – Placer Deposit

Q – Quadrangle

R – Rating Curve

S – Seamount

T – Tidewater Glacier

U – Unconformity

V – Varve

W – Womble Shale

X – Xyloid Coal

Y-Yazoo Stream

Z – Zone of Aeration

Fun Paper Friday

• This week… pooopknives.pdf!
• Eren, Metin I., et al. “Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27 (2019): 102002.

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