Don't Panic Geocast

This week we tackle a listener requested show – the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project.

Transportable Array

• Robert Busby
• Wyoming telescope
• Judah Levine
• Sea ice data
• Depoloyment Timeline
• Tracking Hurricane Matthew with seismic noise
• Ground motion visualization

Fun Paper Friday

• Mortimer, Nick, et al. “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent.” GSA Today 27.3 (2017).
• Nature Summary Article

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Lauren and Dave Heerschap

• Real Science Innovations LLC
• Rule of V’s Blocks
• Brunton Axis
• Video of Axis in Action
• Real Science Innovations YouTube Channel

Fun Paper Friday

• Did mountains growing make our brains bigger? Explore this tongue in cheek paper on the geo-cranial relation. Get ready for a good chuckle!
• Molnar, Peter. “The rise of mountain ranges and the evolution of humans: a causal relation?.” Irish journal of earth sciences (1990): 199?207.

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• John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you!
• Meseum of Osteology
• XKCD Thesis Defense
• Origin of the Thesis
• NZ Earthquake Lights
• Hydraulic Press Channel
• Biaxal deformation press

Fun Paper Friday

• How can we understand the brain? Is a processor the same thing? This study examines the classic 6502.
• Economist Column
• Jonas, Eric, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?.” PLOS Computational Biology 13.1 (2017): e1005268.

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How many students will ever make a professional geologic map? Not many most likely. Is it still essential to learn? You bet! This week we discuss why and how it’s done.

Field Methods

• Episode 32
• Pocket Transit Manual
• Strike and Dip (YouTube)
• Interactive Grand Canyon Map
• PDF Grand Canyon Map
• Little Baldy

Fun Paper Friday

• Slime molds predict best transportation routes? Internet comments misinterpret a paper and use sensational headlines? Find out with this week’s fun paper!
• Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis I., Georgios Ch Sirakoulis, and Andrew I. Adamatzky. “Evolving transport networks with cellular automata models inspired by slime mould.” IEEE transactions on cybernetics 45.9 (2015): 1887?1899.
• Gizmodo Article

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This week we take some time to discuss YOUR feedback.- and there’s a lot! Also, how can disks of ice start rotating spontaneously? Listen this week to find out!

Feedback

• Capt. Richard Phillips
• Joe’s Seismometer
• Earthquake recorded
• Unknown Event
• Lee Post’s Books
• Why The Array Index Should Start From 0

Ice Circles

• Ice Circles
• Feb. 1895 Scientific American
• North Dakota Ice Circle (YouTube)
• Russian Ice Cricle (YouTube)
• Study of Ice Circles

Fun Paper Friday

• How do high heels change how people perceive the wearer? Can a new pair of shoes give you more confidence?
• Scientopia summary
• Morris, P., White, J., Morrison, E., & Fisher, K. (2012). High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness Evolution and Human Behavior DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.11.006

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This week Jay Minton stops by to tell us about working at some of the largest boy scout camps around and all of the planning that goes into nature trails. Shannon brings us another fun paper from BMJ and John laments about painting.

Jay Minton

• Philmont Scout Ranch (official site)
• Philmont Scout Ranch (Wikipedia)
• Waite Phillips
• Phillips Petroleum Company
• Boy Scouts of America
• Northern Tier (official site)
• Northern Tier (Wikipedia)
• Java Press Coffee Maker
• Scouting YouTube Video Look for Jay around 0:59

Fun Paper Friday

• We all know children swallow coins, but can they predict the stock market prices? Researchers follow their patients guts to the answer.
• Firth, P. G., Hongming Zheng, and J. A. Biller. “Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins.” BMJ 339 (2009): b5066.

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This week, John is moving and Shannon is getting started with the semester, but we take a break to talk about Devil’s Tower, why Shannon has to play with her food, and if we can swim faster in syrup!

Devil’s Tower

• Devil’s Tower
• Close Encounters Movie Clip
• Antiquities Act
• Devil’s Tower Stories
• Laccolith
• Volcanic Plug/Neck
• Columnar Jointing
• History of Columnar Jointing Ideas
• Devils Postpile
• Giant’s Causeway
• Devils Tower as a Sacred Site

Fun Paper Friday

• Syrup or water for your morning swim?
• Nature Summary
• Gettelfinger, Brian, and E. L. Cussler. “Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup?.” AIChE journal 50.11 (2004): 2646?2647.
• Mythbusters Clip

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Listener Graeme asked us why rocks are hard. We explore the simple and hard explanations and then tackle the science of the perfect Martini in this week’s show!

Why are Rocks Hard

• Whinstone
• Mohs Scale
• A.A. Griffith
• Griffith’s Criterion
• de Havilland Comet
• No Highway (Nevil Shute)
• Rocks Rock Harder (YouTube)

Fun Paper Friday

Trevithick, C. C., et al. “Shaken, not stirred: bioanalytical study of the antioxidant activities of martinis.” BMJ 319.7225 (1999): 1600?1602.

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This week we talk about academia. How does it work? The career track is long and has many twists and turns. There are also a lot of jobs many people never think about. And what is this elusive colloquium we speak of?

Fun Paper Friday

• Do parachutes really work? How do we know without double blind, randomized, placebo controlled, crossover trials? (Thanks for Nick H. for this fun paper!)
• Smith, Gordon CS, and Jill P. Pell. “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.” British Medical Journal 327.7429 (2003): 1459.

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John and Shannon ring in the new year talking about native science and Enchanted Rock State Park. Why are the rocks enchanted and what can we learn from the native stories?

Enchanted Rock State Park

• Enchanted Rock State Park
• Batholith
• Pluton
• Granite Dome
• Video of exfoliation in action

Fun Paper Friday

What can lake deposits tell us about historical storms? Were the gods protecting Japan from attack with typhoons? Find out this this week’s fun paper!

• Earth Magazine Summary
• Woodruff, J. D., et al. “Depositional evidence for the Kamikaze typhoons and links to changes in typhoon climatology.” Geology 43.1 (2015): 91?94.

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