This week Prof. William Chaplin joins us to talk about the sun and helioseismology!

• Prof. Bill Chaplin
• Music of the Sun (Book)

Fun Paper Friday

• Which is heavier, a pound of feathers of a pound of lead? Which feels heavier? Find out in this week’s Fun Paper!
• Wagman, Jeffrey B., Corinne Zimmerman, and Christopher Sorric. “”Which Feels Heavier?A Pound of Lead or a Pound of Feathers?” A Potential Perceptual Basis of a Cognitive Riddle.” Perception 36.11 (2007): 1709?1711.

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This week we kick off our solar system show by talking about what we want to know and the recipe for a solar system.

The Solar System

• Nebula
• Protoplanetary Disk
• Drake Equation

Fun Paper Friday

• How long have we had rubber processing skills?
• A good many years before Goodyear

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Join us this week as we talk about ways to keep track of the many aspects of geology and personal projects!

• ThinkPad P51
• Asana
• Trello
• OneNote

Fun Paper Friday

• Do cabbies have enhanced areas of their brains to store spatial maps? Find out on this fun paper’s Friday.
• Maguire, Eleanor A., et al. “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97.8 (2000): 4398?4403.

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This week we’re excited to be talking to Paul Wessel and Leo Uieda about the past, present, and future of GMT.

GMT

• GMT Website
• GMT/Python
• Leo’s Website
• @leouieda
• Paul’s Website

Fun Paper Friday

• Can you imagine smelling bad for 5 years? Checkout this week’s stinky fun paper.
• Guardian Article
• Mills, Caroline M., et al. “A man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for 5 years.” The Lancet 348.9037 (1996): 1282.

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This week join us for our own alphabet aerobics as we fly through the geologic alphabet!

• John’s Deines Lecture

• A – Anticline

• B – Breccia

• C – Coulomb Failure

• D – Dikes

• E – Earthquake

• F – Facies

• G – GPR

• H – Halimeda

• I – Induced Polarization

• J – Jadeite

• K – Knickpoint

• L – Leaverite

• M – Moho

• N – Nappe

• O – Ooids

• P – Paleomagnetism

• Q – Quicksand

• R – Rift

• S – Seismic

• T – Tektites

• U – Uniformitarianism

• V – Veins

• W – Wadi

• X – Xenolith

• Y – Yardang

• Z – Zonation

Fun Paper Friday

What can the continuity equation teach us about vampires and fluid flow? Sadhra, Makita, et al. “P5_2 The Draining of a Lifetime.” Physics Special Topics 14.1 (2015).

Orbital Mechanics Episode 52

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This week John and Shannon talk about what scientific reproducibility means.

Scientific Reproducibility

• MagIC Database
• E.O. Wilson TED Talk
• NumFocus
• Jupyter

Fun Paper Friday

• Would a chicken swipe left or right?
• Ghirlanda, Stefano, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist. “Chickens prefer beautiful humans.” Human nature 13.3 (2002): 383?389.

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This week it’s all about the dinos and how so many ended up in the Morrison Formation. Join us to learn about the upper Jurassic mud-pit.

The Morrison Formation

• The Morrison
• Nevadan Orogeny
• Arthur Lakes
• Othniel Charles Marsh
• Edward Drinker Cope
• Garden Park

Fun Paper Friday

• Do volcanos slide down hill? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Murray, John B., et al. “Gravitational sliding of the Mt. Etna massif along a sloping basement.” Bulletin of Volcanology 80.4 (2018): 40.

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This week we talk about a big boom that has inspired a 110 year old mystery!

• John’s new product!

Tunguska Event

• Wiki page on Tunguska
• Space shuttle and noctilucent clouds
• 1930 Curuca River Event
• Chelyabinsk meteor
• Meteors on radar
• Chelyabinsk Infrasound
• Chelyabinsk Seismic

Fun Paper Friday

• YOLO Website
• Redmon, J., Farhadi, A., YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement.

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This week we explore the shows you listen to and share our favorites!

The List (in random order)

• Embedded.fm
• Business of Machining
• Car Talk
• Free Agents
• Mac Power Users
• Spacepod
• The Orbital Mechanics
• Back to Work
• Undersampled Radio
• We Martians
• Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
• 99% Invisible
• Podcast.__init__
• Python Bytes
• The Productivity Show
• Radio Lab
• Reply All
• Spark Gap
• Still Untitled
• Weather Brains
• Crimetown
• GTD Podcast
• Heavyweight
• Nerds on Draft
• Startup Podcast
• Surprisingly Awesome
• Technical Difficulties
• Work in Progress
• Ask me another
• Note to Self
• The Minimalists
• Welcome to Night Vale
• She Explores
• Nocturne
• Freakonomics
• Snap Judgment
• The Dirtbag Diaries
• Hidden Brain
• Dear Sugars
• The Moth
• Outside Podcast
• This American Life
• Lore
• Lexicon Valley
• Ear Hustle
• Pardon the Interruption
• Stuff You Should Know
• Faculty of Horror
• Undiscovered
• Cracked
• TED Podcasts
• Pen Addict
• Women on the Road
• The Allusionist
• Science AAAS
• BBC Inside Science
• In Our Time
• More or Less: Behind the Stats
• Science Talk
• The History of Ancient Greece
• The Scientific Odyssey
• More Perfect
• Physics World
• The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
• Science Vs
• Rachel Maddow Show Podcast
• Exposing PseudoAstronomy
• The Reality Check
• Flannelcast
• Common Sense
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
• The History of Rome
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• This Week in Google
• The Now Show
• The News Quiz
• The Documentary
• Seriously
• Revolutions
• Radio in Four
• You’re the Expert
• Flash Forward
• Futility Closet
• Ologies Podcast
• Every Little Thing
• Revisionist History
• Star Talk Radio
• Alice Isn’t Dead
• Beef and Dairy Network
• Comedy Bang Bang
• Dead Pilots Society
• Doug Loves Movies
• How Did This Get Made?
• I Was There Too
• ID10T
• James Bonding
• Making It
• Mountain Bike Radio
• Thrilling Adventure Hour
• The Orbiting Human Circus
• Pistol Shrimps Radio
• Smartest Man in the World
• Spontaneanation
• Superego
• 36 Questions
• AirSpace
• Atlanta Monster
• Big Picture Science
• Blue Dot
• Casefile
• Cosmic Vertigo
• Criminal
• Explore a Story
• Fieldwork Diaries
• Foodstuff
• Gastropod
• Gravity Assist
• Hackable?
• Horizon Line
• Houston we have a podcast
• Ice Coffee
• Limetown
• MtnMeister
• Orbital Path
• Origin Stories
• Outside In
• Sawbones
• Science Solved It
• Science Sort Of
• Science Friday
• Sidedoor Podcast
• Slow Burn
• Stay Tuned with Preet
• The Antarctic Sun
• The Sharp End
• Third Pod from the Sun
• Undiscovered
• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• Two Scientists Walk into a Bar
• Warm Regards
• Unexplained Mysteries
• Paleocast
• Forecast

Fun Paper Friday

• Live Science Article
• Newman, Janet, et al. “Structural characterization of a novel monotreme-specific protein with antimicrobial activity from the milk of the platypus.” Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications 74.1 (2018): 39?45.

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This week we conclude our extinction summary and talk about how robots will take over the world.

• Amazing robot video from Steve

Extinctions Part 2

• Triassic-Jurassic Extinction
• Central Atlantic Magmatic Provine
• Conodont Alternation Index
• Cretaceous?Paleogene Extinction
• Chicxulub crater
• Episode 92 ? “I fell into your trap” Ben Crosby
• “Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction”

Fun Paper Friday

• Will the machines take over? We don’t know. How can we at least secure our private data used for machine learning? Blockchain might be the answer.
• AI researchers embrace Bitcoin technology to share medical data. Nature News

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