Don't Panic Geocast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
391 episodes of Don't Panic Geocast since the first episode, which aired on January 16th, 2015.
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Episode 341 - "Scrambler Outside the Physics Department"
September 2nd, 2022 | 40 mins 35 secs
Fake forces! This week we talk about what they are and why you seem to feel them if they are only apparent.
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Episode 340 - "Coriolis Thing"
August 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week we talk about why the Coriolis force is a fictitious force and what it does to balance pressure gradients in the atmosphere.
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Episode 339 - "Museum with a crater out back"
August 19th, 2022 | 44 mins 26 secs
This week we talk about meteor crater and about the little blue pill.... or red pill.
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Episode 338 - "GEARS 2022"
August 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
The GEARS workshop just happened again, hear what we saw, what the students did and more!
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Episode 337 - "Air Guitar"
July 22nd, 2022 | 28 mins 56 secs
The summer shorts musical theme continues with sferics and another paper from the BMJ Christmas edition!
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Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"
July 15th, 2022 | 41 mins 18 secs
This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it.
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Episode 335 - "Fish with a Ray Gun"
July 1st, 2022 | 26 mins 19 secs
We stick with our musical theme for summer shorts and talk about singing ice! Also why is it important to be stupid as a scientist?
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Episode 334 - "Rock Concert"
June 24th, 2022 | 30 mins 22 secs
Our musical themed summer shorts continue with the phenomena of ringing rocks! Also, can math get you out of that failure to stop ticket?
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Episode 333 - "Sandphony"
June 10th, 2022 | 25 mins 50 secs
This week we talk about singing sands and how on Earth dunes make noise.
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Episode 332 - "Caliche"
June 3rd, 2022 | 26 mins 52 secs
We kick off summer shorts by talking about caliche and ways it makes new field geologists crazy!
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EPISODE 331 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY
May 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 33 mins
This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more!
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Episode 330 - "Blamo"
May 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
Last week we talked about material hardness, but what about when materials crack and fracture? This week we talk about fracture toughness.
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Episode 329 - "Granite Annulus"
May 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
What makes a material hard? What makes it tough? Are they the same thing?
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Episode 328 - "Bouma"
April 22nd, 2022 | 56 mins 23 secs
This week we talk about the famous Bouma sequence in more detail and look at where the world of quantum physics could have been in a parallel universe.
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Episode 327 - "Delta Tesseract"
April 15th, 2022 | 50 mins 20 secs
What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders.
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Episode 326 - "The Pinky Raise"
April 8th, 2022 | 46 mins 12 secs
We talk about conglomerates, how they form, how we classify them, and more. Then we talk about distribution of hook worms in poop.