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Episode 64 - "A is for Anticline"

April 15th, 2016  |  56 mins 28 secs

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

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Episode 63 - "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night"

April 8th, 2016  |  43 mins 40 secs

We spend a lot of time working with our hands, in fact that’s why we can do science at all. It’s shocking the amount of science ignorance and lack of skill floating around. This got us wondering we are bad at science and where the...

Episode 62 - "A perpetually fresh hot tub" Hot Springs, AR

April 1st, 2016  |  46 mins 56 secs

This week we talk about Hot Springs, the geologic feature and the town in Arkansas. Shannon is going there to visit and have students map the town’s complex geology and see the hot waters. We also scream about this week’s fun paper and the...

Episode 61 - "Squiggly McSquiggleface"

March 25th, 2016  |  46 mins 58 secs

This week we catchup on feedback and news, discuss ship naming conventions, and learn about an old gravity experiment! What do the Apollo missions and a Scottish mountain have in common? Listen to find out!
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Episode 60 - "Open Source is Magical" Martin Pratt

March 18th, 2016  |  50 mins 38 secs

This week we are joined by guest Dr. Martin Pratt to discuss new ways to visualize your data and express the frustrations we still deal with on a daily basis.
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Fun Paper Friday
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Episode 59 - "You get a lot of bloat-ware, but you don't get a compiler"

March 11th, 2016  |  1 hr 1 min

This week we talk about mounds of feedback, learning new skills, and where to tackle the problem of computer programming. It’s for everyone and it’s really not scary!

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What happens when a few...

Episode 58 - "The background on my phone is a thin section" Hannah Rabinowitz

March 4th, 2016  |  43 mins 53 secs

Fun Paper Friday
In this week’s Fun Paper Friday we find out what your eyes were doing when they weren’t rolled back in your head during those long classroom powerpoint presentations.

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Episode 57 - "You go to a cave and do math problems"

February 26th, 2016  |  53 mins 7 secs

This week we’re going underground…to caves that is. We review the basics of how caves form, some unique features, and a lot of fun vocabulary. We also talk about the latest and greatest scientific...

Episode 56 - "A lot people would like to think they've got a lunar meteorite" Brad Jolliff

February 19th, 2016  |  50 mins 52 secs

This week a special guest takes us to the moon by talking about lunar rocks and meteorites! The moon turns out to be a fascinating place, but probably won’t break up like in Seveneves.

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Episode 55 - "Every time you clip your fingernails" Plate Tectonics

February 12th, 2016  |  54 mins 34 secs

Why do mountains form, earthquakes happen, and volcanoes form where they do? The answer is plate tectonics. This week we explore the history of being wrong about how the Earth works.

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Episode 54 - "We use statistics"

February 5th, 2016  |  49 mins 56 secs

We’ve already talked a little bit about the Earth’s magnetic field, but where does that fall in terms of geoscience? Lots of physicists look at the magnetic field, but so do geologists. Not just our current field, but the ancient magnetic...

Episode 53 - "They call it the snowtron"

January 29th, 2016  |  50 mins 9 secs

With the over with, we figured we would jump on the bandwagon and talk about some different types of winter precipitation.
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Episode 52 - "You pay for significant digits"

January 22nd, 2016  |  1 hr 11 mins

Last week we talked about glaciers, a basic staple of any geology education. That means it’s only fair to talk about a geophysics staple this week. We can measure gravity at different locations and use it to help figure out what’s under...

Episode 51 - "Regelation. I think I had that for lunch the other day" Glaciers

January 15th, 2016  |  1 hr 8 mins

Fun Paper Friday
This week we learn about low frequency sound waves in the atmosphere and how we can use them to determine the winds at high altitudes and improve numerical weather prediction.

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Episode 50 - "Some serious geometric voodoo" Projections Part 2

January 8th, 2016  |  53 mins 39 secs

Last week we told you about many different map projections and talked about why they are all wrong. This week we’ll discuss a few of our favorites, why we like them, and when they fail us. We also have another Star Wars themed Fun Paper...

Episode 49 - "Would it blow your mind if I told you Africa is 14x larger than Greenland?"

January 1st, 2016  |  45 mins 7 secs

Maps are useful things, but it turns out that projecting a 3D object on a 2D map can cause a lot of unexpected problems. They even inspired an . This week we explore maps and map projections. We also chat about machine learning as part of...