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Don"t Panic Geocast

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. Shannon is a field geologist who tolerates technology and John is a self-proclaimed nerd that tolerates geologists.

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Episode 342 - "Kiss Me"

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2022/09/10

How do we remember all of the sequences, facts, and processes in our fields? Mnemonic devices! This week we chat about a few of our favorites. Fun Paper Friday Is having a hypothesis a bad thing? Yanai, Itai, and Martin Lercher. "A hypothesis is a liability." Genome Biology 21.1 (2020): 1-5. (https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-02133-w) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com

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Episode 341 - "Scrambler Outside the Physics Department"

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2022/09/03

This week we discuss more about the three apparent forces we feel on a rotating ball: * Coriolis Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force) * Centrifugal Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force) * Euler Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_force) Fun Paper Friday How can you get rid of a bad case of the hiccups? Odeh, M., H. Bassan, and A. Oliven. "Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage." Journal of internal medicine 227.2 (1990): 145-146

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Episode 340 - "Coriolis Thing"

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2022/08/27

The Coriolis force is a ficticious force that makes winds flow parallel to isobars in the atmosphere - this week we talk about it and how it fights the pressure gradient force to make the geostrophic balance work! Fun Paper Friday Can counting crows count to zero? Kirschhock, Maximilian E., Helen M. Ditz, and Andreas Nieder. "Behavioral and neuronal representation of numerosity zero in the crow." Journal of Neuroscience 41.22 (2021): 4889-4896.

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Episode 339 - "Museum with a crater out back"

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2022/08/20

This week we talk about meteor crater. Meteor Crater (https://meteorcrater.com/) Kring, David A. "Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 32.4 (1997): 517-530. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01297.x) Fun Paper Friday Can the pill color change the outcome? De Craen, Anton JM, et al. "Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of

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1:01:04

Episode 338 - "GEARS 2022"

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2022/08/12

John's company ran the second iteration of the GEARS workshop (read about 2021 here (https://leemangeophysical.com/gears-2021-workshop/)). After learning some hard lessons last year, this year's workshop was much different and hopefully even better! Fun Paper Friday Thanks to listener Darryl for this fun... poster Friday? We'll wrap up the episode talking about wraps! Tastee Tape Poster (https://designday.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Tasty-Tape-Poster-File-V4.pdf) Contact us: Show Support

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28:56

Episode 337 - "Air Guitar"

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2022/07/23

Lightning produces many phenomena, but one is pops, clicks, and whistles in the radio frequencies. Learn why, how, and what the upper atmosphere has to do with it! Listen to a Whistler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeuI8AJMIxU) Listen to Sferics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxOqEkFawA) Radio Jove (https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/) Fun Paper Friday Should there be speed bumps that say "rate your pain" at the entrance to the emergency room? These authors say it could be useful! Ashdown, Helen

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Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"

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2022/07/15

This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it. * Sound producing mechanism in the temperature inversion layer and its sensitivity to geomagnetic activity (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359861885_Sound_producing_mechanism_in_the_temperature_inversion_layer_and_its_sensitivity_to_geomagnetic_activity) Fun Paper Friday What can we do to fight a fierce predator? The cat! Cecchetti, Martina, et al. "Provision of high meat content food and

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Episode 335 - "Fish with a Ray Gun"

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2022/07/01

Listen to singing ice! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3O9vNi-dkA) Fun Paper Friday Science makes you feel stupid and that's okay! Schwartz, Martin A. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2008): 1771-1771.

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Episode 334 - "Rock Concert"

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2022/06/25

This week we're talking about ringing rocks and why we think they sound just like cast iron bells. * Video of Ringing Rocks in PA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiVt1pKnAQ) Fun Paper Friday Krioukov, Dmitri. "The Proof of Innocence." arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0162 (2012). (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.0162.pdf) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack

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Episode 333 - "Sandphony"

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2022/06/11

How can some wind and sand make booming, singing, and wailing sounds? Find out what we know this week and then dive into geo-economics with a short and graphical fun paper! Example of singing sand (https://youtu.be/KwZeTs2WtUU) Fun Paper Friday Smith, Gregor W. "Japan's Phillips curve looks like Japan." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 40.6 (2008): 1325-1326. (http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/japan.pdf) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon

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Episode 332 - "Caliche"

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2022/06/03

If you're new in the field, caliche might fool you the first few times you encounter it. This week we talk about what it is, how it forms, and why you should always carry your hammer and chisel! Fun Paper Friday Knuth, Donald E. "The toilet paper problem." The American Mathematical Monthly 91.8 (1984): 465-470. (https://web.archive.org/web/20101122073052id_/http://gi.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de:80/teaching/2007summer/jclub/papers/toiletPaper.pdf) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon

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EPISODE 331 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY

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2022/05/20

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"

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2022/05/14

This week we talk about fracture of toughness of materials or how resistant they are to cracking. Fun Paper Friday Morrill, Kathleen, et al. "Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes." Science 376.6592 (2022): eabk0639. (https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abk0639) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack (https://softwareunderground.org) @dontpanicgeo

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Episode 329 - "Granite Annulus"

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2022/05/07

Hardness, toughness, and brittleness are all unique, but related quantities. In this week's show we explore how they each relate to the atomic structure of the rocks and what they mean for us as geologists. Fun Paper Friday Can the ways flamingos pick a mate help us discover new drugs? Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael, et al. "From flamingo dance to (desirable) drug discovery: a nature-inspired approach." Drug discovery today 22.10 (2017): 1489-1502.

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Episode 328 - "Bouma"

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2022/04/23

Bouma Sequence (https://glossary.oilfield.slb.com/en/terms/b/bouma_sequence) Lowe Sequence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowe_sequence) Fun Paper Friday Nikolić, Hrvoje. "Would Bohr be born if Bohm were born before Born?." American Journal of Physics 76.2 (2008): 143-146. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0702069.pdf) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack

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Episode 327 - "Delta Tesseract"

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2022/04/15

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. Fun Paper Friday Beaty, Chester B. "Great big boulders I have known." Geology 17.4 (1989): 349-352. (https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/17/4/349/187767/Great-big-boulders-I-have-known) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com

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Episode 326 - "The Pinky Raise"

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2022/04/09

This week it's all about conglomerates. How do these sedimentary trash cans form and how can we classify them? Fun Paper Friday Turns out it may be difficult to estimate parasite population in poop, but that didn't stop this team! Krauth, Stefanie J., et al. "An in-depth analysis of a piece of s*@t: distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs in human stool." PLoS neglected tropical diseases 6.12 (2012): e1969.

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Episode 325 - "It turns to mud"

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2022/04/01

Last week Shannon was out in the field taking samples in the area of the Colorado River. This week we find out what she was doing and the history of that region. Fun Paper Friday We have policies on making your data available to journal readers, but are they effective? Stodden, Victoria, Jennifer Seiler, and Zhaokun Ma. "An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.11 (2018): 2584-2589.

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Episode 324 - "Nanoknots"

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2022/03/26

This week it's all about hot spots and Hawaii! Loihi (https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/loihi.html) Emperor Seamount Chain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian%E2%80%93Emperor_seamount_chain) HUGO (https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HUGO/) Fun Paper Friday Does removing something take more brain power than adding something? Adams, Gabrielle S., et al. "People systematically overlook subtractive changes." Nature 592.7853 (2021): 258-261.

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Episode 323 - "Bug light for nerds"

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2022/03/19

What would we be doing in an alternate universe? We explore careers we almost took and how they relate to things we talk about all the time. Fun Paper Friday Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack (https://softwareunderground.org) @dontpanicgeo

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