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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 Scie

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 Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Extinctions are pretty common in the rock record, but there are 5 times in Earth’s past where more than 50% of the life on Earth died, these are known as mass extinctions. This week we talk about causes of mass extinctions and some of the strange life that existed. Mass Extinctions Ordovician Silurian Extinction Devonian Extinction Permian Triassic Extinction The Dunkleosteus Fun Paper Friday How can microbes melt glaciers? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday! Ganey, Gerard Q., et al. “The role of microbes in snowmelt and radiative forcing on an Alaskan icefield.” Nature Geoscience 10.10 (2017): 754. Paper From EarthArXiv Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

iPads in the field. We’ve talked about it before, but it’s been awhile. This week Corey Scheip joins us to talk about his experiences with tech and large teams. Corey Scheip Notability App Dropbox Business Collector App Dioptra App Theodolite App Corey on LinkedIn Fun Paper Friday Running on the water - this is a contender for the most absurd experimental setup we’ve seen this year. Minetti, Alberto E., et al. “Humans running in place on water at simulated reduced gravity.” PLoS One 7.7 (2012): e37300. Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

What’s the difference between a weather advisory, statement, watch, and warning? Join us this week to find out! Watches, Warnings, and more Current watches, warnings, etc NWS Definitions Norman Spotter Resources Definitions CPC Outlooks AMS Glossary Fun Paper Friday Most of us love chocolate, but could it be deadly? Ainsworth, Claire. “Death by chocolate–is it possible?.” New Scientist 196.2635–2636 (2007): 40–41. Contact us: Support us on Patreon! Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week John and Shannon dive into the world of cross-sections, the olympics, and more! Creating a cross section Cross-section example Strike and dip Brunton Axis Section restoration Fun Paper Friday Ever wonder if these catchy fun paper titles are effective and how common they are? This week’s author did! Goodman, Neville W. “From Shakespeare to Star Trek and beyond: a Medline search for literary and other allusions in biomedical titles.” Bmj 331.7531 (2005): 1540–1542. Contact us: Support us on Patreon! Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Join our chat with Dr. Kasey Aderhold of IRIS this week as we talk about Alaskan earthquakes, the transportable array, and more! We also feature the shortest seismological abstract on record! Falcon Heavy Test Flight Kasey Aderhold Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology M7.9 Event Page DART Buoy Network Strike Slip Faults IRIS Ground Motion Visualization @kaseyaderhold Kasey’s Website Fun Paper Friday What’s the shortest abstract possible you ask? This week we look at a paper by @SeismoSue that wins the title and discusses the possible connection between earthquakes and tides! Hough, Susan E. “Do Large (Magnitude≥ 8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle?.” Seismological Research Letters (2018). Contact us: Support us on Patreon! Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John and Shannon tackle a listener question about Zircon and then discuss the possibility of flying a drone on Titan. Shannon also ponders how long to wait for late students on field trips. Silicate Minerals Nesosilicates Brilliance, Luster, and Fire Mohs Scale Zircon Zonation Uranium-Lead Dating Laser Ablation Detrital zircon geochronology Tishomingo Granite Jack Hills Zircon Fun Paper Friday Drones on Titan from one of our favorite authors! Thanks to listener Jonathan for sending this our way. Lorenz, R.D. et al., Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander Concept for Scientific Exploration at Tital. Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest. 2017. Contact us: Support us on Patreon! Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John has been off at the American Meteorlogical Society Meeting and Shannon was in the field, so we discuss what we’ve been up to, some exciting announcements, and how fast the grim reaper walks. Don’t miss this week’s show! Spacepod 116 AMS Meeting AMS 98th Annual Meeting Anemoment FT Technologies Field Work Lake Mohave Magnetostratigraphy Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale Safe use of HF Fun Paper Friday Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week Dan Zietlow and Ryan Vachon join us to talk about outreach, scientific video making, and Dan Rather’s chat at AGU. Outreach Email: breaknsci@gmail.com YouTube Breaking Science Facebook Breaking Science @breaknsci Ryan’s Book - Science Videos Fun Paper Friday In a time of difficult communication and news, Dan Rather offered words of inspiration and vision at the AGU Annual Meeting. Dan Rather’s Vision for Scientists in an Era of “Fake News” Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com - Patreon John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Join us as Dr. Helen Janiszewski discusses the recent Deleware earthquake, subduction, and hurricanes! Dr. Helen Janiszewski Helen’s Website @helenjanisz USGS Earthquake Page Cascadia Initiative Fun Paper Friday When it rains, it pours… and the Earth sinks. Montanari, S. (2017), Weight of water dropped by Hurricane Harvey flexed Earth’s crust, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO089015. Published on 14 December 2017. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we reflect on our past goals and set some new ones for 2018 and the path to show 200! John Grow my business with the addition of two products See some of Colorado Read 15 Books Go Paperless for our personal and business records Get Back to theBlog/Newsletter (Sign up!) Write another proposal Learn more about web-app development Try swift programming Grow our audience more! Release more great and more timely content Shannon Declutter life! Read 25 books (at least 5 non-fiction!) Get back to bike riding Submit this manuscript or quit my job! Submit another proposal Be prepared for field camp at least 2 months out Clean-up my workspace Have manuals for all the devices Field Camp Blog! Complete person and lab webpages Incorporate tech in the classroom Learn to edit the shoe Start a Don’t Panic! Instagram page Fun Paper Friday Teens and rats apparently have the same drinking habits. Find out how on this week’s Fun Paper Friday! Hargreaves, Garth A., et al. “Intermittent access to beer promotes bing

Bill’s Trail Library Vibrations and Waves (A.P. French) Waves Part 2 Superposition Principle Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform JPG Compression Fun Paper Friday Thanks to listener Darryl for sending in this fun paper about the number of toys and quality of play in toddlers. Dauch, Carly, et al. “The influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers’ play.” Infant Behavior and Development 50 (2018): 78–87. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we tackle a tough listener question about waves. What are they and how can we understand and use them? Find out on this week’s show! Don’t Panic Tee Shirts! Waves Complex numbers Wave properties illustrated (BBC) Engineer Guy Microwave Video Fun Paper Friday Does your dog give you puppy eyes? Learn more about that expression and scientific expression coding in this week’s fun paper friday! Kaminski, Juliane, et al. “Human attention affects facial expressions in domestic dogs.” Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 12914. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

HP15C App Pythonista 3 Earth ArXiV Dr. Chris Jackson Dr. Tom Narock SHERPA/RoMEO EarthArXiv Fun Paper Friday This week we give you an excuse to eat chocolate and win a Nobel. “Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates,” Fanz H. Messerli, M.D. Spurious Correlations Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we keep chatting about what computational devices we want to carry and what our recommendations are. Apple Smart Keyboard Apple Pencil Microsoft Surface Fun Paper Friday Have you ever been in a mosh pit? One of us has, and we discuss this model of mosh pit activity in this week’s Fun Paper Friday! Huff Post Article Silverberg, Jesse L., et al. “Collective motion of humans in mosh and circle pits at heavy metal concerts.” Physical Review Letters 110.22 (2013): 228701. Interactive Simulator Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

What operating system is best? Well, it’s complicated. This week we talk tech and science and how we work. Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science DOS PC GEOS Fun Paper Friday Nature writeup Haze heats Pluto’s atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature. Xi Zhang, Darrell F. Strobel, Hiroshi Imanaka. Nature 551, 352–355 (16 November 2017) doi:10.1038/nature24465 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John is holed up working in his workshop and Shannon is preparing for the end of the semester. This week we take some time to talk about when nature out smarted all of us and created a natural nuclear reactor. Embedded 221 with Jimmy Soni Oklo Reactors Oklo Reactor Water as a neutron moderator Neutron poisoning Windscale fire CP1 Reactor Book: Atomic Awakening Fun Paper Friday The octopus has a facinating set of genes that help explain their extraordinary intellegence and capabilities. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Shannon was off at GSA while John browsed the history of computing. We talk about our travels and celebrate with a discussion of champagne cork popping and thermodynamics. First Starbucks Store GSA Computer History Museum Diplocaulus (Boomerang Head) Red beds Fun Paper Friday Ever popped a champagne cork? This week we look at the thermodynamics behind the process and use John’s favorite tool - high speed cameras! Liger-Belair, Gérard, et al. “Unveiling CO2 heterogeneous freezing plumes during champagne cork popping.” Scientific Reports 7 (2017). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we finish up talking about the faint young sun and how some corporations seem to have strange ways of communicating the climate risk that they’ve studied. Faint Young Sun Part 2 Faint Young Sun Paradox Albedo Main sequence Fun Paper Friday How did ExxonMobil do in its communications about climate change? Read all about it in this in-depth study! Supran, Geoffrey, and Naomi Oreskes. “Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014).” Environmental Research Letters 12.8 (2017): 084019. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin