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How did you do on your 2021 resolutions? What are you going to do in 2022? John More smaller, allowed breaks Focus and completion of tasks Hit the Gym Get an IFR rating Be less reactive when appropriate Shannon say NO even more! Make a priority of staying within my boundaries (70/15/15) publish the rest of my dissertation (2 articles) make my webpage(s) and keep them updated Fun Paper Friday Marlow, Robin, and Dora Wood. "Ghost in the machine or monkey with a typewriter—generating titles for Christmas research articles in The BMJ using artificial intelligence: observational study." bmj 375 (2021). (https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/375/bmj-2021-067732.full.pdf) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com

Dyson Sphere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere) Space Mirrors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(climate_engineering)) Nuke Mars (https://www.space.com/elon-musk-nuke-mars-terraforming.html) Fun Paper Friday Did you get your beauty sleep? If not, others can probably tell! Axelsson, John, et al. "Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people." Bmj 341 (2010). (https://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6614.short) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

This week John and Shannon talk about ways we could use engineering to save or destroy the planet. * Stratospheric Injection * Ocean Fertilization * Increased Weathering Fun Paper Friday When it comes to doing dumb things - are men more likley to participate than women? Lendrem, Ben Alexander Daniel, et al. "The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour." Bmj 349 (2014). (https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7094) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

This week learn how to make strat columns based on the magnetic direction of rocks! It's time to learn about magnetostratigraphy. Magnetostratigraphy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetostratigraphy) Fun Paper Friday How did the human hand evolve? These authors make no bones about it. Press Release (https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/society/18688/eating-bone-marrow-played-a-key-role-in-the-evolution-of-the-human-hand) Williams-Hatala, Erin Marie, et al. "The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand." Journal of Human Evolution 119 (2018): 14-26. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417303597?via%3Dihub#!) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_l

Canyonlands National Park is a beautiful and large display of sedimentary processes, impacts, and more. Learn about the features of this park and how they got there in this week's show! ASU Virtual Field Trip (https://vft.asu.edu/VFTUpheavalDome/panos/UpheavalDome2020/UpheavalDome.html) Paul Bunyan's Potty (https://utahscanyoncountry.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/paul-bunyans-potty-tower-ruin-canyonlands-national-park/) Fun Paper Friday What if your dog could call you? Would they? Once scientist dared to ask the question. Hirskyj-Douglas, Ilyena, Roosa Piitulainen, and Andrés Lucero. "Forming the Dog Internet: Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5.ISS (2021): 1-20. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488539) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpani

A recent publication tried to determine if strange folded glasses found in the Atacama Desert formed by an extraterrestrial process. Turns out, mineraology and microscopy hold the key! Schultz, Peter H., et al. "Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile." Geology (2021). (https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-pdf/doi/10.1130/G49426.1/5456021/g49426.pdf) Fun Paper Friday Can chicken de-feathering be used as a wind speed proxy? Some old experiments might shed some light on the subject. Vonnegut, Bernard. "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed." Weatherwise 28.5 (1975): 217-217. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1975.9931768?journalCode=vwws20) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com J

This week John and Shannon discuss sedimentary rocks and what holds them together. Cements can be made of many different materials and don't change the name of the rock! Fun Paper Friday What can we learn from ducks drafting while swimming? Yuan, Zhi-Ming, et al. "Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 928 (2021). (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/waveriding-and-wavepassing-by-ducklings-in-formation-swimming/94759A0FF7070D9D7CAC5907594B1781) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Weather balloons are one of the few ways to really get in-situ atmospheric measurements. John was over in Norman, OK working on a new balloon borne instrument. We talk about what all is involved in a launch! Launch Video (https://youtu.be/1bMu8VVpK50) Fun Papery Friday What do shark intestines have to do with the inventor of the AC motor? Find out! Leigh, Samantha C., et al. "Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288.1955 (2021): 20211359. (https://german.bio.uci.edu/images/PDF/Leigh%20et%20al.%20(2021)%20PRSB_online.pdf) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

What happens when the Earth is drastically warmer than it is now? How can it get that way? Join us to learn about the PETM and what it could mean for our future. Fun Paper Friday Can the Drake equation be applied to love? One author thinks so! Link is to a video of a talk on the paper - the original PDF seems to have disappeared from the university website. Backus, P. (2009). Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPPSry8bBw) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Trovants are a mysterious rock formation and we try to understand them this week! Science Alert Article (https://www.sciencealert.com/these-strange-bulging-geological-manifestations-loom-over-romania) When on Earth Article (https://whenonearth.net/trovants-growing-stones-romania/) Wikipedia Article (https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovant) Geology In Article (https://www.geologyin.com/2018/04/the-mysterious-living-stones-of-romania.html) Fun Paper Friday Tired of zoom meetings? Let's read a paper about them! Shockley, Kristen M., et al. "The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment." Journal of Applied Psychology 106.8 (2021): 1137. (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-77825-003) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com

Andy Elwood-Madden (http://nanogeochem.oucreate.com/) X-Ray Diffraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography) Reynolds Cup (https://www.xrayminerals.co.uk/en/about-us/reynolds-cup/) Fun Paper Friday How many legs does it take to freak you out? Vetter, Richard S. "Arachnophobic entomologists: when two more legs makes a big difference." American Entomologist 59.3 (2013): 168-175. (https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/59/3/168/6813) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Keeping instruments safe in the field in hard. This week John talks about his favorite disguise for instruments and telemetry. Fun Paper Friday Can a photo and some machine learning predict how corrupt you are as a politician? Blavatskyy, Pavlo. "Obesity of politicians and corruption in post‐Soviet countries." Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 29.2 (2021): 343-356. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecot.12259) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Getting power to things in the field is difficult and more complex than you'd think. This week we discuss a few of the many problems you are likely to face and ways we have fought them. Fun Paper Friday Reinventing the wheel happens a lot - but how often does it get published? This week we examine an example by looking at a paper that rediscovered the integral. Tai, Mary M. "A mathematical model for the determination of total area under glucose tolerance and other metabolic curves." Diabetes care 17.2 (1994): 152-154. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.831.4725&rep=rep1&type=pdf) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitte

Magnetism is a mysterious topic and it took a long time for us humans to understand just the basics. This week we look at the history of magnetism! Fun Paper Friday Can whale calls be useful for seismologists? Find out in this week's Fun Paper! Kuna, Václav M., and John L. Nábělek. "Seismic crustal imaging using fin whale songs." Science 371.6530 (2021): 731-735. (https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2021-kuna.pdf) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

EPISODE 231 - "PRISON TOOLS" DR. MATT HALL (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/231) EPISODE 243 - "I WANT FOUR AWESOME SEASONS" (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/243) EPISODE 270 - "WHY GOD MADE THE EVENING SHIFT" STEVE PILTZ (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/270) EPISODE 287 - "CARTOONIST IN WORD FORM" GARY MCMANUS (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/287) EPISODE 271 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/271) EPISODE 280 - "RED SKY IN THE MORNING" WEATHER PROVERBS (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/280) EPISODE 262 - "MY TEDDY BEAR AND ROSARY" (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/262) EPISODE 221 - "I DON'T THINK LIKE THAT" PLOTTING (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/221) EPISODE 230 - "FIRE TRIFORCE" WILDFIRES (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/230) EPISODE 273 - "VERY SPECIAL WAYS TO PICK PEOPLE UP" CAPT. JEFF GRASS (https://www.dontpanicgeocast.com/273) Fun Paper Friday de Macedo, Robert Buarque, et al. "Unearthing real-time 3D ant tunneling mechanics." Proceedings of the National Academy

The GEARS workshop is over and we discuss what lessons were learned and how it went. Then we find out how some clever computer scientists found plagiarization in the literature. Fun Paper Friday Cabanac, Guillaume, Cyril Labbé, and Alexander Magazinov. "Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals." arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06751 (2021). (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06751.pdf) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

It's hot! Learn about wet bulb temperature and what it means for your heat-stress this summer! It involves a lot of swinging of wet socks! Fun Paper Friday Tamm, Sidney L. "Defecation by the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi occurs with an ultradian rhythm through a single transient anal pore." Invertebrate Biology 138.1 (2019): 3-16. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ivb.12236) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

How Seashells are Made (https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/reactions/videos/2018/how-seashells-are-made.html) Johnson, Adam B., Nina S. Fogel, and J. David Lambert. "Growth and morphogenesis of the gastropod shell." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116.14 (2019): 6878-6883. (https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/14/6878.full.pdf) Addadi, Lia, et al. "Mollusk shell formation: a source of new concepts for understanding biomineralization processes." Chemistry–A European Journal 12.4 (2006): 980-987. (https://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~jeannep/eps/EPSC644/Addadi%20et%20al%202006%20Mollusk%20Shells%20Biomineralization.pdf) Fun Paper Friday Thampi, Nisha, Lekha N. Villeneuve, and Yves Longtin. "Wash your hands, Brother John!." BMJ 367 (2019). (https://web.archive.org/web/20200102074458id_/https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/367/bmj.l6050.full.pdf) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack (https:

Does the earth change rapidly or slowly? We discuss the competing philosophies and the evolution of.... well, the end of the road for your food! Fun Paper Friday Hejnol, Andreas, and José M. Martín-Durán. "Getting to the bottom of anal evolution." Zoologischer Anzeiger-a Journal of Comparative Zoology 256 (2015): 61-74. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004452311500011X) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Shannon is back from field camp (and another trip) and wants to talk about digital skills. Is field camp even necessary? Fun Paper Friday Fukada, Eiichi. "Piezoelectricity of wood." Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 10.2 (1955): 149-154. (https://sci-hub.st/10.1143/JPSJ.10.149) 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 (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)