Don't Panic Geocast

This week we talk about the summer monsoon, humidity, and magnetic potbelly sculptures.

• Monsoon

• Ancient Artists Created Giant Magnetic Heads From Rock Struck By Lightning
• Fu, Ro…

This week we're terrified... of giant ancient birds!

• Phorusrhacidae
• PBS Video
• New skull remains of Phorusrhacos longissimus
• Embedded 291: GENERAL DRIP AND TINKLE

• Hemlock poisonin…

This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing!

• Smarter Everyday Moon Sample Video

• Scientific software is important, but what about snakes on a spaceshi…

This week John discusses his recent experience teaching a large group at SciPy and why software testing is important.

• John's Tutorial
• Tutorial Page

• Beer bubbles - turns out there …

This week we dive into Dunham classification and golf habits!

• Dunham Classification

• Do doctors play more golf than the rest of us? Are they better at it?
• Koplewitz, Gal, et al. "G…

This week we talk about classification again, but this time how Folk looked at carbonate rocks and why the naming scheme has to be so much different than with sedimentary systems!

• Folk Carbonate Cla…

This week we take on geoengineering and mimicking behaviors!

• How Cloud Seeding Works
• Iron Dumping Experiment
• Nature on Geoengineering
• Vonnegut Article
• Undiscovered Podcast on Vonnegut

This week - what is a sandstone by any other name? Its Folk name that is!

• Folk Classification
• Remembering Bob Folk

• Live Science Article
• Blaj, Gabriel, et al. "Generation of high-…

Is it a nodule, is it a concretion, it is rock lightning? Find out on this week's summer short!

• Concretion
• Nodule

• Is there carbon from outside this world?
• Extraterrestrial Organi…

This week we talk about the Dakota group and how it formed those beautiful hogback structures we all love!

• Dakota Formation
• Hogback
• Western Interior Seaway

• Can dead fish really se…

This week we continue our instrument journey and talk about controlling the physical world with tiny electrons!

• Can the music you listen to change your reaction to violence?
• Sun, Ya…

This week we explore how does your data go from a physical thing to a digital representation.

• Transducer
• ADC

• Security is a scary topic, but we might be looking at the wrong proble…

This week it’s all about microscopic indications of impacts and some fun mineral names. We wrap up with a fun paper on making project acronyms!

• Coesite
• Stishovite
• Planar Deformation Features

This week we continue to chat about impact events and the macroscopic evidence of them. We wrap up with a chat about primate sleep patterns.

• Shatter Cones
• Breccia
• Suevite
• Pseudotachylite

This week we start a series on impact crates and how to tell if you have one - turns out it’s a lot more complicated than you’d think! We’ll wrap up the show with an analysis of pocket sizes on men’s…

This week we’re petrified.. petrified wood that is. Learn what it is and how it’s made - then we tie it all up with a fun paper about mathematical ways to tie neckties.

• AVE Clear Wood
• Wiki Petrified…

This week we wrap up talking about magnetometers with the alkali vapor magnetometer - a strange optical instrument that is incredibly precise!

• Why do grapes turn into balls of plasm…

This week it is all about the proton procession magnetometer and the Earth's underground mountain range. Don't miss it!

• Proton Magnetometer

• phys.org article
• Wu, Wenbo, Sidao Ni, …

This week it's all about the fluxgate magnetometer - funny name, awesome instruments.

• Fluxgate Video (NASA)
• Listener Survey!

• Have you ever crashed your bike on the tracks? Th…

This week we finally finish up the climate series! In the mean time don't forget to take the listener survey and help us make the show better!

• Where do you go to find mythical creat…