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It’s our 100th episode! Join us as we revisit some of our favorite Fun Paper Friday segments. Are you musically inclined? We are looking for new show music! Send us your audio, ideas, and suggestions…

John and Shannon wrap up the semester by taking a break to talk about scanning electron microscopes and the health benefits of beer.

• Scanning Electron Microscope
• Electr…

This week Elecia White from Embedded.fm joins us to talk about embedded electronics, beach sand pirates, and bear bells. Also John has microphone issues, sorry about that!

• Embedded.fm
• Logical Elegan…

Shannon has been learning how to play engineer. This week we talk about getting your hands dirty and how we learn new skills.

• Debugging (Book)
• YouTube
• Lynda.com
• Libraries
• Podcast…

John and Shannon are back to doing science instead of troubleshooting and take a break to talk with Dr. Greg Wilson about Software Carpentry, how to teach effectively, and a smattering of related top…

Shannon has been in the field sampling the great unconformity and John has been traveling to prepare for an exciting change. Join us this week to learn about discontinuities of all kinds!

This week we address a listener question about air pressure. What is it? Is the Earth’s atmosphere different thicknesses at different places? Find out, along with the answer to the age old question: …

John and Shannon are still fighting lab equipment, but take a break to talk to a guest suggested by listener Angie about how climate change is forming our landscape.

• Dr. Crosby’s Website
• …

John and Shannon are fighting lab equipment, but they take a break to continue their discussion of hurricanes. This week we talk about how we measure hurricanes - from airplanes to buoys.

We’ve had a fairly active hurricane season, so we thought that maybe now would be a good time to discuss what exactly a hurricane is, especially for those of us non-coastal dwellers who maybe don’t t…

John visits Maker Faire and Shannon found another paper about video games to answer questions we raised last week.

• Glank
• Ono Smartphone 3D printer
• Glowforge Referral Link!
• Beagle Bone
• O…

Shannon has been at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver and John is about to head off to Maker Faire. Join us to hear about the latest in geology and a fun paper we almost chickened o…

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• Babylon 5 Effects
• John was on Embedded.fm this week!

• Lots of press about NPS turning 100 this year
• Every Kid in a Park
• NPS Timeline
• Yellowstone
• Antiquities Act
• Organic A…

This week we take it slow. Laura Wallace joins us to talk plate tectonics and slow slip in New Zealand. Also a project that gets the best acronym of the year award.

• Laura’s UTIG Page
• …

Earthquake! Last week Oklahoma was rocked by the largest recorded earthquake recorded in the state’s history. We talk with Dr. Katie Keranen who is in the field deploying seismic instruments to study…

A few weeks ago we finished collecting all of your limericks in our contest to win some sweet geo-swag from Chris at Taylor Custom. This week we are joined by special guest Katie Shearer to announce …

We are teaching and traveling with the start of the semester. Since John has no solid cell phone signal at a conference in New Hampshire and Shannon is swimming in lecturing, we wanted to share one o…

Classes start next week - it’s time to evaluate what we did over the summer. How did our summer manifestos work out and what are we going to accomplish this fall?

• Defcon Seismometer Hack
• Seismo Live
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This week we address a listener show request from Mike about the Driftless region and address the phenomena of Pokemon Go. Can it improve our spatial reasoning?

• Cliff Clavin Example

Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shannon’s mind is wondering (and wandering!) about dams and their impacts, both good and bad. People use dams for electricity, recreation, flood co…