Episode 42 - "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

• Shannon was at the GSA 2015 meeting in Baltimore Maryland. She also won a raffle there for a Rite in the Rain notebook and holder.


• The meeting app worked well, but we’re both nervous after the AGU app last year.


• This is episode 42. A very important number to the show!

Life

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  Art of the Hadean Era

  
  


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  The Hadean sounds kind of like Seveneves

  
  


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  Geologic Time Scale

  
  


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  Shark Bay Stromatolites

  
  


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  Cambrian Explosion

  
  


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  Cambrain Arthropod Story (Berkeley)

  
  


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  Cambrian Creatures Slideshow

  
  


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  Rodinia (“The Motherland” supercontinent)

  
  


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  Deepest Volcanic Vent Video

  
  


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  Trilobite Guide

  
  

The Universe

• Hawking on the origin of the universe


• Big Bang, Deflated? (livescience)


• Nuclear Synthesis and Stars


• Cosmology from quantum potential (Ali and Das)

Everything

• We do a Fun Paper Friday from listener Angie!


• Heierli, J., et al. “Anticrack model for skier triggering of slab avalanches.” Cold Regions Science and Technology 65.3 (2011): 372–381.


• Show Pumpkin

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