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

• Art of the Hadean Era

• The Hadean sounds kind of like Seveneves

• Geologic Time Scale

• Shark Bay Stromatolites

• Cambrian Explosion

• Cambrain Arthropod Story (Berkeley)

• Cambrian Creatures Slideshow

• Rodinia (“The Motherland” supercontinent)

• Deepest Volcanic Vent Video

• 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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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin