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This week learn how to make strat columns based on the magnetic direction of rocks! It's time to learn about magnetostratigraphy. Magnetostratigraphy Fun Paper Friday How did the human hand evolve? These authors make no bones about it. Press Release 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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 Paul Bunyan's Potty 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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). 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @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 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

Trovants are a mysterious rock formation and we try to understand them this week! Science Alert Article When on Earth Article Wikipedia Article Geology In Article 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

Andy Elwood-Madden X-Ray Diffraction 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin