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

Learning New Skills

• Debugging (Book)
• YouTube
• Lynda.com
• Libraries
• Podcasts
• Embedded.fm

Fun Paper Friday

• Tuk, Mirjam A., Debra Trampe, and Luk Warlop. “Inhibitory spillover increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains.” Psychological Science 22.5 (2011): 627–633.

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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 topics about the academic world.

Greg Wilson

• Software Carpentry
• Data Carpentry
• Library Carpentry
• It Will Never Work in Theory
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Request a Software Carpentry Workshop
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Lang)
• How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Ambrose et al.)

Fun Paper Friday

• Stefik, Andreas, and Susanna Siebert. “An empirical investigation into programming language syntax.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 13.4 (2013): 19.
• Greg’s Review or Stefik and Siebert
• Whitten, Alma, and J. Doug Tygar. “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0.” Usenix Security. Vol. 1999. 1999.
• Perez De Rosso, Santiago, and Daniel Jackson. “What’s wrong with git?: a conceptual design.” (2013).

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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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!

Unconformities

• Sedimentary Rocks
• Siccar Point
• Unconformity
• Geologic Time Lab Activity
• Grand Canyon Geology
• The Great Unconformity

Fun Paper Friday

• Peters, Shanan E., and Robert R. Gaines. “Formation of the Great Unconformity as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion.” Nature 484.7394 (2012): 363–366.

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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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: “Where are all the teaspoons?”

Air Pressure

• International Standard Atmosphere
• Barometric Pressure
• Pascal (unit)
• Scale Height
• Hydrostatic Equation
• Upper Air Maps
• Make a barometer
• Density Altitude

Fun Paper

• Lim, Megan SC, Margaret E. Hellard, and Campbell K. Aitken. “The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.” BMJ 331.7531 (2005): 1498–1500.