Episode 309 - "Assume a Spherical Chicken"
This week we talk about a new paper by Schultz et al. determining if folded glasses in the Atacama Desert are extraterrestrial in origin. Then we talk about the ballistics of chickens.
November 20, 202150m 30s
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Show Notes
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!
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.
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