The podClast – episode 6

Published 2008-06-26 by Chris

The post that accompanies this podcast can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/2008/06/25/the-podclast-episode-6/

Episode 6 of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (14.3 Mb, 24:36), or subscribe through iTunes here.

This week’s show discusses opening up the untapped oil reserves of the U.S.A, the June 14th Japanese earthquake and the early warning system, and the recent flooding in the mid-west of the U.S.

Participants

Chris – goodSchist

Brian – Clastic Detritus

Jess (Tuff Cookie) – Magma Cum Laude

Show Notes

Brian’s post on the Outer Continental Shelf and Oil Prospecting.

My post on the Alaska North Slope and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

There’s a quick video and some information at Crooks and Liars about The Enron Loop and Free Energy Trading.

The Wikipedia entry on the June 14 Earthquake in Japan.

And here’s the Wikipedia article on the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

Chris at Highly Allochthonous had guest blogger talking about why you can get ‘500 year floods’ two years in a row.

Here’s the USGS Corecast Episode that deals with the flooding in the mid-west. You can subscribe to the Corecast through iTunes, or visit the Corecast site.

del.icio.us/podclast

We have a del.icio.us account which can be found at http://del.icio.us/podclast. All the web pages and resources we’ve found and used in the discussions on the podclast can be found here. A conveniant way to browse per episode is to go to, for example, http://del.icio.us/podclast/episode6 (for this episode).

If you find a link to a topic that you’d like to hear discussed on the podclast, or have a link to a topic that’s already been discussed, you can add links to the podclast page through your own del.icio.us account.

When saving a link, include the tags for:podclast and episodeX (where X is the episode number – for example episode5). You can add more than one episode tag if the link applies to multiple episodes.

Next Episode

We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Saturday the 5th of July at 2300 GMT.

Contributing

If you’re keen to hear a specific topic talked about, or would like to join the discussion during the next episode (we’d really like a few more voices in there), either leave a comment below or email chris [the at symbol] goodschist.com. You’ll probably also do well reading the details on joining the podclast. If you don’t have the time to join us but would like to contribute a 3-5 minute audio clip to the show simply record it, make sure it’s an mp3, and send it to the address above.

Credit

The audio clip about geologists being the sexiest mean alive at the top of the show was from an episode of American Dad, which is © copyright News Corp. 2008. (Please don’t sue me). The video of that clip can be found in this post.

The intro and exit music was Roots Fi Cool by Burning Babylon.

The splash image on the homepage is from Argue With Everyone. The album art is from NASA.

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