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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- From the Radiolab podcast: What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth?
In this episode we make the case for 536 AD, which set off a cascade of catastrophes that is almost too horrible to imagine. A supervolcano. The disappearance of shadows. A failure of bread. Plague rats. Using evidence painstakingly gathered around the world - from Mongolian tree rings to Greenlandic ice cores to Mayan artifacts - we paint a portrait of what scientists and historians think went wrong, and what we think it felt like to be there in real time. (Spoiler: not so hot.) We hear a hymn for the dead from the ancient kingdom of Axum, the closest we can get to the sound of grief from a millennium and a half ago.
The horrors of 536 make us wonder about the parallels and perpendiculars with our own time: does it make you feel any better knowing that your suffering is part of a global crisis? Or does it just make things worse?"
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Thanks to reporter Ann Gibbons whose Science article "Eruption made 536 ‘the worst year to be alive'" got us interested in the first place: www.science.or...
In case you want to learn more about 536, here are some other sources:
• Timothy P. Newfield, “The Climate Downturn of 536-50” in the Palgrave Handbook on Climate History: link.springer....
• Dallas Abbott et al., “What caused terrestrial dust loading and climate downturns between A.D. 533 and 540?”: academiccommon...
• Joel Gunn and Alesio Ciarini (editors), “The A.D. 536 Crisis: A 21st Century Perspective”: www.researchga...
• Antti Arjava, “The Mystery Cloud of 536 CE in the Mediterranean Sources”: www.jstor.org/...
• And for more on the composer Yared, watch Meklit Hadero’s TED Talk “The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds”: www.ted.com/ta...
Credits: This episode was reported by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller, and produced by Simon Adler. Sound and music from Simon Adler and Jeremy Bloom.
Special thanks to: Joel Gunn, Dallas Abbott, Mathias Nordvig, Emma Rigby, Robert Dull, Daniel Yacob, Kay Shelemey, Jacke Phillips, Meklit Hadero and Joan Aruz.
Illustration by Liam Eisenberg [liameisenberg.com]
Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.
To make things worse: it was a leap year.
Radiolab is soo criminally underrated. Love u guys so interesting:)
Loved this podcast!! I heard it twice!!!
I mean, we had a volcanic eruption already in 2022. Just sayin... the year is young.
My World History teacher made this an extra credit assignment and I'm very glad that i listened to this... I may or may not be binging a ton of your videos now...
Hi mark
Yaredawi melody is so beautiful that I feel it wasn't well represented in this podcast so here is a link to a song by Teddy Afro with yaredawi zema starting at 2:45 th-cam.com/video/rN4_tHSwuFQ/w-d-xo.html