Podcasts about supervolcanoes

Welcome to the formidable world of Supervolcanoes - colossal volcanic systems capable of eruptions more powerful than anything in recorded history. From Yellowstone to Toba, discover how these geological giants form, what makes them so dangerous, and the chilling signs scientists are watching for. Could another super-eruption happen in our lifetime? And if it did… what would it mean for humanity?From Alex McColgan and the Astrum team comes an illuminating new adventure that turns our gaze homeward. Astrum Earth invites you to rediscover the most extraordinary planet in our universe - our very own Earth.Journey with us as we explore Earth's most captivating mysteries and marvels, from the global dance of El Niño to the intricate rhythms that have sustained life for billions of years. With the same meticulous research and breathtaking visuals that define Astrum, we'll reveal our planet's stories in unprecedented detail.Narrated by James Stewart, Astrum Earth promises to transform how you see the world beneath your feet and the skies above. Because to truly understand the cosmos, we must first understand home.Discover our new Astrum Earth YouTube channel: hhttps://www.youtube.com/@AstrumEarth

A roundup of the world's riskiest volcanoes and fault zones — and they're not necessarily the most hazardous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Earth is full of mind-blowing natural disasters that even experts find shocking! Supervolcanoes, like the one under Yellowstone, could erupt with enough power to change the climate for years. Mega-tsunamis can send walls of water taller than skyscrapers crashing onto land, wiping out entire coastlines. Then there are earthquakes so strong they can shift cities, cause massive landslides, and even trigger other disasters. Fire tornadoes, swirling flames that spin like hurricanes, are rare but terrifying when they happen. And let's not forget rogue waves, giant, unexpected ocean waves that can swallow ships in an instant—nature sure knows how to keep us on our toes!

Earth has some massive volcanoes called "supervolcanoes" that can cause huge eruptions, way bigger than anything we've ever seen in modern times. Some of these, like Yellowstone in the U.S. and Campi Flegrei in Italy, show signs of activity that scientists are keeping a close eye on. A supervolcano eruption could release so much ash and gas into the atmosphere that it would block sunlight, leading to a dramatic drop in global temperatures and affecting food supplies. The idea that these giants are "waking up" sounds scary, but scientists work hard to monitor any changes and understand what's happening deep below. Right now, they're improving ways to detect early warning signs, like small earthquakes or rising ground, that might hint at an eruption. While we're not totally prepared, knowing more about these supervolcanoes helps us get ready, just in case. Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD... Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightside.official   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From September 16, 2021. Research into the Toba caldera and its super-eruption 75,000 years ago shows that magma continued to flow out of the volcano for thousands of years after the main eruption event. Plus, magma and volcanoes throughout our solar system as well as our weekly What's Up segment.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Supervolcanoes tail risk has been exaggerated?, published by Vasco Grilo on March 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a linkpost for the peer-reviewed article "Severe Global Cooling After Volcanic Super-Eruptions? The Answer Hinges on Unknown Aerosol Size" ( McGraw 2024). Below are its abstract, my notes, my estimation of a nearterm annual extinction risk from supervolcanoes of 3.38*10^-14, and a brief discussion of it. At the end, I have a table comparing my extinction risk estimates with Toby Ord's existential risk guesses given in The Precipice. Abstract Here is the abstract from McGraw 2024 (emphasis mine): Volcanic super-eruptions have been theorized to cause severe global cooling, with the 74 kya Toba eruption purported to have driven humanity to near-extinction. However, this eruption left little physical evidence of its severity and models diverge greatly on the magnitude of post-eruption cooling. A key factor controlling the super-eruption climate response is the size of volcanic sulfate aerosol, a quantity that left no physical record and is poorly constrained by models. Here we show that this knowledge gap severely limits confidence in model-based estimates of super-volcanic cooling, and accounts for much of the disagreement among prior studies. By simulating super-eruptions over a range of aerosol sizes, we obtain global mean responses varying from extreme cooling all the way to the previously unexplored scenario of widespread warming. We also use an interactive aerosol model to evaluate the scaling between injected sulfur mass and aerosol size. Combining our model results with the available paleoclimate constraints applicable to large eruptions, we estimate that global volcanic cooling is unlikely to exceed 1.5°C no matter how massive the stratospheric injection. Super-eruptions, we conclude, may be incapable of altering global temperatures substantially more than the largest Common Era eruptions. This lack of exceptional cooling could explain why no single super-eruption event has resulted in firm evidence of widespread catastrophe for humans or ecosystems. My notes I have no expertise in volcanology, but I found McGraw 2024 to be quite rigorous. In particular, they are able to use their model to replicate the more pessimistic results of past studies tweeking just 2 input parameters (highlighted by me below): "We next evaluate if the assessed aerosol size spread is the likely cause of disagreement among past studies with interactive aerosol models. For this task, we interpolated the peak surface temperature responses from our ModelE simulations to the injected mass and peak global mean aerosol size from several recent interactive aerosol model simulations of large eruptions (Fig. 7, left panel). Accounting for these two values alone (left panel), our model experiments are able to reproduce remarkably similar peak temperature responses as the original studies found". By "reproduce remarkably well", they are referring to a coefficient of determination (R^2) of 0.87 (see Fig. 7). "By comparison, if only the injected masses of the prior studies are used, the peak surface temperature responses cannot be reproduced". By this, they are referring to an R^2 ranging from -1.82 to -0.04[1] (see Fig. 7). They agree with past studies on the injected mass, but not on the aerosol size[2]. Fig. 3a (see below) illustrates the importance of the peak mean aerosol size. The greater the size, the weaker the cooling. I think this is explained as follows: Primarily, smaller particles reflect more sunlight per mass due to having greater cross-sectional area per mass[3]. Secondarily, larger particles have less time to reflect sunlight due to falling down faster[4]. According to Fig. 2 (see below), aerosol size increases with injected mass, which makes intuitive sen...

Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out if supervolcanoes are worth worrying about. They are joined by volcanologist Tamsin Mather, geologist Chris Jackson and comedian Rachel Parris. They learn about the worst eruptions of all time, including the eruption that may have sparked the French Revolution. They find out what volcanologists like Tamsin are doing to monitor supervolcanoes and if volcanologists do predict an impending eruption, is there anything we can do about it? New episodes are released on Saturdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the full series first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF Producer: Caroline Steel Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Ongoing tremors underneath Lake Taupō have seen the alert level for the supervolcano rise for the first time in history. Geologists are closely monitoring the site, while a series of other shallow quakes have jolted Kiwis across the country. So what's the science behind all these tectonic movements at the moment? And is there anything for us to worry about yet?   Today, Dr Finn Illsley-Kemp, a seismologist from Victoria University of Wellington, is on The Front Page to help Damien make sense of the disturbances beneath the surface.    Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Damien VenutoProducer: Shaun D WilsonExecutive Producer: Ethan SillsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We keep hearing that a Yellowstone supervolcano could blow at any moment — and possibly wipe us all out. So is Yellowstone overdue for the BIG ONE, and if it happens, how bad could it be? To find out, we talk to Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Scientist-in-Charge Dr. Mike Poland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Future Matters #5: supervolcanoes, AI takeover, and What We Owe the Future, published by Pablo on September 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Even if we think the prior existence view is more plausible than the total view, we should recognize that we could be mistaken about this and therefore give some value to the life of a possible future. The number of human beings who will come into existence only if we can avoid extinction is so huge that even with that relatively low value, reducing the risk of human extinction will often be a highly cost-effective strategy for maximizing utility, as long as we have some understanding of what will reduce that risk. Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer Future Matters is a newsletter about longtermism. Each month we collect and summarize longtermism-relevant research, share news from the longtermism community, and feature a conversation with a prominent researcher. You can also subscribe on Substack, listen on your favorite podcast platform and follow on Twitter. Future Matters is also available in Spanish. Research William MacAskill's What We Owe the Future was published, reaching the New York Times Bestseller list in its first week and generating a deluge of media for longtermism. We strongly encourage readers to get a copy of the book, which is filled with new research, ideas, and framings, even for people already familiar with the terrain. In the next section, we provide an overview of the coverage the book has received so far. In Samotsvety's AI risk forecasts, Eli Lifland summarizes the results of some recent predictions related to AI takeover, AI timelines, and transformative AI by a group of seasoned forecasters. In aggregate, the group places 38% on AI existential catastrophe, conditional on AGI being developed by 2070, and 25% on existential catastrophe via misaligned AI takeover by 2100. Roughly four fifths of their overall AI risk is from AI takeover. They put 32% on AGI being developed in the next 20 years. John Halstead released a book-length report on climate change and longtermism and published a summary of it on the EA Forum. The report offers an up-to-date analysis of the existential risk posed by global warming. One of the most important takeaways is that extreme warming seems significantly less likely than previously thought: the probability of >6°C warming was thought to be 10% a few years ago, whereas it now looks

Join us this week for our interview of Dr. Robin George Andrews.  Robin George Andrews is a freelance science journalist based in London. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Gizmodo, Atlas Obscura and elsewhere. He trained as a volcanologist, earning a doctorate in the subject, but then realized that telling people stories of spectacular eruptions and off-world scientific shenanigans brought him more joy than academia ever could. His upcoming book — Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond is out now - go buy a copy!I must admit, it took Jesse and I a while to realize that the book is called Super Volcanoes - two words.  In other words, all volcanoes are super.  Most volcanologists strongly dislike the term Supervolcanoes - one word, that is typically used to describe Yellowstone National Park.  Robin has a huge personality which made for a very fun interview.  We talked about Hawaii, Yellowstone, deep ocean volcanoes, Tonga, and Marie Tharp to name just a few.  Tune in to get all the details.  You won't be disappointed.——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.buzzsprout.com/ 

Join us this week for our interview of Dr. Robin George Andrews.  Robin George Andrews is a freelance science journalist based in London. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Gizmodo, Atlas Obscura and elsewhere. He trained as a volcanologist, earning a doctorate in the subject, but then realized that telling people stories of spectacular eruptions and off-world scientific shenanigans brought him more joy than academia ever could. His upcoming book — Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond is out now - go buy a copy!I must admit, it took Jesse and I a while to realize that the book is called Super Volcanoes - two words.  In other words, all volcanoes are super.  Most volcanologists strongly dislike the term Supervolcanoes - one word, that is typically used to describe Yellowstone National Park.  Robin has a huge personality which made for a very fun interview.  We talked about Hawaii, Yellowstone, deep ocean volcanoes, Tonga, and Marie Tharp to name just a few.  Tune in to get all the details.  You won't be disappointed.——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.buzzsprout.com/ 

Supervolcanoes are bigger than you think, and there are more of them than you think. There are, in fact, eight supervolcanoes around the world that have changed the geography of continents and caused mass extinctions. What are these volcanoes? What causes them, and most importantly, could we survive one?Today we take a deep dive into one of the most destructive forces on the planet. And if you think that supervolcanoes have been over-hyped... trust me, they haven't.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What's a supervolcano? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen discover all types of volcanoes in the solar system with cosmochemist and author of Fire and Ice, Natalie Starkey. Is there such a thing as an ice volcano?NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons ILAN CAPONE, Ricardo Torres, Boiphamet, Sebastien Leroy, Parker, Katharine Hooper, and Alireza Sefat for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Boaworm, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Research into the Toba caldera and its super-eruption 75,000 years ago shows that magma continued to flow out of the volcano for thousands of years after the main eruption event. Plus, magma and volcanoes throughout our solar system as well as our weekly What's Up segment.

Do you hear that? That soft rumble in the distance? Do you feel that? The air getting hot and thick? Do you see that? The dark cloud inching closer and and closer? It can only be one thing...A new episode of GWS! This week, Sean schools the guys in sweet science behind Super Volcanoes (or Supervolcanoes? Idk). It took us a good long while to finally tackle this topic, but at long last, we have delivered. Grab your favorite framed picture of Tommy Lee Jones and keep it close as we dive into this hot topic.Patreon: www.patreon.com/guyswerescrewedEmail: gwscrewed@gmail.com

Just like the impact of an asteroid or a comet, the explosion of a volcano can be a major disaster. 39,000 years ago the Campi Flegrei volcano blew up in what's now Italy, blasting 70 cubic miles of molten rock into the stratosphere.

*This episode is accompanied by a slide show. Here is the link to our youtube channel. https://youtu.be/2CTbfeUtCME “Supervolcanoes Part 2: Hotspots and History” Episode 175 Today we discuss the history and hotspots of supervolcanoes. We will briefly discuss and go over Yellowstone and Lake Toba before moving on to some of the largest super eruptions of all time. We will also look at what one of these super eruptions might look like and the resulting destruction and fallout. *Here is the link to part 1: https://youtu.be/aZ_DL7dSmV8 *Sign up for Indra’s Web which is the social media platform we created dedicated to metaphysics and the topics we discuss on this podcast. The platform is live so head on over there and set up a profile. https://indrasweb.org/ *If you enjoy our podcast and content and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. You can also listen to us on the go through our website listed below. Join our Discord channel if you want to chat. We are also on all podcast platforms. Our Links: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/MindEscapePodcast Website - https://www.MindEscapePodcast.com Discord - https://discord.gg/62bHFpd Twitter - https://twitter.com/MikeEscape Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mindescapepodcast/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/MindEscapePodcast/ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-escape-podcast/ Spotify Podcasts - https://open.spotify.com/show/0OXM81pXkn2OYT45NsoRQb?si=THFEq0SoRVqvsZzjR5xZMA

We keep hearing that a Yellowstone supervolcano could blow at any moment — and possibly wipe us all out. So is Yellowstone overdue for the BIG ONE, and if it happens, how bad could it be? To find out, we talk to Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Scientist-in-Charge Dr. Mike Poland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We keep hearing that a Yellowstone supervolcano could blow at any moment — and possibly wipe us all out. So is Yellowstone overdue for the BIG ONE, and if it happens, how bad could it be? To find out, we talk to paleoecologist Dr. Gill Plunkett, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Scientist-in-Charge Dr. Mike Poland and Washington resident Christian Jacobsen.  Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/3kliFV6 Check out Yellowstone Volcano Observatory’s weekly blog the “Caldera Chronicles”: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/caldera-chronicles This episode was produced by Michelle Dang and Nicholas DelRose, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler and Hannah Harris Green. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Barbra Rodriguez. Mix and sound design by Sam Bair. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. A huge thanks to all the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Brian Wilcox, Dr. Mike Rampino, Dr. Jazmin Scarlett, Dr. Joe McConnell, Dr. Rosaly Lopes and Dr. Thor Thordarson. And special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.

*This episode is accompanied by a slide show. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/aZ_DL7dSmV8 “Supervolcanoes: Yellowstone and Lake Toba” Episode #133 Today we discuss Yellowstone, Lake Toba, and Supervolcanoes. Is Yellowstone due for an eruption? How much damage would a supervolcano do and how would it effect humanity? We will also discuss why Yellowstone is not an imminent threat according to the data. We will go over why scientists believe the human population was reduced to roughly 3-10k people following the Lake Toba eruption. *If you enjoy our podcast and content and want to help us grow, check out our Patreon account and enjoy the exclusive episodes and interviews. You can also listen to us on the go through our website listed below. Join our Discord channel if you want to chat. https://www.patreon.com/MindEscapePodcast https://www.MindEscapePodcast.com https://discord.gg/62bHFpd *Here is the link to recent scientific paper and hypothesis regarding evidence of 2 supereruptions roughly 9million years ago in southern Idaho: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G47384.1/586793/Discovery-of-two-new-super-eruptions-from-the *Here is the link to the recent NY Times article on those eruptions: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/science/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html *Here is the link to the Livescience article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/science/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html *Here is a link to a couple of Supervolcano documentaries: https://youtu.be/Vt07neEU0bU https://youtu.be/G1pa6afh8o4

In hour 2 of Overtime, we talk what teams Tennessee could catch by surprise in the fall, there's a new Ebola outbreak in the Congo, we discuss the Yellowstone Super-volcano and Hayden calls in from his cabin to play the Birthday Game

In the 5th episode of the show I am finally speaking with a volcanologist, Prof. Ilya Bindeman from University of Oregon, USA, and staff scientist at Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow, Russia. We touch upon supervolcanoes, both recent and ancient; what happened at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary and how to be a successful scientist nowadays // В 5м выпуске шоу наконец-то у меня в гостях вулканолог, Илья Биндеман, профессор Орегонского Университета в США и сотрудник Минералогического Музея им. А.Е. Ферсмана в Москве. Мы беседуем на тему извержений супервулканов, как в недавнем так и отдаленном геологическом прошлом, возникновении суши (и современного гидрологического цикла с привычными нам реками, озерами и ледниками) около 2.5 миллиардов лет назад, а также что необходимо для успешной научной карьеры в наши дни :) Статья в Nature про возникновение суши: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0131-1 Лента.Ру про это же: https://lenta.ru/news/2018/05/24/continent/ Про суперкомпьютеры и Йеллоустон: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/supercomputers-yield-sharper-view-yellowstones-magma ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ilya_Bindeman Музей Ферсмана: https://www.fmm.ru/Employers

Mike, Stephen, and Colin talk about jobs, Macs, Macs at jobs, Macs at schools, dads and iPads, software update and Apple Music gripes,  nuclear annihilation segueing very abruptly into talk about a $90 iMac stand/dock thingy, Texas pro-Israel law, Georgia earthquakes, something subduction zones, Supervolcanoes, Yellowstone, visits to Austin, and road trips.

We ramble for hours about the decrepit state of the world.

Hour 1: Yes, Trump has been caught in some lies, but why is the media all the sudden interested in a lying administration. Pat reminds us of the lies on Obamacare. Actor Mark Duplass gets slammed for a pro Ben Shapiro tweet. There doesn't seem to be a lot of support for Brett Cavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice, if you look at recent nominations. Greenland's lost summer is being blamed on climate change.,  and new research shows if Texas were a country, they'd be a top oil producing nation.   Hour 2: Texas getting its dominance back, oil jobs coming back to the state, it's a good time for the energy sector. Scientists find an enormous fissure in a super volcano in Yellowstone, and people cheer? What affect is the volcano in Hawaii having on our current weather? Doctors are suing patients for posting negative reviews on Yelp, and the reviewer faced up to a year in prison for his online comments.  We Chew the Fat with Jeffy who has a live look at Texas weather today (so it's just an AC on fire, but you get the point) and some interesting ideas from a socialist about how cities should run.  Hour 3: Saharan Dust is affecting the South, and Pat explains how they are also a hurricane killer. Keith Ellison calls having borders an injustice and claims that America's prosperity is based on the want in other parts of the world.  Lady Parts Justice League is launching a comedy tour related to abortion activism.  Judge Jeanine Pirro appeared on The View to talk about her new book, and one of the biggest Trump apologist's tee'd off with the Trump Derangement crowd and it was a spectacle.  And Donald Trump comments on his now infamous press conference, and Pat calls it the worst point of his Presidency.   Tune in to "Pat Gray Unleashed" weekdays from 12-3p.m. ET on TheBlaze TV! Twitter @PatUnleashed LISTEN omny.fm/shows/pat-graywww.theblaze.com/radio-shows/pat-…ay-unleashed/soundcloud.com/patgrayshowwww.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blaz…work/pat-grayitunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pat-g…80961263?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, it was asked for and here it is, Alex and Jake take on Supervolcanoes and extinction level events. It's a wild episode which starts with a rare appearance of Ask Jake where he doesn't perform nearly as well as Alex did in Ask Alex. Oh and by the way, we learned that if you live on the west coast and volcanoes decide that it's showtime, we're all doneski. Seriously. It's scary. Also, Yellowstone will explode relatively soon.   Red Arrow Productions and My Show can be reached on Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter. Patreon: www.patreon.com/redarrowproductions IG: RedArrowProductions @redarrowdeepsouth twitter: @RedArrowP Facebook: Red Arrow Productions

Back after a brief hiatus! In episode 53, Lisa and Justin talk about the predictability of Supervolcanoes, the probability of Hyperloops hitting the States any time soon, and the 40,000 miles Whale Sharks travel.  ​    

This show is brought to you by: YOU! We recently sat down at CSC's 21+ Night and got a bunch of amazing (and very entertaining) questions from inquisitive visitors, so we decided to answer as many as we could in this episode. Topics include tattoos, dinosaurs, dwarf planets, supervolcanoes, and a whole lot more.  Hosted by Charissa Sedor and Ralph Crewe Music by Kyle Simpson and Al Snyder A Carnegie Science Center Podcast

The 2017 Rutherford Prize has been awarded to Victoria University of Wellington geologist Colin Wilson for his work on supervolcanoes such as Taupo.

The 2017 Rutherford Prize has been awarded to Victoria University of Wellington geologist Colin Wilson for his work on supervolcanoes such as Taupo.

75,000 years ago, the human race was on the brink of extinction. The cause was the Toba supervolcanic eruption, which had plunged the earth into a volcanic winter and killed all but a few thousand remaining humans. This moment was the closest we have come to extinction since our species began. Even smaller volcanic eruptions have lead to such cheerful-sounding phenomena as "The Year Without a Summer".  Now, the question has to be asked: could this happen again? And how likely is it to occur during our lifetimes? On this week's TEOTWAWKI special of Physical Attraction, we're going to be talking about the threat from supervolcanic eruptions. How are you feeling about the countdown so far? Let us know over on Twitter @physicspod, or via the email, physicspod@outlook.com

Until recently, volcanologists thought supervolcanoes were simply massive volcanoes. But further research has revealed that they are far different - and far more dangerous - than previously imagined. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Until recently, volcanologists thought supervolcanoes were simply massive volcanoes. But further research has revealed that they are far different - and far more dangerous - than previously imagined. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

There are regular volcanoes, and then there are the supervolcanoes. Massive calderas of hot magma of incomprehensible size. Bad news, these things explode randomly and catastrophically. Worse news, there are a bunch around the Earth.

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What makes a supervolcano so super? How likely is an eruption? And what would actually happen? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

00:00:00 - Supervolcanoes could striek at pretty much any moment. At least that's what Ayla has to say as she joins from a mid-reconstruction New Zealand to tell us all about her research into potentially destructive magma chmabers just waiting to strike! 00:25:53 - Drinks cool you down as the magma heats you up. Ben has some weird vita malt thing from Denmark. He loves it. Ryan suspects it tastes like beer and Ben just doesn't know what that tastes like. Ben washes it down with a banana, your guess is as good as ours. Ryan and Abe sip some sotol from the Chihuahua region of Mexico. It's like mezcal or tequila, only... not. 00:34:25 - Trailer Trash Talk debate the trailer tactics of Pixar in relation to their latest offering Brave. 00:44:45 - Dogs have been around for awhile. Some maybe more than others. New research attempts to combine the results of genetics, archaeology, and biogeography to shed new light on the origins of man's best friend. 01:09:03 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like dogs. No one is quite sure where or when they came from, but we know they're here now. Ryan tries to pick Ben up with a quote as recounted by Lee U. A quote which was so inspirational it sent Lee back to school. Go Lee! Ben then used that energy to give Andrew B. a very long answer about laser guns in sci-fi. And finally Abe has a tweet from Christina praising his "hot hard rock"-ness. OK, then. Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!   Music for this week's show: Volcano - Presidents of the United States of America Mexico - Cake Gimme Sympathy - The Metric Wild Packs of Family Dogs - Modest Mouse

Supervolcanic eruptions have the potential to drastically alter the environment and seriously affect human civilization. Understanding the geological consequences of these events continues to challenge scientists. On this program, Dr. John Savino discussed the impact of a supervolcanic eruption.