The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey
In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later folks get offended about it.
What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you assume .
Many others thought they knew. They noticed lots of of years of scientific progress, shifting paradigms, and explosive arguments behind them, and determined they have been on the finish. The Ok-Pg extinction was settled. Then it exploded once more. And once more. And it saved exploding far more than any layperson right this moment actually appreciates, revealing extra about science and its communication than you ever imagined.
This is the story of the mass extinction debates.
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0:00 – Intro
5:17 – Part I: The End
28:40 – Part II: The Record of the Rocks
47:46 – Part III: A Sudden Violent and Unusual Event
1:18:29 – Part IV: Exterminate All Dinosaurs With This One Weird Trick!
1:46:42 – Part V: Confessions of a YouTuber
2:10:05 – Credits
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LINKS MENTIONED
Recent evaluate concerning the dinosaurs’ extinction:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12128
Jefferson’s mammoth cheese:
Darren Naish on one other palaeontological paradigm dust-up:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120705194937/http:/blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/07/03/world-must-ignore-reptileevolution-com/
Michael J. Benton on the historical past of the dinosaurs’ extinction:
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/5/537/files/2019/07/1990KT.pdf
The Alvarez paper on asteroids:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1683699
The Vogt paper on volcanoes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/240338a0
My Pythagoras video:
Neil Halloran’s video on nuclear winter:
Kyle Hill’s video on YouTube science spam:
Elisabeth S. Clemens on the debates:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/285026
Interview with William Glen:
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