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Welcome to the science podcast for March 16, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show, online news editor, Catherine Madisonik, is here with a story on how ancient humans survive global volcanic winter, caused by a massive volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

And Julia Buck discusses landscapes of disgust.

How do gross things like parasites and carcasses shape ecosystems.

Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an online editor for our daily news site. Hi, Catherine. Hi, Sarah.

This story by Gretchen Vogel is about how we humans fared after an apocalyptic scenario. A volcanic

winter about 74,000 years ago. What is volcanic winter,

Catherine? So volcanic winter, if you have not heard of it before, is a beautiful concept.

Beautiful. Well, beautiful. It's very, it's very sci-fi. It's very artistic as long as you're not the one

living in it. So basically, the idea is whenever you have a volcanic eruption, ash, glass, gases,

you know, will spew into the air, roll down the sides of the volcano. And when sulfur dioxide

from these volcanoes enters the atmosphere, they can form aerosols

that reflect the sun's rays. And so a lot of times when you have a very large volcanic eruption,

you may have a localized or even global cooling event. That's taken place in the recent past

where we've actually been able to measure these

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