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Mon. 09/19 - Did Volcanoes Kill the Dinosaurs?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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It’s not all about the asteroid. Some scientists are still debating what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct and a new study provides some interesting evidence for the role of volcanoes in the mass extinction event. Plus, we know concrete isn’t great for keeping buildings cool, but just how bad is it? And what other greener methods did its adoption stamp out that could be revived? Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: What Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth? (Dartmouth) Did Volcanic Eruptions Drive Dinosaurs to Extinction? (Discover) Examining what killed the dinosaurs in depth (Phys.org) Keep buildings cool as it gets hotter by resurrecting traditional architectural techniques (The Conversation) When in Need, What to Read: Introducing our new advice column for book lovers. (Literary Hub) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of February. It's Monday, September 19th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. It's not all about the asteroid.

0:34.7

Some scientists are still debating what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct,

0:39.3

and a new study provides some interesting evidence for the role of volcanoes in mass extinction events.

0:46.3

Plus, we know concrete isn't great for keeping buildings cool, but just how bad is it?

0:53.3

And what other greener methods did its adoption stamp out

0:57.0

that could be revived? Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. There are generally thought to have been

1:06.8

five mass extinction events throughout the history of our planets. The Ordovician

1:12.4

Silurian, the late Devonian, the Permian Triassic, the Triassic, and the Cretaceous Paleogene,

1:20.6

previously known as the Cretaceous tertiary, or more commonly, the extinction of the dinosaurs.

1:27.2

To qualify as a mass extinction event, 75% of all the world's existing species must go extinct within 2-3 million years.

1:38.3

Nevertheless, with so many minor extinction events, the so-called Big Five aforementioned,

1:43.3

aren't necessarily the only mass

1:46.2

extinctions that have ever happened, but more like the biggest that we know of. The Cretaceous

1:51.9

paleogene was the most recent mass extinction, and due to the non-avian dinosaurs being among

1:58.3

the species that went extinct, has also become the most famous,

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