Curiosity Daily Podcast: Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Learn why Easter Island never had a population collapse; and how scientists are measuring the expansion of our universe.
August 19, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
Easter Island never had a population collapse, as commonly believed by Grant Currin
- Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong. (2021, July 13). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/793195
- Johnson, S. (2021, July 16). Busting the Easter Island myth: there was no civilization collapse. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/easter-island
- DiNapoli, R. J., Crema, E. R., Lipo, C. P., Rieth, T. M., & Hunt, T. L. (2021). Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24252-z
Scientists can't decide how fast the universe is expanding, but this scientist says there's no conflict at all by Briana Brownell
- “There may not be a conflict after all” in expanding universe debate. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoc-mn062921.php
- Freedman, W. L. (2021). Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Tensions in Perspective. arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15656
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