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Radiolab: Worst. Year. Ever

2024/3/19
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Latif Nasser：公元536年可能因火山爆发导致全球性气候灾难，造成极寒天气、粮食短缺、瘟疫流行等一系列灾难，对全球多个文明造成了毁灭性打击，是人类历史上最糟糕的一年。他从气候变化、粮食危机、瘟疫爆发等多个角度论证了这一观点，并引用了历史文献和考古证据。他还探讨了信息传播对人们感受灾难影响的程度，以及对现代社会应对灾难的启示。 Lulu Miller：她对公元536年的灾难性影响表示认同，并着重探讨了该时期人们的精神状态和文化表现。她提到，公元536年的极寒天气导致了太阳光线减弱和阴影消失等异常现象，并引用了当时的文献记载。她还关注了公元536年对玛雅文明的影响，以及当时人们的音乐和艺术创作如何反映了他们的悲伤和痛苦。她还分享了埃塞俄比亚东正教教会的圣歌传统，这些圣歌可以追溯到公元536年左右，并反映了人们对死亡的哀悼。 Jad Abumrad：作为节目的主持人，他参与了对公元536年事件的讨论，并对该事件的意义和影响进行了总结。 Moges Sayum：作为埃塞俄比亚东正教教会的唱诗班成员，他分享了公元536年左右阿克苏姆王国时期创作的圣歌《Mawasset》，这些圣歌是为死者而作，反映了当时人们的悲伤和痛苦。

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What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth? We make the case for 536 AD, which set off a cascade of catastrophes that is almost too horrible to imagine. A supervolcano. The disappearance of shadows. A failure of bread. Plague rats. Using evidence painstakingly gathered around the world - from Mongolian tree rings to Greenlandic ice cores to Mayan artifacts - we paint a portrait of what scientists and historians think went wrong, and what we think it felt like to be there in real time. (Spoiler: not so hot.) We hear a hymn for the dead from the ancient kingdom of Axum, the closest we can get to the sound of grief from a millennium and a half ago.The horrors of 536 make us wonder about the parallels and perpendiculars with our own time: does it make you feel any better knowing that your suffering is part of a global crisis? Or does it just make things worse?" This week we're sharing a bonus episode from Radiolab: Worst. Year. Ever. )Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)