Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss why big problems call on us to get better at thinking.

We’ll Only Have a Year to Prepare For a Cataclysmic Super-Eruption

A new microscopic analysis of quartz crystals taken from the site of a massive volcanic eruption that occurred 760,000 years ago in eastern California suggests we’ll only have about a year’s worth of advance warning before a devastating super-eruption. In a paper published in PLOS ONE, Guilherme Gualda from Vanderbilt University and Stephen Sutton from the University of Chicago show that super-eruptions don’t require much time to blow their tops, even though they’re tens of thousands of years in the making.

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