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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Easter Island Mythbusting and the Universe’s Expansion Rate
Description: Learn why Easter Island never had a population collapse; and how scientists are measuring the expansion of our universe.
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-islandÂ
‌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 (Easte...