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From the Radiolab podcast: What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth? In this episode 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?" Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://bit.ly/3p3BO2q Follow Radiolab: Instagram —   / radiolab   Twitter —   / radiolab   Facebook —   / radiolab   Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/... Thanks to reporter Ann Gibbons whose Science article "Eruption made 536 ‘the worst year to be alive'" got us interested in the first place: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.11... In case you want to learn more about 536, here are some other sources: • Timothy P. Newfield, “The Climate Downturn of 536-50” in the Palgrave Handbook on Climate History: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.... • Dallas Abbott et al., “What caused terrestrial dust loading and climate downturns between A.D. 533 and 540?”: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/... • Joel Gunn and Alesio Ciarini (editors), “The A.D. 536 Crisis: A 21st Century Perspective”: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... • Antti Arjava, “The Mystery Cloud of 536 CE in the Mediterranean Sources”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4128751 • And for more on the composer Yared, watch Meklit Hadero’s TED Talk “The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds”: https://www.ted.com/talks/meklit_hade... Credits: This episode was reported by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller, and produced by Simon Adler. Sound and music from Simon Adler and Jeremy Bloom. Special thanks to: Joel Gunn, Dallas Abbott, Mathias Nordvig, Emma Rigby, Robert Dull, Daniel Yacob, Kay Shelemey, Jacke Phillips, Meklit Hadero and Joan Aruz. Illustration by Liam Eisenberg [https://liameisenberg.com] Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.