Episode 37: The Thaw (2009)

Today we’re getting into the Halloween spirit with The Thaw (2009), a climate change horror movie in which a parasitic plague is unleashed from a thawed mammoth. In this episode we talk climate change, virus evolution, and glacial archaeology, and since we are all pandemic veterans by now, we are thoroughly unimpressed by these scientists’ quarantining skills. Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Ross MacPhee thinks that a disease drove the Pleistocene megafauna to extinction: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interview-with-ross-macph/ Frogs freeze solid while hibernating: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-frogs-survive-wint/ How viruses evolve: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-viruses-evolve-180975343/ Climate change and the mountain pine beetle: https://www2.unbc.ca/releases/2007/climate-change-and-mountain-pine-beetle Follow Secrets of the Ice on Twitter @breakeologi: https://twitter.com/brearkeologi Join the Paleontological Association: https://www.palass.org/