EPISODE · May 1, 2026 · 1H 10M
Extinction: The Big Five and More
from The Information Entropy Podcast · host Dr. Tom Jenks and Mitchell Gatting
Welcome back to The Information Entropy Podcast! This week Tom is back and the boys are aiming to cover the topic of extinction! You will see that this is a meandering topic of cybersecurity, AI, extinction, and a section on Magic at the very end. While on topic, we find out what actually counts as extinction and how the IUCN defines and declares a species as extinct, we hear about the story of the last Thylacine, and going back in geological history we explore the big five mass extinction events.
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Welcome back to The Information Entropy Podcast! This week Tom is back and the boys are aiming to cover the topic of extinction! You will see that this is a meandering topic of cybersecurity, AI, extinction, and a section on Magic at the very end. While on topic, we find out what actually counts as extinction and how the IUCN defines and declares a species as extinct, we hear about the story of the last Thylacine, and going back in geological history we explore the big five mass extinction events.
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