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Podcasts Listen | The Big One: Your Survival Guide
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The Big One
Episode 3
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The Science
A polar bear killer, a Sputnik-inspired scientist, a man who uses the past to see the future and seismologist Lucy Jones. What do they all have in common? Without them, we wouldn’t understand the what, when, why and how of the big one.
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