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    Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington D.C., paleobotanist, author and science communicator extraordinaire, helps us understand the worst day in the history of Earth: the day an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and wiped out the dinosaurs.

    We also break down our song "Chicxulub," a chipper-sounding tune about the site of that asteroid strike.

    It's the perfect Halloween episode for the science-minded.

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