Episode 315: Tilt

Episode 315: Tilt

Update: 2025-07-28
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This episode explores new research, which has found that damming water in reservoirs from 1835 to 2011 shifted Earth's spin axis by over half a metre.


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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read ‘Toward the North Pole’ by Louis Gilmore here.


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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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Episode 315: Tilt

Episode 315: Tilt

Sam Illingworth