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Join Dr Sam Illingworth as he provides insight into new scientific research via the medium of poetry.
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
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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