Episode 613
How would the world differ if we rotated the landmass?
I'm spinning around...
Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists
May 9, 20256m 33s
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Show Notes
Will wants to know what the implications would be for our world if the landmass was rotated 90 degrees, so current day Mexico was nearer the South Pole. Trying to wrap his head round all of the possible implications, James Tytko enlisted Dr Alex Farnsworth, Senior Research Associate from the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, to help come up with an answer... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Earthrotatelandmassclimateanthropologygeologytropicalalex farnsworth