Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable

themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there.

Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online,

in person and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

Welcome back to Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Redger-R-Zoo alongside Marcus Path. On Cool

Stuff, we look at some other more

interesting and intriguing stories from around the world. On today's episode, human activity

could be changing the earth's tilt and rotation. And researchers discover squirrels that don't

just eat nuts, they hunt and eat bowls. Plus, on this day in history, construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge, the first steel wire suspended bridge in the world.

That's all coming up on cool stuff.

Well, turning now to BBC Science Focus and author Bill McGuire.

Even though we can't feel it, most of us are aware that our planet spins like a top during its interminable

journey around the sun.

Rather than revolving about a vertical axis, however, Earth has always been off kilter,

spinning about an axis or pole of rotation that's tilted at 23.44 degrees.

The amount of tilt, also known as obliquity, is never constant and displays natural

short-term oscillations and longer-term cycles. Earth's tilt can also be changed by shifting

huge amounts of mass around the planet, and this is happening right now, on an extraordinary

scale due to us, people. As global heating drives the melting of the polar ice sheets, it decants colossal volumes

of water into the oceans.

...