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Oh, Jane. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 88, cartography and Earth's Seasons.

I'm your host, James Fodor. So the two topics that I've chosen to name this episode after

might initially seem a bit distinct. I mean, what do the maps have to do with the seasons of the

Earth? But actually, if you think about it a little bit, they're very closely related, because explaining Earth's seasons relates to the axial tilt of the Earth and the different latitudes, or basically distance from the equator of different parts of the world, and when they're pointing away and towards the sun. And understanding that has everything to do with understanding maps and latitude, longitude,

the equator, and all of the details about the language of those.

So that's why these two subjects are put together in one episode,

because one directly relates to the other.

So don't mind if you don't understand those

concepts that I've been talking about, that's what I'm going to be explaining in this episode.

Particularly, we'll talk about the language used to describe the earth, so latitude, longitude, equator,

poles and all that stuff. We'll talk about map projections and the trade-offs involved in those

briefly. And then we'll apply that knowledge to talk about the seasons.

So what a season is and a little bit on the background there.

And then we'll focus a lot of the episode on talking about axial tilt

and how that changes between equinoxes and solstices.

And we'll also look at the differences in the seasons between equatorial, mid-latitude, and polar regions,

and how that differs from place on the globe.

And we'll talk also a little bit about solar insulation, and how also that varies between across latitudes and how that relates to the seasons.

Recommended pre-listing is episode 22, our place in the cosmos,

and episode 87, the geography of planet Earth,

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