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january 23 i'm jackson bird today It's Monday, January 23rd, 2023. I'm Jackson Bird today. The Earth's inner core has paused its

spinning and reversed course. Sounds alarming, but everything is fine. Plus, what medieval Christian monks,

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The inner core of Earth, that mysterious iron ball nestled deep at the very center of our planet,

may have stopped spinning and be in the process of reversing course.

Now, as everyone has been quick to point out, this finding is incredibly similar to the plot of the 2003 Aaron Eckart-Hillary

swank-helmed movie, The Core. In The Core, scientists have to drill to the center of the

Earth to restart the Earth's inner core with nuclear explosives after it stops rotating.

Now, fortunately, that movie is legendarily inaccurate in its portrayals of science,

and in our reality today, this pause in rotation is nothing to worry about.

It seems like the pause and reversal is part of a regular cycle.

But first, more about the inner core itself, quoting the New York Times.

In 1936, the Danish seismologist Ingeleiman discovered that Earth's liquid outer core envelops a solid metal marble,

and it has bamboozled scientists ever since.

Scientists think the core crystallized out of a molten metal soup at some point in Earth's

not too distant past after the planet's internal inferno had sufficiently cooled.

The inner core cannot be directly sampled, but energetic seismic

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