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Will Duffy

May 23, 2026

8:32
Yep
8:33
... means that when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, you get days where the sun never sets because of that tilt.
8:44
It's something super easy to demonstrate in, like, a dark closet with just a plastic globe and a flashlight, but it's a little bit hard to visualize.
8:53
But if you shine a flashlight on a tilted globe in a dark closet, it's a- actually a really good homeschool experiment that I've done with my kids.
9:00
Half the globe is gonna light up.
9:03
Now you spin it, and when the Earth is tilted toward the, the, the light, the flashlight, and you spin it, there's a top part that's always lit up.
9:14
It never gets dark, even when it's away from the sun because of the tilt.

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19:27
... can you tell us about that?

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