Finding of the week: Slightly more than 1 in 5 of my students -- overwhelmingly science majors at a university -- believe that the reason it is warmer at the Equator than at the poles is because the Equator is closer to the Sun.
November 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Finding of the week: Slightly more than 1 in 5 of my students -- overwhelmingly science majors at a university -- believe that the reason it is warmer at the Equator than at the poles is because the Equator is closer to the Sun.
This is excellent. www.equator.org/articles/cit...
City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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November 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is excellent. www.equator.org/articles/cit...
The Equator reading group is back by popular demand.
Put off Bolaño’s 2666 for too long? In 2027, tackle it with the Equator book club.
The Equator reading group is back by popular demand. After a successful summer outing with Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts, the globally minded magazine is sponsoring another book club…
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November 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The Equator reading group is back by popular demand.
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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November 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Star Wars (1977): Hand-drawn schematic of the Death Star trench run, artist unknown
Long before most viewers didn't realize that the trench run wasn't located on the space station's equator but was instead a vertical, longitudinal trench, someone at ILM had already tried to explain this.
Long before most viewers didn't realize that the trench run wasn't located on the space station's equator but was instead a vertical, longitudinal trench, someone at ILM had already tried to explain this.
November 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Star Wars (1977): Hand-drawn schematic of the Death Star trench run, artist unknown
Long before most viewers didn't realize that the trench run wasn't located on the space station's equator but was instead a vertical, longitudinal trench, someone at ILM had already tried to explain this.
Long before most viewers didn't realize that the trench run wasn't located on the space station's equator but was instead a vertical, longitudinal trench, someone at ILM had already tried to explain this.
This is good by Abdaljawad Omar in Equator but really, in Britain, I think the bleak truth is that important people *do not want* to see what’s been done, because recognising it raises questions about what the fuck they themselves have been playing at, all these years www.equator.org/articles/mor...
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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November 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
This is good by Abdaljawad Omar in Equator but really, in Britain, I think the bleak truth is that important people *do not want* to see what’s been done, because recognising it raises questions about what the fuck they themselves have been playing at, all these years www.equator.org/articles/mor...
Equator in Almonte is pretty spacious.
November 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Equator in Almonte is pretty spacious.
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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November 11, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Gina’s Galápagos penguin watercolor, from her bird journal. It is the only penguin found north of the equator.
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#penguins #birdart
www.etsy.com/listing/4443...
#penguins #birdart
November 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Gina’s Galápagos penguin watercolor, from her bird journal. It is the only penguin found north of the equator.
www.etsy.com/listing/4443...
#penguins #birdart
www.etsy.com/listing/4443...
#penguins #birdart
NEW | Adding wind to solar + batteries can make power even CHEAPER in most of the world.
☀️ The sun harvests the sunny months
🌪️ The wind harvests the colder months
⚡ Together they become baseload power, with savings from wind largest further from the equator
ember-energy.org/lat...
☀️ The sun harvests the sunny months
🌪️ The wind harvests the colder months
⚡ Together they become baseload power, with savings from wind largest further from the equator
ember-energy.org/lat...
November 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
NEW | Adding wind to solar + batteries can make power even CHEAPER in most of the world.
☀️ The sun harvests the sunny months
🌪️ The wind harvests the colder months
⚡ Together they become baseload power, with savings from wind largest further from the equator
ember-energy.org/lat...
☀️ The sun harvests the sunny months
🌪️ The wind harvests the colder months
⚡ Together they become baseload power, with savings from wind largest further from the equator
ember-energy.org/lat...
The Galapagos Penguin is the only penguin species that lives north of the equator.
November 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The Galapagos Penguin is the only penguin species that lives north of the equator.
that’s just the northern equator, the tropics and Sunstralia are pretty hot
November 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
that’s just the northern equator, the tropics and Sunstralia are pretty hot
nah, once you hit the equator you start going up again.
November 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
nah, once you hit the equator you start going up again.
November 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
JUST IN: I declare that my penis is the same length as the equator. Of Jupiter. Don’t factcheck me, I am a CEO!
JUST IN: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declares his company has the potential to "solve biology."
November 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
JUST IN: I declare that my penis is the same length as the equator. Of Jupiter. Don’t factcheck me, I am a CEO!
This is my favorite song of all time if you even care
Riding on the Equator by Felt on Apple Music
Song · 1987 · Duration 8:56
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November 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is my favorite song of all time if you even care
Greenland would be terrible for space launches. It's too far from the Equator.
November 15, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Greenland would be terrible for space launches. It's too far from the Equator.
That Mada Masr exists at all, in a country that treats journalism as a crime, is a minor miracle. Four Egyptian writers – @elgendy95.bsky.social, Ursula Lindsey, Yasmine El Rashidi and Yasmin El-Rifae – respond to the independent outlet’s attempted shuttering:
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Silencing of Mada Masr • EQUATOR
In praise of a decade of independent journalism in Egypt
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November 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
That Mada Masr exists at all, in a country that treats journalism as a crime, is a minor miracle. Four Egyptian writers – @elgendy95.bsky.social, Ursula Lindsey, Yasmine El Rashidi and Yasmin El-Rifae – respond to the independent outlet’s attempted shuttering:
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Polar ice melting gets largely redistributed towards the equator, which NASA can measurably detect as a slight lengthening of an Earth "day".
November 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Polar ice melting gets largely redistributed towards the equator, which NASA can measurably detect as a slight lengthening of an Earth "day".
The French expedition to South America in 1735 that intended to determine if the world was wider around the equator or the poles.
November 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The French expedition to South America in 1735 that intended to determine if the world was wider around the equator or the poles.
Aaaaaand we are back again; Equator 2 being driven by Wotja for now...
https://station.voscast.com/6a633e3e6daa0/
https://station.voscast.com/6a633e3e6daa0/
November 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Aaaaaand we are back again; Equator 2 being driven by Wotja for now...
https://station.voscast.com/6a633e3e6daa0/
https://station.voscast.com/6a633e3e6daa0/
Then I attached another mod to EQUATOR: BUTT (being used as a verb here, but(t) y'know...)!
Jasper's *butt* being as fat as the Equator! >:3c
Jasper's *butt* being as fat as the Equator! >:3c
November 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Then I attached another mod to EQUATOR: BUTT (being used as a verb here, but(t) y'know...)!
Jasper's *butt* being as fat as the Equator! >:3c
Jasper's *butt* being as fat as the Equator! >:3c
Damn!! I gotta get my succulents inside ... Of course... I'm practically in Mexico and therefore the equator.
November 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Damn!! I gotta get my succulents inside ... Of course... I'm practically in Mexico and therefore the equator.