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Matt Soniak doesn’t read Bill Easterly. Go Pats!
FWIW, 350 sq miles is the size of Putnam County, West Virginia
Enormous Crack Found in West AntarticaFeb. 1, 2012 — NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite captured this image of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica on Nov. 13, 2011, after a research team discovered a huge 19-mile (30-km) -long crack running across it.
Members of the Operation IceBridge mission spotted the crack during a DC-8 flight over Pine Island Glacier (PIG) on Oct. 14, 2011. It’s estimated to be up to 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep.
Eventually the crack will shear the glacier off completely, creating an ice island spanning 350 square miles (900 sq. km).
(via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
pretty much sums up my day
Like his colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better, President Obama demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy.
Would you rather live in a weak state or a state that is literally trying to kill you?
— Lee Crawfurd takes The Guardian to task over opportunity costs in South Sudan. Relatedly, there is now an updated version of the Johnson County War in the Warrap State.
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cooking outfit
It would take you 154 years 8 months 20 days 21 hours 14 minutes and 19 seconds to make what Mitt made in 2010.
— Slate’s Romney Income Calculator is sort of bumming me out
boxed in
- INGRAHAM: You’ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president’s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it’s getting better?
- ROMNEY: Well, of course it’s getting better. The economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. […]
- INGRAHAM: Isn’t it a hard argument to make if you’re saying, like, OK, he inherited this recession, he took a bunch of steps to try to turn the economy around, and now, we’re seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway? Isn’t that a hard argument to make? Is that a stark enough contrast?
- ROMNEY: Have you got a better one, Laura? It just happens to be the truth.
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.
— Newt
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Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.
(via kateoplis)
