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  • Geology Picture of the Week, April 4-10, 2010: Lake Carnegie, Australia from Space

    04/08/2010 9:23:31 PM PDT · by cogitator · 6 replies · 648+ views
    Earth As Art ^ | NASA, USGS
    Lake Carnegie is an ephemeral lake that has standing water in it only during wet years, which haven't been the rule in Australia for awhile. But it's a REAL pretty picture when there is water in it. Click for 2x zoom.
  • Mason Dixon's numbers are telling us something

    11/05/2006 3:16:09 PM PST · by Oakleaf · 256 replies · 15,490+ views
    TKS at National Review ^ | November 5, 2006 | Jim Gerhaghty
    Boy, today's Mason Dixon polls do nothing to dissuade the notion of a late-breaking shift back to the Republicans. As you know, I like to whack around pollsters like a pinata, but Mason-Dixon has a good reputation among political professionals - if they're not always right, they almost never give you a really wacky result. In 2004, they got 13 out of 14 swing states right at the presidential level (they put Bush up in Minnesota) and were pretty spot-on in their margin of victory. Today, M-D puts Brown beating DeWine by 6 in Ohio. (Who was writing last night...