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186,789karma·21,719submissions·October 22, 2014
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Not entirely pertinent to the discussion of city boundaries but Mark Stein wrote an interesting book a few years ago called "How the States Got their Shapes" [0]. It was apparently also made…
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I don't think anyone is seriously considering a cross Canada high speed train connection. The emphasis has always been, as it is in many other regions, on short hops lasting up to 3-4 hours over …
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The article might focus on the US but Canada shouldn't be overlooked for its own neglect of high-speed rail. The Toronto-Montreal corridor is a clear candidate for such a service which has been p…
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True enough, but if you are old enough to remember the 1960's and early 1970's the belief, at that time, in the presence of water on other bodies in our solar system was never a given.
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That's quite probably the most impressive picture of 2018. For a long time there was a belief that earth was singular in possessing an abundance of water and now spectroscopy has revealed the pre…