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The article claims that Lake Agassiz became the world’s largest lake. It seems to me that the same conditions should have occurred in Asia. Shouldn’t you compare Lake Agassiz to glacier-dam-produced lakes in Asia and contemporary freshwater versions of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea? Robert W. DavisMillburn, N.J. According to Martin Jakobsson of […]
- Earth
Once Upon a Lake
As Earth warmed at the end of the last ice age, the immense volumes of fresh water that occasionally and catastrophically spilled from Lake Agassiz—the long-defunct lake that formed as the ice sheet smothering Canada melted—may have caused global climate change and sudden rises in sea level.
- Math
Election Selection
By ignoring how voters might rank all the candidates in an election, the plurality system opens the floodgates to unsettling, paradoxical results when there are three or more candidates.
