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I doubt if there would be an ice cover without the continent. It's the altitude that maintains the ice, as in Greenland. Without that, it woud probably be like the Arctic, with seasonal variation in partial floating sea-ice cover.

From the outside, it appears thus. The Americans act like it's Coronation Day in the UK everyday. Everytime I put US news on there's a flag waver.

Same reasons as everywhere else. Blame de Tocqueville for getting us started on the whole American exceptionalism narrative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism It's harder for politicians to get people to pay taxes and fight in wars, if they start to realize their nation came from theft and plunder and genocide and wealthy landowners protecting their interests. Many nations have whitewashed versions of history they teach children - the latest whitewashing spree by the US GOP is nothing new.

Well, those weren't the goalposts I'd aimed for originally. My statement about dogs was based on being able to save a human life through the sacrifice of my dog. You've just Strawmanned into meaninglessness. Never mind. Kidding? Sorry, I don't get it. Lots of white people in the US don't appreciate that we've been getting our hands dirty when it comes to discrimination against people of color just by participating in processes that actively promote it. It's not something that's been placed upon us, but rather a consequence of our own behavior. I mentioned white racial tendencies as being particularly relevant to the topic, and you replied with "Don't you think all people have racial tendencies...?" It just seemed like the same argument.

Are you saying "All lives matter" right after I said "Black lives matter?" Then why is my "assumption" bold? It's a better perspective than claiming you've been "branded", which is wrong AND racially insensitive.

That's what it boils down to. People are gullible, in every nation. They are fed a version of history that those in power think will solidify and stabilise the national unit and maintain the social order. And it works so well that people absolutely believe the untrue versions of history (and the present day) that they are fed. It's not just North Korea and Japan that practice history-bending indoctrination, it's virtually every country on the planet. Having said that, it's the winners that generally get to write the history, the losers have to just suck it up.

For me it would depend on the situation, I agree I would save my child before my dog. But honestly, I'm not sure I'd save every human over my dog in all situations. It may seem absurd to some, but I don't place human life, in all situations, at the top of the hierarchy. There you go, singling out one group from others. Don't you think all people have racial tendencies dependent on their social upbringing? Just for the record, I'm not a white person living in the USA so I wouldn't be able to comment on that. That's a bold assumption, I'm sure all people interact with racist people each and every day. Though I do agree that a little effort in consideration towards others may go a long way.

From the responses it is clear that it is the ice that is in an approximately circular pattern, centred on the pole, which is hardly a surprise. The rock of the underlying continent is not. So nothing to do with rotation, just the amount of warmth from the sun, which obviously is at a minimum at the pole.

One thing that has happened since the 60s, is the inability of experimental Physics to keep up with theoretical Physics. Even the Glashow, Salam and Weinberg Electroweak unification took 10 years for the detection of neutral currents in neutrino scattering , and 20 years for the dscovery od W and Z gauge bosons in proton/proton collisions. It is only lately that the LHC allows us to go beyond unification energies. Other theories, developed since then, have no hope of being tested experimentally anytime soon, and additionally, some ( SString and M theory ) are so vague, that we have no idea which universe they actually describe. As with your Prime theory, it is extremely easy to make fantastical/outlandish claims ( beyond belief, you could say ), when you know it cannot be supported by experiment or falsified. I get the impression not too many people are impressed by your claims.

Yes, it seems more like an anecdote to spur someone to possibly consider real research. Much of the excerpts I saw seemed like that: it was impossible to tell if behaviors were a function of gender or racial dynamics, or just the personalities that certain individuals in the group happened to have. If I sounded dismissive of these branches of social science earlier, it was because of the methodology concerns that you expressed. Not only the small sampling and muddy causality, but also the subjectivity and lack of definitional rigor that seems to contaminate almost every aspect of these studies. My experience of racism, in the US great plains, was more like a heavy metal poison poured into my ears on a regular basis. My adult life has incorporated a regular chelation therapy which slowly has removed some of the toxic buildup. As with many people, the most powerful treatment has simply been knowing real human beings, who are always so much more than their demographic labeling. I've noticed the most intractable bigots are often the ones who have basically never really sat down and had a conversation with someone in their most-loathed group.

The matter lies, among other things, in the secrets of the workshop, which I would not like to go into here, suffice it to say that these data are certain