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questions accumulating over 2005 (39 and counting...)
What is the sound of the north pole?
Why do we want to go to the north pole?
Where is the north pole?
Who was the first person to get to the north pole?
Can we ever live at the north pole?
How many seconds of darkness are there at the north pole?
What is the first sunrise of the polar season like?
What is the last sunset of the polar year like?
Why did the world want to believe Peary got to the north pole?
What will we do when there is no snow at the north pole?
Can we stop the deep arctic climate from disappearing?
Do we care that the deep arctic climate is disappearing?
What was the effect of polar exploration on the Inuit people?
What is the color of snow?
What is the sound of snow?
What is permafrost?
Who did we think was coming to attack us from the north pole during
the cold war?
Will the military’s DEWline, defensive radar stations, ever be
completely gone from the arctic?
What was the effect of Project Chariot, in which the atomic energy commission
put trace amounts of radioactive material in the soil, sprinkled it
with water, and analyzed the runoff?
Does Santa live at the north pole or in Lapland?
Where do letters to Santa at the north pole go?
What is a dream at the north pole like?
Does the arctic tern, who migrates from pole to pole in the longest
migration of any species, follow the light?
What is the polar winter darkness like?
Does wind sound different in the dark?
What is the experience of suddenness at the pole?
What will the pole be like when the northwest passage opens up in a
few years?
What is it like under the ten or so feet of ice at the pole?
Is the northern pole of inaccessibility (the farthest spot from any
land) different from the north pole (the geographical zenith)?
Was an inuit the first person at the pole?
Do microscopic organisms at the pole like the cold?
Is the north pole the most extreme place on earth?
Will we ever be able to live at the north pole?
Is the north pole the dwelling of the impossible?