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Where Did the North Pole Go?

It’s moving, and the shutdown means that maps can’t be updated.
Source: Peter Guttman / Getty

As the humans go about their affairs, living atop a thin crust floating on molten rock, the liquid iron in the Earth’s core is churning in strange, erratic ways.

This is a problem because those humans, clever in some ways, have figured out that the movement of the liquid iron creates a magnetic field. For centuries, their compasses

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