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What Might Mars Have Been Like?

NASA scientists have tried to imagine how that planet might have looked when it once had flowing water (as they believe it did): In a dramatic new video out of the NASA Goddard Conceptual Image Lab, animators conceive of what Mars may have looked like when its atmosphere and surface temperature allowed for water. The…

The Leaves on the Streets PSA

Whitewater has a public service announcement about leaf collection, to remind residents not to sweep their leaves into the street.   It’s a short, clever video.  It does government a lot of good to remind someone of a policy without doing it in a heavy-handed way, but with a more light-hearted approach. This does the…

The Nature Conservancy

If a man wanted to leave a legacy of land to remain forever in its natural state, then he could donate it to the Nature Conservancy (http://www.nature.org/), a charity that preserves donated nature land in exactly that way. I’m indebted to a sharp reader who offered this suggestion for proposed parkland for Walworth County. I’ve…