NYC's mayoral election yielded a political pole shift, replacing billionaire conservative Michael Bloomberg with a Brooklynite - Democrat Bill de Blasio. (entrepreneur.com)
Good for her Actual compasses are pretty good at giving you direction, as long as you realize that the north magnetic pole shifts quite often. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In this new study, geomorphologists Sylvain Bouley (Université Paris - Sud) and David Baratoux (Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier) show for the first time that the rivers were originally distributed along a south tropical band on a planet Mars that rotated around poles shifted by about 20 degrees with respect to their current positions. (sciencedaily.com)