the coldest places on Earth

As I sit at my desk typing this, the current temperature reading in Rockford is -7, with a "feels like" or windchill of -23. It's cold. Painfully so. However, as much as we would like to, we can't claim the title of "Earth's Coldest Place...

Having fallen into the deep freeze ourselves, it's easy to think that it doesn't get much colder than it is right now (or will be within the next couple of days). Of course, we would be quite wrong in thinking that. Lots of places, or rather, the people who live in lots of places would gladly switch what they're living with for what we have going on atmospherically here in northern Illinois... Rea