Wisdom in SpaceMany engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ.
-- Nicholas Negroponte
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X Over ZeroView of the Mississippi River from a Memphis roof top.
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#memphis #tennessee #Mississippiriver #nature #rooftop #view #southernliving #pixelfed #discover #explore
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#memphis #tennessee #Mississippiriver #nature #rooftop #view #southernliving #pixelfed #discover #explore
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
The ideas that liberate one generation become the shackles of the next.
-- Isaiah Berlin
Bi SasquatchBig Picture Science for Nov. 03, 2025: Katrina and the River
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“The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise,” said Mark Twain. In this, our final episode marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we consider how efforts to control the Mighty Mississippi – a river engineered from its Minnesota headwaters to its Gulf Coast outlet – have responded to the devastating storm, and how New Orleans’ relationship to the river has changed. Can the city keep up with the pressure that climate change is putting on this engineered system, or is retreat the only viable response?
Plus, a wetland recovery project that aims to bolster protection from hurricanes and flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward.
Guests:
* Boyce Upholt – Journalist and author of “The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi River”
* Nathaniel Rich – Author of “Second Nature: Scenes From a World Remade” and the New York Times Op-Ed, “New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change”
* Harriet Swift – New Orleans resident
* Andrew Horowitz – Historian, University of Connecticut, author of "Katrina: A History, 1915-2015"
* Rashida Ferdinand – Founder and Executive Director of Sankofa Community Development Corporation, overseeing the Sankofa Wetland Park and Nature Trail in New Orleans
* Jason Day – Biologist, wetland Scientist, Comite Resources in Louisiana
Originally aired August 18, 2025
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1837, during the #TrailOfTears, 311 #Muscogee (#Creek) Indians died when the steamboat #Monmouth collided with another boat on the #MississippiRiver. This contributed to the ~16000 people killed in the #genocide under Jackson's "Indian Removal" policies.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-- George F. Will
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
-- Edward O. Wilson
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David GraylessThe #WabashaStreetBridge is a #segmentalBridge that spans the #MississippiRiver in downtown #SaintPaulMinnesota, United States. It was named Wabasha Street Freedom Bridge in 2002, to commemorate the first anniversary of the #September11Attacks. It actually consists of two separate bridges, one for northbound and one for southbound traffic. The use of a concrete segmental box girder bridge provided a construction advantage because no falsework needed to be built beneath the bridge.
