Perspectives
New Orleans is home to awe-inspiring music, food and street parties. But let’s not forget equally awe-inspiring infrastructure, which keeps the Big Easy dry. That was evident in early March when New Orleans entered “Deep...
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It was somewhere in the middle of Kansas when brutal crosswinds threatened to blow Katie Aguilar off her bike. Augilar had been surviving on little sleep and a diet of bagels, Bonk Breaker protein bars, and espresso shots, but she...
Did you know that optical fibers embedded in aging infrastructure can enable proactive maintenance, improve safety, and extend its life? Learn more about this and other exciting infrastructure research and innovation in our new column The 5 Coolest Things in...
In early May, you could hear a pin drop in Bangladesh’s classrooms and playgrounds, as the country’s schools and colleges closed in response to a ferocious heatwave. But there was no respite for rickshaw driver Mohammed Shameem, who had no...
Ever since she was a little girl in Canada, in the early aughts, Geneviève “Gen” Taurand loved math and technology. “I became fascinated with all of the new types of cellphones that were coming out,” Taurand said. “It amazed me...
Having a solid plan and the ability to assess risk while preparing to enter uncharted waters has helped Steve Ross become a successful scuba diver. The same skills guide him when he changes from his wetsuit into a suit and...
I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
