Kayaking the waters that shaped New York City
How One Man Walked 6,000 Miles Across America’s Largest Metropolis
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As with temperatures, sea levels have in the past varied dramatically. At the end of the Wisconsin, as the great ice sheets were breaking up, there were periods when they rose at the astonishing rate of a foot a decade. (It’s been proposed that one of these “meltwater pulses” inspired the account of the deluge in Genesis.) Obviously, our ancestors
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cities have grown up on the riverbanks for the same reasons.
Scientific American Editors • Battling Drought: The Science of Water Management
“Yet,” thought Jacob, seeking to see the whole truth, “there is the other side, which always exists. They say of New York that it is like an apartment hotel. And they say: ‘It’s fine for a visit, but I would not want to live here.’ They are wrong. It’s fine to live here, but exhausting on a visit. “Once New York was the small handsome self-containe
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New York is a city that reminds me that wherever there is order, some disorder lies underneath, some energy had to be expended to bring that order about. That you can't clean up everything without sweeping some things under the rug.