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The Battle of the Battery Crossing was, moreover, to show them that the means Robert Moses employed were as incompatible with their principles as his ends.

Chatterton splashed first and tied in the grapple. His plan was trademark: shoot video, forgo artifacts, return with knowledge. He often used video cameras, which picked up underwater nuances that were beyond the human eye, then watched the tapes topside, learning wreck topographies and planning his second dive. At home, he watched the tapes dozens

In Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Helen Czerski tells the story of the Fram, a boat designed “to work with nature instead of against it.”1 In the late 1800s there was immense curiosity about the North Pole. But the ships that were sent to try to get there would get stuck in the ice of the Arctic, freezing in place. As the ice arou

When whiteness and wealth are posed as the norm, a kind of force field of aesthetics and ideology keeps out anyone…

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After the pirates, the next group of entrepreneurs to come along was the wreckers—or gentleman pirates, depending on one’s point of view. These wreckers built observation towers on land from which they kept a close eye on the outlying shallow reefs, especially during storms. When they spotted a ship that had run aground, they sped to the scene, oft