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Whenever Lake Okeechobee gets too high, water managers blast billions of gallons of its nasty water east and west, because they’re afraid a hurricane might blow out its dike and kill thousands of people. That actually happened in 1928, helping inspire Zora Neale Hurston to write Their Eyes Were Watching God. And as I write these words, the water in the lake has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. It’s kind of scary.
The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist
MICHAEL GRUNWALD
By 1700, the best available statistics suggested that England was on track to double only once every 360 years.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
There is tension in the question of whether to build objects more intensively, so that they last longer, or to recognize that some things cannot endure and thus should be designed that way.
The Disappearing Art of Maintenance | NOEMA
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