As we are reminded of the 2005 damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, I encourage readers to reflect on stories beyond those from New Orleans. It was a huge storm with a wider path than many remember. Mississppi lost more than 200 lives when a storm saurge, possible as high as 30', washed across the coastal communities of Biloxi, Waveland, Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis. Houses built on 10' or 15' stilts were washed away. The Bay St Louis bridge, US 90, was collapsed.
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The Danube is benefiting from a clean-up culture that has people competitively collecting plastic on the river in homemade boats. The ability to create a positive culture that helps the environment is a remarkable thing.
As I race to finish some of my summer reading, I found Austin Kleon's description of the centrifugal force of books to be quite intriguing.
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BOTANY AT RUTGERS
24 October 2025
We are delighted to invite you to our special jubilee symposium to celebrate botany at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
The symposium will be held on Friday, October 24th and will include presentations by invited researchers, a poster session, an open house at Chrysler Herbarium, and a field trip on Saturday, October 25th.
Please sign up for the Chrysler Herbarium’s mailing list to stay up to date with information about this event and other herbarium news at this link: https://tinyurl.com/CHRBlist.
Registration information will be sent to recipients of the mailing list in September.
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.” — Seneca
NYC's Urban Textscape mapped out all of the visible words in StreetView. "The data is astonishing; it feels like sifting through the city's source code"
