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Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.

Tag: hydrology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2634: Triple Divides

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 4, 2023 · Episode: 2634 North America’s three triple divides — or is it four? Today, triple divides.

Tags Athabasca Glacier Canada Columbiaice fields continental divide geography Hudson's Bay hydrology rainfall runoff Rocky Mountains Snow Dome triple divide Watersheds

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2462: Rewriting Geography

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 20, 2023 · Episode: 2462 The Mississippi Delta: Rewriting Geography. Today, geography shifts before our eyes.

Tags Atchafalaya basin Cairo civil engineering geography gunboat Hurricane Katrina ironclad James Eads jetties jetty levees Louisiana Mississippi River Delta Scribner's Monthly silt St. Louis Bridge Subsidence venice water control

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2453: Meandering Rivers

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 9, 2023 · Episode: 2453 Albert Einstein and meandering rivers — seen from above. Today, we look down on a river.

Tags Albert Einstein civil engineering Coriolis Effect flows fluid mechanics geography geology Hans Einstein meandering rivers open channel scouring surface

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2313: Atlantropa

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 9, 2022 · Episode: 2313 Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa project: Lebensraum from a lowered Mediterranean. Today, we rewrite geography.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3210: Scourge of the Sea

Posted on August 10, 2022 · Episode: 3210 Scourge of the Sea, the long search for a cure for scurvy. Today, a medical cure, lost and found.

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