Today, some video links. You’d think the world would be full of fluid mechanics videos. There are so many beautiful, fascinating phenomena to record. But it’s not so easy to capture them. And even harder to get somebody to pay you to do it. And rare that a...
This NY Times video piece on how three small businesses in that region are weathering the economic downturn really spoke to me. You can see a certain pain of responsibility and worry in the owner’s faces. I knew running LRRD wouldn’t be easy, but this...
I’ve just found out that Jon Carson, Obama’s National Field Manager, a Wisconsin native, has an MS in fluvial geomrphology from UCLA. Here’s a TPM interview from right before the election. From this article: Carson eventually finished his master’s...
Our Emriver models originated with the problem of teaching laypeople (mostly landowners along streams in Missouri) about river processes that are horribly counter intuitive. For example, that removing gravel from an Ozark stream can have upstream effects. Here’s...
Today was a big day for business things. We solved a huge Emriver Em2 marketing puzzle thanks to a kind visit from Greg Wilkerson–he revealed to us the nature of civil engineering instruction and thus why our sales to engineering schools are not what we’d...
