Winding Paths
Posted in Google Reader, Podcast, RSS Feeds on Sep 11th, 2007
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the Brooklyn Bridge was constructed, one of the first thing the engineers had to do was to securely anchor the bridge’s two towers on the solid bedrock. The problem was, the bedrock was under many layers of mud below the East River. [...]
