The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.
What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.