“It’s like a living thing moving through the valley now, while the old, straightened river was just like a sad canal.”
Ecologist Lee Schofield led a project to ‘rewiggle’ a UK stream by recreating its natural meandering shape — which restored the gravel beds, riffles and pools that support fish and invertebrate habitats.
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“I often have a nightmare with my tombstone that reads: ‘What did she think she was doing?’ Because all of us have to reckon with the fact that the future will look back on us with new tools and a new framing.”
Neurologist Helen Mayberg hopes that deep brain stimulation — invasive surgery that helps people with severe depression — will eventually be seen as outdated.