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The article discusses the life and work of Egbert Ludovicus Viele, a relatively unknown engineer who played a significant role in shaping New York City. Viele's hand-colored map of Manhattan's waterways from 1865 provided valuable information on flooding, unstable ground, and drainage. Despite his contributions to the city, Viele's name is not widely recognized, with Frederick Law Olmsted often receiving credit for designing Central Park. Viele's activism focused on sanitation, engineering, and health, and he believed in the importance of preserving Manhattan's natural topography. The article highlights the politics of recognition in engineering and the need for society to value all types of work, including operations and maintenance. [Extracted from the article]

The article informs about the complexity of tackling "wicked" problems, which defy simple solutions and persist like franchises with ever-evolving forms. Topic include It discusses the challenges in addressing these problems, emphasizing the need for a communal approach and an engineering mindset to navigate their intricacies effectively.

The article explores the idea of creative intolerance as seen in the installations of the Venice Biennale Architettura 2023. Topics discussed include the provocation that raises overt questions about the engineering worldview that the professions is only beginning to grapple with, communal sensibility that can be found in the earliest examples of engineering, and the work by architect Diébédo Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso, who is featured in the section "Force Majeure."

In the article, the author discusses the issues and challenges in doing interlocking technical tasks he call 'grind challenges' to maintain the smooth operation of society. Said tasks include testing, inspections, compliance, standards, and quality work. Also cited are the things to consider when advancing engineering projects, including their societal and environmental impacts, as well as the importance of the other aspects of engineering.

The article focuses on Whose Drugs Are These has provides an excellent historical tour of ways to think about the development and pricing of prescription medicines. Topics include the National Academies report to which has contributed, the drugs that being not affordable are of little value and drugs that do not exist are of no value, and the U.S. patent system has refined for prescription drugs in the 1980s about a third of all drugs were covered by health insurance.

The author discusses a path beyond efficiency in shaping a resilient and safe world after the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. Topics covered include the possible pursuit of meaningful inefficiencies by providing a space in which people can embrace uncertainty within a set of rules for a comfortable time before reaching judgment and with fuller understanding of context and consequences. Also noted is the similar power of meaningful restraints with that of revolutions.