Due to the fact that the walls are joined by floors and spandrels, a coupling effect is produced. Depending on the extent of the spandrels, this coupling effect will be bigger or smaller.

Is that an A plus for New York, or is that an F minus?

Cushing had found ingenious ways to surgically extract brain tumors, including the notorious glioblastomas—tumors so heavily crisscrossed with blood vessels that they could hemorrhage any minute.

More recently, a team from National Taiwan Ocean University predicted that MSLs at four central Taiwan townships would rise by an average 2.8mm per year, or by a total 5.8cm, between last year and 2039. They categorized Wuci District (梧棲) in Taichung and three townships — Lukang (鹿港) in Changhua County and Mailiao (麥寮) and Taisi (臺西) in Yunlin County — as unusually susceptible to a rising ocean due to topography, subsidence and other factors.