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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 138: The Cause is at the Source
Description: One of the most influential papers from my former career described the ‘River Continuum Concept’. Though quite basic, this paper revolutionized how we thought about streams and rivers. Specifically how freshwater systems changed from their springs where they began to the oceans into which they drained.This paper introduced me to systems thinking and changed how I think about the world and nearly everything in it. Generally, systems are comprised of individual elements and the interactions among the elements. The shift for me and many others is to expand the focus from myopic consideration of singl...