eddy

Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of improvisation.

Navigating the galleries, which spill into each other, is akin to being dizzyingly spun from eddy to eddy.

While that was soon to change, it meant that for books especially, 1996 was an eddy of calm before the meteor storm arrived.

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

Understanding how fish swim in eddies could also aid in habitat restoration, the team says, helping conservationists engineer more efficient fish passages through dams.