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Welcome, welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. Marcus Papp, joined as always by Reggie

Rizzou on today's episode, Amsterdam's

rooftop makeover in the name of climate resiliency. A teenage boy releases his first published

book pulled directly from translated ancient hieroglyphs from Egypt. Pretty wild. And on this day

in history, a record-sized salmon is caught.

That's coming up on cool stuff. Well, per a story from the Good News Network, a number of

city roofs in Amsterdam have recently been converted from the traditional tiles or shingles to

a more climate-resilient surface that will act as a giant sponge for moisture.

Of course, the Dutch have a history of dealing with water issues,

given much of the country is below sea level,

and now those skills are helping to transform Amsterdam's skyline

by incorporating dirt, plants, and green grass on the tops of buildings.

Andy Corbly writes that it's part of a new climate resiliency trend in architecture and civic

planning known as the Sponge City concept in which a garden of water-loving plants, mosses,

and soil absorbs excess rainwater before feeding it into the building for use in flushing toilets

or watering plants on the ground.

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