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Ideas · Essay
…ideas are there if you look, mostly at the edges. An old monastic rule, written for a small community of men who had to feed, clothe, and house themselves for life, instructs that the community’s ordinary tools—its…
Technology · Language
…by tens of millions. The Text Bank’s committee put the question to a public meeting in the community hall in January. About 140 people came, which on Orva is a crowd, and they argued for three hours. Younger speakers,…
Culture · Repair
…remember they’ve not talked to anybody since Tuesday.” None of it is secure. The Asterby Community Trust holds the library building on a lease from the county that runs out in 2029. The café’s insurance has nearly…
Culture · Small towns
…and then, after the winter of 2016 took a third of its roof, a hazard. When a newly formed community trust bought it from the farmer who owned it, in 2019, for a sum both sides describe as nominal, there were ferns…
Technology · Forecasting
…were built to forecast the country rather than each of its valleys, and that it welcomed “community efforts that build on our openly published data,” which is about as warm as a national institution gets. Two of…