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Politics · Water
…up by a magnet shaped like a tractor. It is dated June 2019, printed on the letterhead of Corran Water, the capital’s publicly owned utility, and its second paragraph says that “our records indicate that your…
Technology · Infrastructure
…program called PEN0417 stopped running, and a small green square on the operations console in Corran turned amber. Paul Teague, who supervises the night shift at the Corran Revenue Computing Service, put down a…
Science · Astronomy
…the rest before March. After that the cabinets are to go to a university storage depot in Corran, where the plates will be safe and, for practical purposes, out of reach. What the old glass knows Astronomers…
Technology · Right to repair
…dealer group, Stannard Machinery, which moved its northern servicing to a single site in Corran. The nearest workshop authorized to do software work on Ostrander’s tractor is now 206 miles south. Across the…
Technology · Engineering
…program that is no longer sold, on a disk in a filing cabinet at the Department’s offices in Corran, and nobody there has a computer that can open it. So nobody has adjusted the thresholds, because nobody knows…
Politics · Government
…at 9:40 on a Tuesday morning last October, in Committee Room 4 of the National Assembly in Corran, and lasted 22 minutes. Three of the finance committee’s 11 members attended. Miriam Castell, the department’s…
Culture · Film
…gets there first. On a gray morning in March 2023, in a cold room two floors beneath the Corran Film Archive, Celia Amankwah eased the lid off a rusted can labeled, in grease pencil, SR 23, and the air filled…
Culture · Museums
…see the case,” Mayhew said. He is 63, a sales representative for Mallory Heritage Supply of Corran, and he has spent 31 years driving these objects around the country in the back of a succession of station wagons,…
Ideas · Essay
…deal of evidence for what that debt looks like when it is called in: a payroll system in Corran older than most of the people who keep it running, an estuary bridge wired with 1,400 sensors that nobody has…
Science · Biodiversity
…the second lab post was cut in 2019, after a spending review by the agriculture ministry in Corran, it has averaged about 11,000. On the morning I visited, the whiteboard by Amadi’s door read OVERDUE: 38,712.…
Science · Oceans
…nothing at all about the coral. Petra Vinter, a reef-fish ecologist at the University of Corran who read the results before they were submitted for publication, thinks the work is careful and the idea worth…
Science · Ecology
…to arrive later than they used to. Hanna Weller, a fungal ecologist at the University of Corran, read it on a train. “I got to the line where she mentioned 32 years of counts on fixed plots,” Weller said, “and…
Science · Measurement
…off the water every second and sends a one-minute average to the National Coastal Survey in Corran. The Survey asked the rota to keep reading the staff anyway, as a check on the radar, and to keep changing the…
Culture · Small towns
…Picture House with The Ferryman’s Wedding, from a print he had tracked down in an archive in Corran. Twenty minutes into the third reel there is a scratch, a thin white line down the right of the frame that lasts…
Ideas · Language
…invented them, along with the languages they supposedly come from, on a train from Halbridge to Corran, in less time than it took the refreshment trolley to reach my seat. And yet I suspect each one produced in you…
Culture · Night shift
…without blinking and which, she says, pays for the tins. She has one son, an accountant in Corran, who has been through the books and suggested, kindly, that she stop. “He’s right,” she says. “He’s an accountant.…