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Technology · Machines
…warm because 400 meters offshore and six meters down, a diffuser pipe is releasing the waste heat of some 90,000 computers. The computers belong to Hesk One, a long gray shed the size of four football fields…
Culture · Repair
…September, its three folding tables had taken in 42 things, among them two toasters, a fan heater, four phones, a lamp, a radio, three pairs of school trousers, a child’s coat, an electric blanket, a pram and…
Science · Biodiversity
…foil packet, each packet in a box, each box on a numbered shelf, all of it held at −18°C. Wheat and barley from farms that no longer exist. Peas grown in the same walled garden for two centuries. Wild oats…
Science · Oceans
…sounds, Lalanne says, “like a house after the party.” In the first half of 2024, a marine heatwave sat over this part of the ocean for 11 weeks. Reef-building corals live in partnership with microscopic algae…
Culture · Film
…make? Forty tins of paint Callum Haskett very nearly took the cans to the dump. He is 34, a heating engineer, the grandson of Vera’s older brother, Arthur, and in October 2022 he was clearing Arthur’s house…
Science · Astronomy
…the site over; since then the university has paid for two salaries, the electricity and the heating of a building with a large hole in its roof. In February it announced that it would consolidate its astronomy…
Politics · Transit
…Oduya attended all of them, with a laptop, a stack of printed maps, and a projector that overheated at the third. The meetings in Asterby were mostly supportive. The meetings at the ends of the old routes were…
Politics · Local government
…the clerk. “They fixed one kind of exclusion by inventing another,” she said, without much heat. “I happen to be the other kind. I’m not saying they were wrong. I’m saying it wasn’t free.” The council has tried…