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Science · Measurement
A brass gauge, a shed and a rota of retired sailors. Their unbroken record now shows the sea rising in a way no model could have told them.
Science · Climate
…28-year-old glaciologist with the Norhaven Hydrological Survey; Ingrid Malm, 64, who began the measurements in 2003 and was walking the line for the last time as their leader; and me, carrying the spare propane. By eleven…
Science · Astronomy
…imperfect instruments; a plate responds to light less predictably than a modern sensor, and its measurements of a star’s brightness are good to about 10 percent. But they have one quality no new telescope can buy, which…
Culture · Music
…piece, always the same piece. Then they record the building’s answer and file it, with its measurements, its dimensions, and a note on what is about to become of it, in an archive that now runs to 74 entries and,…
Ideas · Essay
…complaints, 61 percent came from three neighborhoods on the hills above the harbor, which are, by measurement, the quietest parts of the city. The loudest districts, along the ring road and beside the container port, file…