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Ideas · Essay
…had been logged, and that I was one of 4,212 people who had complained to the office about noise in the previous 12 months. I found the number consoling, and then deflating. I had imagined myself a lone sufferer;…
Science · Oceans
Forty minutes before sunrise, the engine is switched off and the noise begins. Not above the water, where there is only the slap of a low swell against the hull and a tern complaining…
Ideas · Work
…something different as difficult. We say “good morning” to a woman on her way to bed. Our noise laws protect sleep only when it happens at night. Nobody designed that rule to exclude my mother. It simply never…
Science · Ecology
…says almost nothing. Forty autumns on the same ground begin to say a great deal, because the noise of individual years starts to cancel out and leave the trend behind. “Professional ecologists work in three-year…
Technology · Machines
…proportion. “It’s not free,” Ekdahl said, on the gantry above the heat exchangers, where the noise of the pumps makes everyone lean in. “Those sites cost more to run, and some customers can’t move. But it’s the…
Science · Measurement
…has actually happened on real coastlines, over spans long enough to see a trend through the noise of storms and seasons. Records that reach back into the 19th century without long gaps are rare. Oskar Feld, a…
Culture · Books
…is set, to the river Lanne itself, which did not reply but did, she says, make the right noise. In the version that opens her new translation, published this month by Gannet Press in Halbridge, it is 14 words…