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Science · Biodiversity
…been snowing since midnight. The road up the Knock, the bald granite hill that stands over Norhaven, is a single track with passing places and no lights, and he drove it at a speed he describes as “cautiously frightened.”…
Technology · Machines
…heat has gone not into the lake but nine kilometers down the valley, into the radiators of Norhaven. The trouble is where the lake’s water goes next. The diffuser sits 600 meters from the point where Lake Hesk…
Science · Climate
…September the team was four people: Holm; Aino Rask, a 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…
Technology · Right to repair
…SEE DEALER. Ostrander, who is 58 and has farmed the same 260 hectares in the hills above Norhaven since his father handed him the keys in 1991, felt the tractor sag before he understood what the screen was telling…
Science · Ecology
…existence nobody but Ekland read them. In 2018 she wrote a 300-word note for the bulletin of the Norhaven Field Club, under the title “Mushrooms Late Again,” observing that her chanterelles seemed to arrive later than…
Politics · Public works
…22,000 on the river plain, and Easterholt, a fast-growing ring of commuter villages south of Norhaven—whose voters adopted what has come to be called the maintenance covenant. Its terms fit on a single page. No district…
Culture · Music
…longest time it has measured is 7.9 seconds, in the nave of a former priory church outside Norhaven, where a held note was still audible, Tolland says, “after you’d stopped being sure you’d sung it.” The shortest,…
Technology · Infrastructure
…you watch. All month, changes pile up in files: a new hire at the tax office, a death in Norhaven, a widow’s change of address, a meter reading from a farm outside Little Varne. On run night the programs work…
Ideas · Essay
…an estuary bridge wired with 1,400 sensors that nobody has time to read, a seed vault in Norhaven that stays alive only as long as somebody keeps testing it. What these stories share is not a villain. Nobody…
Culture · Film
…is one of 40 cans that spent half a century stacked behind a chest freezer in a garage in Norhaven. Between them they hold a little over seven hours of footage for a documentary called The Salt Road, which the…