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Ideas · Reading
…corrects, cites, qualifies, jokes, and occasionally loses its temper. When a writer puts notes there—or at the foot of the page, or at the back of the book, or, as we do, in the strip of screen beside the…
Politics · Public works
…down every public road in the north. Each July, Ivers checks its numbers against his own notes, updates his rows by hand, and colors them in. “A road doesn’t fail,” he said, scrolling. “It gets tired, and…
Science · Oceans
…find their own way. Ecologists call that an ecological trap, and the March figures, Vinter notes, are at least consistent with one. Small groupers, it turned out, had found the speaker patches too. A loudspeaker…
Ideas · Memory
…those 280 million messages are complaints about neighbors, references for job applicants, notes from social workers, and a quantity of gossip that its authors would not want read aloud in a hundred years, or…
Politics · Borders
…left-hand terminal, under Lannet’s rules. Kavan calls this “choosing the jurisdiction” and notes that neither council has ever asked her to stop. The library closes on both countries’ public holidays, 19 days…
Technology · Machines
…sides read the same numbers and reach different conclusions, and both have a point. Vessen notes that the whole lake was hot, and that before Hesk One existed the outlet already ran about 0.8 degrees warmer…
Culture · Books
…the bread oven, a line of Asher’s dialogue she could not better, and one of Prentice’s footnotes, which she turned into a sentence of the novel and has credited to him in her afterword. She assumes, cheerfully,…