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Ideas · Work
…run every 20 minutes rather than every hour, on routes drawn around hospitals, depots, and ports rather than around nightclubs. Workplaces that run all night could keep a canteen open all night. Clinics, banks,…
Ideas · Essay
…further and refused to build anything new until the old is in repair; the results, as he reports, are not simple. But even the modest version would change what a ribbon means. It would stop being the end of…
Technology · Engineering
…general inspection team, it has had Calloway part-time, in the gaps between the inspections, reports, and meetings that fill her working week. Hence Sundays. The wider pool is draining too. According to its staffing…
Politics · Housing
…eight homes in any building of 20 or more is rented below market for 30 years, and the city reports to voters on the results every five years?” It fits on a postcard, and the Yes campaign has printed it on one.…
Ideas · Essay
…has reconstituted it, under various names, roughly once a generation since. Reading its reports in sequence is a peculiar experience. Every one begins by observing that the present age is noisier than any before…
Politics · Water
…renewing mains kept reporting lead where the records said copper, and she kept a list of their reports in a spreadsheet she titled, with some restraint, Discrepancies. By the autumn of 2024 it had 214 entries. When…