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Culture · Night shift
…1989, and it takes 50 minutes to come up to 460 degrees. While it does, Wyn turns on the radio, low, to an overnight station that plays dance-band records and, at three, takes calls from insomniacs about their…
Technology · Language
On Thursday evenings, the old record library at Radio Orva smells of instant coffee and warm electronics, and it is full of people listening to the past. Eleven volunteers…
Culture · Repair
…tables had taken in 42 things, among them two toasters, a fan heater, four phones, a lamp, a radio, three pairs of school trousers, a child’s coat, an electric blanket, a pram and an accordion. Twenty-nine of…
Technology · Hospitals
…and its screen showed a single word and a ward: CRASH 7B. Lowe handed the scan over to the radiographer, took the stairs two at a time, and was on Ward 7B, three floors up and a long corridor away, 94 seconds…
Culture · Archives
…themselves. Electric lamps replaced paraffin; lamp changers learned to swap a failed bulb unaided; radio telemetry let an office in Halbridge know that a light had faltered before any ship did. Station by station, the…
Technology · Right to repair
…woman on the service desk knew his voice. He checked the forecast on his phone, then on the radio, then on his phone again. On Sunday he walked the wet rows with a fork, lifting a plant here and there and breaking…
Science · Oceans
…reef can make its own noise again. It cannot cool the water. “If you ever hear me on the radio saying we can save reefs with speakers, come and find me,” she says. “The reef went quiet because the ocean got…
Politics · Housing
…in during the 1970s. Supporters of the measure keep a different list. Sefa Mensah, 31, a radiographer who shares an apartment above a laundromat on the No. 9 tram line with two roommates and spends 46 percent…
Ideas · Essay
…The 20th century added motor horns, gramophones in open windows, motorcycles, transistor radios, jet engines, car alarms, and the ice cream van, each greeted in its turn as the final assault on human peace.…
Culture · Books
…hardly dated since 1881, while in English Farrant now sounds like a rectory, Asher like a radio play, and Prentice like a seminar. Callender has a line for this: “Every translation is a letter to its own decade.…
Politics · Local government
…car outside the terminal gate at five past midnight, his lunchbox on the dashboard and his radio still murmuring crane traffic. “So I thought, fine. Move the room.” I was elected to a room I couldn’t get into.…