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Science · Ecology
…can come as late as December. In the Ekland household, all of this is called October. She records every fruiting body she can identify and draws the ones she can’t. In 40 autumns she has missed 14 visits: nine…
Ideas · Memory
…fish merchant named Harold Penhale of 14 Quay Street, Westmere, for a fee that the register records in a firm brown hand and that would not now buy a cup of tea. Margit Sallow read the entry aloud to me in the…
Politics · Water
…Corran Water, the capital’s publicly owned utility, and its second paragraph says that “our records indicate that your property is served by a copper service pipe.” Lisle bought the house, a narrow brick terrace…
Science · Biodiversity
…that falls to a crew of five: Tolland; Lindell; a germination technician, Josie Amadi; a records manager, Henrik Saul; and Moira Kade, who runs the regeneration fields on the valley floor. Until 2019 there were…
Ideas · Essay
…nobody would ever know she had been there. She was very good at it. The mill’s wage book records her as “mender, first grade,” and pays her a little less, in every year I checked, than the men who loaded the…
Culture · Archives
…about maritime history. It turned out to be about something stranger. Almost every remark records a thing someone noticed, a bird or a smell or a ship that came too close or a cake that failed, on a night when…
Science · Measurement
…beyond printing tide tables. Then, in 2017, the National Coastal Survey went looking for long records. Satellites have measured the height of the open ocean with great precision since the early 1990s, and computer…
Science · Climate
…cross on foot in 10 minutes. Twenty-two years of arithmetic The program began, as many long records do, with a modest question and borrowed equipment. In 2003 the Norhaven Hydrological Survey, a small public agency…
Technology · Infrastructure
…present building on Tannery Street, 40 boxes of design documents were sent to a government records store. A retention schedule classed them as routine correspondence, and three years later they were pulped. Nobody…
Politics · Public works
…to crack; 430,000 to reconstruct it once the foundation has gone. Across 17 years of his records, every crown spent treating a road at the right moment avoided, on average, 5.70 crowns of work later. “It is…
Technology · Language
…the past. Eleven volunteers sit at a long table beneath the station’s collection of folk records, each wearing headphones, each typing. On the night I visited, a 17-year-old named Tam Leith was transcribing…
Culture · Night shift
…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 gardens. She lifts the sourdough out of the walk-in fridge,…