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Culture · Repair
…problem had been developing for years. This was item 19,140 in the ledger of the Asterby Repair Café, which has met every Saturday morning since May 2014 and which now meets in the reading room of the old Asterby…
Technology · Right to repair
…manufacturer’s software introduces it. The industry calls this component authentication. Repair advocates call it parts pairing, a term borrowed from the world of cracked phone screens. Whatever the name, the…
Politics · Public works
…a ballot measure that would forbid her district from paying for any new road until it had repaired the ones it already had. She lost by 345 votes. “I hated it,” she told me in June, standing on the verge of…
Ideas · Essay
…rule about almost everything. A hole cannot be mended from inside itself. You anchor the repair in what is still sound, carry your threads across the gap, and weave back and forth until the gap is no longer…
Politics · Government
…four. Within two days the assembly passed an emergency appropriation of 48 million crowns to repair the main and inspect the rest of it—more than the entire renewal budget it had approved three months earlier.…
Technology · Engineering
…Calloway’s report estimated, the problem would eventually have cracked the abutment, and the repair would have cost about 30 times as much and closed the approach for months. “Nothing was going to fall down,” she…
Culture · Film
…someday, invents a better way. Then came the more interesting problem, which was what to repair. Haskett’s camera had a fault in its gate that scratched a fine vertical line through every frame of reels 9 through…
Science · Measurement
…that the quay floods at a lower water level than the tide tables assume, because a 1970s repair left a dip in the stonework at the bottom of Fish Street. Those things are in the logbooks, in someone’s handwriting.…
Culture · Small towns
…show, a comedy called The Ferryman’s Wedding, to an audience of 46. After the closure he repaired televisions for two years, then spent 27 in the projection box of a cinema in Halbridge, until it went digital…