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Science · Ecology
…brown, gills crowded” in 1990. Counting newly learned species as new arrivals would make the forest look richer than it had become, so the analysis rests on 31 species she identified with confidence in her first…
Ideas · Work
…surgical wards, later in intensive care—and she came home at about half past seven, as the rest of the city was setting out, and went to bed as the rest of us went to school. Our apartment ran on her sleep.…
Ideas · Essay
…we have earned a drink, a weekend, a holiday. We tell ourselves we deserve a break, as if rest were a verdict handed down after a review of our conduct. And because we think of it as payment, we sit in it…
Science · Oceans
…and those are the hours Sarre’s recorders are built around. None of this would matter to restoration if fish were merely noisy. What matters is who is listening. Most reef fish begin life not on the reef…
Ideas · Language
…something must feel it more keenly, or notice it more often, or value it more highly than the rest of us. There is sometimes a grain of truth here. Communities do tend to name what they deal with every day, and…
Technology · Infrastructure
…one in the morning, Imrie did the sensible thing. He flagged the case for payment by hand, restarted the job, and left a note for whoever came next. This September, whoever came next was Achterberg. The new…
Ideas · Memory
…can’t keep him.” Red means destroy. Yellow means sample: keep a fraction and destroy the rest. Green means keep. Since March, when the town council voted not to renew the warehouse lease when it runs out…
Politics · Public works
…map of the valley. They are brass, 38 centimeters long, and engraved with the district’s crest and the year 1974. The last time anyone took them out was in October 2019, when Margit Halloran, the district’s…
Politics · Water
…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 Lisle’s case reached the local evening news…
Technology · Engineering
…settled. With almost nothing happening on it, the bridge is mostly measuring itself. “It’s the resting pulse,” she said. “If the resting pulse changes, you want to know why.” In February, the resting pulse of the…
Culture · Repair
…scale for three more decades and closed in March 2009 with 412 jobs left to lose. Then the rest went, in an order residents can recite like the stops on a bus route. The Coliseum cinema closed first, in 2011,…
Science · Astronomy
…the telescope exposed 41,300 glass plates, about a quarter of them for the survey and the rest for programs that came and went with the directors who devised them: comet hunts, a search for faint companions…
Technology · Right to repair
…Stannard Machinery, which moved its northern servicing to a single site in Corran. The nearest workshop authorized to do software work on Ostrander’s tractor is now 206 miles south. Across the province, the…
Technology · Machines
…calendar. In January, Norhaven takes more than half of Hesk One’s heat and the lake gets the rest; the open patch over the diffuser, about 40 hectares in the winters before the pipe, has shrunk to 18. In July,…
Culture · Small towns
…to find. Each of the cinema’s 112 seats carries a small brass plate on the top of its backrest, and on the plates are names: THE FERRIS TWINS (NO SWAPPING). GORDON PYE, WHO WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE STARS. BISCUIT,…
Science · Climate
…struck blue ice. The core held two summer lines, and Rask knew which years had taken the rest: 2018 and 2022, the two summers in which the snow line climbed past the Skarfjell’s 1,860-meter summit and the…
Science · Evolution
…she says. “Nobody ever told me how to stop.” A fossil record that wakes up The experiment rests on a trick no paleontologist has. Every 60th day, before the transfer, Hadid draws off a sample of each of the…
Ideas · Reading
…sentence’s stride, the counterexample you cannot quite dismiss, the tangent that is true and interesting and not, strictly, on the way. The third is admitting doubt. “The figures for 1987 are missing.” “This account…
Culture · Night shift
…sourdough; and 320 rolls, of which 60 are for the care home, 80 for the primary school and the rest for whoever comes. The sourdough is the newest thing in the shop and also the oldest. Wyn began selling it in…
Politics · Local government
…from a plastic tub. The tea urn, which the clerk’s office fills at midnight, ticked on its trestle table. Through the tall windows, across the basin, the container cranes were still working under floodlights,…
Culture · Archives
…over a thousand mistakes, most of them other people’s. Most of a journal is weather. The rest lives in the Remarks column, which the Authority intended for defects and official visitors and which the keepers…
Ideas · Essay
…a gap but a stiff, slightly lumpy square that will, if you have done it well, outlast the rest of the sock. Hers did. I still have a pair she mended in the last winter of her life: the heels are perfect, and…
Culture · Film
…be the vandal.” It took them three years, and most of that time, they agree, went not on restoring or cutting but on arguing about a single question. How much of the ending was theirs to make? Forty tins…
Culture · Museums
…does, slowly, so that you can see what you are being offered. On a Tuesday in June, on a trestle table in the back office of the Halbridge Customs House Museum, it fell open to reveal, in fitted gray foam,…
Science · Measurement
…at a daylight high tide, since the summer of 1890. The pen in the shed takes care of the rest. The Westmere Harbour Board installed the gauge in 1890 for the pilots who brought colliers and timber ships over…
Technology · Forecasting
…empty. Twenty-two millimeters of rain fell on the ridge in 40 minutes; the collective’s nearest station to the festival, in a garden across the river, recorded five. The Tamsell Valley Weather Collective is…
Technology · Hospitals
…surgical gloves proved close to impossible. And one night in 2022, an automatic software update restarted every phone on the network at 3:10 a.m.; they came back one by one over the following 20 minutes. “Every…
Science · Biodiversity
…looks most finished when it is most neglected. Last year the repository asked the ministry to restore the sixth post. It was told the request would be considered at the next spending review, in 2027. By then,…
Politics · Government
…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. Castell, to her credit and to…
Culture · Music
…I’ll ever get or the worst.” A wake with the body standing If the measuring is science, the rest is closer to a wake, and a wake, as anyone who has been to a good one knows, is half jokes. The society’s rules…
Politics · Borders
…Lannet approved the money. The scaffolding went up in May, on the south side only, and for the rest of the summer the library will wear a roof in two colors, which Kavan suggests is the most accurate map of the…
Culture · Books
…guesses beautifully.” Walter Prentice, a philologist, set out in 1977 to correct them both. He restored chapter 19. He translated the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text. The house at the weir retained…