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Science · Measurement
…room and boardinghouse for sailors at the top of Fish Street, offered to keep it going with volunteers. The mission closed in 1988; the rota simply carried on without it. There are 11 people on it now, most of them…
Technology · Language
…instant coffee and warm electronics, and it is full of people listening to the past. Eleven volunteers sit at a long table beneath the station’s collection of folk records, each wearing headphones, each typing. On…
Technology · Forecasting
…in a garden across the river, recorded five. The Tamsell Valley Weather Collective is 23 volunteers, 41 homemade weather stations, 14 secondhand servers and a basement. For the valley it serves—18 kilometers long,…
Science · Astronomy
…word or two about the night: “haze,” “dew on lens,” “fox in dome.” Since 2015 a rota of 19 volunteers has been scanning them. They work in a converted storeroom beside the cabinets, with two scanners built for aerial…
Culture · Museums
…copy fell off a cliff. Eighteen years later, 1,120 of them are in the attic, in boxes the volunteers have stopped noticing. At the current rate of about 21 sales a year, the last copy will leave the building in…
Culture · Repair
…runs out in 2029. The café’s insurance has nearly doubled since 2020. Of its nine regular volunteers, the youngest after Nico is 58. Walt had a stent fitted in the spring. Rosa’s eyes are, in her word, “holding.”…
Politics · Government
…side proposed no such thing while it held office. “We were in government,” she said. “Nobody volunteers to tie their own hands.” Counting what didn’t happen Lukas Ferrante, a budget officer who has worked at the department…
Culture · Small towns
…412 separate buyers, close to one for every household in Little Varne. The fund paid out. Volunteers did much of the rest, logging some 14,000 hours over five years, and the Picture House reopened on Friday, October…