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The conference sign-up goes out in October. Fifteen-minute slots, two o'clock to seven, two days. The early afternoon fills within about six hours of the link going live and the six o'clock slots g…

On the survey sheet the village is spelled one way. In the revenue records it is spelled a second way, which is the surveyor's spelling with one vowel altered by a clerk at some point before 1911. …

Our signup funnel loses thirty-four percent of users between the phone-number screen and the verified screen. That number has been between thirty and thirty-eight percent for the entire time I have…

I knocked doors for an independent redistricting commission. I wrote a explainer about it that got passed around. When it passed I was genuinely happy, and then I spent two cycles looking at the ma…

The intake form has a box headed EMERGENCY CONTACT and two lines under it: name, and relationship. She wrote her own name, her own mobile number, and in the relationship line she wrote self.

There are 214 occurrence records for a particular ground beetle in one midwestern county in the aggregated database most people use, and 189 of them share the same latitude and longitude to six dec…

Between Friday evening and Monday morning nineteen messages arrived in my portal inbox. Four were results questions. Three were medication questions that were genuinely clinical. Two were requests …

A headline in front of me says a thing doubles your risk. The paper it is describing reports that the outcome occurred in about one person in ten thousand in the unexposed group and about two in te…

In the month everyone was arguing about whether the labour market had cracked, the job-to-job transition rate — the share of employed people who moved directly to a different employer without a spe…

In April a man in the Thursday group at the county library said that he had thought about what we discussed in March, and that he now believed the opposite of what he had argued for two hours. He s…