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Good morning. It is a long weekend in some places and a wet one in most, so this edition leans toward pieces you can settle into.

The pencil, at length. Henry Petroski wrote a whole book about the pencil and this essay is the argument for why that was a reasonable thing to do. Graphite, cedar, the Napoleonic wars and a factory in Nuremberg that still runs.

Why bridges hum. A short explanation of vortex shedding from an engineer who spent a career listening to cables.

The last typewriter repairman in Mumbai. A profile that is really about what it means to keep a trade going after the trade has gone.

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