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Degrowth and the monkey's paw Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was...
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Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was very popular among my colleagues about what was wrong with society and how to fix it. The idea was that people and governments needed to stop seeing economic growth as a good thing,...
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Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
2 weeks ago
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Introducing Gentle Density A new series from Works in Progress
a month ago
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Notes on Progress: A winter's tale Melting snow can make the season easier
a month ago
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ARIA: Betting on science An inside look at Britain's new DARPA
3 months ago
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Issue 10: One word—plastics. Plus: France's baby bust, why we empathise with animals, building infrastructure faster, and more.
3 months ago
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Notes on Progress: The world that has never been Introducing Speculative Technologies
3 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Agglomeration benefits are here to stay Building more homes in the most productive cities could massively boost productivity
7 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Thinking like a dog How dog brains could save us from dementia
9 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Artificial flavoring "Artificial" didn't scare Americans in the 19th century. Why does it scare us now?
2 months ago
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Notes on Progress: In pursuit of decent coffee No great stagnation in home espresso
4 months ago
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Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
8 months ago
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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
9 months ago
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Notes on Progress: The stats gap Students understand just enough statistics to get by
5 months ago
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Issue 09: Cheap shots and killer bots Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every year, and what science can learn from the fight against global poverty.
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Notes on Progress: A tale of two particles Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful
6 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Representation and human history Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
9 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Breakfast with g IQ, lived experience, and my boyfriend’s underpants
5 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Selective breeding and chicken welfare We've bred larger and larger chickens. Now can we breed happier ones?
8 months ago
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Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias
10 months ago
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Special Issue 01: Lost in Stagnation Dude, where is my flying car?
7 months ago