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- Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive https://rootsofprogress.org/announcement-2024-fellowship-applications-open 0 comments
- Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle 238 comments
- Selfish reasons to want more humans https://rootsofprogress.org/why-a-larger-population 459 comments
- Why you, personally, should want a larger human population https://rootsofprogress.org/why-a-larger-population 8 comments
- The origins of the steam engine https://rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins 44 comments
- Why no Roman industrial revolution? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-no-roman-industrial-revolution 77 comments
- Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-no-roman-industrial-revolution 2 comments
- Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval https://rootsofprogress.org/against-review-and-approval 98 comments
- The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements https://rootsofprogress.org/isambard-brunel-on-engineering-standards 139 comments
- Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday? https://rootsofprogress.org/the-four-hour-workday-prediction 140 comments
- How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science 31 comments
- What Happened to the Idea of Progress? https://rootsofprogress.org/what-happened-to-the-idea-of-progress-bigthink 8 comments
- Towards a philosophy of safety https://rootsofprogress.org/towards-a-philosophy-of-safety 21 comments
- Why was progress so slow in the past? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-progress-was-so-slow 3 comments
- Can growth continue? https://rootsofprogress.org/can-growth-continue-ignite-talk 272 comments
- Is growth linear, not exponential? https://rootsofprogress.org/is-growth-linear-not-exponential 75 comments
- In the Shadow of the Great War https://rootsofprogress.org/in-the-shadow-of-the-great-war 10 comments
- How factories were made safe https://rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety 111 comments
- How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste https://rootsofprogress.org/nuclear-physics 28 comments
- Why has nuclear power been a flop? https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop 48 comments
- Technological stagnation: Why I came around https://rootsofprogress.org/technological-stagnation 2 comments
- When life was literally full of crap https://rootsofprogress.org/when-life-was-literally-full-of-crap 8 comments
- Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle 83 comments
- What is protein folding? A brief explanation https://rootsofprogress.org/alphafold-protein-folding-explainer 78 comments
- Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars https://rootsofprogress.org/where-is-my-flying-car 38 comments
- Industrial Literacy https://rootsofprogress.org/industrial-literacy 192 comments
- Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857 https://rootsofprogress.org/crowdfunding-a-transcontinental-railroad-in-1857 10 comments
- Funding Models and Progress https://rootsofprogress.org/funding-models-and-progress 16 comments
- How early American inventors funded their ventures https://rootsofprogress.org/how-early-american-inventors-funded-their-ventures 19 comments
- Why Did It Take So Long to Invent X? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-it-take-so-long 3 comments
- Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics https://rootsofprogress.org/draining-the-swamp 71 comments
- Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (2017) https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-cotton-gin 39 comments
- The History of Smallpox https://rootsofprogress.org/smallpox-and-vaccines 4 comments
- Instant stone (just add water) (2018) https://rootsofprogress.org/instant-stone-just-add-water 95 comments
- One Man's Junk https://rootsofprogress.org/one-mans-junk 31 comments
- Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle 492 comments
- Why has nuclear power been a flop? https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop 65 comments energy
- Why has nuclear power been a flop? https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop 25 comments technology
- Why wasn't the bicycle invented until like the late 1800s? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle 18 comments history
- Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle 3 comments bicycling