Hacker News
- Why Ireland's housing bubble burst https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-irelands-housing-bubble-burst/ 162 comments
- Why we stopped building cut and cover https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-stopped-building-cut-and-cover/ 172 comments
- Making energy too cheap to meter https://worksinprogress.co/issue/making-energy-too-cheap-to-meter/ 2 comments
- A study in the art of maintenance, analysing a round-the-world solo yacht race https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race 2 comments
- Washington, DC, avoided the worst price rises that have plagued American cities https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-dc-densified 58 comments
- Olivine Weathering Can Reverse Global Warming in Our Lifetime https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering 9 comments
- Olivine Weathering Can Reverse Global Warming in Our Lifetime https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering.com 2 comments
- The Elements of Scientific Style https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-elements-of-scientific-style 7 comments
- We don't know how to fix science (2021) https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/we-dont-know-how-to-fix-science/ 143 comments
- The Maintenance Race https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/ 27 comments
- Works in Progress has joined Stripe https://www.worksinprogress.co/works-in-progress-has-joined-stripe/ 24 comments
- How trust undermines science https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-trust-undermines-science/ 110 comments
- The Housing Theory of Everything https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 80 comments
- This is what peak culture looks like https://worksinprogress.co/issue/this-is-what-peak-culture-looks-like/ 2 comments
- Escaping Science's Paradox https://worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping-sciences-paradox/ 40 comments
- Clusters rule everything around me https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/clusters-rule-everything-around-me/ 2 comments
- How mathematics built the modern world https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-mathematics-built-the-modern-world 8 comments math
- France was once Europe’s superpower, thanks above all to its enormous population. Its decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/frances-baby-bust 53 comments europe
- The housing theory of everything - Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 348 comments economics
- We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model - Works in Progress https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/biases-the-wrong-model/ 2 comments securityanalysis
- Covid-19 brought death, suffering and financial straits, so it was unsurprising that depression rose around the world. But when the data came in, we found suicide did not – and it’s a mystery why. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-didnt-suicides-rise-during-covid/ 9 comments truereddit
- Researchers have known for decades that lead poisoning damages brains and worsens crime, but millions of Americans still drink contaminated water every day. Here’s how we can fix that. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/burying-the-lead/ 24 comments environment
- Ireland’s housing bubble and bust has become emblematic of what not to do in housing debates around the world. The only problem is nobody agrees what actually went wrong. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-irelands-housing-bubble-burst/ 2 comments truereddit
- Without new humans, growth will slow, and we will be less likely to reach the stars. But pro-natalism has been captured by a range of unsavoury voices. There is an alternative. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/natalism-for-progressives/ 4 comments truereddit
- Innovation prizes are seen by many big figures like Elon Musk as a way to solve many problems in science and technology. But their most famous success in history – calculating longitude at sea – is badly misunderstood. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-innovation-prizes-fail/ 4 comments truereddit
- How We Fixed the Ozone Layer https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-we-fixed-the-ozone-layer/ 7 comments environment
- Duels are brutal – even lethal. But societies around the world, from preindustrial Europe and America to hunter-gatherer societies have evolved them. Why? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-duel/ 34 comments truereddit
- London almost demolished many of its most famous neighbourhoods – Camden, Holland Park, Clapham, Blackheath, and many more – for a gigantic motorway like those of the USA. If it had succeeded it would have been a disaster, but its defeat may have created the NIMBY movement https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/londons-lost-ringways/ 60 comments truereddit
- Fertility, low productivity growth, inequality, climate change. All of these things are made worse by one thing: an undersupply of housing. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 166 comments truereddit
- Back when the USA had its fastest ever scientific progress and economic growth, most of its research was done through industrial R&D labs. Now research is done in universities. Is this a coincidence? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-rd-lab/ 84 comments truereddit
- Maybe academia is like art: it has a fire-breathing reaction to the idea of plagiarism, but patchy institutions for enforcing rules against it in practice. But without credit for your ideas, what incentive do you have to share them, or even create them? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/who-cares-about-plagiarism/ 2 comments truereddit
- We all know about the importance of patents, copyright, trade secrets, R&D subsidies, tax credits, and national labs. But less well understood is the importance of 'Buyers of First Resort' – entities which establish a market for something well before it can support its own customer base. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/buyers-of-first-resort/ 3 comments economics
- Some have already drawn conclusions about our place in the universe from its apparent silence, but the truth is that we have scarcely begun to listen. To make serious progress, we need a telescope on the far side of the moon. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/seeing-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/ 478 comments space
- Natural gas pipelines may leak so much methane that gas damages the climate more than coal per unit of energy delivered https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/local-warming/ 168 comments energy
- How ritualised violence saves lives https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-duel/ 4 comments anthropology
- The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 2 comments economy
- Why skyscrapers are so short https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/ 30 comments futurology
- The Housing Theory of Everything https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/?utm_source=pocket_mylist 3 comments truereddit
- The housing theory of everything - Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 1716 comments futurology
- "The housing theory of everything: Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates" https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 506 comments economics
Linking pages
- We Can Already Stop Climate Change If We Want To https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/we-can-already-stop-climate-change?isFreemail=true&post_id=140287821&publication_id=347533&r=6jmko 394 comments
- If you’re involved in drug development and have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch « The Story's Story https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/02/if-youre-involved-in-drug-development-and-have-first-hand-knowledge-of-the-fdas-torpor-get-in-touch/ 245 comments
- Degrowth and the monkey's paw https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/degrowth-and-the-monkeys-paw 153 comments
- Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-patrick-collison-co-founder 53 comments
- Britain’s interwar apartment boom https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/britains-interwar-apartment-boom 43 comments
- We Can Already Stop Climate Change If We Want To https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/we-can-already-stop-climate-change 41 comments
- Friends are under-clustered. Why? - by Ben Southwood https://bensouthwood.substack.com/p/friends-are-under-clustered-why 6 comments
- A New Industrialist roundup - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/a-new-industrialist-roundup 2 comments
- #2: Big studies and very big findings - by Saloni Dattani https://salonium.substack.com/p/2-big-studies-and-very-big-findings 0 comments
- Oh, What Massive Monuments We Make – To Be Determined https://locationtbd.home.blog/2022/04/02/oh-what-massive-monuments-we-make/ 0 comments
- Stuff I've Found Interesting in January - by Sam Atis https://atis.substack.com/p/stuff-ive-found-interesting-in-january 0 comments
- A New Industrialist roundup - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-new-industrialist-roundup 0 comments
- Interview: Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney of the Institute for Progress https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-alec-stapp-and-caleb-watney 0 comments
- The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology - by Niko McCarty https://www.readcodon.com/p/synbio-guide 0 comments