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- The Story of VaccinateCA https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/ 5 comments
- The Decline and fall of the British economy https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-decline-and-fall-of-britain/ 2 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
- How we fixed the ozone layer (2021) https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-we-fixed-the-ozone-layer/ 70 comments
- Why Innovation Prizes Fail https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-innovation-prizes-fail/ 48 comments
- London’s Lost Ringways https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/londons-lost-ringways/ 160 comments
- Works in Progress has joined Stripe https://www.worksinprogress.co/works-in-progress-has-joined-stripe/ 24 comments
- Who cares about plagiarism? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/who-cares-about-plagiarism/ 66 comments
- Why skyscrapers are so short https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/ 241 comments
- How trust undermines science https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-trust-undermines-science/ 110 comments
- Against the survival of the prettiest https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/against-the-survival-of-the-prettiest/ 2 comments
- Asteroid Spotting https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/asteroid-spotting/ 3 comments
- The Future of Weight Loss https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-weight-loss/ 8 comments
- The Housing Theory of Everything https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/ 80 comments
- Clusters rule everything around me https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/clusters-rule-everything-around-me/ 2 comments
- The Evolution of Psychiatry https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-evolution-of-psychiatry/ 84 comments
- How to Build a State https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-build-a-state/ 65 comments
- 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