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Meet Viktor
Although Viktor Zhdanov's name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the
greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do?
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Spotlight
Issue 14


THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM

Unwinding Russian serfdom took half a century. To eventually do it in the face
of powerful opposition took a remarkable approach that let peasants vote
themselves into freedom.

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Words by Samuel Watling


COMPENSATING COMPASSION

Words by Jason Hausenloy & Duncan McClements

Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to
donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments?

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Kidneys


LIFE IN THE TIME OF ZIKA

Words by Keller Scholl

I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine. Human challenge trials
like my one could save millions of lives by developing prophylactics more
quickly.

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Zika


HOW ISRAEL TURNED HOMEOWNERS INTO YIMBYS

Words by Tal Alster

Homeowners are often the biggest opponents of building new homes. An Israeli
reform reversed this by making homeowners the main beneficiaries of development.

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Upzoning


WHY WE STOPPED BUILDING CUT AND COVER

Words by Brian Potter

We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel
boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary.

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Tunneling


THE FUTURE OF SILK

Words by Hiawatha Bray

Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport
vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What
else could it be used for?

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Silk


THE PROMISE OF SGLT2 INHIBITORS

Words by Natália Coelho Mendonça

SGLT2, a protein in the kidney, takes glucose out of the urine and puts it in
the blood. Blocking this reduces diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease –
but we’re not exactly sure why.

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Flozins
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Spotlight
Issue 13


HOW MATHEMATICS BUILT THE MODERN WORLD

Mathematics was the cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution. A new paradigm of
measurement and calculation, more than scientific discovery, built industry,
modernity, and the world we inhabit today.

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Words by Bo Malmberg & Hannes Malmberg


THE ASBESTOS TIMES

Words by Mano Majumdar

Asbestos was a miracle material, virtually impervious to fire. But as we fixed
city fires in other ways, we came to learn about its horrific downsides.

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Asbestos


WATT LIES BENEATH

Words by Tom Ough

The earth’s core is hot. So hot, that if we drilled deep enough, we could power
the world millions of times over with cheap, clean energy, supporting renewables
when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. But getting there is
tough.

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Holes


WAKING UP SCIENCE’S SLEEPING BEAUTIES

Words by Ulkar Aghayeva

Many scientific papers receive little attention initially but become highly
cited years later. What groundbreaking discoveries might have already been made,
and how can we uncover them faster?

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Secrets


THE ENTREPRENEURIAL STATE

Words by David Schönholzer

War is hell. But by allowing more effective states to rule productive regions,
it may have been a catalyst for Europe’s early modern advancement.

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War


UPZONING NEW ZEALAND

Words by Eleanor West & Marko Garlick

New Zealand passed the most ambitious upzoning reforms in the world. Now comes
the backlash.

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Upzoning


THE COCKTAIL REVOLUTION

Words by Peter Suderman

Cocktails aren’t what they used to be – and that’s a good thing. The search for
fresher and more novel ingredients from ever further afield continues to
revolutionize mixology for the better.

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Cocktails
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Spotlight
Issue 12


WHY WE DIDN’T GET A MALARIA VACCINE SOONER

Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141
years to develop a vaccine for it. Advance market commitments could speed things
up next time.

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Words by Saloni Dattani & Rachel Glennerster & Siddhartha Haria


MAKING ARCHITECTURE EASY

Words by Samuel Hughes

Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared. That
means that buildings should be designed to be agreeable – easy to like – not to
be unpopular works of genius.

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Tonality


GROWING THE GROWTH COALITION

Words by Judge Glock

Local government faces incentives just like everything else. If we want voters
to encourage growth near them, we need to make it worth their while.

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Property tax


THE DISCOVERY OF COPPER

Words by Ed Conway

Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world
of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find
and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.

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Copper


HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SOLUTION

Words by Anya Martin

Houston was notorious for its sprawl. But it has seen a gentle density
revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide
reforms was crucial in its transformation.

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Texas


HOW MEXICO BUILT A STATE

Words by Robin Grier

Building a state is not a matter of copying first world institutions. It is a
tough process of deals and compromises. 19th century Mexico is a good example.

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Development


UNDERSTANDING THE BABY BOOM

Words by Anvar Sarygulov & Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby
Boom. Understanding that boom may help us deal with today’s bust.

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Babies
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Spotlight
Issue 11


OLIVINE WEATHERING

Olivine is a green mineral that reacts with CO2 in the ocean to form a harmless
silt. This reaction might be the key to slowing down climate change, or
reversing it altogether.

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Words by Campbell Nilsen


WHY BRITAIN DOESN’T BUILD

Words by Samuel Watling

The history of attempts to reform planning in Britain is proof that political
willpower is not enough: you need to be smart, not just brave.

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Housing


THOMAS EDISON, TINKERER

Words by Eric Gilliam

Thomas Edison is often accused of not having invented the things he gets credit
for. He did something even harder: he built the systems needed to get them to
market.

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Invention


HOW DC DENSIFIED

Words by Emily Hamilton

Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued many other
growing American cities. Arlington’s transit-oriented development might be the
reason.

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Density


TAMING THE STARS

Words by John Myers

Cheap, safe nuclear power is possible, but is all but prohibited in most Western
countries. A regulatory sandbox for fission could shake us out of our regulatory
sclerosis.

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Fission


THE END OF ACID RAIN

Words by Hannah Ritchie

Ending acid rain was one of humanity’s greatest environmental successes. Here’s
how it happened.

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Rain


EVERY GRAIN OF RICE

Words by Niko McCarty

As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one
that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering.

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GMOs
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Maintenance: Of Everything
by Stewart Brand
The End of Combustion Vehicles
New section out now
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Film
Gentle Density
Gentle Density
Reconciling beauty and density
Episode 1: BrooklynEpisode 1: Brooklyn
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Spotlight
Issue 10


FRANCE’S BABY BUST

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.

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Words by Guillaume Blanc


ON THE ORIGINS OF EMPATHY FOR OTHER SPECIES

Words by Cody Moser

We’ve learnt to see the world through the eyes of our prey. All the better to
eat them with.

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Evolution


BUILDING BACK FASTER

Words by Sam Dumitriu

Building infrastructure doesn’t need to come at the cost of the environment. But
it does need smarter rules.

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Environment


EVERY GENERATOR IS A POLICY FAILURE

Words by Lauren Gilbert

Power outages force businesses across Africa to rely on expensive, dirty diesel
generators. Price caps block improvement, but removing them isn’t easy.

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Electricity


THE MOST DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO MAN

Words by Jack Devanney

We have learned to fear plutonium – one of the world’s most useful materials.
But as long as you don’t eat it, you’re probably safe.

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Energy


PLASTIC ROADS

Words by Zach Caceres

Plastic is eating the roads. It might be a cleaner, quieter, ready-made
alternative to asphalt for the next generation of paving.

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Technology


MARKETS IN FACT-CHECKING

Words by Matthew Feeney

Exposing misinformation online is hard to do at scale and can veer into outright
censorship. The wisdom of crowds can lead us to the answers.

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Prediction markets
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Film
ARIA
A look at Britain’s new DARPA

ARIA: Betting on scienceARIA: Betting on science
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Spotlight
Issue 09


THE STORY OF VACCINATECA

Nobody had a plan to get vaccines out of freezers and into Americans’
arms–except VaccinateCA. Its CEO tells the story of how a small team brought
order to a chaotic rollout.

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Words by Patrick McKenzie (patio11)


DEVELOPING THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

Words by Heidi Williams & Paul Niehaus

International development was revolutionized by experiments and evaluations of
its methods. Meta-science can learn from it.

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Economics


PANDEMIC PREVENTION AS FIRE-FIGHTING

Words by Richard Williamson

Fire has almost disappeared as a cause of death in the developed world. A
similar approach could do the same for infectious diseases.

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Science


ADVANCING ANTIVENOM

Words by Mathias Kirk Bonde

Snakebites kill between 80,000 and 140,000 people every year. Better antivenom
should be a high priority – thankfully new technology can help.

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Science


HISTORY IS IN THE MAKING

Words by Stephen Davies

Though we tend to see history as just one political event after another, it’s
technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History
should reflect that.

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Culture


AI FROM SUPERINTELLIGENCE TO CHATGPT

Words by Séb Krier

Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are forcing skeptics to eat their
words. We should take its risks seriously too.

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Science


THE ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC STYLE

Words by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Scientific papers are dense, jargon-filled, and painful to read. It wasn’t
always this way – and it doesn’t have to be.

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Science
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Special Issue 01
October 2022
Lost in Stagnation


ANTI-GROWTH SAFETYISM

Words by Ryan Murphy & Colin O’Reilly

Is a build up of generic regulations together causing us to be three times
poorer than we need to be? Probably not. But the insidious rise of risk aversion
is still a big drag on economic growth.

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Economics


INTERVIEW: J. STORRS HALL ON GETTING LOST IN STAGNATION

Words by Tamara Winter

Stripe Press’s Tamara Winter sits down with J. Storrs Hall, whose book ‘Where is
My Flying Car’ inspired this issue, to talk about stagnation and the possibility
of progress.

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Culture


MAKING ENERGY TOO CHEAP TO METER

Words by Benjamin Reinhardt

The great slowdown began when we started rationing energy. Restarting progress
means getting energy that is so abundant that it’s almost free.

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Culture


NANOTECHNOLOGY’S SPRING

Words by Eli Dourado

Nanotechnology sometimes sounds as much like science fiction as artificial
intelligence once did. But the problems holding it back seem solvable, and some
of the answers may lie inside our own bodies.

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Science


THERE WAS NO GREAT STAGNATION

Words by Adam Hunt

We may not have flying cars but we do have incredible information technology.
We’re mismeasuring the huge benefits it is bringing.

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Economics


PLANES, CLAIMS AND AUTOMOBILES

Words by Brian Potter

Americans famously love to sue one another. Are out of control product liability
lawsuits the to blame for the crash of the personal aviation industry?

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Politics
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Film
The Street Network
A look at Cuba’s grassroots internet

The Street Network (La Red Callejera)The Street Network (La Red Callejera)
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Spotlight
Issue 08


WE DON’T HAVE A HUNDRED BIASES, WE HAVE THE WRONG MODEL

Behavioral economics has identified dozens of cognitive biases that stop us from
acting ‘rationally’. But instead of building up a messier and messier picture of
human behavior, we need a new model.

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Words by Jason Collins


THE MAINTENANCE RACE

Words by Stewart Brand

The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some,
deadly contest. Its contestants’ efforts can teach us about the art of
maintenance.

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Culture


THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ECONOMY

Words by Davis Kedrosky

When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world
order. How it happened is still debated.

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Economics


REAL PEER REVIEW HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED

Words by Saloni Dattani

Outdated forms of peer review create bottlenecks that slow science. But in a
world where research can now circulate rapidly on the Internet, we need to
develop new ways to do science in public.

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Science


RECLAIMING THE ROADS

Words by Carlton Reid

Until recently, roads were shared between a messy mix of cyclists, stagecoaches,
carts, horses, and pedestrians, with no dominant user.

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Culture


AGE OF THE BACTERIOPHAGE

Words by Léa Zinsli

Bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacterial cells – were almost forgotten in
the age of antibiotics. Now as bacterial resistance grows, they may return to
help us in our hour of need.

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Science
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Spotlight
Issue 07


LONDON’S LOST RINGWAYS

A monstrous plan to build major motorways through some of London’s greatest
neighborhoods fell apart. But the price was the birth of the NIMBY movement, and
a permanent ceiling on Britain’s infrastructure ambitions.

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Words by Michael Dnes


WHY INNOVATION PRIZES FAIL

Words by Anton Howes

History’s most famous innovation prize—the longitude rewards—is misunderstood.
Innovation prizes are best at promoting refinements, not revolutions.

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Science


LOCAL WARMING

Words by Audrey Schulman

Gas heating is bad for the environment. But home-built heat pumps aren’t perfect
either.

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Science


HOW POLYESTER BOUNCED BACK

Words by Virginia Postrel

Polyester went from being the world’s most hated fabrics to one of its
favorites. It’s so successful that many people don’t even realize they’re
wearing polyester today.

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Culture


SCIENTIFIC SLOWDOWN IS NOT INEVITABLE

Words by Ben Southwood

Some think of advances in science and technology through the metaphor of
low-hanging fruit: we “picked” the easy ones, and the rest will be very
difficult.

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Science


WHY WE DUEL

Words by William Buckner

Duels can be brutal and even lethal. But duels emerged in societies around the
world for an important reason: to control and manage violence, not just to
celebrate it.

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Culture
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Spotlight
Issue 06


WOMB FOR IMPROVEMENT

Pregnancy can be arduous, painful and for some women impossible. New technology
may allow more women to have children, and save the lives of more prematurely
born infants. How do we get there?

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Words by Aria Babu


WHY IRELAND’S HOUSING BUBBLE BURST

Words by Ronan Lyons

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.

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Economics


WHY SKYSCRAPERS ARE SO SHORT

Words by Brian Potter

The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory
barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller. Here’s how we
can do it.

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Economics


PARENTING AS A PUBLIC GOOD

Words by Ellen Pasternack

Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children
they’ve had while bearing few of the costs. But as women have gained other
options, birth rates have fallen.

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Culture


AGAINST THE SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST

Words by Samuel Hughes

Many modern buildings put up today seem uglier than traditional ones around
them. Some say this is because we’ve torn down the ugly old buildings, and only
see the survivors. Are they right?

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Culture


WHO CARES ABOUT PLAGIARISM?

Words by Stuart Ritchie

Plagiarism is unforgivable in academia but it’s not plagiarism itself that
should trouble us. It’s carelessness and a lack of originality.

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Science
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Spotlight
Issue 05


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.

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Words by John Myers & Sam Bowman & Ben Southwood


NATALISM FOR PROGRESSIVES

Words by Jeremy Driver

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.

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Culture


HOW TRUST UNDERMINES SCIENCE

Words by Sarah Perry

Our success is based on scientific discovery, so it’s not surprising how much
faith we put into it. But we now trust science so implicitly that our trust
undermines the institution itself.

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Science


BETTER EATS

Words by Nick Whitaker

The kitchen of 2020 looks mostly the same as that of 1960. But what we do in it
has changed dramatically, almost entirely for the better—due to a culture of
culinary innovation.

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Culture


BUYERS OF FIRST RESORT

Words by Neil Hacker

How do technologies get off the ground? As well as seed funding, many of the
best technologies require Buyers of First Resort, which buy products until they
improve enough to get to efficient scale.

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Economics


THE FUTURE OF WEIGHT LOSS

Words by Stephan J. Guyenet

We have eradicated smallpox, cured many bacterial diseases, and invented a
vaccine for Covid-19 within the year. But for a very long time we haven’t had a
single good treatment for obesity.

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Science


ASTEROID SPOTTING

Words by Tom Chivers

Could an asteroid wipe out human civilisation like it may have eliminated the
dinosaurs? Big asteroids come along extremely rarely and our monitoring systems
are effective and well funded.

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Science
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Spotlight
Issue 04


HOW WE FIXED THE OZONE LAYER

The story behind humanity’s greatest environmental success is too rarely told
and too often taken for granted. This is how humanity fixed the ozone layer and
why it matters.

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Words by Hannah Ritchie


WHY DIDN’T SUICIDES RISE DURING COVID?

Words by Scott Alexander

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.

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Culture


WHY TESLA BOUGHT BITCOIN

Words by Andrea O’Sullivan

Everybody loves to hate Bitcoin. Yet big business is spending hundreds of
millions on it, helping to drive the price higher and higher. It’s easy to
dismiss that as a marketing fad.

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Culture


BURYING THE LEAD

Words by Sue Márquez

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.

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Politics


THIS IS WHAT PEAK CULTURE LOOKS LIKE

Words by Ryan Murphy

Is the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe a sign of art in decline?
It’s common for people to assert that film, art, music and literature are
getting worse. This is why they’re wrong. 

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Culture


INTERVIEW: TED NORDHAUS ON ECOMODERNISM

Words by Nick Whitaker & Saloni Dattani

Are technology and the environment friends or foes? In this wide-ranging
conversation, we discuss climate policy, activism and ecomodernism with Ted
Nordhaus.

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Politics


WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIX SCIENCE

Words by José Luis Ricón

The conversation around science is full of ideas for reform, but how do we know
which ones will be effective? To find out what works, we need to apply the
scientific method to science itself.

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Science
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Spotlight
Issue 03


THE GREAT REINFORCER

Alongside all the successes of science in the Covid era, the pandemic has also
sparked an outbreak of viral misinformation and sloppy research, revealing the
glaring flaws in our scientific system.

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Words by Stuart Ritchie


THE SPEED OF SCIENCE

Words by Saloni Dattani & Nathaniel Bechhofer

Critics of scientific reform say that transparency comes at the cost of speed.
What can disciplines learn from each other to break away from this crisis?

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Science


HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE DEBT

Words by Pedro Serôdio

Protecting people’s health during the pandemic will increase debt, but the
economic consensus is that we shouldn’t be concerned.

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Economics


WHY TECH CANNOT ESCAPE EXPENSIVE HOUSING

Words by John Kroencke

As rental prices continue to climb in San Francisco, tech firms have looked to
relocate in other cities. Without major housing reforms, the next Silicon Valley
will face the same fate.

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Economics


HOW COVID BROUGHT THE FUTURE BACK

Words by Byrne Hobart

Crises upend plans, force people to re-evaluate their priorities, and bring into
focus new goals. Financial markets give us hints of what we can expect from the
aftermath of Covid-19.

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Culture


A PLACE IN THE SUN

Words by Anya Martin

While rents have been soaring for years in urban areas around the world, one
Australian city has weathered the storm. What can the world learn from the
experiences of Sydney?

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Economics


WHAT AILS THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Words by Matt Clancy

Bad incentives, muddled theory and no practical use. The condition of the social
sciences has been blamed on a great variety of things; what’s really at fault
and how do we know?

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Science
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Spotlight
Issue 02


THE DAILY GRIND

Before grinding mills were invented, the preparation of flour for food was an
arduous task largely carried out by women for hours every day. How did it affect
their lives and why does it remain a tradition in some places even today?

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Words by Rachel Laudan


IN PRAISE OF PASTICHE

Words by Samuel Hughes

Building traditionalist architecture today is derided as inauthentic pastiche.
But this perspective turns a blind eye to the dramatic and sophisticated ways
that design has been applied throughout history.

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Culture


CLUSTERS RULE EVERYTHING AROUND ME

Words by Caleb Watney

Some of the greatest advances in technology have emerged from bringing
intelligent people together to solve problems. How do tech clusters develop &
how can we use them to replicate past successes?

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Economics


SEEING ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

Words by Eli Dourado

Electrical interference has restricted what humans can observe with telescopes.
To make leaps as a species, now’s the time for us to build a telescope on the
far side of the moon.

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Science


ESCAPING SCIENCE’S PARADOX

Words by Stuart Buck

Scientific research today is afflicted by poor reliability and low utility,
despite the best efforts of individual researchers.

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Science


INNOVATION IS NOT LINEAR

Words by Jason Crawford

Many have argued that innovation develops in a simple linear fashion – from
research to experimentation to engineering.

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Science


SECURING POSTERITY

Words by Leopold Aschenbrenner

New technologies can be dangerous, threatening the very survival of humanity. Is
economic growth inherently risky, and how do we maximize the chances of a
flourishing future?

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Economics


INTERVIEW: MIKE SOLANA ON TECH AND ITS CRITICS

Words by Nick Whitaker

In spite of major technological progress, tech is often envisioned in the media
with pessimism and dread.

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Culture
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Spotlight
Issue 01


EPIDEMIC DISEASE AND THE STATE

Western democracies appear to have floundered in their responses to Covid-19. Is
there a relationship between health and freedom, and can it be unraveled?

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Words by Mark Koyama


BUILD STATE CAPACITY BY BUILDING CHARTER CITIES

Words by Mark Lutter & Jeffrey Mason

Many low-income countries are unable to provide effective governance for their
citizens, trapped in a cycle of slow growth and persistent corruption. Charter
cities may provide an answer.

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Politics


PRACTICAL VEGANISM

Words by Diana Fleischman

Polls show that the majority of Americans want to reduce their consumption of
meat, but many struggle to do so.

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Culture


THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHIATRY

Words by Adam Hunt

Modern psychiatry appears to be at a standstill, wanting for better treatment
and a substantive theoretical framework. Evolutionary theory has the potential
to reinvigorate the field.

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Science


HOW TO BUILD A STATE

Words by Anton Howes

Throughout history, states struggled to maintain power, having to rely on
private agents and enforcers to fund themselves and govern their citizens.

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Economics


THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INDUSTRIAL R&D LAB

Words by Ben Southwood

For a time in recent history, R&D labs seemed to exist in a golden age of
innovation and productivity. But this period vanished as swiftly as it came to
be.

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Economics
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