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    Issue 08: Build your own internet

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    A new film on Cuba’s DIY internet from Stripe Press, plus the beauty of maintenance, and a secret weapon against bacterial infections.

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    Issue 07: The ideas start coming and they don’t stop coming

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    Plus: How polyester bounced back, why we duel, and our geothermal future.

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    Works in Progress has joined Stripe

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    We are pleased to announce that Works in Progress has a new home at Stripe, where we’ll be teaming up with Stripe Press to further ideas for economic, scientific and technological advancement.

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    Issue 06: The gift of life

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    How to build taller skyscrapers, halt plagiarism, avoid housing bubbles, and give more women the chance to have children.

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    Issue 05: How to lose weight and prevent death by asteroid

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    A new all-encompassing issue on diet pills, asteroids, the housing theory of everything, progressive reasons to have more kids, and more.

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    Works in Progress at the Oxford Union

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    Earlier this year, Works in Progress teamed up with the Oxford Union to deliver three conversations between some of our favorite thinkers. The recordings are now available online.

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    An inconvenient sleuth

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    Writers such as Nicholas Wade have popularised the idea that Covid-19 originated in a lab, but their arguments are muddled and ignorant of the evidence.

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  • Words by John Uskglass

    ARGH: the Association for the Rebuttal of Garbage about the Humanities

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    In trying to defend the humanities, some scholars seem to be addicted to incoherent and unconvincing arguments.

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    Issue 04: Holding up the skies

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    Some of the clearest thinkers dig into the environmental challenges we face today. Plus, Scott Alexander writes for us on the peculiar link between depression and suicide.

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  • Words by Caleb Watney & M. Anthony Mills

    Funding isn’t enough to fix science

    Words by Caleb Watney & M. Anthony Mills

    Funding is at the forefront of policy conversations on how to improve scientific research, but our institutions suffer from larger problems that call for structural reform.

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  • Words by Robert Adam

    Architectural preferences in the UK

    Words by Robert Adam

    When it comes to architecture, there is a divide between the preferences of experts and the general public. What do we know about public opinion on architecture?

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    Announcing the Works in Progress Oxford Union conference

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    We’ve partnered with the Oxford Union to bring you three conversations between some of our favorite thinkers.

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    Issue 03: Science on steroids

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    Vaccines have given us a vision of science at its best. We’re back with a new issue of Works in Progress on science in the 21st century and our ambitions for its future.

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    Issue 02: Cogs in the machine

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    What has tech ever done for us? As researchers race to deliver a vaccine for Covid-19, we’ve been reflecting on the drivers of technological progress and the impact technology has had on our lives.

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  • Words by Matt Clancy

    Cities aren’t the innovation incubators they used to be

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    Remote work has long been viewed with skepticism, and many doubt it will last beyond the pandemic. But what if the benefits of local work are already dwindling?

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    Issue 01: Welcome!

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    If you’ve subscribed to our newsletter, you’ve probably already read some of the writing in our first issue. But what is this project all about? Who are we? And who is the man in the icon of our website?

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  • Words by Joy Buchanan

    Can I borrow your reference point?

    Words by Joy Buchanan

    How do we compare our life experiences to those of friends and strangers? What is a reference point, what are its consequences & what does it imply for politics today?

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  • Words by Jason Crawford

    Progress studies: many hard questions

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    What is the goal of progress studies and how broad should its scope be? Jason Crawford riffs off John Myers’ proposal that it should focus on ways to engineer societal progress.

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  • Words by John Myers

    Progress studies: the hard question

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    It may not be enough to understand which ideas and policies could directly improve our society. We also need to grapple with engineering and maintaining them.

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  • Words by Saloni Dattani

    The story of Viktor Zhdanov

    Words by Saloni Dattani

    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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