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Microbubbles
It’s incredibly hard to deliver drugs to the right organ, especially to reach the brain. Microbubbles could change that.
Mar 31
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Ambika Grover
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Escaping the Ogallala trap
There is a closing window to stop Waymos from creating omnigridlock.
Mar 27
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The algorithm will see you now, Out Loud
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But replacing humans with AI is harder than it seems.
Mar 27
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How live sports saved television
Television was the most eagerly anticipated technology of the postwar years. But it faced a terrible coordination problem.
Mar 26
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Did status signaling ruin architecture?
Episode 15 of the Works in Progress is about ornament, taste, and modernism.
Mar 25
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Ben Southwood
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Samuel Hughes
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Inflatable space stations, Out Loud
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
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Sunscreen for the planet, Out Loud
The world is warming faster than we can cut emissions. Volcanoes are already cooling the planet, with particles that reflect sunlight. Maybe we can too.
Mar 20
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Daniele Visioni
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Dakota Gruener
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How to redraw a city, Out Loud
Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners replan whole neighborhoods privately by supermajority…
Mar 13
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Longevity
How much more can we extend lifespans?
Mar 11
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Aria Schrecker
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Saloni Dattani
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Ben Southwood
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How an unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables
How a single unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables.
Mar 9
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Introducing Works in Progress Out Loud
Listen to Two is already too many by Phoebe Arslanagic-Little
Mar 6
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A demonstration at Shippingport
The United States have nuclear electricity due to the efforts of one man
Mar 5
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Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.
Mar 3
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Michael Hill
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Should everyone be taking statins?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest success stories.
Feb 27
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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