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Issue 20: The death rays that guard life
Plus: How to make antibodies, why rivers are now battlefields, and a clinical trial for cooling the plant
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100 years of insulin in 15 minutes
Episode three of Hard Drugs is about how our need to produce insulin kickstarted the modern biotech industry
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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What’s new in biology: September 2025
Gene therapy, narcolepsy drugs, parasite removal, protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of genomes, and more.
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Saloni Dattani
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Niko McCarty
How market design can feed the poor
America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
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Evan Zimmerman
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Magical systems thinking
Systems thinkers fail because they ignore an important fact: systems fight back.
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Ed Bradon
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Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans
Episode six of the Works in Progress podcast is about dating, drinking and tax
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Aria Babu
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Sam Bowman
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Alice Evans
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Liberté, égalité, radioactivité
France built forty nuclear reactors in a decade. Here's what the world can learn from it.
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Alex Chalmers
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Proteins: Weird blobs that do important things
Episode two of Hard Drugs explores the world of proteins
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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August 2025

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