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Modern Hindu Temples
Most ancient architectural traditions have withered, but one is enjoying a golden age: Hindu temple architecture.
May 21
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Where did all the good sculptors go?
Episode 17 is about carving a new sculpture tradition.
May 20
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Samuel Hughes
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How ASML took over the world
The strange path to global monopoly
May 13
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Pancreatic cancer just met its match
A disease that was once a death sentence is increasingly treatable
May 12
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Ruxandra Teslo
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What is local government good for?
Episode 16 is about building data centers, school districts and redistribution
May 8
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Ben Southwood
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Judge Glock
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More articles we would like to commission
Write for Works in Progress.
May 8
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What’s new in biology: May 2026
A cure for congenital deafness, recreating snake venom, antibodies, a legend in cardiovascular medicine, and a successful hair loss treatment?
May 5
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Saloni Dattani
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Niko McCarty
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One week left to apply for Invisible College 2026
Our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds was such a success that we are running it again. Apply this week or forever hold your peace.
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April 2026
The smelly baby problem
Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.
Apr 29
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The triumph of logical English, Out loud
English prose has become much easier to read. But shorter sentences had little to do with it.
Apr 28
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Henry Oliver
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Why British nuclear flopped
Britain gave an elite group of engineers sweeping power and massive resources to deliver a nuclear power revolution. But their nuclear dreams crumbled.
Apr 28
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Issue 23: We're freezing our eggs. Maybe you should too
Works in Progress Issue 23 is out today.
Apr 24
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