Sitemap - 2025 - The Works in Progress Newsletter
Samuel Hughes on The Great Downzoning
The first non-opioid painkiller
How New Zealand invented inflation targeting
Lenacapavir: can this drug end AIDS?
Gentrification as a housing problem
How the world's first electric grid was built
Why child benefits should be front loaded
Why we stopped building subways cheaply
The bad science behind expensive nuclear
From the vault: Animals as chemical factories
One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives
NIMBYism and how to resolve it
From the vault: Getting materials out of the lab
From the vault: Everything drugs
From the vault: How ships escaped the great stagnation
What's new in building beautifully
From the vault: The evolution of psychiatry
An 80,000-year history of the tomato
The purpose of a building is how it looks
From the vault: Fertility on demand
From the vault: The future of silk
The secret liberalization of animal drugs
The breaking of Britain's National Grid
From the vault: The failure of the land value tax
Another reason housing in Texas is cheap
Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April
From the vault: Chinese towers and American blocks
Pieces we would like to commission
From the vault: Womb for improvement
Apply for Invisible College 2025
From the vault: King of fruits
Where's my winter robot chauffeur?
The value of technological progress
Issue 18: Urbanism with Chinese characteristics
Flipping the switch on far-UVC
A review of Charles Piller’s Doctored
A writing fellowship on scientific progress
Snakebites, Pig Hearts, and More
We can still build beautifully