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The smelly baby problem
Nova Reperta is Virginia Postrel’s regular column for Works in Progress. Read it first in the print magazine.
For the mothers of the baby boom, pediatrician Benjamin Spock’s child care handbook was a practical, confidence-boosting e...
The triumph of logical English, Out loud
You can listen to The triumph of logical English here or on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your podcasts.
You can see the images, graphs and read the article on our website.
Words by Henry Oliver
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Why British nuclear flopped
This article appeared in Issue 23 of Works in Progress magazine, which print subscribers received over the past two weeks. Not yet a subscriber? You can sign up for the magazine here.
On 17th October 1956, Queen Elizabeth II pressed...
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Works in Progress is a new online magazine featuring original writing from some of the most interesting thinkers in the world.
Author of The Future and Its Enemies, The Substance of Style, The Power of Glamour, and, most recently, The Fabric of Civilization. Contributing editor to WorksinProgress.co.
Founder & editor, worksinprogress.co @stripe.
I write the newsletter Scientific Discovery. I'm a co-founder of Works in Progress, host the podcast Hard Drugs, and advise Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform.
Using price theory to understand the world
Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
Editor at Works in Progress. Interested in \ud83d\udcc8
Writer at Works in Progress and co-founder of Clinical Trial Abundance. Scientist by training.
Studying Statistics (ML), Molecular Biology, and Mind, Brain, & Behavior at Harvard
Editor at Works in Progress, a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world.
Law student, future barrister, linguist, train enjoyer
Technology, finance, policy.
Wrong until I write
Bioengineer and writer. Founding Editor of Asimov Press (press.asimov.com).
Working in global health & development at Coefficient Giving (FKA Open Philanthropy)
PhD student in Economics at LSE, researching falling fertility and population ageing in high-income countries.
I endeavour that everything on here will be interesting.
I research economics, history, and cities
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