Works in Progress Podcast
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Works in Progress is an online magazine devoted to new and underrated ideas about economic growth, scientific progress, and technology. Subscribe to listen to the Works in Progress podcast, plus Hard Drugs by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen.
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Washer woman: The invention of dishwashers
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May 01, 2026 |
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The triumph of logical English
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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How to speed up clinical trials
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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How to spot a monopoly: Measuring competition
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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The death rays that guard life: We can use ultraviolet light to disinfect public spaces
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Issue 23: Egg freezing, Australian refugee policy and ASML
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Inflatable space stations: Creating artificial gravity so we can live in space
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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The algorithm will see you now: Why radiologists haven't been replaced by AI
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Did status signaling ruin architecture?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Sunscreen for the planet: Geoengineering a cooler planet
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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How to redraw a city: Land readjustment in Japan
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Longevity
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Two is already too many: Why South Korean birth rates are so low
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Should everyone be taking statins?
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Why Europe has stagnated
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Inflation in Rome, Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia with Mark Koyama
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The nuclear renaissance
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The first cancer vaccine
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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The history of vaccines
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Should we ban ugly buildings?
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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The economics of the baby bust with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Will AI solve medicine?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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The art of protein design with AI
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Hacking proteins with AI
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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How traffic modernism ruined cities with Nicholas Boys Smith
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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100 years of insulin in 15 minutes
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Proteins: Weird blobs that do important things
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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How to become President of China with Dan Wang
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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The underrated economics of land with Mike Bird
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Stian Westlake on the intangible economy and paying for social science
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Samuel Hughes on The Great Downzoning
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Lenacapavir: The miracle drug that could end AIDS
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Jun 11, 2025 |