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Rethinking High-School Science Fairs
America’s earliest science fairs gave students the chance to do independent research. Today, they’re a competitive gloss to glorified internships. It’s…
Feb 9
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
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AI After Drug Development
Coming up with drug candidates isn’t the bottleneck on finding new treatments. Can AI help with the things that are?
Feb 2
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Abhishaike Mahajan
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Clara Collier
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Seeing Like a Sedan
Waymos and Cybercabs see the world through very different sensors. Which technology wins out will determine the future of self-driving vehicles.
Jan 26
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Andrew Miller
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The Fight For Slow And Boring Research
As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?
Jan 20
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Distressed Scientists' Dept.
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Where's My Orbital Habitat?
NASA has always balanced the fantastical against the sensible. What happens when the scales start to tip?
Jan 5
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Harry Law
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Reputation (FDA's Version)
Can the agency that invented modern drug development survive so many assaults on its reputation? A former FDA insider reads an 800-page book to find…
Dec 23, 2025
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Adam Kroetsch
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Ideas Aren't Getting Harder to Find
For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.
Dec 19, 2025
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Karthik Tadepalli
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Reading Lolita in the Barracks
What does it take to turn South Korea's mandatory military service into a literary retreat?
Dec 8, 2025
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Sheon Han
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Jung's Memories
Jung was born 150 years ago. In a special anniversary edition of his biography, all we can see is his shadow
Dec 4, 2025
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Aaron Labaree
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The First Prophet of Abundance
David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from…
Nov 25, 2025
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Kevin Hawickhorst
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Can You Just Do Things?
A conversation about how agency is gained, used, and misused. And also love, drugs, and the Enneagram.
Nov 17, 2025
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Cate Hall
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Common Ground between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology
AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology were both published in April of this year.
Nov 12, 2025
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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Daniel Kokotajlo
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Eli Lifland
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Thomas Larsen
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