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Seeing the light
Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne disease as rare as those carried by water.
Sep 22
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Issue 20: The death rays that guard life
Plus: How to make antibodies, why rivers are now battlefields, and a clinical trial for cooling the plant
Sep 18
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Sep 17
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How market design can feed the poor
America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
Sep 15
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Evan Zimmerman
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Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans
Episode six of the Works in Progress podcast is about dating, drinking and tax
Sep 11
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Aria Babu
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Sam Bowman
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Alice Evans
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100 years of insulin in 15 minutes
Episode three of Hard Drugs is about how our need to produce insulin kickstarted the modern biotech industry
Sep 16
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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What’s new in biology: September 2025
Gene therapy, narcolepsy drugs, parasite removal, protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of genomes, and more.
Sep 16
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Saloni Dattani
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Niko McCarty
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Magical systems thinking
Systems thinkers fail because they ignore an important fact: systems fight back.
Sep 12
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Ed Bradon
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Liberté, égalité, radioactivité
France built forty nuclear reactors in a decade. Here's what the world can learn from it.
Sep 4
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Alex Chalmers
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Proteins: Weird blobs that do important things
Episode two of Hard Drugs explores the world of proteins
Sep 3
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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Toronto's underground labyrinth
How Canada's largest city developed a 30 kilometer network of pedestrian tunnels
Aug 29
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Samuel Hughes
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