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How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime
People are terrified that small doses of radiation will give them cancer, but they probably don’t need to be.
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What's really slowing down the AI buildout
America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it where it's needed.
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Epidurals are miraculous
Childbirth may be the most painful thing a person can experience, but we have the technology to numb the pain.
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What’s new in biology: June 2026
The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, and more.
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The secret cause of the industrial revolution
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for centuries. Could we do the same today?
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The wild scheme to save koalas
Vaccinating wild animals can protect human health, and spare animals from extinction and suffering.
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Issue 24: Rats, The Glorious Revolution and the secret to ultra-Orthodox fertility
A preview of everything to come in Issue 24
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Europe’s housing shortages are even worse than America’s
Why does nobody there talk about zoning?
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How the Squamish built Senakw
Just beyond central Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is building one of the most ambitious and unusual housing developments in the world, and getting rich…
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Good design is ruining American flags
Most flags used to be ugly. They were probably better that way.
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The blood cancer that became solvable
Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad.
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The lost art of building cities
Episode 18 is about Victorian urbanism
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How Japan stopped civil war
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient…
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How we learned what genes are made of
In the 1940s, scientists made a discovery now fundamental to biology: genes are encoded in DNA. The story involves bacteria, dead mice, and a kitchen…
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