All articles from Works in Progress
The history of vaccines
The early smallpox vaccines that kept dying out, why Émile Roux drilled into rabbits' skulls, and the lucky career changes that saved millions of lives.
Why the West was downzoned
In the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?
Issue 21: The Great Downzoning
Plus: Why cities in poor countries need wider streets, how to measure competition, and the South Korean baby bust.
Should we ban ugly buildings?
Episode ten of the Works in Progress podcast is surprisingly NIMBY.
Living in artificial gravity
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
The three-thousand-year journey of colchicine
For centuries it was a poison. Then colchicine rewrote treatment for gout, heart disease, and later, the debate over drug exclusivity.