Inflatable Space Stations(worksinprogress.co)

68 points by bensouthwood 11 months ago | 28 comments

Epidurals are a miracle technology(worksinprogress.co)

74 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 53 comments

The Invention of Buses(worksinprogress.co)

38 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 7 comments

Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?(worksinprogress.co)

23 points by magoghm 1 month ago | 19 comments

Smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism(worksinprogress.co)

20 points by momentmaker 4 months ago | 10 comments

The Wonder of Modern Drywall(worksinprogress.co)

28 points by zdw 8 months ago | 39 comments

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure(rosalux.de)

419 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 368 comments

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung essay arguing that Britain's 1990s railway privatization failed, as the railways now return to public ownership.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure(awesomekling.github.io)

702 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 223 comments

A personal blog essay by Andreas Kling arguing that small incremental neglect and poor choices accumulate into failure just as small improvements build excellence.

Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain(economist.com)

382 points by benrmatthews 3 years ago | 444 comments

An Economist By Invitation opinion piece in which think-tank head Mathew Lawrence argues privatisation in Britain has been a costly failure and favours state ownership.

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.