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Britain’s interwar apartment boom
A decade of Art Deco densification
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December 2023

Notes on Progress: Fermenting revolution
The Victorian fight against bad bread and its role in women’s liberation
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October 2023

Notes on Progress: Growing Forests
As countries develop, deforestation drops
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Stephen Clare

September 2023

Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab?
From the Works in Progress archives.
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Ben Southwood
Notes on Progress: The value of family
Traditional values don't deliver babies
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Boom

June 2023

Notes on Progress: The eye of the tiger
What makes tigers different from one another?
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Rosalind Arden

May 2023

Notes on Progress: Degrowth and the monkey's paw
Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. You can opt out of Notes here. Fifteen years ago, when I worked in…
Notes on Progress: A winter's tale
Melting snow can make the season easier
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Manosij ‘Mano’ Majumdar
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Works in Progress

April 2023

Notes on Progress: Artificial flavoring
"Artificial" didn't scare Americans in the 19th century. Why does it scare us now?
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Virginia Postrel

February 2023

Notes on Progress: The world that has never been
Introducing Speculative Technologies
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Ben Reinhardt

January 2023

Notes on Progress: In pursuit of decent coffee
No great stagnation in home espresso
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Nick Whitaker
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Notes on Progress: The stats gap
Students understand just enough statistics to get by
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Ellen Pasternack
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