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@cheemster0 Yeah the big air conditioning story of the summer was the Balogun red card incident
Good air conditioning though.
Fare evasion on New York City buses was 48.5% in the second quarter of 2026. The most recent data from London? 2.5%.
@emilyjaneross @WorksInProgMag Delighted you like it. All credit to @AtalantaArdenM and Magnus Agustsson!
A selection of stories on the front page of the BBC News app this morning.
There is no good reason for mosquitoes to exist in wealthy countries today. New technologies can get rid of the mosquito species that cause diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and malaria; and others can prevent them from carrying those diseases. worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquito… So why do mosquitoes still exist? In a new article for Works in Progress, Maya Rosen explains how state incapacity and risk aversion led to over a decade of delays and billions of unnecessary bites in the United States. Oxitec, for example, engineered an Aedes aegypti mosquito in such a way that its female offspring would die before adulthood. Through sustained releases, they showed they could reduce local mosquito populations by 80% or more, in field trials. They sought approval from the USDA in 2010, which then passed it to the FDA, which passed it to the EPA. In 2020, the EPA allowed them to conduct limited field trials in the Florida Keys. Two years ago, their experimental permit expired, and they still need another review before it can be used routinely. Their proposed field trial in California was withdrawn after public opposition. Another company, MosquitoMate, developed a technique involving Wolbachia, which also suppresses local mosquitoes. They then spent over fifteen years working through the system before finally receiving commercial registration nationwide in 2024. It seems that, sometimes, the barrier to getting rid of diseases isn’t technology at all. It’s policy and political will. New products shouldn’t get stuck in regulatory review for so long, especially if the delays are about basic questions like which agency has oversight over the product, rather than testing for safety. Though some of those uncertainties were being addressed, the broader changes haven’t materialized. After Biden’s 2022 executive order, the agencies planned to update how their coordinated framework was implemented. But Trump rescinded the order last year. Meanwhile, the EPA unit that reviews new mosquito control products is still a small office backlogged in reviewing a wide range of products. Mosquitoes are a policy choice. We can get rid of them. Will we choose to? worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquito…
This looks great. The content will be excellent as well!
Our newest book is finally here! Making the Modern Laboratory is a spectacular 504-page hardcover that tells the story of everything in the research laboratory and how it came to be, from pipettes to heat-resistant glass to microscopes and more. It features dozens of articles
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In a blast from the past, Britain’s competition regulator has proposed designating Microsoft’s business software, including Windows, Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, as having “strategic market status.” It's like 1998 all over again, except this time the CMA is proposing to
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In the third pic you can see a crop of the 1739 "Plan de Turgot," the most beautiful engraved map ever made, an 8x10 ft. banknote-fine illustrated map of Paris.....very nice
The new issue of Works in Progress, arriving with subscribers this week, is our best ever and packed with must-read pieces. Our lead essay is @RobinRivaton and @bswud on how China's cities, and the competition between them, have driven its rise to techno-industrial preeminence.
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For over a thousand years, the technology to make this was kept secret on pain of death. Now, it sits on our countertops, and, sometimes, in our hips. Read @CharlesCMann 's great article on Porcelain.
What do a cutting-edge bone implant and Mrs Potts from Beauty and the Beast have in common? Both are made from porcelain, a material humans first made over 3,000 years ago and are still reinventing today. worksinprogress.co/issue/everythi… We focus on advances in computing, but the world
@willsolfiac @akarlin I think you’re right. They’re wrong about work being generally “dignified”, it’s often horrible, but right that work with dignity is really great and we should want it for as many people as possible!
They’ll never appreciate you. Come to Camberwell instead!
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We are thrilled that the great @CharlesCMann, author of 1491 and 1493, has joined us as a regular contributor. And we've just released his debut article -- a foray into the long history of one very underrated material: porcelain. worksinprogress.co/issue/everythi… A signature Charles move is to take something that seems utterly ordinary and reveal, with flair, that it exists only because of countless small, often accidental innovations, many of them since forgotten. And he's at his best in this new piece for us. He traces how porcelain, discovered by chance by Chinese potters some 3,000 years ago and coveted by Europeans who spent centuries failing to copy it, became a staple of modern materials science. Today it turns up everywhere from bathroom tiles that grow less slippery when wet, reducing the risk of injury, to scaffolds for bone implants, that dissolve as bone tissue regenerates.
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I had a great time shooting @WorksInProgMag on Sunday! Thank you to the team for such a great time!
Huge turnout for the @WorksInProgMag Issue 26 Launch Party last Sunday in San Francisco. Thank you @cosmos_raj for the photos!
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