Worksinprogress

Ugly architecture stops homes getting built - but not in the way you think.

I am an Editor at Works in Progress, where I focus on architecture, urbanism, urban history, and housing policy. I am also a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Previously I worked in think tanking, academia and government.

Is it really plausible that children survived the hardship of medieval life without devoted parents?

I write the newsletter Scientific Discovery. I'm a co-founder of Works in Progress, host the podcast Hard Drugs, and advise Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform.

Bioengineer and writer. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.

Two Dutch brothers invented a system that transformed a city previously ravaged by fires

Technology, finance, policy.

Continental drift is as fundamental to geology as natural selection is to biology. Why did it take us hundreds of years to discover it?

Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar.