10,000 pieces of type
One of my favorite 4th of July traditions is to go to the historic fort in town for a reading of the Declaration and firing of the cannons by a historical reenactment group. This year, with the sweltering temperatures, w…
10,000 pieces of type, the Astera essay contest, and Anthropic develops drugs
2026-07-08
Science’s institutional history at 250
For America’s 250th anniversary, Brad Wible invited a trio of pieces for Science’s Policy Forum tracing the institutional shifts that built the modern US scientific enterprise. Ronald Daniels writes about the founding of…
Anthropic develops drugs
Anthropic made two announcements in the last week about its plans in AI for science. First was the launch of Claude Science , a platform that integrates dozens of scientific databases and bioinformatics models and curren…
The Astera metascience essay contest
The most interesting thing I read recently was the winning entrants in the Astera metascience essay contest , for which I was one of the judges. While not every winning essay was related to AI (see these two , for exampl…
Trump v. Slaughter and the end of independent agencies
To add even more uncertainty to the fraught landscape of energy planning and regulation, the end of the Supreme Court opinion season last month brought a highly controversial ruling in Trump v. Slaughter , where the cour…
Modular housing and the HUD code
Kimberly Burnett has a new piece at Niskanen on HUD's new best-practices guidance for states and localities, focusing on one key recommendation: regulate modular housing by harmonized and objective performance standards …