2026-03-27
The very best biology magazine in the world, Asimov Press , announced they’re winding down (for now). I’ve been an advisor to them since before they started, and I’m very sad to hear the news, even though I’m looking for…
How about one more from Asimov before they go: this week Alvin Djajadikerta published “ Designing AI for Disruptive Science .” In it, he explores the possibility that (current approaches to) AI-for-science might enhance …
I’ve been revisiting some older papers that might shed light on the benefits of faster clinical trials. Let’s start with a short 2007 paper by Frank Lichtenberg, which looked at the correlations between deaths from vario…
In most product markets, transitory supply and demand shocks can spike prices, but as long as there’s open entry to the market allowing elastic supply, prices come back down near marginal supply costs . This is rare in A…
More progressives in the housing space are coming out against the Senate’s build-to-rent ban . The growing concern is that the ban could reduce rental housing supply when affordability remains a pressing issue. It’s a to…
“You will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel,” writes David Oks (who I first noticed as one of the Gravel Teens and is now at a16z , truly an ideological evolution for our time). But Oks is, if not an admire…
The nation’s largest offshore wind farm to date, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project - which clocks in at 2.6 GW - sent its first commercial power to the grid this week (it joins Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind, wh…