2026-05-15
Our scientific ecosystem often prizes outputs that, themselves, don’t necessarily drive scientific progress, but instead are useful proxies for the more intangible processes that do. Three reads this week have me thinkin…
The US is richer than Europe. This is not especially controversial: residents of just about every European country, save for tax havens like Luxembourg and the petro-state of Norway, lag the US in median income . But is …
Alan Durning at Sightline has a new report arguing that the climate movement is underrating one strategy for reducing climate change: apartment buildings. Apartment buildings have lower carbon emissions than single-famil…
Matt Yglesias dropped an avowedly contentious take on energy abundance, arguing that “conventional environmentalism” is overly focused on efficiency and missing the upside of truly abundant energy generation. Yglesias ar…
New York took two big steps on housing permitting this week. After weeks of late-budget deadlock, Governor Hochul’s SEQRA modernization is reportedly final with bill text coming next week. The deal reportedly exempts NYC…
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned this week, just over a year in the role. It seemed sudden from the outside, but was reportedly a long time coming internally, with months of friction with RFK Jr. Apparently, the fi…
One reason that clinical trials are slow, expensive, and wasteful is that the data they generate are locked in siloed systems and manually transcribed. Recently, the FDA announced a pilot project to fix this, which would…