Articles from worksinprogress.co
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- Just bury your trash - Works in Progress Magazine
Landfills, when properly managed, are cleaner, cheaper, and more environmentally sensible than recycling most everyday materials, except metals, according to lifecycle analyses.
- Why the West stopped making land - Works in Progress Magazine
1970s environmental regulations, not geography or transportation, halted U.S. urban land reclamation despite high land values and housing needs.
- Why American data centers can't plug in
The AI buildout is bottlenecked by the slow grid interconnection process, not a power generation shortage, requiring reforms to connect data centers faster.
- The world’s most complex machine - Works in Progress Magazine
ASML became the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines through transatlantic cooperation, risky bets, and deep customer partnerships.
- The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
Vaccine development has progressed from serendipitous discoveries to a systematic, atomic-precision science, enabling the design of new vaccines in weeks rather than centuries.