Research

2023-12-10 Rapamycin is not an aging drug. But what is an aging drug?
2023-10-17 Telomeres: everything you always wanted to know
2023-07-01 The situational awareness assumption in AI risk discourse, or why people should chill
2023-01-26 Notes on end-to-end biology
2022-12-05 Limits and Possibilities of Metascience
2022-11-13 Images and Words: AI in 2026
2022-10-26 Blinking lights to slow down Alzheimer's?
2022-10-17 The failure of monoclonal antibody therapy for Alzheimer's Disease, implications for the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis
2022-10-13 An introduction to Alzheimer's Disease
2022-09-13 Aging is already solved in vitro. What comes next?
2022-08-04 Set Sail For Fail? On AI risk
2022-04-25 New Science's NIH report: highlights
2022-04-20 Applied positive meta-science
2022-03-17 Metascience: invariants and evidence
2022-02-23 Evidence and the design and reform of scientific institutions
2022-01-23 Beyond lifespan as a metric in aging research: why reprogramming is promising
2021-12-10 Scaling tacit knowledge
2021-07-21 A better Google Scholar
2021-07-13 Wildfires in California (II): some solutions
2021-06-28 Wildfires in California (I)
2021-05-08 How to solve aging
2021-03-11 The levers of NIH: Paths to reform
2021-03-09 Thoughts on Mariana Mazzucato's Entrepreneurial State
2021-03-01 What is aging?
2021-02-22 US Federal R&D spending decline: a breakdown
2021-02-07 Fund People, not Projects V: Fund for longer?
2021-01-20 Fund people, not projects IV: Scientific egalitarianism and lotteries
2021-01-14 Fund people, not projects III: The Newton hypothesis; Is science done by a small elite?
2021-01-08 Fund people, not projects II: Does pre-grant peer review work?
2020-12-27 Fund people, not projects I: The HHMI and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award
2020-12-16 Was Planck right? The effects of aging on the productivity of scientists
2020-12-02 Peer rejection in science
2020-11-23 Are ideas getting harder to find?
2020-11-01 Book review: Scientific Freedom, the elixir of civilization
2020-07-31 Is cellular senescence irreversible?
2020-07-25 Immunosenescence: a review
2020-06-24 A general framework for understanding biology
2020-06-16 Epigenetic clocks: A review
2020-05-19 Better Science: A Reader
2020-05-02 Does every animal sleep?
2020-04-11 Progress in semiconductors, or Moore's law is not dead yet
2020-01-19 The Longevity FAQ
2019-07-28 On Bloom's two sigma problem: A systematic review of the effectiveness of mastery learning, tutoring, and direct instruction
2019-06-26 On the educational gender-equality paradox
2019-03-08 On the relation between parenthood and caring about the future
2019-03-06 Was World War II good for economic growth?
2019-01-05 On the causal powers of Mormonism [revised]
2018-11-19 On the constancy of the rate of GDP growth
2018-10-07 Building skyscrapers, and spending on major projects
2018-10-06 Progress in nuclear energy
2017-09-09 Stereotypes and discrimination against women in STEM
2017-08-24 Women in STEM: a cross-country view
2017-08-10 Contra Sadedin & Varinsky: the Google memo is still right, again
2017-08-09 Women in STEM: The role of the environment, and the case of India
2017-08-07 Why so few women in CS: the Google memo is fundamentally right
2017-08-06 Rise and fall of Rawlsianism
2017-06-26 On the effects of inequality on economic growth
2017-03-14 The Soviet Union: poverty and inequality
2017-02-04 The Soviet Union: From farm to factory. Stalin's Industrial Revolution
2016-12-17 On the living standards of animals in the United Kingdom
2016-12-02 The surprising Human Development Index of Cuba
2016-11-30 The paradox of Cuban GDP
2016-11-07 The Soviet Union: Productive Efficiency
2016-07-30 The Soviet Union: Achieving full employment
2016-06-06 The Soviet Union: Durable Goods
2016-05-31 The Soviet Union: Military Spending
2016-05-14 The Soviet Union series
2016-05-11 The Soviet Union: The Food consumption puzzle
2016-04-30 The Soviet Union: Brief remarks on the transition
2016-04-25 No Great Technological Stagnation
2016-03-26 The Soviet Union: GDP growth
2016-02-09 Aircraft progress before and after World War II
2016-02-03 Where do innovations really come from?
2016-01-28 R&D Consortia: Cooperating competitors
2015-12-31 You didn't invent that! Aircraft Turbine Chevrons Edition
2015-09-05 Is there R&D spending myopia?
2015-09-01 Be careful with charts
2015-08-30 Jousting with the Knightian knights: Uncertainty and entrepreneurship
2015-08-28 Is war necessary for economic growth? A review, and some aviation history
2015-08-22 The Entrepreneurial State: The case of renewable energy
2015-08-21 The Entrepreneurial State: The case of the iPhone (II)
2015-08-19 The Entrepreneurial State: The case of the iPhone (I)
2015-02-14 The Entreprenerial State: El caso de Google
2015-02-10 The Entrepreneurial State: el caso de las renovables