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The Deadly Dust Storms of The Great Salt Lake
A big issue unlikely to just blow over
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Connor Tabarrok
The Wells of Venice
How a city surrounded by salt got its fresh water
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Connor Tabarrok
What if everyone *did* just?
The secret sauce to understanding Japan
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Connor Tabarrok
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Wonders of Our World #1: The Internal Combustion Engine
The ICE takes the much awaited top spot in the wonders of our world list! PLUS - an honorable mentions list of 26 near miss contenders for the wonders…
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Connor Tabarrok
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The Stain in the Seine
Shit happens when populist action is pitted against massive engineering projects
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Connor Tabarrok
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Charlotte The Stingray: Immaculate Conception or Inaccurate Deception?
A "miracle pregnancy" picked up by national news brought huge business to a small-town aquarium, but months after the famous stingray was due, there are…
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The Spice Must Flow: The Dutch-Portuguese War-Part 2
As flames rise across the globe, a new Dutch Empire, forged in the fire of war, rises from the ashes.
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Connor Tabarrok
Dark Brandon, Political Anti-Heroes, and the Immortal Sulla
What the popular memetic ideal of benevolent dictators tell us about the future of our democracy. Will the 21st century be remembered as the era of Dark…
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Connor Tabarrok
The Spice Must Flow: The Dutch-Portuguese War-Part 1
Pirates, privateers, colonies, and companies, who will rule the waves?
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Connor Tabarrok
Exploring Engineering Licensure
I'm back! In this post we discuss what I've been up to during the break.
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The Omega Protocol : Another Manhattan Project
How to safely outsmart a super intelligence
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Wonders of our World #2: The "Big 3" of the Sea
We take a look at the South Korean shipyards that power world trade
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Wonders of our World #3: Undersea Cables
How the network of marine fiber optic cables represents a triumph of technology and a chokepoint for the world's data.
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Learning from History: Preventing AGI Existential Risks through Policy
How can technological development policy work to curb AI risk? What does the race between safety and technological development look like? How have we…
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