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by Asimov Press
Long, carefully reported essays on biology and biotechnology: the history of lab notebooks and bioinformatics software, where theory fits in a field driven by experiment, why species boundaries are blurrier than the textbooks admit. Drafts go out to people in the field before publication, and it shows. Think Works in Progress for the life sciences.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 6, 2026
AI Snake Oil on scaling myths, Import AI on 100K training runs, and Tyler Cowen finds AI in the productivity statistics for real this time.
