Paul Niehaus

Mar 4, 2024 | soulcountry.net | Alan Richard |Mya Adriene Byrne |Jon Byrd |Paul Niehaus

Mya Byrne at the Love Rising concert in 2023. Something changed in roots music in the past year. If many artists hadn’t yet turned their focus to social-justice issues, the attacks on LGBTQ+ people by leaders in Tennessee and other states helped tilt the scale.

May 1, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Paul Niehaus

8th December 202220 Mins International development was revolutionized by experiments and evaluations of its methods. Meta-science can learn from it. Science is the fundamental engine of economic growth and social progress. Accepting this naturally raises the question of what we – as a society – can do to accelerate science, and to direct science toward solving society’s most important problems.

Apr 27, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Zach Caceres |Matthew Feeney |Paul Niehaus |Heidi Williams

Samuel Hughes, a contributing editor at Works in Progress, visits cities around to learn about gentle density. More articles from this issuePlastic roadsPlastic is eating the roads. It might be a cleaner, quieter, ready-made alternative to asphalt for the next generation of paving. Read more →Markets in fact-checkingExposing misinformation online is hard to do at scale and can veer into outright censorship. The wisdom of crowds can lead us to the answers.