Archive - Lauren Policy

weekly link roundup

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, Sam Dumitriu has a great piece on how Britain discourages the use of air conditioning through government policy

Jul 2 •

June 2025

weekly link roundup

Obviously recommend Jason Matheny on IARPA and how more organizations should forecast

Jun 26 •

things I am thinking about

Let’s try a new genre of post!

Jun 23 •

weekly link roundup

Emergent Ventures is funding progress projects focusing on the UK specifically.

Jun 18 •

UK Immigration and Public Services

The UK Home Office has released a white paper on changes to the UK immigration system.

Jun 13 •

The end of lead

Clare Donaldson, James Hu, and I have a piece out in Works in Progress today on lead exposure - how prevalent it still is, how bad that is (spoiler…

Jun 12 •

weekly link roundup

Asterisk Magazine has a great interview with Rob Rosenbaum, on Project Resource Optimization and trying to rescue the most cost-effective parts of USAID

Jun 10 •

weekly link roundup

Sarah Constantin has a very interesting post on looking for broad-spectrum anti-cancer drugs.

Jun 4 •

May 2025

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