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January 23, 2025
The Slow Cancellation of Innovation: A critical look at modern funding

Aishwarya is a curiosity-driven systems thinker working at the intersection of technology and society. Her interests span human-AI […]

January 5, 2025
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA

by Eric Gilliam Unlike the rest of the FreakTakes ARPA series, today’s piece does not have the […]

Some Candid and Scathing Opinions from a Former NIH Insider

Introduction by Stuart Buck: This is a guest column from Jeremy Berg, who is currently Associate Senior […]

The Paradox of Progress: Trying to Predict Impact Often Prevents the Highest Impact

Aishwarya is a curiosity-driven systems thinker working at the intersection of technology and society. Her interests span human-AI […]

December 13, 2024
Small, Fast Grants at the National Science Foundation

by David Lang This is the first essay in a three-part series. I (David) wrote a similar trilogy […]

Interview with Daniel MacArthur

This is an interview with Daniel MacArthur, whom I first met when he was at Harvard Medical […]