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• Are bubbles good, actually? — What if bubbles are secretly useful? I weigh the "bubbles are great" claim, from Jeff Bezos's industrial versus financia
• Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle: Triamese (1968-1969) — A surprising 1968 shuttle idea imagined three identical modules lifting a Space Base for 100 people by 1980. I walk you
• Chronology: Piloted Flybys 1.0 — Did you know NASA once treated piloted Mars and Venus flybys as a low cost bridge between Apollo and crewed planetary la
• Mammals suck — A viral Facebook post about milk sent me down a rabbit hole. I unpack Katie Hinde milk research and milk composition res
• FOSSIL FISHAPODS FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC — What if a fishapod went back to the water? Here I tell the story of Qikiqtania wakei, a Tiktaalik relative and new entry
• AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure — What if passing a safety test still leaves us at risk? In this post I walk through four concrete reasons why measuring A
• Eye-tracking to assess language and cognition in children with Rett Syndrome — Curious about eye-tracking for Rett Syndrome? I report a home study with ten 4 to 6 year olds using adapted Mullen Scale
• The Brief, Brilliant Career of Rita Senger — Who was Rita Senger, the illustrator behind a 1915 Vogue cover and the August 1919 Vanity Fair? My post traces her swift
• Mad Dog (bites) and Englishmen: Early-modern remedies for Hydrophobia — I explore hydrophobia in early modern Britain, hunting manuscript recipes, newspapers and parish registers for recipes f
• The Evans Brothers and the ‘Cardigan Cancer Cure’. — I kick off the year with a return to Welsh medicine. I tell the 1907 Weekly Mail tale of Cardigan farmers John and Danie
• The hammer entombed in rock — A 19th-century miner's hammer trapped in limey rock sounds like proof of Noah's flood. I trace the London Hammer discove
• The Benefits of Bubbles — What if bubbles build infrastructure we all use? In this piece I argue the AI bubble, with OpenAI making $1.4 trillion o
• Adventures with Deep Research — I’ve been experimenting with new AI research tools and seeing how they actually perform on serious questions. This is a