28 explorations
You are not an individual. You never were.
When revolutionaries tried to remake time itself
A thought experiment escaped the classroom. Now it has a software license.
How a physician drew dots on a map and invented a way of seeing
The city that built itself
Han van Meegeren painted fake Vermeers, fooled the Nazis, and became a national hero by confessing to fraud
Civilization has always been one narrow passage from collapse
Every town once kept its own time. Then the railroads came, and the sun stopped mattering.
Or, how we learned to count everything and understand nothing
Everything falls apart. This is not pessimism. It is physics.
A woman built a labyrinth of guilt, and it never stopped growing
On synesthesia, the borders between senses, and what it means that perception is private
How complexity arises from simplicity without a designer — and why that's more beautiful, not less
On the feelings that exist just beyond the reach of language
On the monsters that physics said were impossible
On the cities that existed only to catch liars, until someone built them
On the trails we make when we refuse the ones made for us
Seventy-two seconds of maybe
What do you put on a satellite that will outlast the Earth?
The universe is 13.8 billion years old and nobody has said hello
A meditation on the body's conspiracy with belief
How we found our way before we outsourced it to the sky
A frequency study in loneliness, listening, and the songs we send into the void
How a volcano swallowed the sun and darkness learned to dream
A love letter to the sound no one can find
140 tons of things, and the loneliness they were trying to fill
A 2,000-year-old computer, a shipwreck, and the futures that rust
On the ethics of leaving a door closed forever
