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Reality, as they say, is stranger than fiction — and that’s precisely what makes almost everything worth looking into. This is where I write about whatever has crossed my path and refused to leave quietly: something I stumbled on, couldn’t shake, and wanted to understand better. The writing is how I figure things out. I’ve tried to keep things categorised, though that’s easier in theory than in practice, which is why there’s an “Observations” section at the bottom catching whatever didn’t fit anywhere else.
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All posts
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What Autism Is, and Where the Science Is Going
A plain-language look at what autism actually is, how it shows up in behaviour and the senses, and why the word covers such wildly different lives. Then a tour of…
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The Wild Heart of Assam: A Secret Hidden in Plain Sight
In 1823, a Scottish adventurer named Robert Bruce was trading in Assam when a local nobleman directed him to a Singpho tribal chief, and to a wild tea plant the…
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The Tool Doesn’t Make the Carpenter
A mediocre person with a great tool still gets a mediocre result. If even that. AI doesn’t replace skill, judgment, or taste. It just makes all three more visible.
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The Breath You’re Taking Is a Biological Waste Product
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere exists almost entirely because of life — and without life continuously replenishing it, it would eventually vanish. Before cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis roughly 2.4 billion years…
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Not Technically a Vitamin
Vitamin D is not a vitamin. It never was. It is a prohormone, the name is a historical accident, and the science around it is considerably more interesting and considerably…
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Philosophers Have Wondered What Consciousness Is for Centuries. We Just Built Something That Might Have It.
Philosophers have been asking what consciousness is since at least Descartes. Neuroscientists have been mapping the brain for over a century. Nobody has cracked it. And now we have built…
