Science & Technology

From physics to software — models and tools that reshape capability and constraint.

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Illustration of a gig worker surrounded by delivery apps and income charts on a dashboard

Income in Motion: Introducing GigFin

An introduction to GigFin, a free and open source income tracking app built for gig workers navigating multiple platforms and seeking clearer insight into their earnings.

Abstract illustration of code, networks, and hidden power structures

Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power

An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that quietly purchase and weaponise systemic insecurity.

Abstract illustration of a resting human figure surrounded by flowing metabolic pathways and gentle night tones

The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself

A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the time and space they need to repair.

Abstract orbit-and-arrow motif: three faint arrows circling a stylised apple/planet on a subtle grid—Newton’s laws as a grammar of motion.

From Laws to Conservation: Newton’s Grammar of Motion

Newton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on experiments.

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Abstract neural network—signals stabilizing from a bright, narrow focus into a wider lattice, evoking working memory consolidating into long-term traces.

How Memories Form: From the Work of the Moment to the Architecture of the Past

Memory isn’t a vault but a living economy: fragile patterns in a narrow workspace of attention become durable traces when structure matches capacity and consolidation—sleep, pruning, and schema-building—does its work.

Dawn landscape with a teal-orange sky where equations drift across the clouds above a field of scientific contraptions—lever, astrolabe, balance, wheel—while a lone figure watches from afar

From Geometry to Experiment: Archimedes to Galileo

Physics turns wonder into practice: from Archimedes’ geometry and instruments to Galileo’s timing and idealisations, nature begins to speak in numbers we can test.

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Abstract gauge with soft noise hinting at measurement uncertainty

The Margin of Error: Precision, Uncertainty, and the Reliability of Data

Measurement is never perfect. This essay explores how systematic and random errors shape what we can know, why replication and calibration matter, and how humility restores meaning to precision.

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Abstract interplay of colors and shapes suggesting overlapping senses and filtered perception

Living With Filters: Perception, Color, and Belief

Perception is not raw reality but a construction shaped by biology, memory, and belief. From the science of color to the mysteries of synesthesia, this essay explores how our worldview frames what we see, hear, and know.

Abstract, star-dotted night with faint geometric orbits—pre-scientific inquiry.

From Wonder to Natural Philosophy

Before physics was an equation, it was a question. This essay traces its roots—from myth and wonder to natural philosophy—as humanity’s first attempt to read the book of nature.

European robin with red breast; visual metaphor of a “quantum compass”—cryptochrome-driven magnetoreception in the eye.

The Red Robin and the Quantum Compass: When Biology Met the Strange

A European robin “sees” Earth’s magnetic field through quantum effects in its eye—an elegant bridge between physics and life. This essay follows how cryptochrome, radical pairs, and entanglement helped launch quantum biology and reframes what it means to navigate.

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