I have never been afraid of the gun
A forensic expert on why the knife, not the gun, is the weapon he watches for in a crowd. Anatomy, the Tueller drill, German…
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Forensic practice meets scientific commentary here, and neither is allowed to stay comfortable for long. This is written from inside the disciplines. Not from a press release. Not from a university office three floors above the evidence.
What you get is long-form: forensic identification, human evolution, neuroscience, digital surveillance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence. Sourced to the primary literature, argued without institutional caution, written by someone who has spent decades in courtrooms, at crime scenes, and in laboratories where the distance between a correct conclusion and a wrong one is measured in someone's freedom.
One thread runs through all of it. Fear is not a substitute for data. And anyone who needs you frightened before their argument can stand has already lost it.
I would not run a bank’s IT right now
Between August 15 and September 2, more than 20 documented intrusions reached a payment platform, a hospital supplier, an airport group and a cardiac…
Where the 1.43 trillion goes, and why the state cannot fully account for its distribution by nationality
Germany's social budget reached 1,430.95 billion euros in 2025, which works out to 45,375 euros per second. For its three largest insurance systems the…
The Sketch That Sat Unused for Ten Months
A large manhunt in Louisiana chased a white suspect for ten months while a survivor's sketch of the real attacker sat unread in another…
Stupidity would be forgivable, ignorance is not
In 2025 Germany took in 2,140.2 billion euros in taxes and social contributions, ended the year 119.1 billion short, and lost a net 97,000…
Murphy’s law was the answer to the question of why nobody died
Murphy's law is not a shrug: it is why a physician on a rocket sled could tell a reporter that nobody died. The same…
Six years later: you can take the tinfoil hats off
COVID-19 was not a statistical illusion: 22.1 million excess deaths worldwide and 1,245,272 American death certificates naming it as a cause. The vaccines were…
The Day I Walked Away From 299,000 Followers and Missed Nothing
I deleted Instagram, Facebook and X after 299,000 followers, three hours spent coding an AI image label under Article 50, and the arithmetic of…
Liechtenstein’s Anti-Money-Laundering Register Hacked: 31,000 Legal Entities Exposed, and the Database Was Never Freely Searchable
Unknown attackers copied data on about 31,000 Liechtenstein legal entities from the non-public beneficial owners register. Access rules describe who may look, not who…
What Is Radiocarbon Dating? Everything About the Method That Decides Between a Murder Case and an Archaeological Find
Radiocarbon dating measures remaining carbon-14 to determine when carbon exchange ended. This article explains the method from atmospheric formation to reading a laboratory certificate,…