The Last Post Before the Silence: Why I Am Stopping the Hamster Wheel for 5 Days
A payment reminder over 100 euros pulls me out of my calm, and lying there in the irritation I decide: 5 days no phone,…
Journal
Journal
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.
Houston, I Have a Problem, and It Is in My Glass
A perfectly healthy man quits in the middle of high summer because pure water turns into an accomplice in the heat. A field report…
The Science and Ethics of Age-Gap Attraction: Why Older Men Are Drawn to Younger Women, and Where the Line to Crime Runs
A forensic examiner lays out the evolutionary psychology and the data from 130 countries: the algorithm of age-gap attraction is real and neurobiologically anchored.…
Mythos in the Basement
An open language model from Beijing beats the expensive Western flagships on a real security test and costs only 17 cents per flaw. Export…
The Pressure Fallacy: What Pink Teeth in the Dead Really Reveal, and What They Do Not
A forensic investigation through 200 years of literature, prompted by three cases, two of which I examined myself, whose seemingly shared pattern I misinterpreted.…
Mythos Supposedly Cracked the NSA. The Real Scandal Sits Somewhere Else.
Mythos did not hack the NSA. What actually happened, why GTG-1002 is the bigger story, and why the offensive threshold in cybersecurity has already…
The Hole Lies, the Rim Tells the Truth: What a Photograph of a Shattered Skull Really Reveals
Forensic analysis of gunshot wounds to the human skull reveals that the hole is the least informative part of the finding. The beveling geometry…
We have already extracted 98 percent of your iPhone, just give us the PIN
The interrogation trick almost everyone falls for, the real difference between a warm phone and a cold one, and why your date of birth…
Cognitive Bias in Forensic Experts: How to Minimize It
The file arrives. 78 documents, 3 interrogation transcripts, the investigative report, photographs, a prior criminal record, 2 press clippings. Someone has already helpfully highlighted…
The Killer Is Not a Monster. He Is the Proof That None Has to Exist.
What a former FBI profiler taught me about killing, what neuroscience does with it, and why 668 people die here when more than 16,000…