The Billion-Dollar Monopoly
On the political economy of a war entering its fifth year. Why three competing manipulative narratives about Ukraine produce one shared interest: keeping the…
This is where forensic practice meets scientific commentary, and neither gets to be comfortable for long. Written from inside the disciplines, not from a press release and not from a university office three floors above the evidence. What you will find here are long-form pieces on forensic identification, human evolution, neuroscience, digital surveillance, and artificial intelligence, sourced to primary literature, argued without institutional caution, and written by someone who has spent decades in courtrooms, at crime scenes, and in laboratories where the difference between a correct conclusion and a wrong one carries consequences that no academic disclaimer can soften. The common thread running through every article is a refusal to accept fear as a substitute for data, and a deep suspicion of anyone who needs an audience to be frightened before they can make their point.
On the political economy of a war entering its fifth year. Why three competing manipulative narratives about Ukraine produce one shared interest: keeping the…
A forensic scientist reflects on a near-death experience at age two and three decades of scientific work that converged on a single uncomfortable conclusion:…
Every forty seconds, somewhere in the world, a person dies by suicide. Albert Camus called it the only truly serious philosophical problem. What Camus,…
Sunlight operates through at least three independent biological mechanisms that no supplement can replicate: nitric oxide in the skin, cytochrome C oxidase in the…
Version 3.1 of Antrometric, the open-source forensic stature estimation tool developed at the International Institute of Forensic Expertise, has been rebuilt from the ground…
A home raid over a social media post raises a longer question about proportionality, the smartphone as the most intimate space a person owns,…
A dinner question turned into a sixty-minute answer: does the perfect crime exist? Its perfection lies not in the perpetrator's skill but in the…
A forensic look at Hot Player, XtreamCodes, and the preconfigured Fire TV Stick market: how the grey IPTV ecosystem works, how law enforcement identifies…
A working forensic introduction to DNA profiling: what a forensic profile actually is, how touch DNA travels through secondary and tertiary transfer, how mixture…
Six years after his death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the forensic record on Jeffrey Epstein has been substantially altered by the 2025 document…