The Skeleton Does Not Lie
What a skull on the piano gives away about a stranger's life, why bone is more honest than any eyewitness, and where the petrous…
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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.
The Most Dangerous Drug in the World Is Legal, Licensed, and Taxed.
A Padova study on psilocybin microdoses, and my mother is slipping away into Alzheimer's. Why the mushroom that scored five for harm sits next…
Where Does Cancer Come From? 20 Years of Thinking About a Disease That Keeps Growing More Common
A good friend sends me a Spiegel article, and twenty years of notes fall into place. What did Homo Sapiens have 50,000 years ago…
The Line on the Paper: Why the Present Is the Only Place Where You Actually Live
This post is not a forensic analysis, not a polemic, not a dissection of a broken world. It came into being in a forest,…
The Most Dangerous Thing About ChatGPT Isn’t the Wrong Answers. It’s the Ones That Sound Right.
On a self-experiment with human skulls, patients armed with pocket-sized expertise, and the question of why OpenAI quietly buried its own AI detector after…
No Profession Is Safe, and the Lawyer Stands First in Line
Artificial intelligence is transforming the legal profession at an exponential pace. As written pleadings are increasingly exchanged between machines, the actual work of defense…
Scorched Earth: What the Drach Trial Showed Me
An expert witness draws the line he will no longer cross after almost 2 decades of loyal service to the German criminal courts. A…
Thank You, Adobe, for the Price Increase
A Friday morning renewal notice pushed a 25-year Adobe customer to cancel Creative Cloud. The essay covers legal exit rights, filesystem residue, and cheaper…
When Tehran Writes and Brussels Stays Silent
Letters from Tehran turned an open-source browser encryptor into a forensic finding about privacy, surveillance, and trust. The article examines AES-256-GCM, Chat Control, and…
A Ph.D. Does Not Make You Smarter. It Makes You Credentialed.
A misattributed Feynman quote opens a forensic examination of credentials, IQ tests, and metacognition. The article contrasts academic title rituals with people who keep…