Brain Chemistry Without Myths or Esotericism, and Without Reaching for the Package Insert
A journey through the chemical language of the body and through the question of why the industry would rather sell you the symptom than…
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.
Cost of Living, the Most Honest Phrase in the Whole Matrix
Why cost of living reveals more than any Sunday speech, how almost nothing of 100 euros is left for you, and why even a…
The Week Does Not Exist, and Your Body Pays the Price
The seven-day week is not a natural rhythm. Your cortisol follows the sun, not Monday, and the price shows up in sleep, the immune…
At the Heart of the Scandal: How I Examined the Ibiza Video for Authenticity
It began with an email from Der Spiegel. I signed an NDA and spent weeks alone with material that ended up dismantling a government.…
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…
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…