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…
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Why I No Longer Open the Phones of the Dead
Every request begins with a death and ends with a question. A forensic expert explains the Secure Enclave, German digital estate law, and the…
Hantavirus: Three Dead, One Ship, and What the Panic Is Hiding
Three deaths, one ship, one virus name. A forensic expert reads what the headlines leave out about the Andes virus, pandemic mathematics, and thirty…
Is Life Worth Living? Albert Camus, Viktor Frankl, Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Foster Wallace, and a Question That No Human Being Can Permanently Escape. And What Homo sapiens Has to Do With It.
Every forty seconds, somewhere in the world, a person dies by suicide. Albert Camus called it the only truly serious philosophical problem. What Camus,…
The Anthropology of Light and Darkness: Why I Deliberately Go Out Into the Sun, and Why This Is Not a Matter of Personal Preference but of Biological Necessity
Sunlight operates through at least three independent biological mechanisms that no supplement can replicate: nitric oxide in the skin, cytochrome C oxidase in the…
What DNA Actually Is, What It Actually Says, and What It Says About People Who Are Not Even in the Room
A working forensic introduction to DNA profiling: what a forensic profile actually is, how touch DNA travels through secondary and tertiary transfer, how mixture…
Forget Breakfast, Forget Lunch, Forget Dinner
Modern three-meals-a-day culture is a brief agricultural habit, not an evolutionary mandate. Between Neanderthal isotopes and today depleted produce, the evidence points to oscillation:…
The Last Generation to Learn a Trade
Generation Beta will grow up inside AI-native institutions, but everyone already in the workforce faces a compressed transition. Synthesizing IMF, WEF, McKinsey, and industry…
The Forgotten Medicine
What our ancestors knew about lion's mane and reishi clashes with a prescription-first system. A long-form look at neuroplasticity, cortisol, East Asian medical tradition,…