Gifts to a Future Self
A mathematician too weak for real work after brain surgery, dealing himself hand after hand of solitaire, and a why-ladder that keeps closing on the same two answers.
I Wear the Mask. It Does Not Wear Me.
A king and his identical twin, one crowned and one masked, and one fixed human need read into five different frameworks across a century.
Capped, Not Deleted
Two cohorts of shared ancestry, one that stayed and one that migrated, and a methylation signature that still comes back different.
T Always Finds A
A whimsical walk through DNA's structure, transcription, and translation, told through sprites and imps and checked against the real science at every step.
One Hundred Beats a Minute
A reality TV table flip, and the exact heart-rate threshold at which the part of the brain running self-presentation goes offline, camera or no camera.
Questions that Outlived the Answer
A look at how mental models work as both reasoning tools and a test for which favorite questions can accept an answer at all.
Twelve Questions, Invited in for Tea
A reflection on Feynman's practice of keeping a dozen favorite questions alive in the mind.