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This is my show. It’s a blog as hupomnemata. Michael Foucault defined hupomnemata as a personal notebook similar to a spiritual journal but with a different goal. He did not want “to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid [like a spiritual journal does], but on the contrary to capture the already said, to collect what one has managed to hear or read, and for a purpose that is nothing less than the shaping of the self.”
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I write the petition in Persian because that’s the only language that reaches him. My Arabic sits in my throat—the language my grandfather used to describe the saql, the polishing motion that brings light through glass—but al-Shirazi needs formal words, words that acknowledge he controls what I need. ‘Arz-e man...
Here’s the paradox: As Australia adds more solar and wind power, wholesale electricity prices are falling dramatically. But many consumers and businesses are paying more, not less. How is this possible? The answer lies in a hidden cost structure that most people never see—one that punishes those without the right...
The gas takes twenty minutes to reach pressure on a cold morning. Werner Kessler lights the line at five, turns the valve, and sits on the stool beside the bench listening to the hiss climb toward steady. The workshop is dark except for the pilot flame. Outside, the Steinach is iced at the edges, and the air coming...
A smart, well-researched person is losing an argument they don’t know they’re losing. They produce nine counterpoints in rapid succession. Each one is accurate at the level of observable fact. Each one is absorbed as confirmation while the framework itself never gets tested. This is not a story about being wrong....
I. The Misidentified Mechanism In 416 BCE the Athenians delivered an ultimatum to the people of Melos: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. The Melians appealed to justice and were destroyed for it. Thucydides recorded the exchange in spare, unsparing prose. Twenty-four centuries later,...
It is a Tuesday in November. One person loads the dishwasher wrong again. The other notices and says nothing. This is the data point that matters — not the first date, not the proposal, not the rehearsed charm over cocktails. Marriages are selected on Tuesdays. A thought experiment circulating online asks married...
The One Inch Frame A toddler pushes a glass toward the edge of a table. Stops. Pushes again. Stops and looks. Pushes it off. This is not destruction. It is the oldest experiment in the world. Marc Andreessen has observed — in conversation with Andrew Huberman — that “the sheer number of people in the world who are...
When I was at university a Nigerian on my engineering course told a joke about corruption I adapt it for the present:So a Pakistani engineer, a Nigerian engineer and an English lawyer go to visit each others country after graduating.Nigerian visits the Pakistani guy. Says… https://t.co/2tpmW6ts4d— AnglofuturistParty...
The Radio In 2002, the cancer biologist Yuri Lazebnik asked a deceptively simple question: can a biologist fix a radio? His answer was no — not because biologists lack intelligence or effort, but because their methodology is the problem. A biologist trained in reductionist technique would collect identical radios,...
Pattern Recognition On November 25, 2025, Physical Review Letters published research claiming potential evidence for intrinsic spin-triplet superconductivity in niobium-rhenium (NbRe)—a finding that, if confirmed, would represent a breakthrough in quantum materials science. The editors selected it as a weekly...
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