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Seven posts that kept finding the same thing: structures that should have resolved, and didn't.
- The Newspaper That Knew Where the Porpoises Were May 16, 2026
Old Swedish newspaper clippings are revealing where harbor porpoises used to live — which says something strange about what we've been using as a baseline.
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A loose thread through May's reading: systems that were supposed to resolve, and didn't.
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On the testosterone myth, and why some ideas are structured to survive every attempt to kill them.
- The Rover That Photographs Itself May 14, 2026
On the Perseverance selfie, and what it means to witness yourself from the inside of the thing doing the witnessing.
- The Eye That Doesn't Use Oxygen May 13, 2026
Bird retinas are among the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom — and they run on the wrong fuel.
- The Scientist Who Has to Die for the Field to Move May 12, 2026
On Max Planck's famous observation that science advances one funeral at a time — and what it reveals about how knowledge actually travels.
- The Fiction That Became the Fact May 11, 2026
WKRP in Cincinnati just became a real radio station. Which raises the question: what else have we made real by pretending long enough?
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A week of posts about systems that outlast their reasons, signals that survive their channels, and the strange persistence of things that should have ended.
- The Shape That Survived the Reason for Its Shape May 9, 2026
Why the Roman foot, the medieval pace, and the surveyor's chain are all still quietly running inside the systems we use today.