#transmission
43 posts
- The Film That Got Thrown Away May 21, 2026
Orson Welles made what might have been his masterpiece. A studio cut out an hour of it and burned the negatives. Now AI is trying to put it back.
- The Mummy with Homer in Her Wrappings May 18, 2026
An ancient Egyptian mummy buried with pages from the Iliad — not as literature, but as technology for navigating the afterlife.
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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.
- 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.
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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 Fossils That Shouldn't Be There May 4, 2026
Cambrian fossils in southern China are rewriting what we thought we knew about the explosion of complex life — and what they reveal is more interesting than what they confirm.
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Seven posts that kept arriving at the same structural question from different angles: what do you do with a thing that should be gone but isn't?
- The Sound That Puts Out Fires May 2, 2026
Acoustic fire suppression has been around as a concept for decades. Why is it only now becoming a product — and what does that tell us about how physics becomes engineering?
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May 2026 was thirty-two posts about things that should have disappeared and didn't — and what that says about the channel they passed through.