Exploring the overlap between code and reason

The masquerade of belonging. Few things reveal the contradictions of globalization as clearly as our willingness to celebrate someone else’s holidays. Every October, storefronts across the planet transform into orange-and-black stages, filled with pumpkins, plastic skeletons, and slogans that once…

A visitor from nowhere. There are moments in science when the data itself feels like an act of defiance. Numbers refuse to behave, trajectories disobey expectation, and the instruments meant to bring clarity only deepen the fog. 3I/ATLAS, discovered in…

A new dawn in Tokyo. On an autumn morning when the skies over Tokyo still carried the pale haze of the typhoon season, Japan woke to a moment that will mark its political history. Sanae Takaichi, long known for her…

Before information became infinite, knowledge had shape and boundaries. It lived in shelves, archives, and the minds of teachers. The effort of discovery defined its worth. Finding an answer meant turning pages, not refreshing screens. The process gave knowledge a…

A world that froze for hours. For a few hours today, the twenty-first century stopped breathing. Not because of war, or a natural disaster, or some extraordinary cosmic event, but because a cluster of servers somewhere in the United…

The gospel of golden ears. There’s a peculiar kind of snobbery that hides behind the word audiophile. It’s not just about loving music, it’s about belonging to a church where the price of salvation is measured in ohms, kilohertz,…