Conceptual Pivot

From Shuffled Cards to the End of Everything

Connect probability, entropy, and the arrow of time from a simple deck of cards.

From Traffic Jams to Heart Attacks

Shockwaves, feedback loops, and runaway disturbances.

From Soap Bubbles to the Shape of the Universe

Minimal surfaces from bubbles to spacetime geometry.

From the Sound of Your Voice to the Death of Languages

Self-hearing, accents, and why languages diverge and vanish.

From a Wobbly Table to the Mathematics of Existence

Continuity, inevitability, and the intermediate value theorem.

From Forgetting a Word to the Architecture of Memory

Tip-of-the-tongue states and reconstruction across memory.

From Starlings to Autocracies

Emergent order, local rules, and the cost of command.

From Tuning a Guitar to the Impossibility of Perfect Harmony

Why perfect tuning is mathematically impossible.

From the Smell of Rain to the Origin of Life

Petrichor, microbes, and the chemistry of beginnings.

From Procrastination to the Nature of Time Preference

Why your present and future selves disagree.

From the Placebo Effect to the Construction of Reality

How belief shapes physiology and perception.

From a Paperclip to the End of Creativity

How a simple divergent thinking test reveals the constraints we internalize — and what AI optimization might lose.