Foundations
The Cracked Shell
The ocean floor is heavier than the mantle holding it up, and always has been. What a shell built that way would do when it gives — and what comes through it.
Foundations
The starting point — genome architecture and the catastrophic mechanism that reset the natural world a few millennia ago.
Foundations
The Cell is a Computational System
The cell isn't built like a computer — but it is a computational system: code, hardware, and an operating system, all in chemistry. A plain-language tour of the architecture, and a door into the full five-part series.
Foundations
The Tool or the Bludgeon
Science — a tool for seeking truth, or a bludgeon for winning an argument? Same method, opposite uses — and the difference is entirely in what you want from it.
Foundations
What Broke the Foundations?
When the combined slab-pull and thermal-dome stress exceeds the yield strength of the passive margins, the eggshell breaks. The cork pops, the continents tear apart. The velocity that follows comes from the force balance, on parameters the laboratory already reports.