Latest research notes
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2026-09-01
"Frequencies" are just one piece of the puzzle
Building a list of every kind of information a biological signal is known to carry, and which structural feature of the wave carries it — then asking the same question of tides, seismic noise and the solar cycle.
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2026-09-01
What software can and cannot buy you
Two months of trying to push a phone magnetometer past what its hardware should allow — what the discipline actually bought, how it compares to the other implementations, and the wall that no amount of code moves.
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2026-08-31
What already reads the field
Sharks, bumblebees, spiders, electric fish, sediment bacteria and migratory birds all solve sensing problems this bench keeps re-deriving. A survey of the biological precedent — and one popular story about spider webs that is wrong.
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2026-08-30
A computer science approach to neuroscience
How this work is done: build first and narrow later, write down what would kill a claim before measuring, and refuse to specialise. A method post — it makes no empirical claim and cites nothing, because there is nothing here to cite.
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2026-08-27
Gear: Suunto Sonic bone conduction headphones
Specs, a first impression, and the one property that decides which protocols can run on them at all.
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2026-08-25
Can a $70 board tell me I'm wrong?
An n-of-1 EEG rig, an analog ceiling that removes the signal I was designing for, and a question I can't answer alone.
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2026-07-24
How research gets published here
The publishing protocol behind this site: a citation gate that makes an invented reference impossible, a confidence tier that is computed rather than claimed, and an honest account of what is written by a human and what is not.
