Systems Thinking

Applies Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score analysis to small modular reactors and advanced designs, showing how the risk and cost profile of next-generation nuclear differs from the 1950s cold-war fleet that dominates most public mental models.

An investigation into the ruthless optimization of the Banda Islands and intra-Asian trade.

Places Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima mortality against equivalent coal-generation death rates on a per-TWh basis, producing the comparison that reveals the conventional hierarchy of fear is inverted from the hierarchy of harm.

Examining the legal and military foundations of the VOC’s "just war" and territorial expansion.

Introduces the Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score and applies the Hansen-Kharecha finding that nuclear power prevented 1.84 million deaths through displacement of coal generation — a calculation receiving a fraction of the media attention given to any nuclear accident.

Analyzing the structural innovations and financial engineering that launched the VOC in 1602.

How aesthetics in infrastructure design influence perceived safety and actual crash rates, revealing beauty as a functional engineering requirement.

Discover five counter-intuitive secrets of ancient military engineering: Byzantine state secrets protected by angels, artillery built with cubic equations, and organic materials that outperform modern steel.

The chemical and economic friction of battery circularity

A deep dive into the psychological and systemic forces that cause powerful individuals to ignore explicit warnings and march toward predictable disaster.