The mathematics of Universal Basic Income
The budget identity, the disposable-income curve, the negative-income-tax equivalence — the arithmetic under every UBI debate.
VO₂max & Longevity
48 sub-claims across 10 physiological categories — reconciled from two independent fact-checks against 78 peer-reviewed sources, from Holloszy (1967) to Mandsager's 122,007-person cohort.
The protein stack,
stripped to the evidence
Whey · creatine · glutamine · EAAs — a two-tier audit of the four supplements most often stacked for muscle gain and fat loss, with effect sizes, conflicts of interest, and an honest debunk of BCAAs-as-muscle-builder.
Ethereum,
from the Yellow Paper to the Endgame
Gavin Wood's Yellow Paper specified a world computer as one exact equation. A decade and ~20 hard forks later — EIP-1559, the Merge, blobs, PeerDAS — almost every number has changed and the equation has not. A formal, figure-led reading of the protocol and everything that rewrote it.
Drinking water safety in Greece
Microplastics, PFAS, fluoride and lead — graded for evidence and mapped to what actually ships to a Greek address.
Creatine,
stripped to the evidence
A synthesis of 685 controlled trials and ~26,000 participants — separating what creatine reliably does from industry hype and unsettled science, with a sex-specific antidepressant signal in women.
The ERC-4626 vault inflation attack,
defused
An attacker deposits one wei, donates a fortune, and the next depositor's shares round to zero. A figure-led reading of the donation attack on tokenized vaults — the rounding it abuses, the worked exploit traced from t4sk's reference code, and the two virtual numbers OpenZeppelin added to make the theft a money-loser.
Magnesium,
stripped to the evidence
Nine forms compared, three upper limits reconciled, and the L-threonate premium audited — which magnesium is worth paying for, at what dose, and where the literature is funded by people who sell it.
The Incretin Decade: GLP-1,
dual & triple agonists
GLP-1, dual and triple agonists graded for evidence — the efficacy ladder, the organ-outcome dossier, what really happens to muscle, the drugs that try to spare it, and the hype the randomized trials are quietly deflating.
Do hot drinks cause cancer?
A viral chart says the hot-drink–cancer link collapses under age adjustment — and coffee is genuinely exonerated. But the headline drops the one signal that survives every control: scalding liquids and the esophagus.
Your daily omega-3 regimen,
graded
Three multi-oil softgels plus three fish-oil caps — what 900 mg of EPA+DHA actually buys across nine health domains.
A robot vacuum that doesn't phone home
An honest buying guide for a fully-offline robot vacuum in Greece — no cloud, no account, no forced firmware. The only real path runs through Valetudo on a LiDAR Dreame/Xiaomi/Eureka you root yourself, past five years of documented leaks and around an EU rulebook that is tightening but still not enough.
Alibaba
Q4 FY26 and the AI-cloud J-curve
First operating loss since 2021, +40% external cloud, $53B+ capex. The Street sits ~50% above spot — what has to be right for the gap to close, and what the bear case attacks.
Self-improvement by bidirectional evolutionary search
How a language model teaches itself to reason better by searching in two directions — recombining its own partial solutions forward, and decomposing the goal into checkable sub-goals backward. A figure-led reading of Xu et al. (2026).
Twenty patches,
one billion cells
First-in-human engineered heart muscle in advanced heart failure — the BioVAT-HF readout, read alongside the field's graveyard and a founder's conflict of interest.
Zinc picolinate,
audited
Statistical significance, conflicts of interest, sample-size weighting and replication status across every major zinc claim.
Do food additives hurt the gut?
Carrageenan, emulsifiers, titanium dioxide, sweeteners, maltodextrin — a graded audit of the additives most accused of harming the intestine. Real, reproducible mechanism in cells and mice; thin, additive-specific, often-null human proof.
Does omega-3 speed up cognitive decline?
A critical appraisal of a contested, unverified observational finding (Liao et al. 2026) and the viral claim it triggered.
NMN & NR efficacy,
audited
A zero-bias meta-analysis of 26 randomized trials — what raising blood NAD⁺ does, and what it doesn't.
Sodium butyrate for gut health,
audited
“Very good for the gut” — a vital colonic molecule wrapped in an overstated bottle. Separating butyrate's strong gut biology from the mixed human trials, the bioavailability wall, and the fibre that does the job better.