Journal
The long version
Every design starts with something worth explaining. This is where the explaining happens.
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Why entropy belongs on a wall
The second law is the only physics most people meet twice — once as a formula, once as a mess. Here is the case for framing it.
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The fastest way down is not a straight line
Johann Bernoulli posed it as a challenge to the mathematicians of Europe. Newton solved it overnight and sent it back unsigned.
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The pale blue dot, thirty-six years on
Voyager 1 turned around at six billion kilometres and took a photograph of nothing much. It is still the most quoted image in astronomy.