Marius Comper · public work
Reports, maps, games and tools about power, health, science and culture. Each begins with something worth following to the end.
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How the brain, culture, markets, politics and machines decide what enters the foreground, and what stays in the dark.
It connects fields usually encountered separately and leaves you with a portable way to see selection, power and blind spots.
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A final menstrual period gets its name only 12 months later. Symptoms and care can begin much earlier.
It connects symptoms, options and risks to practical appointment questions and separates clinical guidance from commercial claims.
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Seven sanctuaries, a geographic legend and a line that can be measured.
It lets you test a story through coordinates and deviations without reducing its mystery to a verdict.
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Recently published work and projects revised with new data, sources or features.
One word for seventeen seas and two oxen.
Ten motives. Five hearths. One changing mixture.
DNSC confirms extensive access; Romania's Government confirms the integrity of the central cadastral database, while the impact on ePay remains under investigation.
Ebola comes in six kinds. The world's defences were built for one.
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How the brain, culture, markets, politics and machines decide what enters the foreground, and what stays in the dark.
A route through diagnosis, treatment, daily life and access, with the limits of the evidence in view.
357 projects show how much a tenth of a point can matter.
A final menstrual period gets its name only 12 months later. Symptoms and care can begin much earlier.
Low fertility viewed as a credible-commitment problem within couples.
Seven sanctuaries, a geographic legend and a line that can be measured.
Road roughness turned into an annual cost for the driver.
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In Homer, οἶνοψ describes the sea seventeen times and, twice, a yoked pair of plough oxen. The complete concordance turns that anomaly into the test every account of the wine-dark sea must survive.
Ten motives, often overlapping and changing over time, explain why human sources cooperate; the guide connects them to evidence, history and UK legal safeguards.
DNSC's technical analysis confirms extensive compromise of ANCPI infrastructure: 1,083 inventoried virtual machines, exposed OpenDJ data, code and credentials, and the transfer of an Active Directory controller disk. Romania's Government says the central cadastral database retained its integrity.
An explainer about the gap between Ebola species and the tests, vaccines and treatments built for Zaire, set against the 2026 Bundibugyo outbreak.
A source-graded dossier of leaders associated with three, four or five hours of sleep, including the naps and recovery hidden by the legend.
First-attempt driving-test results across all Romanian counties from 2018 to 2025: map, trends, comparisons and the limits of public crash data.
One Greek word, eleven English translations, and a hero remade before the opening line is over.
From Bazin to Nolan, a visual history of total cinema: sound, colour, 3D, VistaVision and IMAX, plus the gap distribution still leaves open.
A visual history of the Cucuteni–Trypillia world across two millennia, traced through chronology, settlement plans, houses, food, objects and genomes.
An interactive atlas of salt as cellular electricity, animal appetite and material technology, from Neolithic Romanian springs to Sichuan wells and Saharan caravans.
Why unsafe public digital services can remain online: a selected incident timeline, a map of institutional responsibility, the rules already in force and a practical remediation plan.
A 60-second village chase: herd Fane's goat out of six gardens before the vegetables disappear or the quarrel reaches town hall.
A browser mystery game about twelve ways of knowing, eight cases and the questions that decide what evidence can reveal.
A mouse experiment induced selected cortical functions of sleep locally during wake; this explainer shows what worked, what remains unreplaced and who might claim eight extra hours.
A browser puzzle-adventure about creatures that embody Goodhart's law, responsibility diffusion, administrative burden, sunk cost and commons tragedies.
A browser game about reconstructing six plausible failed futures, diagnosing why their institutions collapsed and negotiating alternatives that might endure.
What remains of ice-bath and cold-shower claims when each effect is moved back to the dose actually used in the study.
A civic investigation game about reading evidence, mapping hidden systems and testing interventions through their second-order consequences.
A living atlas of Barcelona's 73 official neighbourhoods, with maps, profiles, comparisons, stories and routes through the city's layers.
Twelve vital signs bring together energy, movement, air, water, money and health while preserving each public source's frequency and timestamp.
In 2023 Romania recorded the EU's highest standardised treatable mortality rate: 199.7 against an EU average of 86.8 per 100,000 inhabitants under 75.
A live dial that converts Romania's import-export balance and day-ahead price into a reference value for the current hour's exchange.
Thirty-one letters each carry a verified statistic about Romania, spanning alcohol, migration, education, health and infrastructure.
The history of one Barcelona address connects the Anaïs Napoleon gardens, the Cerdà plan, Fort Pienc and a pioneering photographer.
A calm, evidence-based guide to perimenopause, menopause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options and appointment preparation.
A documentary history of Romanian initiative and French leverage in bringing the cause of the Principalities into European politics, from 1848 to 1859 and beyond the Union.
The GLP-1 class, from approved medicines to the pipeline, pills and the grey market.
How we read stated reasons when an official or institution can harm others: an interactive essay on sincerity, internal review and public responsibility.
Claudia Goldin argues that part of low fertility is a credible commitment problem: women's autonomy advanced faster than the sharing of family work.
Why Pickaxe Mountain is a difficult nuclear target to assess: two tunnel complexes near Natanz, 80–100 m of rock and four different outcomes hidden inside the promise to “take it out”.
A documentary explainer about Robert Brovdi and the coordinated pressure on the R-280 corridor, the Kerch system, Crimea’s power grid and shipping in the Sea of Azov.
How SS7 routing vulnerabilities and commercial ad-tech databases can pinpoint military personnel without compromising their phones.
A PNAS model explains why rigid moral rules can protect cooperation when people's motives remain hidden.
How China- and India-nexus cyberespionage actors reached the same Pakistani police servers and converged on Balochistan Police.
The UNK_MassTraction campaign uses Roundcube vulnerabilities to turn the victim's browser into a pivot toward the server, from XSS to memory-only implants.
One hundred forms from 78 languages trace how attention becomes orientation, listening, care or availability to another person.
When AI enters before the verdict, the page shows which traces must be preserved so the source, transformations and human accountability can be reconstructed.
Romania confirms Turla targeted the country. An interactive dossier on GRU recruitment, credentials stolen through Lumma and sabotage attributed to the FSB.
An interactive dossier on Tom Clancy's lessons for analysts: open sources, tacit knowledge, scenarios, wargaming, technical explanation and intelligent secrecy.
An encyclopedic interactive atlas of attention: experience, the brain, culture, economics, politics, design, AI and ethics.
A bilingual analysis of 357 AFCN projects: tight thresholds, title language, applicant experience, geographic concentration and a fully filterable registry.
The indictment says Denis Obrezko worked for the FSB, then became deputy director at Yutek-NN. His phone contained a file with LLM summaries of more than 13,000 stolen parliamentary emails.
How cities can finance affordable housing while planning preserves scarcity: four tools, political incentives and later evidence.
Tropical nights (≥ 20°C) are warming faster than daytime highs. An interactive explainer about recovery, Europe, Bucharest on the chart and mortality.
Harry Brown (2009): Daniel Barber, Michael Caine, a revenge thriller, estate cinema, craft versus politics and why the film refuses to explain itself.
A bilingual briefing from NATO's 2014–2026 tables: Romania's defence baseline, ranking, trajectory, eastern flank, The Hague and Ankara.
An interactive guide to fusion energy with a kids mode, field atlas, plant cutaway, plasma-control game, reactor tradeoff game, fuels, materials and caveats.
A public dossier based on 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the institutional use of frontier AI in combat.
A bilingual collection of 100 Stoic ideas about control, virtue, adversity and the good life, inspired by Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca.
A satirical arcade game about a seven-second delay, five live shows and the reflex to say “Steaua” instead of FCSB.
A bilingual guide to recognising sepsis, emergency care, post-sepsis syndrome and recovery.
A bilingual atlas of endometriosis: diagnosis, options, daily life, support, recent research and access in Romania, with sources and evidence limits in view.
An interactive explainer about Javier Milei's Minimum Viable Scale paper and the threshold at which an economy can take off.
An interactive explainer based on a US study that turns road roughness into an estimated annual cost for drivers.
An interactive explainer about the link between first glance, faces, text and the brain's visual map, based on a 2026 Nature Human Behaviour study.
A visual dossier about animals people have used as sensors, engines, divers, agricultural workers, medical systems and search partners.
An interactive matrix about heat, storms, extreme rain and the data that can guide Bucharest's response.
A multidisciplinary dossier about how heat affects sleep, mood, learning, decisions and aggression, with interactive visualisations.
How a Windows Global Device Identifier linked an ngrok account from a Scattered Spider intrusion to a chain of logs and accounts.
Treatment, evidence, costs and access in the US, UK, EU and Romania, in a bilingual documentary.
A documented cultural history of farting, from Sumerian jokes to modern patents.
The line of Saint Michael measured: seven sanctuaries, legend and geodesic recalculation.
An OSINT microsite about Ukraine's FP series, strikes, evidence and unknowns.
Trump's Iranian dilemma and the political logic of a strike that can coexist with negotiation.
Putney Swope, Robert Downey Sr. and the underground satire that stayed sharp.
A visualisation of Pep Guardiola's 41 major trophies.
How rage bait became the operating system of public life.
What BLU-114/B is, how it works and what its use in Iran would mean.
A visual analysis of the impossible operation of locating, suppressing, accessing and evacuating enriched uranium from Iran.
An interactive documentary about colour-vision deficiency: prevalence, types, a simulator and educational and professional impact.
A multidisciplinary synthesis of gossip as a mechanism of reputation, governance, cooperation and social order.
A multidisciplinary analysis of procrastination through psychology, neuroscience, behavioural economics, anthropology and philosophy.
An interdisciplinary analysis of social conventions, reproductive strategy and coordination traps around male-imposed body modification on women.
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