A7 — how Russia rebuilt payment routes under sanctions
An interactive guide to Russia's A7/A7A5 payment network: follow the bank and crypto routes, test sanctions pressure and inspect the evidence.
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Same Ballots, Three Winners
The same nine ballots elect three different winners when only the counting rule changes.
Romania’s Planning Code: what changes, for whom and when
A public, auditable guide to Romania’s Planning Code: key changes, 100 legislative comparisons, role-based paths and a cautious tool for files already in transition.
All About Eve: a customised self for every gatekeeper
A close reading of All About Eve (1950): customised performance, access, authorship, reception and the production record behind its camera.
Romania's Pulse
Twenty-one vital signs bring together energy, movement, air, water, money, institutions and health in a complete snapshot from 16 July 2026; the editorial status changed on 4 August.
The Layers of a Word
Search a Romanian word and see its donor language, etymological chain, first appearance in the dated-prose corpus and frequency in subtitled film dialogue and Wikipedia articles.
What Nolan Changed: Homer, adaptation and the argument
An eight-change reading of how Christopher Nolan's adaptation moves Homer's Odyssey between civilizational tragedy and modern sympathy.
Is Ceuta a colony?
Colonial origins, disputed sovereignty and the institutions that govern Ceuta today, arranged through seven facts and four questions.
What Romania Names Its Streets
Romania’s mapped street names, ranked by the number of distinct local administrative units in which each canonical name appears.
What You Can No Longer Hear
Listen to six tones between 9 and 16 kHz and compare the shape of your threshold with 632 ears measured in a clinic, alongside the uncertainty introduced by headphones.
The Hat on ă
A visual investigation into the mark drawn above Ă, from Unicode and fonts to every Romanian banknote in circulation.
Where Blue Ends
Draw the line between green and blue, then see why one clean switch describes only 35 of the World Color Survey's 110 languages.
The Comma Below the S
An audit of 75 Romanian-language pages and a type bench across 87 font families show how much Turkish cedilla still stands in for the comma and why the error is almost invisible.
A day on the rails — Romania's train graph
An interactive atlas of Romania's planned passenger-rail timetable for 2025–2026: every line is a train and time runs left to right.
Seventeen Seas and Two Oxen
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.
FIREPLACES: why informants talk and why motives change
Ten motives, often overlapping and changing over time, explain why human sources cooperate; the guide connects them to evidence, history and UK legal safeguards.
ANCPI: what was probably taken
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.
The Test Said No
An explainer about the gap between Ebola species and the tests, vaccines and treatments built for Zaire, set against the 2026 Bundibugyo outbreak.
Power After Midnight
A source-graded dossier of leaders associated with three, four or five hours of sleep, including the naps and recovery hidden by the legend.
The Licence, County by County
First-attempt driving-test results across all Romanian counties from 2018 to 2025: map, trends, comparisons and the limits of public crash data.
Tell Me About a Complicated Man
One Greek word, eleven English translations, and a hero remade before the opening line is over.
The Myth That Built the Camera
From Bazin to Nolan, a visual history of total cinema: sound, colour, 3D, VistaVision and IMAX, plus the gap distribution still leaves open.
Cucuteni–Trypillia: Two Millennia Under One Name
A visual history of the Cucuteni–Trypillia world across two millennia, traced through chronology, settlement plans, houses, food, objects and genomes.
Salt Trails
An interactive atlas of salt as cellular electricity, animal appetite and material technology, from Neolithic Romanian springs to Sichuan wells and Saharan caravans.
Who can stop a public system before the attacker does?
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.
The Neighbour's Goat
A 60-second village chase: herd Fane's goat out of six gardens before the vegetables disappear or the quarrel reaches town hall.
What If You Didn't Need to Sleep?
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.
Cold as medicine, debunked
What remains of ice-bath and cold-shower claims when each effect is moved back to the dose actually used in the study.
Barcelona, Neighbourhood by Neighbourhood
A living atlas of Barcelona's 73 official neighbourhoods, with maps, profiles, comparisons, stories and routes through the city's layers.
Avoidable death
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.
What this hour costs
A live dial that converts Romania's import-export balance and day-ahead price into a reference value for the current hour's exchange.
The Romanian Alphabet in 26 (?) Issues
Thirty-one letters each carry a verified statistic about Romania, spanning alcohol, migration, education, health and infrastructure.
Marina 155 — a Door in the Eixample
The history of one Barcelona address connects the Anaïs Napoleon gardens, the Cerdà plan, Fort Pienc and a pioneering photographer.
The complete guide to perimenopause and menopause
A calm, evidence-based guide to perimenopause, menopause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options and appointment preparation.
France in the Making of Modern Romania
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 Ladder
The GLP-1 class, from approved medicines to the pipeline, pills and the grey market.
The Reasons of Power: A Philosophical Exploration
How we read stated reasons when an official or institution can harm others: an interactive essay on sincerity, internal review and public responsibility.
Before the baby, a promise with no guarantee
Claudia Goldin argues that part of low fertility is a credible commitment problem: women's autonomy advanced faster than the sharing of family work.
Pickaxe Mountain: the target lies deeper than the promise
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”.
The Birds Closing Crimea
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.
Pocket Beacon · How Phones are Hunted in Warzone Operations
How SS7 routing vulnerabilities and commercial ad-tech databases can pinpoint military personnel without compromising their phones.
When excuses cannot be verified, rules harden
A PNAS model explains why rigid moral rules can protect cooperation when people's motives remain hidden.
One Target, Two Flags
How China- and India-nexus cyberespionage actors reached the same Pakistani police servers and converged on Balochistan Police.
One Opened Email, a Whole Server Compromised
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.
Attention, One Language at a Time
One hundred forms from 78 languages trace how attention becomes orientation, listening, care or availability to another person.
Who Thought First?
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, Turla and Russia’s cyber ecosystem
Romania confirms Turla targeted the country. An interactive dossier on GRU recruitment, credentials stolen through Lumma and sabotage attributed to the FSB.
The Clancy Method — Turning Complexity into Useful Intelligence
An interactive dossier on Tom Clancy's lessons for analysts: open sources, tacit knowledge, scenarios, wargaming, technical explanation and intelligent secrecy.
Attention — An Atlas of a Cut
An encyclopedic interactive atlas of attention: experience, the brain, culture, economics, politics, design, AI and ethics.
Două ediții
A Tenth of a Point Can Decide Who Gets AFCN Funding
A bilingual analysis of 357 AFCN projects: tight thresholds, title language, applicant experience, geographic concentration and a fully filterable registry.
He Worked for the FSB. Then an AI May Have Read 13,000 Emails
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.
A City with Two Housing Policies
How cities can finance affordable housing while planning preserves scarcity: four tools, political incentives and later evidence.
The Night That No Longer Cools Down
Tropical nights (≥ 20°C) are warming faster than daytime highs. An interactive explainer about recovery, Europe, Bucharest on the chart and mortality.
A Marine Walks Home Calmly — Harry Brown
Harry Brown (2009): Daniel Barber, Michael Caine, a revenge thriller, estate cinema, craft versus politics and why the film refuses to explain itself.
Romania at 2.43% · 15th on NATO's Table
A bilingual briefing from NATO's 2014–2026 tables: Romania's defence baseline, ranking, trajectory, eastern flank, The Hague and Ankara.
“God Helped Us, and AI Will Do the Same”
A public dossier based on 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the institutional use of frontier AI in combat.
100 Insights in Stoicism
A bilingual collection of 100 Stoic ideas about control, virtue, adversity and the good life, inspired by Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca.
FCSB Is Not Steaua
A satirical arcade game about a seven-second delay, five live shows and the reflex to say “Steaua” instead of FCSB.
Sepsis Clarity
A bilingual guide to recognising sepsis, emergency care, post-sepsis syndrome and recovery.
Living Atlas of Endometriosis
A bilingual atlas of endometriosis: diagnosis, options, daily life, support, recent research and access in Romania, with sources and evidence limits in view.
How Small Is Too Small?
An interactive explainer about Javier Milei's Minimum Viable Scale paper and the threshold at which an economy can take off.
Every Pothole Has a Price
An interactive explainer based on a US study that turns road roughness into an estimated annual cost for drivers.
The First Glance Has a Map
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.
When Work Requires Another Body
A visual dossier about animals people have used as sensors, engines, divers, agricultural workers, medical systems and search partners.
The City That Learns Before the Next Storm
An interactive matrix about heat, storms, extreme rain and the data that can guide Bucharest's response.
The Thermometer & the Mind
A multidisciplinary dossier about how heat affects sleep, mood, learning, decisions and aggression, with interactive visualisations.
Windows Remembered the Machine
How a Windows Global Device Identifier linked an ngrok account from a Scattered Spider intrusion to a chain of logs and accounts.
ADHD Treatment Map
Treatment, evidence, costs and access in the US, UK, EU and Romania, in a bilingual documentary.
The Winds of History
A documented cultural history of farting, from Sumerian jokes to modern patents.
The Archangel's Sword
The line of Saint Michael measured: seven sanctuaries, legend and geodesic recalculation.
The Flamingo Register
An OSINT microsite about Ukraine's FP series, strikes, evidence and unknowns.
Of Necessity
Trump's Iranian dilemma and the political logic of a strike that can coexist with negotiation.
Truth & Soul, Inc.
Putney Swope, Robert Downey Sr. and the underground satire that stayed sharp.
Anger, Ranked
How rage bait became the operating system of public life.
Două ediții
Why We Gossip
A multidisciplinary synthesis of gossip as a mechanism of reputation, governance, cooperation and social order.
Why We Procrastinate
A multidisciplinary analysis of procrastination through psychology, neuroscience, behavioural economics, anthropology and philosophy.
Now, Voyager (1942) — A Critical Edition
A critical edition of Now, Voyager: withheld faces, inherited freedom, Production Code constraints, and the women left outside the frame.
After Shakespeare
A living index of 100 books and literary works inspired by Shakespeare, with the original lines and their later afterlives.
The House of the Last Good Question
A browser mystery game about twelve ways of knowing, eight cases and the questions that decide what evidence can reveal.
A Field Guide to Useful Monsters
A browser puzzle-adventure about creatures that embody Goodhart's law, responsibility diffusion, administrative burden, sunk cost and commons tragedies.
The Bureau of Unfinished Futures
A browser game about reconstructing six plausible failed futures, diagnosing why their institutions collapsed and negotiating alternatives that might endure.
The Ministry of Small Miracles
A civic investigation game about reading evidence, mapping hidden systems and testing interventions through their second-order consequences.
A Tiny Star, Built by Hand
An interactive guide to fusion energy with a kids mode, field atlas, plant cutaway, plasma-control game, reactor tradeoff game, fuels, materials and caveats.
Seizing Iran's Uranium: The Physics of an Impossible Operation
A visual analysis of the impossible operation of locating, suppressing, accessing and evacuating enriched uranium from Iran.
The Unseen Spectrum
An interactive documentary about colour-vision deficiency: prevalence, types, a simulator and educational and professional impact.
The Deep Logic of Male-Imposed Body Modification on Women
An interdisciplinary analysis of social conventions, reproductive strategy and coordination traps around male-imposed body modification on women.
The Blackout Bomb
What BLU-114/B is, how it works and what its use in Iran would mean.
Pep Guardiola · Trophy Cosmos
A visualisation of Pep Guardiola's 41 major trophies.
Before you take a job in Romania, know what is actually on record.
An independent, source-linked guide for workers recruited from Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: what Romanian authorities say, what to verify, what to preserve, and where uncertainty remains.
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