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2026 53

Suggested Experiment Equipment
Johnson noise rig — full chat transcript
Equilibrium points in Dyson's Toy Cell Model
Better Temperature Control Of Algae?
Measuring Milk Globule Sizes
What's the point of doing stuff
In memoriam
How To Read Something
Questions On Early Cell Membranes
The Questions I Always Think About
Preparing Algae for Experiments at Home
LEAN For Checking my Math
Steady States in Dyson's Theory of the Cell
What is the most intense way to learn something?
Improved Tracking Of Brownian Milk Globules
The World Needs Replicators
On a Tube Of Hot Gas
I Observed Some Brownian Motion At Home
Join The Independent Science Society!
How Would An Intelligent System Do Physics?
The Particle Comes Alive
Being Political in the Right Way
Do Not Plan
Freeman Dyson’s Model of a Cell
How to Write Better
Excerpts
Why Read Faraday's Diary?
A Thermodynamics For Biology
It’s OK To Be Scared
Fluid dynamics for Toddlers
Making Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Cells
An Agentic Home Bioreactor
Kew Gardens, Turbulence, Statistical Mechanics, Bioreactors and Strength Training
How To Get Cheaper Lab Equipment
Daily Readings
Posting More of My Thoughts
The Best Town I've Been To.
So My Friend Made Me A Bioreactor...
How To Think About Dynamic Systems
The Triumph Of The Embryo
AI Agents to Organise My Secret Society's Dinners
From Reversibility to Irreversibility
How I Fixed my Headaches
Biology as Clockwork
Being Maximally Useful Whilst Commuting
Trying to make an Automated Ecologist
Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?
PPE Stockpile Degradation
Safety And Danger
So I got an EEG...
Bio-theory Lab Notes!
How Can I Make Useful Knowledge?
20 References In Complexity Theory and Biology

2025 80

Using Linear Algebra To Predict A Non-Linear Pendulum
Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood.
How To Find Time To Do Science
The Man I Want To Meet The Most
When Is A Complex System Stable?
I Made A Quieter Air Purifier.
What's A Good Theory Of Biology?
My UV Experiment Worked!
Write Clearly
The Effect of UV Light On Yeast
Sneeze for the Camera Baby!
Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Biology
Why Independent Science Now?
'How Life Works' by Philip Ball
Making an Automated UV Sterilisation Pump
I Managed To Grow Countable Yeast Colonies
Culturing Yeast For Independent Science Experiments
Do You Actually Hate It?
Evidence That Shrouds Increase CR Box Performance
A War in The Lake District
Sealing my House Against Pathogens
Bad Productivity Frameworks
Cycling the West Country
Measuring my DIY Air Purifier
The Ideas Factory?
Dear Friends and Readers, Please Help
Did I Just Make Quantum Dots?
Physics Departments At Risk Of Shutting Down
Trying to make a Cheaper Air Purifier
You Like Too Many Things. Now What?
A Cheaper Way to Test Ventilation Rates?
Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests
I want to do experiments but its not cheap
Noise Cancelling A Fan
Dirt Cheap Holidays
Try to Prove Math With Computers
You Need to Read Thomas Kuhn.
Just get a Partial Fix and Move On.
Computing Properties of Molecules.
For Here Too, Gods Dwell
Tolerating Confusion
How To Make More Friends
We Should Formalise Physics
Do Anything in 20 Minutes
Models for Cleaning Air
If It's Not Obvious, It Probably Isn't
How to Easily Keep Something Alive
A Big Board of Problems
Teaching Cambridge-Level Math At Scale (Without Charging $150k)
What I Learned from 500 Independent Scientists
Try these Biosecurity Projects in your free time!
DIY Positive Pressure Build Log
What is the Most Effective Day?
Can I use Air Pressure to Protect my House?
Why Your Technical Expertise Might Not Be Your Greatest Asset
Love isn't Physics, but popular advice acts like it is
What I use for Notes (and Publishing)
Buyin' and Tryin' an Elastomeric Respirator
MacOS ssh File System (SSHFS)
It's hard to know if I suck at writing
How to Start Modelling Airflow Ventilation
Calculations for Practical Heuristics in Far UVC Use
How do I achieve what I want?
Problems Trying to Model Far UVC in a Room
Thought Blobs On Biosecurity Topics
Let's Not Rawdog the Next Plague
Contents
A Two-Tier Model of Optimal Career Design
The Pain of Finding the Truth
Three Skills of Virtue
When To Trust Someone
Don't Agree To Things Too Easily
What do we do now?
The Professor and the Plumber
London and the Country
Chicken Curry, Piece by Piece
How my Life Changes
Slow Down.
Do I want to be Excellent?
You're a Slow Thinker. Now what?

2024 14

Why Casual Conversation is So Hard
Don't Chase It
Compulsion as a Tool
On Good Writing
Scientists will become Data Harvesters
Tediousness is Good.
Conquering the Molecules
When The Scientific Method Fails
Calibrating Myself through Science Memoirs
Selecting Good Problems as a Part-Time Physics Researcher
Doing Research Part-Time is Great
Problems come from Dumb Questions
Do Physics, But Learn History
A Quantum Mechanics Problem on a Particle in a Line under an Electric Field.

2023 6

Preliminary Thoughts on Solar Cell Efficiency
Quantifying Wants, For Better Outcomes
Experiences with the Physics and Economics of Solar Cells in Malaysia
Solar Energy from the Sahara.
Turning my Passion into a Job was a Bad Idea
A Draft of some Start-up Ideas

2022 27

Changing our Frame to Make Things Easier
Thoughts on Gravitational Fields on Shells
Physics Diaries #2
Cool Physics Stuff I Attempted today
A List of Problems in Many Electron Systems
Finding The Ground States of Quantum Systems
Heisenberg Spin Chains
The Energy of an Electron Hopping Model
How do Loops change Physics?
An Example of a "Partially Fair" Model
More Thoughts on Space Solar Energy
A TL-DR for Basic Group Theory
Thoughts on Words and their Meaning
Redshift from Massive Objects
Measuring Disorder and Complexity
Noether’s Theorem and the Principle of Least Action
What is the Dollar Cost of Malaysia’s Racial Discrimination?
The Viability of Space Solar Energy
Will AI-enabled automation constitute more than half of the Gross World Product by 2100?
The Hopf-Fibration and a Four-Dimensional Sphere
Electrodynamics Puzzles
Small Sample Bias and Data Ethics
What is our natural Rate of Extinction?
Existential Risk and the Offence-Defence Balance.
Slippage in Automated Market Makers
Density Functional Theory
Time Crystals, Part II

2021 18

Time Crystals
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Computing a Feynman Diagram for the Magnetic g-Factor
Phase Transitions in the Checkerboard State
Explaining Quantum Degeneracy
Hydrogen and its Mysterious Energies
The Economics of Intergalactic Trade — Part I
The Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Geometry as the Theatre of Physics
Quantifying our Confidence in Statistical Models — The Confidence Interval
Why do we have to combine Einstein's Relativity with Quantum Mechanics?
How do Physicists understand the different Phases of Matter?
Using Natural Language Processing to visualise Uncertainty in News Content
The wonderful Math that powers Disney’s Animation
Finding Geometrical Beauty in Simple Physics
Taming Infinities — Why is it possible to do Physics at all?
Cheating Nash’s Game Theory, with Quantum Mechanics
The baffling Differences between Classical and Quantum Mechanics

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