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Topological Phases of Matter: When Topology Becomes Physics

The 2016 Nobel Prize recognized a revolution in condensed matter physics: the discovery that matter can be classified not by symmetry breaking but by topology. This is the story of that revolution, from the quantum Hall effect to topological insulators to non-Abelian anyons.

18 min read · April 01, 2025

2025 · research-logs, physics, quantum, EN,
Marcus Aurelius: The Emperor Who Wrote to Himself

On the Meditations: the most private philosophical document ever accidentally published.

15 min read · March 29, 2025

2025 · skepsis, metaxy, fragmenta, philosophy, EN,
The Art of Folding: Paper, History, and the Mathematics of Modular Origami

From Cai Lun's invention to Miura folds: everything that happens when paper meets intention.

17 min read · March 21, 2025

2025 · hobbies, EN,
The Country That Ate Its Own Geniuses: America and the Intellectuals It Could Not Love

Poe died in a gutter. Melville died forgotten. Emily Dickinson published almost nothing in her lifetime. America does not merely ignore its geniuses, it has a specific, structural relationship with them that ends, repeatedly, in the same way.

19 min read · March 17, 2025

2025 · skepsis, post-truth, literature, EN,
Erotapokriseis III

Reader questions, answered.

8 min read · March 10, 2025

2025 · erotapokriseis,