The archive
Issue 32 · June 2026
Notes from a curious mind.
A slow blog about the things I find fascinating — animals, history, astrophysics, science, technology, and languages. Occasionally, I leave pieces of my own experiences and perspectives here too.
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The archive
Recent writing.
New entries will arrive most Sundays - quiet weeks are part of the practice. I will write more often!
The Octopus Mother Who Never Met Her Children
An octopus mother lays her eggs, guards them with obsessive care, stops eating, and dies as they hatch. A strange story of intelligence, instinct, and self-destruction.
May 30, 2026
One Queen, 50,000 Workers, and a Lot of Bee Spit
Learn the differences between honey, royal jelly, propolis, and bee bread. And how they help create queens, feed workers, and keep a bee colony alive.
May 29, 2026
The Strange Creature That Made Me Think About Evolution
A shark ray at BXSea Bintaro sent me into an evolutionary rabbit hole about sharks, rays, cartilage skeletons, and why some apex predators literally sink if they stop swimming.
May 28, 2026
Explosives and Nobel Prize - A Summa of Human Achievement Founded in Vanity
All those tunnels he helped to build, all the mineral wealth he helped uncover, but he was nothing but a murderer to people. So he determined to salvage his reputation and set up a prize fund for all.
Apr 17, 2022
Why are insects smaller now?
Dragonflies the size of seagulls and spiders as wide as tires once roamed Earth. Higher oxygen levels let insects grow gigantic, until changing atmospheres and birds reshaped evolution.
Mar 26, 2022
Laniakea - The Immeasurable Heaven
Quantities like 100 trillion kilometers are extremely unwieldy to write (100,000,000,000,000), let alone use, but when can we use that big of a number anyway? The answer is for interstellar...
Mar 5, 2022
The 170,000-year-old Sunlight
When you go outside on a sunny day, you'll feel the heat and brightness of the Sun.
Feb 20, 2022
Writing Practice: 스트레스가 많을 때 어떻게 해요?
어른이 된다는 것은 스트레스가 많지요? 어른이란 뭐에요? 저는 어렸을 때 어른이들이 정말 대단해 보였어요. 하지만 나이가 들면서 보니 어른이 된다는 것이 힘들어요. 일이 아주 많아서 자신을 위한 시간이 없어요. 그리고 스트레스를 받아요. 스트레스가 건강 안 좋아요. 여러분은 스트레스가 많을 때 어떻게 해요?
Jun 26, 2021
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