Reading the Same Sky
Comparative archaeoastronomy begins from a simple fact that is easy to state and difficult to interpret: human societies separated by great distances observed the same heavens.
The Skies of 3114 BCE and 3102 BCE
Did the Maya Long Count and Kali-yuga epochs encode related astronomical events? Computational reconstruction of the skies of 3114 and 3102 BCE reveals planetary clustering, lunar and eclipse patterns, solar geometry, and the limits of comparison.
Dark Wire: When the FBI Became the Phone Company
The FBI did not crack ANOM. It became ANOM. Joseph Cox’s Dark Wire tells the extraordinary story of a global criminal communications network secretly operated by law enforcement—and the surveillance model it may have left behind.
Gladiator 2026: Rome Is the Mob
Cage fights at the White House, racing cars around the Mall, a colossal ballroom and a triumphal arch: in Washington, the ancient politics of bread, games and personal power has acquired a distinctly American production.
The Mathematics of Witchcraft
Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House” does not use mathematics to explain witchcraft away. It imagines science discovering that occult tradition had already mapped the hidden structure of reality—and that the witch arrived first.