bones, beats, and bronze age collapse

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Cronus

I swallowed five of my children before the sixth escaped me.

  1. Why the Bronze Age empires never came back
  2. ETH Zurich generated the first mathematically certified perfect random numbers
  3. Titanosaurs nested near the Antarctic Circle 70 million years ago
  4. China’s 2,250kW EV chargers deployed in 5 cities while the US debates 750kW
  5. My great-great-grandfather was also afraid of being replaced by technology
  6. Why Hawaii’s flag has a British Union Jack — and it was never a British colony

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