Entropically Yours

The entropy of a black hole is its area over four, and for fifty years the four has been matched, never derived. From baseball pitches and four coins to Bekenstein and the cosmological horizon, here is the clean answer: a horizon keeps no clock and opens one way, and each fact costs you exactly half. No strings, no loops, no quantum gravity — just what any observer can and can’t know. (Spot the gerbil.)

Why Schrödinger had the wrong entity in the superposition, what Liouville's theorem has to do with your cat knocking things off tables, and the entity that lent you a timeline.

How depression, intellectual cross-training, and a paranoid review process became a research methodology. The black dog turns out to be an excellent research assistant, even if the working conditions are terrible.

The academic publishing system operates on a simple feedback loop: prestige begets prestige. High-status authors get easier publication; easier publication raises status; higher status attracts better work; better work reinforces status. The loop is self-sealing. This piece models the dynamics precisely and shows why double-blind review is not a procedural nicety but a structural necessity.