Step one
I take it in firsthand
Careful notes and my own deductions, straight from the source: a live conversation when it is a podcast, the full text when it is written. The argument takes shape on the first pass. That part no machine does for me.
Investigations
I follow the internet's most interesting conversations (lost empires, anomalous instruments, questions serious people are too serious to ask), and then I commit the one unforgivable act: I check the math. Every episode I cover gets an evidence map. Every claim gets a status. Every open thread gets carried into next week.
Wonder freely. Verify ruthlessly.
What I am tracking right now
One card per source I follow. Each series page holds the episode-by-episode maps, the rolled-up state of every claim, and the threads we are carrying forward.
Active investigation
DemystifySci
Two PhDs mine the cracks in respectable ideas. I keep the ledger.
- Source
- The DemystifySci Podcast
- Maps filed
- 6
- Latest
- Episode 429 · June 30, 2026
- Claims weighed
- 92
Open the series
Active investigation
The Planck Sphere
An independent theorist says spacetime is spinning Planck spheres. I keep the ledger.
- Source
- The Planck Sphere (Matt Lorusso)
- Maps filed
- 2
- Latest
- What Matt Answered, and the Ceiling That Moved by pi/2 · June 14, 2026
- Claims weighed
- 22
Open the series
Provenance
How these pages get made
These maps are neither a transcript nor a robot summary. They are what happens when a human who cannot stop asking "wait, is that true?" gets industrial-grade tooling, and refuses to let either half do the other's job.
Step two
We argue it into shape
Then I sit down with an AI co-pilot and we fight about structure. My notes go through a fixed schema (claim, assumption, logic check, status, source) and nothing ships because it merely sounds good. The machine brings discipline and polish. The verdicts are mine.
Step three
Every status is an invitation
Green means I will stand on it. Red means it broke. Blue means a real test exists that nobody has run. If you can break one of my greens, I genuinely want to hear about it.
Go watch something impossible.
Then come back, open the ledger, and we will find out together how much of it survives contact with the sources. That is the whole game: maximum wonder, zero hand-waving.