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Essays and long reads.

Longer pieces on subjects I'd write about anyway: music, evolution, cosmology, machines and the people who worry about them.

Essay · Music · Evolution · 3,400 words

Bone flutes, Darwin's finches, dopamine and the bird brain. Where our musicality came from, and why it might have kept us alive.

More from the archive is on its way, including the pieces on epoxy resin and on rivers, Eyedea and stardust.