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Mounjaro and the GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs — A Measured Audit

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The Compute Supply Chain — One Company, One Island, the Whole World

3

A Wind-Powered Secondhand Cruise Ship — What Would It Cost?

4

Sonar for the Railways — Listening for Failing Track

5

Pulling Out Crash Barriers — Soil, Water, and Horsepower

6

Fuel Super-Compression — Can You Pack More Energy Per Kilo?

7

The Unpaid Maintainers — Open Source as Load-Bearing Infrastructure

8

Ultra-Processed Food — The Evidence, and the Competing View

9

Synthetic Media — The End of Default Trust

10

Surveillance Pricing — The End of the Transparent Market

11

The Sticky Jet Stream — Why the Weather Now Stalls

12

Standing & Justiciability — Who Is Even Allowed to Sue

13

Soil Carbon — The Real, Measured Numbers

14

Sleep Debt — A Public-Health Variable Hiding in Plain Sight

15

Seed Sovereignty — Heirloom Landraces and the Enclosure of the Seed

16

Sand — The Quiet Exhaustion of the World’s Aggregate

17

The Right to Repair — Do You Own What You Bought?

18

The Reinsurance Layer — Catastrophe Risk & Climate Uninsurability

19

Recommender Systems as Civic Infrastructure

20

Ports & Chokepoints — The Geography of Maritime Enclosure

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Placebo & Nocebo — The Machinery Beneath Every Trial

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Phosphorus — The Finite Element the Food System Runs On

23

PFI Finance — A European Disease?

24

Permafrost Methane — The Feedback No One Can Switch Off

25

The Financialised High Street — Private-Equity Rollups

26

Patent Thickets & Evergreening — How Monopolies Outlive Their Patents

27

An Open Letter to the Elders (Aged 65 to End-of-Life)

28

An Open Letter to the Custodians (Aged 40 to 65)

29

The Architecture of Opacity — The Offshore Enabling Industry

30

Ocean Deoxygenation — The Low-Oxygen Zones Beneath the Waves

31

Nuclear Waste, Honestly — The 100,000-Year Problem

32

The Denial of Death — End-of-Life Economics and the Good-Death Gap

33

The Houselab Charter of Human and Living Rights

34

The Accounting of Incarceration — What Prison Actually Costs and Produces

35

The Nitrogen Cascade — Fertiliser’s Downstream Havoc

36

The Mycorrhizal Web — Living Soil and the Limits of Chemical Reductionism

37

The Microbiome — What We Know Versus What’s Sold

38

Mandatory Arbitration — The Privatisation of Civil Justice

39

Loneliness — A Risk Factor, Not a Mood

40

The Stewardship Triopoly — The Index-Fund Big Three

41

Helium — The Irreplaceable Element We Vent Into the Sky

42

Grid Inertia — The Hidden Physics That Keeps the Lights On

43

Fossil Water — The Invisible Drawdown Under Farmland

44

The Embodied Energy of Compute — What a Data Centre Really Costs

45

The Device-vs-Drug Gap — Why a Hip Implant Clears a Lower Bar Than a Pill

46

Demographic Inversion — The Dependency Maths of Ageing Societies

47

The Copper Wall — Electrification & the Biophysical Ceiling

48

Darkness Analysis

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Care Work — The Unpaid Subsidy GDP Refuses to See

50

Bit-Rot — The Disappearing Present

51

Biometric ID — Convenience, Lock-In, and the People It Excludes

52

Apiculture and Wild Pollinators — Darwinian Beekeeping and Habitat Loss

53

Antimicrobial Resistance — The Slow Pandemic Already Here

54

The Administrative State vs the Courts

55

Why build AI from the bottom up

56

What a Starlink Launch Burns — Fuel, Soot, and the Stratosphere

57

The International Sport Inquest

58

Recreational Drugs — A Measured Clinical Review

59

An Open Letter to the Saviour Generations, Aged 18 to 25

60

An Open Letter to the Decision-Makers (Aged 25 to 40)

61

Looted Art : whose.wall.when?

62

Geophysical : oops.it.broke

63

Oil and Its Children : drill.baby.drill

64

The Middle East : rights.not.wrongs?

65

Who owns the World : surely.some.mistake?

66

100 Years of POTUS : good.bad.ugly?

67

medicine.essays

68

The Munificent Seven : who.audits.the.auditors?

69

Estonia

70

The Cuba Story : why.why.how?

71

Politics : who.decides.why.obey? · 00 — Cover & Prospectus

72

Latvia

73

Follow the Money : who.owns.whom?

74

Global & Other Religions, In Whose Name? — in plain English

75

The Fields Medalists’ AI-Misalignment Declaration — A Response

76

The Egham Level Crossing — How Long Must the Barrier Lift?

77

Two Men and a Crosscut Saw vs the Electric Saw

78

Could Clockwork Drive an Ocean Liner?

79

Antidepressants and the Body’s Coupled Rhythms

80

Allotments as a Blueprint for Seeded Townships

81

CONFINING LORRIES (>3.5 TONNES) TO THE INSIDE LANE AND BANNING HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES FROM SELECTED ROUTES

82

Serbia: the treatise

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Serbia: the record

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Serbia: in plain English

85

The Thinn, Book III — The Woodworm of Spacetime

86

The Thinn, Book I — The Thinn & the Two Dandelions

87

The Thinn, Book II — The Seven & the Gallery of Ghosts

88

The cheap-physics ceiling on hyper-velocity weapons

89

Twenty-Five Random Wikipedia Articles vs Our Own Research

90

Reconnecting Severed Estates — a Nottingham Case Study

91

Trump v. the Media — a Litigation Audit

92

Self-Propelled Solar Road-Harvesting Rigs

93

Shakespeare — every human theme, tested (and a new play)

94

Rhythms That Lock Together

95

MS, ME/CFS and CO₂ — a critical medical audit

96

The Founders of Monte Verità

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The Master Chronological Register

98

The Laban Counterfactual

99

TRIBUNES, TECHNOCRATS, AND TURNS: ALL LEADERS OF THE UK LABOUR PARTY SINCE WORLD WAR II

100

Fiat 500 & Abarth (2016–2026) — reliability & best-buy guide