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2026 83

  1. A Beer Brewer’s Noise Estimation
  2. Safety In Algae Home Experiments
  3. Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust
  4. Has Anyone Counted London's Respirators?
  5. Responding to the Irkutsk Quarantine News
  6. Merging With An LLM
  7. How to Select an Experiment
  8. The Value Of Experience
  9. Calibrating Algae Grower Mini-fridge system
  10. Minimal Assumptions for Societal Resilience
  11. Trying to Observe Convection Plumes
  12. The Independent Science Society Review
  13. A New Experiment Meta-Strategy
  14. AI Is Not Going To Kill My Love Of Math
  15. Coulomb’s law remains tricky to test at home
  16. Writing What I See
  17. Liesegang Rings Experiment Update
  18. Starting to Clean My Shack Of A Lab
  19. Reforming UKRI Eligibility Rules
  20. Characterising A Cheap Water Bath From Amazon
  21. Liesegang Rings
  22. Oberreiter, Seifert and Barato’s Conjecture on Entropy Production by Biochemical Clocks
  23. Possibly Resolving A Conjecture On Matrix Theory With GPT Sol
  24. Autonomous Buying Of Experiment Equipment
  25. Experiments For The Independent Science Society
  26. On Reduction To The Table Top
  27. A DIY Temperature Controlled Incubator
  28. The Entropy of A Markov Chain
  29. A Dinner on What it Means To Write Science
  30. How Do We Write Science?
  31. Computational chemistry, Locally?
  32. What counts as a replication?
  33. Equilibrium points in Dyson's Toy Cell Model
  34. Better Temperature Control Of Algae?
  35. Measuring Milk Globule Sizes
  36. What's the point of doing stuff
  37. In memoriam
  38. How To Read Something
  39. Questions On Early Cell Membranes
  40. The Questions I Always Think About
  41. Preparing Algae for Experiments at Home
  42. LEAN For Checking my Math
  43. Steady States in Dyson's Theory of the Cell
  44. What is the most intense way to learn something?
  45. Improved Tracking Of Brownian Milk Globules
  46. The World Needs Replicators
  47. On a Tube Of Hot Gas
  48. I Observed Some Brownian Motion At Home
  49. Join The Independent Science Society!
  50. How Would An Intelligent System Do Physics?
  51. The Particle Comes Alive
  52. Being Political in the Right Way
  53. Do Not Plan
  54. Freeman Dyson’s Model of a Cell
  55. How to Write Better
  56. Excerpts
  57. Why Read Faraday's Diary?
  58. A Thermodynamics For Biology
  59. It’s OK To Be Scared
  60. Fluid dynamics for Toddlers
  61. Making Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Cells
  62. An Agentic Home Bioreactor
  63. Kew Gardens, Turbulence, Statistical Mechanics, Bioreactors and Strength Training
  64. How To Get Cheaper Lab Equipment
  65. Daily Readings
  66. Posting More of My Thoughts
  67. The Best Town I've Been To.
  68. So My Friend Made Me A Bioreactor...
  69. How To Think About Dynamic Systems
  70. The Triumph Of The Embryo
  71. AI Agents to Organise My Secret Society's Dinners
  72. From Reversibility to Irreversibility
  73. How I Fixed my Headaches
  74. Biology as Clockwork
  75. Being Maximally Useful Whilst Commuting
  76. Trying to make an Automated Ecologist
  77. Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?
  78. PPE Stockpile Degradation
  79. Safety And Danger
  80. So I got an EEG...
  81. Bio-theory Lab Notes!
  82. How Can I Make Useful Knowledge?
  83. 20 References In Complexity Theory and Biology

2025 79

  1. Using Linear Algebra To Predict A Non-Linear Pendulum
  2. Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood.
  3. How To Find Time To Do Science
  4. The Man I Want To Meet The Most
  5. When Is A Complex System Stable?
  6. I Made A Quieter Air Purifier.
  7. What's A Good Theory Of Biology?
  8. My UV Experiment Worked!
  9. Write Clearly
  10. The Effect of UV Light On Yeast
  11. Sneeze for the Camera Baby!
  12. Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Biology
  13. Why Independent Science Now?
  14. 'How Life Works' by Philip Ball
  15. Making an Automated UV Sterilisation Pump
  16. I Managed To Grow Countable Yeast Colonies
  17. Culturing Yeast For Independent Science Experiments
  18. Do You Actually Hate It?
  19. Evidence That Shrouds Increase CR Box Performance
  20. A War in The Lake District
  21. Sealing my House Against Pathogens
  22. Bad Productivity Frameworks
  23. Cycling the West Country
  24. Measuring my DIY Air Purifier
  25. The Ideas Factory?
  26. Dear Friends and Readers, Please Help
  27. Did I Just Make Quantum Dots?
  28. Physics Departments At Risk Of Shutting Down
  29. Trying to make a Cheaper Air Purifier
  30. You Like Too Many Things. Now What?
  31. A Cheaper Way to Test Ventilation Rates?
  32. Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests
  33. I want to do experiments but its not cheap
  34. Noise Cancelling A Fan
  35. Dirt Cheap Holidays
  36. Try to Prove Math With Computers
  37. You Need to Read Thomas Kuhn.
  38. Just get a Partial Fix and Move On.
  39. Computing Properties of Molecules.
  40. For Here Too, Gods Dwell
  41. Tolerating Confusion
  42. How To Make More Friends
  43. We Should Formalise Physics
  44. Do Anything in 20 Minutes
  45. Models for Cleaning Air
  46. If It's Not Obvious, It Probably Isn't
  47. How to Easily Keep Something Alive
  48. A Big Board of Problems
  49. Teaching Cambridge-Level Math At Scale (Without Charging $150k)
  50. What I Learned from 500 Independent Scientists
  51. Try these Biosecurity Projects in your free time!
  52. DIY Positive Pressure Build Log
  53. What is the Most Effective Day?
  54. Can I use Air Pressure to Protect my House?
  55. Why Your Technical Expertise Might Not Be Your Greatest Asset
  56. Love isn't Physics, but popular advice acts like it is
  57. What I use for Notes (and Publishing)
  58. Buyin' and Tryin' an Elastomeric Respirator
  59. MacOS ssh File System (SSHFS)
  60. It's hard to know if I suck at writing
  61. How to Start Modelling Airflow Ventilation
  62. Calculations for Practical Heuristics in Far UVC Use
  63. How do I achieve what I want?
  64. Problems Trying to Model Far UVC in a Room
  65. Thought Blobs On Biosecurity Topics
  66. Let's Not Rawdog the Next Plague
  67. A Two-Tier Model of Optimal Career Design
  68. The Pain of Finding the Truth
  69. Three Skills of Virtue
  70. When To Trust Someone
  71. Don't Agree To Things Too Easily
  72. What do we do now?
  73. The Professor and the Plumber
  74. London and the Country
  75. Chicken Curry, Piece by Piece
  76. How my Life Changes
  77. Slow Down.
  78. Do I want to be Excellent?
  79. You're a Slow Thinker. Now what?

2024 14

  1. Why Casual Conversation is So Hard
  2. Don't Chase It
  3. Compulsion as a Tool
  4. On Good Writing
  5. Scientists will become Data Harvesters
  6. Tediousness is Good.
  7. Conquering the Molecules
  8. When The Scientific Method Fails
  9. Calibrating Myself through Science Memoirs
  10. Selecting Good Problems as a Part-Time Physics Researcher
  11. Doing Research Part-Time is Great
  12. Problems come from Dumb Questions
  13. Do Physics, But Learn History
  14. A Quantum Mechanics Problem on a Particle in a Line under an Electric Field.

2023 6

  1. Preliminary Thoughts on Solar Cell Efficiency
  2. Quantifying Wants, For Better Outcomes
  3. Experiences with the Physics and Economics of Solar Cells in Malaysia
  4. Solar Energy from the Sahara.
  5. Turning my Passion into a Job was a Bad Idea
  6. A Draft of some Start-up Ideas

2022 27

  1. Changing our Frame to Make Things Easier
  2. Thoughts on Gravitational Fields on Shells
  3. Physics Diaries #2
  4. Cool Physics Stuff I Attempted today
  5. A List of Problems in Many Electron Systems
  6. Finding The Ground States of Quantum Systems
  7. Heisenberg Spin Chains
  8. The Energy of an Electron Hopping Model
  9. How do Loops change Physics?
  10. An Example of a "Partially Fair" Model
  11. More Thoughts on Space Solar Energy
  12. A TL-DR for Basic Group Theory
  13. Thoughts on Words and their Meaning
  14. Redshift from Massive Objects
  15. Measuring Disorder and Complexity
  16. Noether’s Theorem and the Principle of Least Action
  17. What is the Dollar Cost of Malaysia’s Racial Discrimination?
  18. The Viability of Space Solar Energy
  19. Will AI-enabled automation constitute more than half of the Gross World Product by 2100?
  20. The Hopf-Fibration and a Four-Dimensional Sphere
  21. Electrodynamics Puzzles
  22. Small Sample Bias and Data Ethics
  23. What is our natural Rate of Extinction?
  24. Existential Risk and the Offence-Defence Balance.
  25. Slippage in Automated Market Makers
  26. Density Functional Theory
  27. Time Crystals, Part II

2021 18

  1. Time Crystals
  2. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
  3. Computing a Feynman Diagram for the Magnetic g-Factor
  4. Phase Transitions in the Checkerboard State
  5. Explaining Quantum Degeneracy
  6. Hydrogen and its Mysterious Energies
  7. The Economics of Intergalactic Trade — Part I
  8. The Integer Quantum Hall Effect
  9. Geometry as the Theatre of Physics
  10. Quantifying our Confidence in Statistical Models — The Confidence Interval
  11. Why do we have to combine Einstein's Relativity with Quantum Mechanics?
  12. How do Physicists understand the different Phases of Matter?
  13. Using Natural Language Processing to visualise Uncertainty in News Content
  14. The wonderful Math that powers Disney’s Animation
  15. Finding Geometrical Beauty in Simple Physics
  16. Taming Infinities — Why is it possible to do Physics at all?
  17. Cheating Nash’s Game Theory, with Quantum Mechanics
  18. The baffling Differences between Classical and Quantum Mechanics