I’m building tools that find hidden connections across scientific fields — using 9 million patents and 357 million academic papers to surface the cross-domain analogies that nobody is looking for. This is where I write about the work, the ideas, and the data emerging from the frontier.
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Strangest Patents: Climeworks Built a Cathedral. The Patent Office Just Approved a Paint.
Eleven recent US patents stop trying to build a Climeworks-sized DAC plant and start bolting CO2 capture onto things that already exist.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: When the Future Showed Up Wearing the Wrong Clothes
Six 2005 society-scale predictions, graded against 2026 patent grants, FDA rules, GDP data, and Meta’s Reality Labs balance sheet.
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Quiet Breakout: A State School in Orlando Quietly Won the Lunar Mining Patent Race
UCF’s research foundation holds five US patents on extracting water and building bricks from lunar regolith. Blue Origin holds one. NASA, two.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Baby Boomers Who Were Supposed to Live Forever
Awareness has saturated; the bridges to radical life extension haven’t. A scorecard on Kurzweil’s longevity predictions twenty years on.
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Quiet Breakout: The AI Chip Race Just Moved Inside the Memory, and Nvidia Isn’t In It
367 US patents for doing math inside the memory itself have been granted since 2018. Nvidia holds none of them. Memory makers and a Princeton-spawned startup hold most of them.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: The Decade Aging Was Supposed to End
The 2020s were supposed to inflect life expectancy upward. They didn’t. But the molecular machinery Kurzweil predicted just entered human trials.
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Quiet Breakout: The Robot Embryologist Just Delivered Its First Baby
A healthy boy was conceived in Guadalajara last year by a robot taking commands from New York, 3,700 km away. The patent record says the first robotic IVF lab is no longer hypothetical.
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Kurzweil Scorecard: Flying Cars, Without the Microwings
Kurzweil predicted nano-fuel cells and microwings. We got lithium-ion automotive packs and FAA Stage 4 type certification — same destination, wrong chemistry.
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Quiet Breakout: Pharma Is Building Psychedelics Without the Trip, and the FDA Just Cleared the First One for At-Home Use
A 1998 migraine pill, an at-home antidepressant trial, and 39 patent grants in 2025 outline a quiet split inside psychedelic medicine.
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Convergence Watch: The Oil-Well Loggers Are Coming for Lithium
Schlumberger and Halliburton just spent 2025 patenting downhole NMR and pulsed-neutron tools tuned for lithium-7. The DLE race is being won by oilfield services contractors, not chemistry startups.