Nothing Alive Is Alien to Me: Empedocles on Moral Kinship
Here’s something that keeps me up at night. I’m sitting in my apartment in Tirana, looking out at the plane…
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Were the Riace Bronzes stolen from Sicily?
Who really owns the story of the Riace Bronzes: Calabria, Sicily, or all of us who care about the ancient…
Victorian Diaries, Rimini Trains, And Our Quantified Lives
My life runs on little boxes. The carriage hums like a low refrigerator, the sea outside the window flattened by…
The Bad Road That Saves Us
Discomfort is a compass. I learned that on a damp morning in Rimini, my wheels whispering over cold pavement and…
Is Your Online Privacy Really Safe in 2025?
Have you ever stopped scrolling mid-feed and wondered: who’s really watching me right now? Welcome to FreeAstroScience.com, where we break…
Why Musk’s War on Wikipedia Is a War on Reality
Truth is not a product. I spend a lot of my time online, maybe more than most. From my wheelchair…
The Anthropocene Isn’t Dead—It’s Evolving Into Us
Names don’t save worlds. I’m Gerd Dani from Rimini—writer, wheelchair wheels crunching over seaside grit, salty air in my lungs,…
Teenagers, Screens, and the Quiet Art of Freedom
The screen glows; we glow back. I’m writing this from Rimini, with sea salt in the air and the soft…
Can Being Wrong Actually Make You Right in Science?
I’ll be honest with you—three ideas have been haunting me lately, and they all sound utterly mad at first. First:…
Can Día de los Muertos Transform How We Grieve?
What if death wasn’t the end of love, but a doorway to deeper connection? Welcome, dear reader. We’re so glad…