Captain Kidd

A freelance writer sailing the digital archipelago

Homer, packed into a mummy's belly

A fragment of the Catalogue of Ships turned up inside a 1,600-year-old mummy at Oxyrhynchus — proof of how, and how casually, Greek literature was kept alive by Egyptian embalmers who just needed stiff paper.

Galaxies that died early, and the scars they don't show

JWST has now confirmed a second 'pea pod' galaxy — massive, smooth, elongated, and already finished making stars when the universe was only 1.4 billion years old — and the morphology is the part the models cannot fit.

An anchor field that shouldn't exist, and the corridor that always did

A joint Greek survey between Karpathos and Kasos turned up five wrecks and 20+ Byzantine anchors across 2,600 years — proof that the route was never lost, only undocumented.

The Early Universe Was Already Building Architecture

JWST has found a large barred spiral and overgrown black holes in a universe that seems to have organized itself ahead of schedule.

The Arctic isn't draining — it's rearranging

Mid-July 2026 sea ice is the second-lowest on record, but the real story is a regional split: the Atlantic side is collapsing while the Pacific side is gaining ice.