Month: June 2025

A Timely Gift of Kindness

Today we visited one of my wife’s friends, who has a 5-year-old daughter. The wonderful thing is, they offered us all their newborn and toddler clothes — which is such a big help. So we drove out to Bakonycsernye to pick everything up. It was a pleasant trip, almost like a little outing rather than […]

Barely Passing, Deeply Drained

I feel humiliated and terrible at the same time. So, I had this exam on Modern Hungarian History. The professor expects us to study an entire 600-page book—and she doesn’t specify what exactly we need to know. Nothing is outlined, nothing is highlighted. You’re just supposed to learn everything. She can ask about anything from […]

Whispers in the Dark

A few weeks ago, we visited some dear friends in a quiet, charming village nestled among hills and trees. We spent time catching up, collecting a few baby essentials (our little one is coming in August!), and soaking in the serenity that only a peaceful landscape can offer. It was the kind of place that […]

Reality Filters and the Great Hallucination

There’s this idea I keep returning to: that reality, as we perceive it, is a hallucination. A shared, adaptive hallucination. Our senses don’t give us truth—they give us usefulness. The way a bat “sees” with sonar or a fish senses electric fields—those are real to them. We just get the human version. Filtered. Trimmed. Functional. […]

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

Between 2016 and 2018, NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detected unusual radio pulses originating from beneath Antarctica’s ice. These signals appeared to come from below the horizon, contradicting expectations that they should reflect off the ice surface. A recent study, utilizing data from the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, analyzed 15 years of cosmic […]