Biology
Creatures, plants, ecosystems and evolution.
Research to reel
How I check
a science story.
A reel has seconds to earn attention. The research behind it does not get the same shortcut.
01 / Subjects
What I cover.
Human Body
Perception, anatomy, behaviour and health science.
Astronomy
Planets, stars, exoplanets and cosmology.
Physics
Light, sound, scale, matter and fundamental forces.
Chemistry
Materials, reactions and molecular behaviour.
Earth
Geology, climate, rainforests and mass extinctions.
Technology
Cameras, spacecraft, chips, storage and engineering.
02 / Depth framework
One object. One violation. One sentence.
I find a concrete object, identify the expectation the science violates, then write the smallest honest sentence that makes the explanation worth following.
03 / Validation
The claim has to survive the source.
- I split the script into discrete, checkable claims.
- I start with primary research and credible institutions.
- I retrieve and read every source. A search snippet is not evidence.
- I record the exact line or figure that supports the wording.
- I require two independent credible sources per published episode.
- I route imprecise or unsupported claims to review instead of smoothing them over.
04 / Failure analysis
The misses teach the system.
Neutron Star Matter
A scale comparison can be memorable and still fail if the reference object quietly changes between draft and calculation.
Wood Frog
A biological superpower loses trust when a conditional survival mechanism is rewritten as invulnerability.
Perfect Copy
A hook can be technically polished and still fail when it explains the answer before creating the question.
I want the boundary between evidence, interpretation and wonder to be easy to see.