Research studies · private index
Small questions, measured answers.
Each study turns one question into provenance-tracked data, an analysis you can audit, and an interactive page you can play with.
Eroom's Law, extended and decomposed
For sixty years each billion dollars of pharmaceutical R&D bought fewer new medicines — a decline so regular it was named Eroom's Law, Moore's Law backwards. Rebuilding the curve from primary sources and carrying it to 2025 shows the decline stopped around 2000, and breaking it down by disease area and molecule type shows where the money now goes and what it still buys.
Feels-like, adjusted
The temperature you feel routinely disagrees with the one the thermometer reads — humidity and wind pull them apart most at the extremes. A year of hourly New York weather maps exactly when and by how much, and a live lookup does the same for any city right now.
Retuning the piano to the dissonance minima
Modern pianos tune every semitone to the same 2^(1/12) ratio, but measured roughness between notes is smallest at simple ratios the piano just misses — a minor third wants 1.200, not 1.189. A retunable piano plays Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, and Ravel under equal-tempered, fixed-minimum, and per-chord-optimized tuning so you can hear the difference.