Posts by Serge Blake

https://youtu.be/0GOgiJlHkcY?si=d0RRfhUdyJQobGVT In the hush that follows a glacier’s retreat, where raw stone stings in the cold and the wind scours every hope of life away, a lacework appears. Delicate at…

https://youtu.be/MzzOKh6gbGg?si=qIBvms9lsmuvMPhl Introduction Tetanus is a preventable but life-threatening disease caused by Clostridium tetani, an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium. Despite being well understood and entirely preventable through vaccination, tetanus continues to claim…

https://youtu.be/g197xdRZsW0?si=vguYn3N3_647g24h Prologue : The Actor Who Rewrote Math On a warm September evening in 2019, Terrence Howard stood beneath the glaring lights of the Emmy Awards red carpet. He wasn’t…

https://youtu.be/7pBfyqI2oXI?si=ZaW7axEus8VS9Xos Few names in organized crime evoke as much intrigue as The Chicago Outfit. While the Mafia in New York has been immortalized in movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas,…

https://youtu.be/b7XgGeqhXts?si=S6geDwbih7JKvDTw Introduction : The Snow King Who Outpaced McDonald’s In March 2025, while the world was watching Silicon Valley tech IPOs, a different kind of corporate giant quietly stole the…

https://youtu.be/GkxrJSTLH_s?si=e-7fV7fqh3ZoSwAk Cancer begins as a single cell gone subtly, then catastrophically, wrong. That cell’s DNA—life’s instruction set—acquires changes that tip its behavior from disciplined citizen to rogue operator. Over months…

https://youtu.be/QwV3qXeLfzM?si=dypPeGK57xQw9ykW https://youtu.be/yFTLMvu19Xs?si=M4us7v2IxF4cStTE I. Mushrooms : The Cosmos Silent Gangsters Life on Earth began in the crucible of a young, volatile planet. Simple molecules—water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous—coalesced into amino acids,…

Part 1: A Gate in the Ozarks https://youtu.be/9-Bfx-3Bxy4?si=WCUfpZKfy82eyj2U On a narrow dirt road winding through the Arkansas Ozarks, a small sign marks the entrance to “Return to the Land.” Hand-carved…

So that's a juvenile box fish. Unsurprisingly, toxic to eat. Probably my favorite reef fish, although juvenile harlequin sweetlips are pretty close. They're called "disco fish", they shaken their butt…

Standing on the windswept Tibetan plateau, surrounded by an endless expanse of sky and earth, I first glimpsed Mount Kailash. Its silhouette was unlike any mountain I had ever seen—an…