Working Papers
These pages are hypotheses and research programs, not peer-reviewed findings. They are public so qualified domain scholars can test, improve, falsify, or coauthor them.
A testable narrative-theory framework asking whether stories move audiences through recurring structures of force, release, revelation, gathering, and held contradiction.
Lineage: Propp, Campbell, Booker, Vonnegut, Kishotenketsu, cognitive narratology, computational narrative analysis.
Read research pageA testable account of English vowel movement as structural change shaped by lexical mass, print standardization, schooling, pulpit reading, and prestige networks.
Lineage: J. R. Firth, historical phonology, distributional semantics, print history.
Read research pageA falsifiable threshold model for mitochondrial endosymbiosis, treating stable integration as a crossing preceded by failed encounters, genomic residue, and barrier reduction.
Lineage: Lynn Margulis, Martin and Muller, Gould and Eldredge, Asgard archaea research.
Read research pageA falsifiable research program using Paulinella as a living model of organellogenesis, with organisms on both sides of the endosymbiotic threshold and observable gene-transfer dynamics.
Lineage: Paulinella research, plastid evolution, endosymbiotic gene transfer, Doolittle, Nowack.
Read research pageA financial-history and systemic-risk research program asking whether instrument novelty, counterparty expansion, and professional withdrawal appear before threshold financial events.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, Kindleberger, Reinhart and Rogoff, financial innovation literature, systemic-risk network research.
Read research pageA financial NLP research program measuring divergence among filings, earnings calls, product claims, strategy language, and market attribution before ordinary indicators fully register distress.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, financial disclosure research, organizational theory, optimal transport.
Read research pageA computational Sinology and textual-transmission hypothesis treating The Art of War as a strategic core refined by a professional advisory community over multiple generations.
Lineage: Classical Chinese textual studies, Warring States history, authorship studies, computational stylometry.
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