Mathematics · History · 4½ minutes
Tesla & the Magic of Nine
“Tesla?” “The car?” Unc takes the nephews through AC and DC, a river analogy, ten fingers, and the discovery hiding in 243. Grab paper and a pencil. Play with it.
The living story archive
Reels & Stories
Adept follows the question beyond the obvious answer. These recent releases bring fiction, history, mathematics, and Black family life into the same conversation.
Featured · September 2026
Dr. Ian Trophy PhD’s Seminar:
Uh Oh He Doesn’t Know.
Dr. Ian Trophy is Entropy, and he is very sure of the ending. A rap artist notices when his phone answers the nearest question instead of the one he asked. A student named Jimmy has mathematics to work on—and an ancestor who insists he pay attention.
A speculative story about knowledge, inherited memory, and the danger of mistaking a fluent answer for understanding.
Story: Adept the Funky Boom Diggity Booty Smack, with help from Cathy G.P. Transformer.
Narration: Phelps.
Fiction · AI-assisted visual storytelling. Instagram may require sign-in to play the reel.
ATSS · Ain’t That Some Shit
Keep asking.
Unc, Auntie, and the next generation make room for the questions a lesson plan can leave behind. Fictional family conversations open the door to real history and ideas.
History · Curiosity
Acoustic Kitty
A CIA project, a cat, and a family conversation about what happens when an ambitious idea meets an animal with plans of its own.
History · Persuasion
Torches of Freedom
Auntie and the nieces look back at Edward Bernays, the 1929 cigarette campaign, and the difference between choosing freely and being sold a symbol of freedom.
Watch on Threads ↗History · Memory
Port Chicago
An ATSS conversation turns toward Port Chicago and a chapter of Black history that deserves to be remembered.
Watch on Facebook ↗ATSS uses fictional family scenes, AI illustrations, and synthetic narration. The Tesla episode’s mathematics is demonstrated in the story; it is not attributed to Tesla.