Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

Data Archival: The case for M-discs

2025-11-13
Pharma Ads: They don’t make for great dinner conversation

2025-11-12
Kári Stefánsson: Cantankerous and inspiring

2025-11-11
Wrangel Island Mammoths: The last ones died 4,000 years ago

2025-11-10
Disappearing Polymorphs: Highly contagious crystals

2025-11-09
New Mexico: Both more and less interesting than I expected

2025-11-08
Politics Won’t Fix It: Something that makes me optimistic despite political dysfunction

2025-11-07
Lack of Desperation: I don’t write as well as Sam Kriss but I think I’m also happier

2025-11-06
Child of Freedom, Parent of Prosperity: It’s innovation

2025-11-05
Corporate Email: Mostly but not always dreary

2025-11-04

Notable

An Old and Wild Absurdity: We keep making the wrong assumptions about evolution

2026-02-04
Silent Night, Silently: Singing in sign language

2025-12-22
Facts About Americans: Quirkier than you think

2025-11-18
One Argument is Better than Two: The case for honest arguments

2025-11-02
Three Days by the Lake: Car camping in the Sierras

2025-09-24
Brixton: On moving to London when I turned 18

2024-12-06
I Put My Toaster in the Dishwasher: It was fine

2024-09-05
All That Is Sacred: Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Richard Brautigan and Jimmy Buffett in 1970s Key West

2024-07-26
Desert Tales: Some strange encounters

2024-03-24
The Second Kind of Impossible: The best kind of non-fiction

2024-03-22