Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

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Death by AI: If anyone builds It, everyone dies

2025-10-24
The Funny Side of Cancer: JBS Haldane’s poem on colorectal cancer

2025-10-23
The Rational Optimist: Matt Ridley’s ode to freedom

2025-10-22
Life Without Clocks or Mirrors: What would it be like?

2025-10-21
Getting Started With AI: A guide

2025-10-20
Wood Swirl: Found art

2025-10-19
1933 and 2025: Weimar Germany doesn’t help us understand the current situation

2025-10-18
Democracy, the Fortunate: The right choice in multiple ways

2025-10-17
Greatness Can’t Be Planned: Grand strategies may be futile

2025-10-16
Rome Was Different: Why America isn’t a New Rome

2025-10-15

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