Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

Things Don’t Happen for a Reason: It’s hard to accept

2025-10-14
Playing With the Sun As With a Little Brook: Girl Lithe and Tawny

2025-10-13
Shamanism: A universal practice

2025-10-12
Tom McGuane’s Cameo: He probably made an appearance in a Jimmy Buffett music video

2025-10-11
Ordinary Beauty: An extraordinary video

2025-10-10
Birds, Sex & Beauty: Matt Ridley’s new book on sexual selection

2025-10-09
Mammals are Prose; Birds are Poetry

2025-10-08
The Algernon Argument: Not just about intelligence

2025-10-07
In Patagonia: Arid wastes taking a firm possession of the mind

2025-10-06
The Territory is the Map: An example of nature imitating art

2025-10-05

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