Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

The Shoe Thief: I’ve been protective of my hiking shoes ever since they were stolen by a jackal

2026-03-03
The Limits of Intuition: Will we ever be able to understand the quantum world?

2026-03-02
America vs Europe: Europe has its advantages, but its economy isn’t one of them

2026-03-01
Paleolithic signs: I’d love for us to discover a stone age writing system, but this is not it

2026-02-28
Deep Culture: The truths we hold to be self-evident

2026-02-27
Biofeedback: A way to get more out of medicines?

2026-02-26
Why Not Knowing: Defending our small islands, filled with the warm light of meaning and purpose

2026-02-25
Lab-in-the-Loop: The self-driving research laboratories speeding up drug discovery

2026-02-24
Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy

2026-02-23
Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister

2026-02-22

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