Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

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Questions about Philanthropy: Americans are giving generously, but are they giving well?

2025-09-05
Your Photos Have Already Been Taken: Good luck trying to take a truly new picture

2025-09-04
By Myself: To be happy, I need to be alone

2025-09-03
Moana: Could do worse when learning about Polynesia

2025-09-02
Effective Mess: The garbage can model of organizations and the fractured entanglement of AI

2025-09-01
Give Me My Task and Let Me Do It Right: Corinthians by Johnny Cash

2025-08-31
Shrunken Heads: Small mementos of murder

2025-08-30
Personnel as Policy: Hyman Rickover’s thoughts on management

2025-08-29
Kon-Tiki: An example of mistaken beliefs inspiring great deeds

2025-08-28
People Are Better Than Dogs: If dogs had nukes, they’d blow each other up all time

2025-08-27

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