Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

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The Million Yen Melon: Why isn’t anyone growing Yubari melons outside Japan?

2025-08-06
Air or Earth: There’s no bigger contrast than an airport and the Great Outdoors

2025-08-05
Spinning Sun-Powered Space Catapult: David Kipping’s design for sending interstellar probes

2025-08-04
Star Bowl Spinning Overhead: Night Poem by Kim Stanley Robinson

2025-08-03
All That Is Earth Has Once Been Sky: The Meteorite by C. S. Lewis

2025-08-02
Eating Sushi with a Fork: I recommend it

2025-08-01
The Moon Landing as Signaling: Not that there’s anything wrong with that

2025-07-31
America! The U.S.A. know how to do air conditioning better than anyone

2025-07-30
Open Day and Night: From Vigil’s Aeneid

2025-07-29
Trash Panda: Taking a nickname too literally

2025-07-28

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