Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

Building Communities: Liberalism and community are compatible

2025-08-13
Electric Network Frequency Analysis: A way to find out when and where a video was recorded

2025-08-12
Animal Trick: A magic trick over the telephone

2025-08-11
Not People: Don’t psychoanalyze AIs

2025-08-10
The Last Picture Show: Larry McMurthy’s novel set in 1950s small-town Texas

2025-08-09
Scientists are Weird: And so is the scientific worldview

2025-08-08
Eccentrics: I wish there were more of them

2025-08-07
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

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