Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

AI in Biology: Limited as long as it can’t do experiments

2025-02-27
The Venus of Monruz: Looks mid-century but is 11,000 years old

2025-02-26
The Best of Billions: 8 billion humans now, 9 billion in the stone age

2025-02-25
Chauvet Virtual Tour: The next best thing to visiting the cave

2025-02-24
Avoiding the Paleolithic: Why is there no Netflix show set in the stone age?

2025-02-23
Mars: If we don’t go, what does that say about us?

2025-02-22
Kevin Kelly’s Travel Tips: 50 years of distilled experience

2025-02-21
The Game of Life: John Horton Conway’s cellular automata

2025-02-20
Kraken: We’re curiously uncurious about the world’s largest invertebrates

2025-02-19
AI Overreliance: Do we have to worry about a generation of brain-drained meat puppets?

2025-02-18

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