Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

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Counting is Hard: You’d think we know how many people there are, but we don’t

2026-02-01
Free Work: Why has no country opened its borders to anyone willing to work?

2026-01-31
Monarch Wings: Now they float in water

2026-01-30
More Fundamental Than Physics: Concepts have more explanatory power

2026-01-29
The Narrow Beam of Consciousness: Why don’t we have more mental bandwidth?

2026-01-28
Anemones: They look like they’re from another planet

2026-01-27
My Maximum Likelihood Solution to the Fermi Paradox: Not new but probably true

2026-01-26
AI Against Slop: LLMs may help the internet move on from chasing clicks

2026-01-25
Why Read? Don’t you have better things to do?

2026-01-24
The Portability of Concepts: Why do some ideas apply in some many situations?

2026-01-23

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