Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

History and Function: Whence and Why are different questions

2026-01-22
Even Chances: AI could be good or bad, and we have no idea which is more likely

2026-01-21
Peripheral Drinking: David Samuels goes to Polynesia

2026-01-20
Attention and Emotion: Can we love without paying attention?

2026-01-19
Freezing Bubble: Crystallization in real time

2026-01-18
The Enemy is Numbness: It’s not just design that seems bland

2026-01-17
Two Visions of the Future: Sci fi scenarios that may yet become stories

2026-01-16
No Dangerous Knowledge: We can handle the truth

2026-01-15
Elephant Seals: Men should try not to be like them

2026-01-14
Tastefully Painted Statues: In antiquity, they had taste after all

2026-01-13

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