Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

The EU-Mercosur Agreement: Free trade is doing well elsewhere

2026-01-12
Plumbing, and Lack Thereof: Our ancestors’ sanitary arrangements were objectionable

2026-01-11
Gateway: A sci fi novel from 1977 that has aged well

2026-01-10
Shingles Vaccine and Dementia: Good news, but only because we got lucky

2026-01-09
Ecojargon: Think like an ecologist, but don’t talk like one, please

2026-01-08
Mathematica: Learning math means training your intuition

2026-01-07
Another Utopia: Imagining what America could achieve in the next 25 years

2026-01-06
Feynman vs. The Abacus: Sometimes intuition wins over processing power

2026-01-05
LLMs Are Not High IQ: AI doesn’t perform well on intelligence tests

2026-01-04
Many and Few: The lowest common denominator drags us down

2026-01-03

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