Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Science

Reflections on science by a full-time biologist.

You Generate More Energy Than the Sun: A Fermi Calculation

2026-02-19
An Answer to Jimmy Carter: Life is common, intelligence is rare

2026-02-18
The Enemy is Abstraction: When keeping it specific is a good idea

2026-02-17
Narcissistic Injuries: Probably not caused by science

2026-02-15
Talent as Cognitive Attitude: It’s not what you have, but what you do with it

2026-02-13
Marmorkrebs: It’s neither nature nor nurture

2026-02-10
So Random: The universe is probably stochastic and we’re bad at accepting it

2026-02-09
A More Concrete Metaphysics: Stephen Wolfram is on to something

2026-02-06
An Old and Wild Absurdity: We keep making the wrong assumptions about evolution

2026-02-04
Counting is Hard: You’d think we know how many people there are, but we don’t

2026-02-01