Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Recent

Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy

2026-02-23
Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister

2026-02-22
Venus: It’s too h-o-t-t-o-g-o

2026-02-21
Job Security is Higher in Europe: That may be a problem

2026-02-20
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
Lexical Ambiguity: Sentences that break brains

2026-02-16
Narcissistic Injuries: Probably not caused by science

2026-02-15
The Potato Order: A royal decree that required reverse psychology to implement

2026-02-14

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