Nathan Geffen's website
Simulations
Introduction to modelling epidemics and infectious diseases
Why don't dangerous animals often kill each other when competing for mates? A simulation of how non-lethal agonistic behaviour evolves.
Balls on a plane
Graphical implementation of the Prisoner's Dilemna game
that Robert Axelrod and Douglas Hofstadter wrote elegantly about in the 1980s. (Github repo - implemented in old version of Qt. No idea if it still works.)
Miscellaneous
Archived
Treatment Action Campaign
website as of October 2008
Space travel calculator: Find out how long it will take you to get to various planetary and interstellar vacation spots.
Quackdown: retired website that used to debunk nonsense
Selected reading following the events in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank of 7 October 2023
South African Human Rights Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories 2008
Mutterings
Israel: Double-standards, myths and facts
(Originally published by
Vrye Weekblad
on 12 January 2024)
South Africa and Israel chose different paths
. Vrye Weekblad, 5 January 2024 (
PDF
)
Without appropriation art is sterile (26 August 2019)
Movie review: Joker vs Black Panther (2 February 2020)
Steven Pinker and the need for modest claims in speculative science writing