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
Archived back issues of Equal Treatment, the magazine of the Treatment Action Campaigm
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