Nathaniel Hendrix
@nhendrix.bsky.social
Healthcare data scientist and researcher in Washington, DC
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A favorite John Searle meme, in his memory
September 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A favorite John Searle meme, in his memory
A little bit of good news: NIH has caught up with previous years' funding levels. Their staff deserves tremendous respect.
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A little bit of good news: NIH has caught up with previous years' funding levels. Their staff deserves tremendous respect.
Waymo data from 95M miles finds an 80% reduction in injurious crashes and, esp. noteworthy, a 92% reduction in pedestrian injuries.
There should be some real moral urgency behind the wide-spread implementation of self-driving cars (and I mean good systems like Waymo's, not Tesla's FSD).
There should be some real moral urgency behind the wide-spread implementation of self-driving cars (and I mean good systems like Waymo's, not Tesla's FSD).
September 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Waymo data from 95M miles finds an 80% reduction in injurious crashes and, esp. noteworthy, a 92% reduction in pedestrian injuries.
There should be some real moral urgency behind the wide-spread implementation of self-driving cars (and I mean good systems like Waymo's, not Tesla's FSD).
There should be some real moral urgency behind the wide-spread implementation of self-driving cars (and I mean good systems like Waymo's, not Tesla's FSD).
Let the PetSmart point float!
September 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Let the PetSmart point float!
Cat tax, in case you’re curious
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Cat tax, in case you’re curious
There’s a kind of dove in DC that I never see on the ground level, but which often visits my office on the eighth floor. I love these little guys, and it always makes me happy when they hang out on the sill.
May 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There’s a kind of dove in DC that I never see on the ground level, but which often visits my office on the eighth floor. I love these little guys, and it always makes me happy when they hang out on the sill.
This is such a perverse result. NDP got more votes than Bloc Québécois but has 1/3rd of BQ’s seats.
April 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is such a perverse result. NDP got more votes than Bloc Québécois but has 1/3rd of BQ’s seats.
I’m Nathaniel. I’m a health economist, and I live in DC with three cats and one other human. Currently thinking and writing a lot about the lessons of the semaglutide shortage of the past 3 years. Here’s a pic of two of the cats (rare to capture them all together).
April 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m Nathaniel. I’m a health economist, and I live in DC with three cats and one other human. Currently thinking and writing a lot about the lessons of the semaglutide shortage of the past 3 years. Here’s a pic of two of the cats (rare to capture them all together).
Claude isn't very good at converting poses to ASCII art. I was trying to convert screenshots into ASCII art that might've been more convenient for Apple Notes and... well, ended up just keeping the screenshots.
April 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Claude isn't very good at converting poses to ASCII art. I was trying to convert screenshots into ASCII art that might've been more convenient for Apple Notes and... well, ended up just keeping the screenshots.
The etymology of the word “delirium”
March 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The etymology of the word “delirium”
Crews starting to remove the BLM mural on 16th St in DC today
March 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Crews starting to remove the BLM mural on 16th St in DC today
From Ursula Le Guin's "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.e...)
February 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
From Ursula Le Guin's "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.e...)
It's as important ever to affirm the importance of an open society.
![A quote from Matthew Rose's article, "Leo Strauss and the Closed Society": "By the “closed society” [Strauss] didn’t mean non-Western cultures, pre-Enlightenment thought, or even undemocratic polities. The closed society represented a perennial moral possibility, whose roots are found in every human soul and whose demands must be confronted by every human community. In its most common expression, the closed society levels a familiar accusation: that the open society is immoral, or at least amoral, because it jeopardizes the very possibility of living a virtuous life."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k76y7xze2thyyjowshwbxtfu/bafkreihztn7cpxtcyr3p4klbbdoal7jzib5tw3oi76gxyqvsf4iqqtriy4@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It's as important ever to affirm the importance of an open society.
From this excellent article: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-wor...
January 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
From this excellent article: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-wor...
From this excellent piece by Rob Henderson about the work of Eric Hoffer on mass movements: www.robkhenderson.com/p/without-be...
January 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
From this excellent piece by Rob Henderson about the work of Eric Hoffer on mass movements: www.robkhenderson.com/p/without-be...
From Chwe’s “Rational Ritual”:
December 28, 2024 at 8:30 PM
From Chwe’s “Rational Ritual”:
My musical year in review.
I was in Chicago for the first time in September, and so I listened obsessively to "Rehearsing My Choir," which tells the story of the Friedbergers' grandmother growing up and raising a family there. It mentions many Chicago landmarks, so I had fun tracking down a few.
I was in Chicago for the first time in September, and so I listened obsessively to "Rehearsing My Choir," which tells the story of the Friedbergers' grandmother growing up and raising a family there. It mentions many Chicago landmarks, so I had fun tracking down a few.
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 PM
My musical year in review.
I was in Chicago for the first time in September, and so I listened obsessively to "Rehearsing My Choir," which tells the story of the Friedbergers' grandmother growing up and raising a family there. It mentions many Chicago landmarks, so I had fun tracking down a few.
I was in Chicago for the first time in September, and so I listened obsessively to "Rehearsing My Choir," which tells the story of the Friedbergers' grandmother growing up and raising a family there. It mentions many Chicago landmarks, so I had fun tracking down a few.
Soooo I was pretty sleepy last night
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Soooo I was pretty sleepy last night
Google's GenChess experiment is too fun. It generates chess sets based on different themes. A few of my favorites below.
labs.google/genchess
labs.google/genchess
November 27, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Google's GenChess experiment is too fun. It generates chess sets based on different themes. A few of my favorites below.
labs.google/genchess
labs.google/genchess
A few reasons for optimism
November 24, 2024 at 1:10 AM
A few reasons for optimism
The AMA amplified a baffling study of long COVID prevalence just last week. The rates being reported in these estimates far exceed diagnosis rates even for the clinicians who diagnose it most intensively.
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 AM
The AMA amplified a baffling study of long COVID prevalence just last week. The rates being reported in these estimates far exceed diagnosis rates even for the clinicians who diagnose it most intensively.
To be loved is to be changed
November 19, 2024 at 11:44 PM
To be loved is to be changed