Nick Rahier is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Leuven. His research interests include technology worlds, energy culture, urbanity, healing, and herbalism. He is currently working toward a doctoral dissertation on urban life in Nakuru, Kenya inspired by different manifestations of "heat" in the city. Nick can be contacted on [email protected].