Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• Thinking Big

  

  Depending on who you are the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) may set your eyeballs to rolling.  You might know that extremely wealthy Robert... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human Agency

  

  Goodreads Choice Awards elected John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed as the Best Nonfiction for 2021. It’s easy to see why. Green has long been known both as... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Riddle

  

  It’s an age-old question: how many Ph.D.s does it take to screw in a lightbulb?  I haven’t figured it out yet, so if you have the solution please let me know... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christmas Classic

  

  While it’s a story I know well, I’d never read the book. I suppose I tend to think of Christmas when it’s already hard upon me, or perhaps I’m just making... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Great Resignation

  

  Although many people my age are retired, I’m looking at a couple more decades of work at least.  A large part of this is because I specialized in a field I... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sects and Violence

  

  Important books often suffer because of poor distribution. There are really only five publishers in English (“the big five”) that can reliably get their books... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Myth of Ownership

  

  “Luddite” doesn’t really describe me.  I don’t have a problem with technology, but I often object to how its used.  Let me give an example or two. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Behind Science

  

  Science and religion have been sparring partners for a few centuries now, and I believe this is a generational conflict.  The child, science, arguing with the... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mining for History

  

  An article by Matti Friedman in this month’s Smithsonian got me to thinking about the Bible’s iconic status again. Titled “An Archaeological Dig Reignites the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Read Red

  

  Fairy tales can be pretty gnarly. I recently picked up a new translation of Grimm but I haven’t read it yet. For some time I’d been aware of Christina Henry’s... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Change Management

  

  Calendars fascinate and flummox me.  When I try to convert from Julian to Gregorian, or vice versa, I get hopelessly lost.  The same applies to time zones and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old and New

  

  Annual holiday traditions show just how deeply ritual is established in our behavior.  As the holiday season rolls around we find our familiar customs to be... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• After This

  

  It didn’t rock the critics, but it is distinctly creepy.  After.Life came out in 2009 and quickly fell from sight. It’s an interesting movie nevertheless. Any... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Justice Hungry

  

  Social justice is very important to me.  At the same time I realize I’m just a single individual, and a small one at that.  I have a little group of internet... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Brooding

  

  Horror was undergoing a serious development beginning in 1968.  Into the seventies many boundaries were being crossed and new areas of fear were opened.  David... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• True Value

  

  It’s a funny idea, net worth.  (Who says Capitalism isn’t a religion?)  We decide what people are worth by what corporate executives and small-minded economics... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Devils and Witches

  

  If you’re a regular reader (thank you!) you know that I’m currently under contract to write the Devil’s Advocates series volume on The Wicker Man. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Standard Maintenance

  

  Something disturbing happened the other day.  My laptop started requiring constant plugging in.  I figured the battery was starting to go—it is several years ol... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remarkable and Beautiful

  

  Last year I read and commented on Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. I knew there’d be a sequel, but it took some time for it to come out in paperback... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Abominable and Biblical

  

  In many ways Holy Horror was an initial volume. The Bible is fairly prevalent in horror, and had the book done any better I might’ve considered a sequel. Take... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY