User:Alfredsph
Hello!
I'm interested in books, films and science.
Articles I've written:
- The Elephant in the Brain
- The Book of Why
- Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
- The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
- Jerskin Fendrix
- Deathcrash
- Goblin Band
Articles to which I have made non-trivial contributions:
- Race Matters (Added detailed Reception section, references and a Summary)
- Vitalik Buterin (Added 'Work with Glen Weyl' Section)
- Brainstorms (Reception section and references)
- The Mind's I (Expanded Reception section and added references)
- Paranoia Agent (Greatly expanded Reception section and references)
- Persian Fire (Review section and references)
- The Idiots Are Winning (Reviews and references)
- The Circus of Dr. Lao (Reception and references)
- The Soul of the World (Reception and references)
- That Sinking Feeling (Reception and references)
- The Sot-Weed Factor (Reception and references)
- The Funeral (1996 film) (Reception and references)
- John Dies at the End (Reception and references)
- Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Reception and references)
- The World's Religions
Pages that could be made (with refs for notability):
=The Mussel Feast - Birgit Vanderbeke=
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/12/mussel-feast-birgit-vanderbeke-review
- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-mussel-feast-by-birgit-vanderbeke-peirene-press-ps10-8550569.html
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-a-glance-lkzn5pkb7s6
=Caroline - Caroline (Album) 2022=
- https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/435639-caroline-caroline.php
- https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/caroline-caroline/
- https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/caroline-caroline-review-a-hypnotising-debut-from-an-octet-bursting-with-ideas-3163862
- https://thequietus.com/articles/31187-caroline-band-caroline-album-review-rough-trade
- https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/caroline-caroline/
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=In defense of Flogging- Peter Moskos=
- https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079933,00.html
- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/book-review-defense-flogging/
- https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780465021482
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/notes-on-the-caging-of-america
- https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2011/06/23/sing-sing-or-the-lash
- https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/07/10/let_convicts_choose_prison_or_the_lash/
=The Experience of God - David Bentley Hart=
- https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/08/a-new-apologetic
- https://newrepublic.com/article/117393/david-bentley-harts-experience-god-isnt-must-read-atheist
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/jan/14/the-theology-book-atheists-should-read
- https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/2089/the-experience-of-god-being-consciousness-bliss
=Savage Gods - Paul Kingsnorth=
- https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/761232688/in-savage-gods-an-author-finds-that-pondering-being-leads-to-an-inability-to-wri
- https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/are-words-the-enemy-of-belonging-on-paul-kingsnorths-savage-gods/
- https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/savage-gods
- https://www.full-stop.net/2020/04/09/reviews/josh-allan/savage-gods-paul-kingsnorth/
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/paul-kingsnorth/savage-gods/
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/01/best-books-2019-picked-by-years-best-writers
=The Undivided Universe - Hiley and Bohm=
- https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2808635
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619815-200-you-cant-have-your-quantum-cake-and-eat-it/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/366420b0
=Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics -John Stewart Bell=
- https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/354974
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/39/6/033
- https://www.nature.com/articles/331667a0
=Goblin Band=
- https://thequietus.com/interviews/goblin-band-interview-rowan-gatherer-sonny-brazil/
- https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/folk-music-reviews/folk-music-experimental-2024-elijah-minnelli-broadside-hacks-ray-aggs-queer-folk/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/arts/music/uk-folk-music-politics.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/03/goblin-band-come-slack-your-horse-review-rowdy-flamboyant-folk