Top Hackernews posts from aeon.co

1. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016) (aeon.co)
   765 points by raattgift over 4 years | 396 comments
2. Moths in slow motion [video] (aeon.co)
   661 points by Tomte almost 5 years | 120 comments
3. Ant Geopolitics (aeon.co)
   279 points by romaintailhurat over 2 years | 87 comments
4. Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? (aeon.co)
   233 points by cmrdporcupine over 5 years | 146 comments
5. Last hours of an organ donor (aeon.co)
   189 points by Hooke over 2 years | 133 comments
6. Two women recall coming of age in Victorian London (1970) [video] (aeon.co)
   178 points by samclemens about 4 years | 98 comments
7. Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video] (aeon.co)
   176 points by gmays over 3 years | 67 comments
8. There’s no planet B (aeon.co)
   163 points by nsoonhui over 3 years | 236 comments
9. For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (aeon.co)
   148 points by ALee over 5 years | 74 comments
10. Keju, China’s difficult civil service test (aeon.co)
    146 points by laurex almost 3 years | 90 comments
11. The horrors of Pompeii (aeon.co)
    138 points by diodorus about 3 years | 114 comments
12. We are not empty: The concept of the atomic void is a mistake (aeon.co)
    136 points by drdee about 3 years | 145 comments
13. Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists? (aeon.co)
    119 points by smarm over 4 years | 120 comments
14. What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017) (aeon.co)
    116 points by sakopov about 5 years | 48 comments
15. Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable? (aeon.co)
    115 points by optimalsolver over 5 years | 150 comments
16. My grandfather Paul Tillich, the unbelieving theologian (aeon.co)
    110 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 193 comments
17. Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death (aeon.co)
    106 points by Hooke over 2 years | 172 comments
18. Evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network (aeon.co)
    100 points by ALee over 4 years | 33 comments
19. Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate (aeon.co)
    100 points by gmays about 4 years | 6 comments
20. Einstein and Hume’s philosophy of time (aeon.co)
    100 points by pseudolus over 5 years | 38 comments
21. Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas (aeon.co)
    97 points by HR01 over 3 years | 144 comments
22. Questions about the hard limits of human intelligence (aeon.co)
    97 points by ColinWright about 4 years | 83 comments
23. On knowing who he was (aeon.co)
    97 points by Towaway69 over 2 years | 77 comments
24. Against longtermism (2021) (aeon.co)
    96 points by jlpcsl over 3 years | 235 comments
25. Corruption Has Shaped History. Why Do We Still Ignore It? (aeon.co)
    95 points by pseudolus over 4 years | 114 comments
26. The geometry of other people (aeon.co)
    90 points by Petiver over 2 years | 4 comments
27. What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020) (aeon.co)
    90 points by gHeadphone over 5 years | 14 comments
28. Our tools shape our selves (aeon.co)
    90 points by lermontov over 2 years | 76 comments
29. The new architecture wars (aeon.co)
    89 points by tintinnabula over 2 years | 65 comments
30. What is it like to be a crab? (aeon.co)
    87 points by drdee almost 3 years | 75 comments
31. All Those Naked Greeks (aeon.co)
    87 points by diodorus over 3 years | 62 comments
32. How did Europe become the richest part of the world? (aeon.co)
    87 points by elorant over 4 years | 272 comments
33. 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research (aeon.co)
    86 points by PaulHoule over 3 years | 24 comments
34. Why are so many adults acting just like children? (aeon.co)
    86 points by loudtdarrow almost 4 years | 133 comments
35. Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script? (aeon.co)
    85 points by Tomte over 4 years | 30 comments
36. Hegel Today (aeon.co)
    85 points by hooboy almost 5 years | 49 comments
37. Typos, tricks and misprints (aeon.co)
    84 points by erehweb about 5 years | 34 comments
38. The American Aristotle (aeon.co)
    84 points by overwhelm almost 5 years | 30 comments
39. Our language, our world (aeon.co)
    82 points by Vigier over 2 years | 48 comments
40. On the dangers of seeing human minds as predictive machines (aeon.co)
    82 points by dangerman over 5 years | 165 comments
41. Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner (aeon.co)
    82 points by Caiero over 2 years | 228 comments
42. Who Was Duns Scotus? (aeon.co)
    79 points by drdee about 3 years | 49 comments
43. Imaginary numbers are real (aeon.co)
    76 points by Hooke about 4 years | 131 comments
44. The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe (aeon.co)
    72 points by apollinaire over 3 years | 77 comments
45. Cashless Sucks (aeon.co)
    70 points by t0bia_s almost 3 years | 67 comments
46. Philosophy is an art (aeon.co)
    68 points by drdee over 2 years | 85 comments
47. Exploring the nature of genius (aeon.co)
    64 points by acconrad over 5 years | 79 comments
48. The mythos of leadership (aeon.co)
    64 points by pepys over 2 years | 63 comments
49. The Search for Alien Tech (aeon.co)
    63 points by the-mitr almost 5 years | 32 comments
50. The Invention of Free Love (aeon.co)
    60 points by pepys almost 4 years | 56 comments
51. The Posthuman Dog (aeon.co)
    60 points by bryanrasmussen almost 5 years | 33 comments
52. A singular scientist: James Lovelock (aeon.co)
    59 points by Schroedingers2c almost 4 years | 13 comments
53. The Road from Rome (aeon.co)
    59 points by imartin2k over 5 years | 37 comments
54. For natural theologians, proving God was beside the point (aeon.co)
    59 points by Tomte over 4 years | 123 comments
55. The Mystic Art of Gardening (aeon.co)
    58 points by prismatic almost 3 years | 11 comments
56. The worldly turn: A return to economics that studies the real world (aeon.co)
    58 points by galaxyLogic over 4 years | 28 comments
57. Calculate but don’t shut up (aeon.co)
    58 points by Petiver over 4 years | 24 comments
58. The woman behind Strindberg's Miss Julie and her male alter ego (aeon.co)
    58 points by Brajeshwar over 2 years | 51 comments
59. Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter on the threat of AI [video] (aeon.co)
    57 points by pluc over 2 years | 85 comments
60. Beneath the surface of Bach’s music is a world of numerology and cunning craft (aeon.co)
    57 points by Stratoscope about 5 years | 27 comments
61. Whither philosophy? (aeon.co)
    55 points by apollinaire almost 3 years | 185 comments
62. The swing has a near-universal history of ritual transgression (aeon.co)
    55 points by Thevet over 3 years | 58 comments
63. Vergil’s secret message (aeon.co)
    55 points by diodorus almost 3 years | 13 comments
64. What Animals Think of Death (aeon.co)
    55 points by pseudolus almost 5 years | 20 comments
65. 16th century European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants [video] (aeon.co)
    52 points by webmaven about 3 years | 22 comments
66. The Wisdom of Surrender: Samuel Beckett and Quietism (aeon.co)
    52 points by vo2maxer over 5 years | 19 comments
67. William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020) (aeon.co)
    51 points by hkhn over 5 years | 8 comments
68. How Vulnerable Is the World? (aeon.co)
    51 points by Leonan over 5 years | 63 comments
69. The idea that life on Earth originated elsewhere is not as far out as it seems (aeon.co)
    50 points by the-mitr over 3 years | 65 comments
70. Elections are flawed -it’s time to start choosing our representatives by lottery (aeon.co)
    50 points by hamiltonians about 5 years | 38 comments