Top Hackernews posts from thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

1. How actors remember their lines (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   630 points by pepys almost 55 years | 197 comments
2. Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   481 points by axiomdata316 almost 55 years | 165 comments
3. Tech companies are profiling us from before birth (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   380 points by DamnInteresting almost 55 years | 138 comments
4. When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   349 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 390 comments
5. The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   247 points by webmaven almost 55 years | 84 comments
6. The Fantasy of Opting Out (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   243 points by Fiveplus almost 55 years | 109 comments
7. The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   238 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 55 comments
8. Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   235 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 258 comments
9. For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
   226 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 217 comments
10. An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    223 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 154 comments
11. The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    214 points by _Microft almost 55 years | 181 comments
12. How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    185 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 123 comments
13. Habits of Expert Software Designers (2019) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    176 points by headalgorithm almost 55 years | 43 comments
14. J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    172 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 48 comments
15. How deep does life go? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    154 points by Hooke almost 55 years | 40 comments
16. Meditation and the Unconscious (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    150 points by solvent almost 55 years | 116 comments
17. Is Consciousness Everywhere? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    144 points by fortran77 almost 55 years | 221 comments
18. "Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    136 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 187 comments
19. An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    133 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 79 comments
20. A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    132 points by PaulHoule almost 55 years | 68 comments
21. Walking Trees, Parasitic Flowers, and Other Remarkable Plants (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    132 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 15 comments
22. The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    129 points by prismatic almost 55 years | 81 comments
23. ‘That was our beach’: Notes on Fred Conrad’s Iconic 1977 Photograph (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    127 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 18 comments
24. A Master Perfumer's Reflections on Patchouli and Vetiver (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    120 points by axiomdata316 almost 55 years | 28 comments
25. Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    109 points by torritest almost 55 years | 63 comments
26. Elites tried to monopolize hunting (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    108 points by diodorus almost 55 years | 71 comments
27. When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    103 points by benbreen almost 55 years | 39 comments
28. The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’ (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    99 points by xiaodai almost 55 years | 45 comments
29. Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?' (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    98 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 90 comments
30. How New Ideas Arise (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    92 points by marban almost 55 years | 25 comments
31. Why Punish? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    92 points by pseudolus almost 55 years | 225 comments
32. Cherokee Numerals (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    91 points by horseradish almost 55 years | 33 comments
33. AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    89 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 81 comments
34. How might life migrate through the universe? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    78 points by axiomdata316 almost 55 years | 93 comments
35. Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (2005) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    77 points by benbreen almost 55 years | 26 comments
36. Finding Language in the Brain (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    76 points by never-the-bride almost 55 years | 19 comments
37. Cognitive Bias Can Explain Post-Truth (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    70 points by endlessvoid94 almost 55 years | 22 comments
38. An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    69 points by throwup238 almost 55 years | 54 comments
39. Before Pong, There Was Computer Space (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    68 points by benbreen almost 55 years | 16 comments
40. Removing Borders, Erasing Palestinians: Israeli Population Maps After 1967 (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    68 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 4 comments
41. A Brief History of Consumer Culture (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    67 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 9 comments
42. Artificial Lives: On the Occult Origins of Chemistry and the Stuff of Life (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    67 points by drdee almost 55 years | 17 comments
43. When Birds Migrated to the Moon (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    64 points by pshaw almost 55 years | 15 comments
44. A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    63 points by fortran77 almost 55 years | 46 comments
45. Freeman Dyson and me (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    61 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 16 comments
46. Serge Daney on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    59 points by Caiero almost 55 years | 49 comments
47. Did HAL Commit Murder? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    59 points by ColinWright almost 55 years | 97 comments
48. Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    58 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 69 comments
49. Paris Sportif: The Contagious Attraction of Parkour (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    56 points by anarbadalov almost 55 years | 12 comments
50. The New Art of Making Books (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    54 points by Caiero almost 55 years | 17 comments
51. What Irony Is Not (2020) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    54 points by elliekelly almost 55 years | 41 comments
52. Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (1977) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    53 points by item almost 55 years | 33 comments
53. Scientific integrity and the ethics of 'utter honesty' (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    52 points by morkin almost 55 years | 33 comments
54. Subterranean Paris: Félix Nadar’s Descent into the Parisian Underground (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    50 points by gmays almost 55 years | 4 comments
55. Powers of Hearing: The Military Science of Sound Location (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    50 points by samizdis almost 55 years | 6 comments