Top Hackernews posts from thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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