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- The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-deep-and-enduring-history-of-universal-basic-income/ 22 comments
- An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-illustrated-guide-to-post-orwellian-censorship/ 54 comments
- Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (2005) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-illustrated-guide-to-mouth-gestures-and-their-meanings-around-the-world/ 26 comments
- Serge Daney on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/legendary-film-critic-serge-daney-on-apocalypse-now/ 49 comments
- When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intruders/ 390 comments
- A Master Perfumer's Reflections on Patchouli and Vetiver https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-master-perfumers-reflections-on-patchouli-and-vetiver/ 28 comments
- The weird, wonderful history of fairground photography https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-weird-wonderful-history-of-fairground-photography/ 13 comments
- Did HAL Commit Murder? https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-hal-kills-computer-ethics/ 97 comments
- The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-ancient-history-of-intelligent-machines/ 3 comments
- Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-science-cant-fix-politics/ 258 comments
- Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/history-speculation-about-aliens/ 69 comments
- A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hole-in-the-head-trepanation/ 46 comments
- Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (1977) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/le-corbusier-as-i-knew-him/ 33 comments
- Cognitive Bias Can Explain Post-Truth https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-cognitive-bias-can-explain-post-truth/ 22 comments
- Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/stanislaw-lems-reflections-childhood/ 18 comments
- When Objects Become Extensions of You https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-objects-become-extensions-of-you/ 17 comments
- In the animal kingdom, the astonishing power of the number instinct https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/animal-kingdom-power-of-the-number-instinct/ 36 comments
- The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (1897) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-most-important-scientific-problems-have-yet-to-be-solved/ 148 comments
- The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-without-humans/ 43 comments
- Habits of Expert Software Designers https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/ 143 comments
- The Fantasy of Opting Out https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/ 4 comments
- The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the Cloud https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/ 5 comments climate
- It Turns Out We Were Born to Groove https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/it-turns-out-we-were-born-to-groove/ 3 comments cogsci
- Mad World: Dutch Philosopher Wouter Kusters on Aristotle, Husserl, and the psychotic experience of time https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mad-world-on-the-psychotic-experience-of-time/ 11 comments philosophy
- The Organ-on-a-Chip Revolution Is Here https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-organ-on-a-chip-revolution-is-here/ 10 comments futurology
- How Did Consciousness Evolve? An Illustrated Guide https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-did-consciousness-evolve-an-illustrated-guide/ 2 comments indepthstories
- Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit Them https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-do-we-not-support-redistribution/ 643 comments economics
- Why Science Can't Settle Political Disputes https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-science-cant-fix-politics/ 4 comments truereddit
- Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials (MIT article) https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/history-speculation-about-aliens/ 3 comments aliens
- A Dark History of the World’s Smallest Island Nation https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dark-history-nauru/ 3 comments history
- In Oaxaca, an Unlikely Union Between Hackers and Indigenous Peoples https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/oaxaca-hackers-and-indigenous-peoples-network/ 5 comments technology
- Tech companies are profiling us from before birth https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tech-companies-are-profiling-us-from-before-birth/ 20 comments degoogle
- Chatting with the dead https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/chatting-with-the-dead-chatbots 5 comments technology
- What Nihilism Is Not https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-nihilism-is-not/ 8 comments philosophy
- What Nihilism Is Not https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-nihilism-is-not/ 321 comments philosophy
- Why Facebook is Rescuing Us: The platform is taking care of the problem of meaning in life by getting rid of any time to wonder. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-facebook-is-rescuing-us/ 28 comments philosophy
- The Fantasy of Opting Out - Those who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/ 5 comments technology
- Eight Habits of Expert Software Designers: An Illustrated Guide https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/habits-of-expert-software-designers/ 20 comments programming
- A Hole in the Head: A Complete History of Trepanation https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hole-in-the-head-trepanation/ 26 comments history
- Mexico's Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/mexico-attempt-save-freud-nazis/ 151 comments history