Approximately 200 essays and 200 videos have been posted at IEET since 2012 began. Let’s peek back and examine our most popular and provocative offerings, calculated in hits and comments.
Top 20 Essays in “hits”
1. Is Intelligence Self-Limiting? (David Eubanks) 35,152 hits
2. Brain Damage: 83 ways to stupefy intelligence (Hank Pellissier) 11,631
3. Nudity is Healthy for Brains and Bodies (Hank Pellissier) 11,474
4. Ethics Without Philosophers: The Appalling State of Affairs in Business (P. Tittle) 10,787
5. Developing World: Beyond the Frontiers of Science Fiction (Jonathon Dotse) 9,190
6. Solutions for a Creativity Crises: A Look at Cuba’s Technological Disobedience (Andrea Kuszewski) 8,434
7. Neanderthals are as Unprepared for Modernity as We Are (Kyle Munkittrick) 8,124
8. Why I am Learning to Code and You Should Too (Doug Rushkoff) 8,013
9. Robots Will Steal Your Job; but that’s OK (Federico Piscono) 7,340
10. Will Artificial Intelligence be the Next Big Thing? (Patrick Tucker) 6,983
11. Meditation Boosts The Brain (Owen Nicholas) 5,750
12. Did the Universe Evolve the “Blue Brain Project” to become aware of itself? (Joern Pallensen) 5,090
13. In Praise of Atheism (Leo Igwe) 4,945
14. The Perils and Praises of Mind-Uploading (Giulio Prisco) 4,897
15. The Three Things You Need to Know About Big Data (Patrick Tucker) 4,709
16. Nine Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives (Hank Pellissier) 4,663
17. Tyrannic Control with Genetic Monsters in The Hunger Games trilogy (Hank Pellissier) 4,621
18. Synthetic Biology: Key Field of the Future (Melanie Swan) 4,611
19. Six Brain-Damage Scourges that Cripple IQ in the SubSaharan (Hank Pellissier) 4,105
20. Religion and Transhumanism (Alex McGilvery) 4,012
Top 22 Essays and Videos in “comments”
1. We Are All Pirates (piero scaruffi) 103 comments
2. Permitting Abortion and Prohibiting Natal Harm (P. Tittle) 92
3. Ms. and Mr.(P. Tittle) 92
4. Making Certain Words Illegal (P. Tittle) 90
5. Transgendered Courage? (P. Tittle) 87
6. Five Top Reasons Transhumanism Can Eliminate Suffering (David Pearce) 76
7. Assisted Suicide and Unassisted Suicide: What’s the Difference? (P. Tittle) 70
8. Billions of Sexes: Part 2 (Martine Rothblatt) 65
9. Did the Universe Evolve the “Blue Brain Project” to become aware of itself? (Joern Pallensen) 64
10. The Future of Women (P. Tittle) 58
11. Do You Still Get To Heaven if You Live Forever? (Alex McGilvery) 52
12. Business Rules the World. Do We Want It To? (P. Tittle) 51
13. The End of Gender (Peter Wicks) 50
14. Ethics Without Philosophers: the Appalling State of Affairs in Business (P. Tittle) 49
15. Seven Positive Trends Amidst the Doom and Gloom (Sohail Inayatullah) 42
16. Watching Big Brother: reality politics (Giulio Prisco) 42
17. Religion is Just a First Attempt and Should Be Abandoned (Christopher Hitchens video) 41
18. Resuscitative Resurrection; who gets brought back to life first? (Hank Pellissier) 36
19. Future Day (Giulio Prisco) 35
20. Religion and Transhumanism (Alex McGilvery) 31
Top 20 Videos in “Hits”
1. Intelligent Design is Stupid: Neil de Grasse - 5,089 hits
2. Robot Sees Itself for the First Time - 2,270
3. The Economics of Immortality: Aubrey de Grey - 1,868
4. How Drugs Helped Invent the Internet: Jason Silva - 1,813
5. Mass Effect 2: Lesbian Romance Between Miranda and Jack - 1,557
6. Religion is Just a First Attempt and Should be Abandoned: Christopher Hitchens - 1,551
7. So You Want to Make Gods? Now Why Would That Bother Anyone? - David Brin - 1,548
8. 2B - The Era of Flesh is Over (Terasem) - 1,385
9. Biohacker Raises His IQ by 30 points: Dave Asprey - 1,340
10. Religion Exposed: The So-Called Witches of Nigeria - 1,327
11. Synthetic Biology: Jason Silva - 1,326
12. Feminist Groups Topless Protest at World Economic Forum - 1,289
13. Max More - Transhuman and The Singularity - 1,264
14. Metabods - 1,228
15. Luna, a Wild Orca Boy, Tries to Communicate With Humans - 1,156
16. Mining Helium-3 on the Moon: Christopher Barnatt - 1,144
17. NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System - 1,130
18. 2057: Human Civilization - Michio Kaku - 1,109
19. Sex Diseases Reach Epidemic Levels - 1,068
20. Nanotechnology Takes Off - 1,055
Rankings were tabulated by a human at midnight on March 31.
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