What did IEET visitors read, watch and bicker about in July? A wide variety of topics, everything from online education to synthetic biology, spacesteading, the Singularity and orgasms.
Top Ten Articles in Hits
Online Learning is where Online Music was Five Years Ago by Andrew Maynard 3,909 hits
Shape-Shifting Robots: Forget Nanotech; Think Claytronics by Dick Pelletier 3,906
The Future Is Bright: Some Musings On Solar Power by John Niman 3,536
Synthetic Biology as an Open System for Architectural Design by Rachel Armstrong 3,227
“We Can Hear You Now!” - 12 Ways Cell Phones Accelerate Africa by Hank Pellissier 3,109
Spacesteading – May the Meek Inhabit the Cosmos by Gabriel Rothblatt 2,991
The Singularity Is Here…For Some Of Us by Travis James Leland 2,720
End of Human Aging Can Be Achieved in 20 years, experts say by Dick Pelletier 2,506
My Socio-Political Disagreements with Transhumanism by Benjamin Abbott 2,058
The City as an Ecosystem by Rachel Armstrong 2,052
Special Mention
Make Me SuperHuman - Top 10 Enhancements by Owen Nicholas 6,394 hits (posted June 30)
The Ukrainian “Human Barbie Doll” by Hank Pellissier 4,533 hits in July
Top Ten Videos in Hits
Are We Building Gods or Terminators? 2,061 hits
Long for this World - Live Forever or Die Trying 1,556
Are We Living in a Matrix? 1,422
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Orgasm 1,183
Make Love, Not Porn? 1,149
Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate 1,016
Multiverse Parallel Universes 976
The Upgraded Self: Why Biohacking Changes Everything 975
Do Schools Kill Creativity? 962
The Pirate Party - Politics of Protest 910
Top Ten Essays in Comments
Phil Torres - IEET writer - publishes e-book: “A Crises of Faith” (news article) 36 comments
Could Reincarnation be Real? by Giulio Prisco 36
My Socio-Political Disagreements with Transhumanism by Benjamin Abbott 27
Earth 2050-2100: Longer Lives; New Energy by Dick Pelletier 26
IEET Adopts “Buddhist Right Speech” Policy for Comments (news article) 18
Settling the Future: The Colonial Mindset in Transhumanism by Benjamin Abbott 18
Radical Life Extension: Living Through the Next 1,000 Years by Dick Pelletier 17
The Singularity Doesn’t Require Paul Allen’s Understanding by Lincoln Cannon 15
Alternative Futures of Crime and Policing by Sohail Inayatullah 14
Same-Sex Couples to the Rescue of Marriage? by Russell Blackford 12
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