F-Bomb Origin Story Don’t Say That! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr06_Post.mp4 Most adults know to monitor their own speech when kids are around. If you accidentally drop and F-bomb, the kids will pick it up. If you are visiting a friend that has kids, you might have heard them say: “Don’t teach them any bad habits.” […]
What If Your Memories Were False?
Self Awareness Deception https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29_Post.mp4 Once I had to go to traffic school. Where you avoid getting hit by a moving violation, so your insurance doesn’t go up. You still gotta pay the fine, but at least nothing goes on your record. The teacher I had was pretty interesting. A lot of […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
The Motorboat Mind Trap
Metaphors Are Descriptions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27_Post.mp4 There’s a common metaphor about the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. And like many metaphors, it sort of sounds good, but it’s not very helpful. Metaphors, are by their nature, less complex than the thing they are describing. And metaphors ARE descriptions. Not […]
Destroy Imposter Syndrome
Self Sabotage Origins https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar24_Post.mp4 Self sabotage is a common problem. And often it happens before we do anything. It’s commonly described when somebody is playing out of their league. A common TV or movie trope is the guy or gal who is dating somebody THEY think is way out of their league. […]
Friction Elimination Hypnosis
Ancient Fire Starters Friction is a simple idea. Two objects in contact with interact with each other on the surface. There is also resistance, which can be thought of as electrical friction. Advanced Cloud Bursting https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr19Loop.mp4 A group of meditators in the desert have successfully change the frequency of a pulsar. […]
Sex God Consciousness
Random Telepathy Most people have had at least a few experience of paranormal communication. You know it is when your phone rungs, you suspect something is about to happen before it happens. Unfortunately, few people ever follow up on this latent skill. Solitary Wolves https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan12Loop.mp4 When wolves hunt alone, they seem very […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Vampire Parasite Nation
Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Benefits of Delayed Gratification
Hit The Floor In the past decade or so, HIIT, or high intensity interval training has become much more mainstream. There are a lot of academic studies showing the benefits of high intensity exercises, not only for cardiovascular health, but to potentially be a defense against Alzheimer’s. A great way to do HIIT […]
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