Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Hallucinated Evolution
Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Cannibal Evolutionary Cycles
Looping Sounds There’s an auditory illusion called a Shepard tone, that sounds like it is continuously rising. But at the same time, it always ends up back where it started. It’s very hypnotic to listen to this, because the more you listen to this, the more you want to understand what, exactly is […]
Artificial Physics
Lame Movie I saw this really terrible movie the other night. About a serial killer who had diplomatic immunity. So they knew who he was, but they couldn’t arrest him. Beware When Crossing State Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan10Loop.mp4 Different states have different laws. If you travel from state to state, you might get […]
Ageless Elite Apocalypse
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub a couple of weeks ago, at the behest of a couple of friends. I had to go a few times before I could get in and get a seat, it was really crowded. When I finally got there, I was expecting some […]
Self Replicating Hallucinations
Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Caviar Planet
Bell Curve Experiment I saw this cool experiment a couple days ago. Not really an experiment, more like a demonstration. A demonstration of a math teacher to his elementary school students. About probability and the Gaussian distribution. He had all the students stand in one line in the gym and face […]
Alien Misdirection Technology
Throw Trash Cans Behind You A very common scene in action movies is the good guy is running away from the bad guy, or the bad guy is running away from the good guy. And they always run through crowded areas, and they always throw stuff behind them, as they are running away, to […]