Neurology Lecture I saw this very troubling lecture a few days ago. It was at this local book store, I just happened to be there. A neurologist had written a book and was talking about the dangers of relying on too much technology. He said that when we rely on too much […]
Angelic Symbols of Magic
Secret Recipe There are a lot of very complex recipes that require you put in the right ingredients, in the right order, and at the time temperature. Do everything perfect, and this comes out tasting fantastic. Make one tiny mistake, and you have a gross tasting pile of crud that even you’re dog […]
Dark Energy Mathematics
Babies Can Add They’ve done some pretty cool experiments on babies to determine what kind of pre-wiring we have that allows us to understand math. They can tell that babies can add up simple numbers before they can differentiate between objects. Meaning that before we humans are a year old, we have the […]
Colonization Plans
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions floating around. They are, of course, built by understanding the inefficiency of our visual perception. Most of what we see is an approximation, and by purposely creating false approximations, we will see things that aren’t really there. The field […]
Demon Planet
Exorcism Increase There have been a lot of stories in various news media about the increasing number of exorcisms. Some say this is correlated to the slowly collapsing global economy. Some say this is correlated to the rise of civil unrest in many parts of the world. One theory says this is […]
Return To Mars
Old School Ideas A very interesting idea from antiquity, made famous by Plato, is the idea of the lost city of Atlantis. These idea of an underwater ancient city that was far more advanced is very compelling, and surrounded in tons of mythology. We humans seem to have a very keen interest in […]
Subliminal Conspiracy Industrial Complex
TV Smack Down I saw this interesting interview the other night. It started off cordial and polite, but it ended in a beat down by the host. The host kind of lured him into his trap, like TV talk show hosts like to do. The poor guy didn’t really prepare, and this […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
CIA Remote Seduction
Lame Sci Fi Movie I saw what I thought was going to be an interesting movie the other night but I ended up not even finishing it. It had an interesting concept, but this turned out to be a gimmick. One that wasn’t enough to overcome the weak story and character development. […]
Invisible People In Your Brain
Square Roots Are Easy If you needed to find the square root of four, this would be pretty easy. The square root of four is either two or negative two. Negative two times negative two is four. Two times two is four. This is something we learn in elementary school, or […]