Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
Psychic Bookstore Lady
Something Something Shop The other day I went into a psychic bookshop. It’s a bookshop that I had driven past a few times. I don’t even remember the name the name was something something psychic shop. Even though I went inside, even though I had a very interesting experience inside, I still can’t remember […]
Calibrating Unconscious Responses
Muscle Test There’s this really cool muscle test you can do with a friend that can serve as a lie detector test. You have your friend stand straight up, hold one arm straight out, palm facing down. Then you ask them a yes or no question. As they answer, you push down on the […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Outer Protection Inner Fear
New Puppy I had this friend once that got a puppy. It was a German shepherd but the puppy was very scared. It was the most scared puppy that I’ve never seen. Most puppies are friendly and playful and whenever they see people they want to run over and play with them but this […]
The Woman With All The Answers
Health Food Store There is a fairly small health food store that I like to go to occasionally in part because sometimes I can find stuff there cheaper that I can find online but mainly because the woman that works three, the owner, she seems to know quite a bit about all of the products. […]
Limits Of Free Will
Impossible Physics I was watching a very interesting set of videos the other night called “Impossible Physics.” They were using fiction and fictional science as a starting point to understand why those fictional science ideas would be impossible according to the real laws of physics. They were doing this to try to make movies […]
Science and Metaphorical Resonance
Tale of Two Teachers When I was in junior high school had two science teachers. Both of them were completely different. The first guy is what you might expect a science teacher to be. A junior high school science teacher to be. He was kind of a typical doofus geek type of guy. He […]
Sociopathic Serial Killer
Dexter The Protagonist I’ve a friend who loves the TV show Dexter. He’ll be the first to tell you that the first four seasons are fantastic and the last four seasons kind of suck. He’s a very interesting character that is very unique. A sociopath serial killer who is a protagonist but he has […]
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