Unique Practice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar14_Post.mp4 I watched a goofy movie a few days ago. One person’s skill was being able to come up with rhyming verbal smackdowns. Kind of like one way rap battles. Her character was the archetype of somebody who doesn’t have “book smarts” but instead has very valuable “street smarts.” […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Hot Dog Empire
Worse Than Drugs Processed food is not only dangerous, but it is very hard to resist. One reason is they are strategically located in the grocery stores. Sumerian Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May03Loop.mp4 There are a collection of ancient symbols, supposedly handed down to the ancient Sumerians by the aliens who first founded Earth. These […]
Brain Detailing
Easy Money Due to the massive interconnected global economy, there are endless niche markets opening up. This means finding enough buyers to support a small business is easier than ever. For example, if your profit was $10 per product, you’d only need a couple dozen thousand new customers per year to make a […]
Laundry Girl
Nice Tattoo
Hidden Disruptive Technologies
Excess Brain Power All modern problems can be resolved to what evolutionary psychologists call an instinct mismatch. That our mind body system was calibrated for a world much different than the one in which we live. A corollary to this idea is that we have a significant amount of excess brain capacity. […]
Social Proof Frame Strength
Persuasion Experiments There have been a lot of cool experiments done to demonstrate the various triggers of influence that operate outside of our conscious awareness. In a social proof experiment, they had a guy stand on a corner, and stare up into an empty sky, but pretending that he was looking at something incredibly […]
Bias Decoupling Strategy
Fringe Mind Theory I saw this really interesting lecture the other day at a local junior college near by where my friends sister used to live. This guy has a couple PhD’s, and he’s written a few books, but he’s kind of a fringe scientist in the field of evolutionary neuro-psychology. His basic […]
Hive Mind Control
Mythology vs. Politics I read a psychological paper recently that intended to determine the directional cause effect relationship between mythology and organized political structures. The idea is to understand whether mythological stories came first, and from them arose a political structure, or whether the political structure came first and from them arose the mythological […]
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