Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
Jesus Pyramid Scheme
Happy Hour Taquitos I went to my local bar a couple of weeks ago. They have a pretty good happy hour. Drinks aren’t really all that cheap, but between 4 and 7 they have a free appetizer buffet. It’s not healthy, it’s the same kind of stuff you’d find in the frozen […]
Sevens Sixes and Brains
Pope Gregory Right now the entire world uses the same calendar. The one that counts up the years from year zero. This used to be called BC and AD, but they changed it to take out the reference to Jesus. Before BC meant before Christ, and AD meant Anno Domini, which is […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
Bacon Defense Patterns
Vegan Dinner Invitation A friend of mine invited me to dinner a couple of weeks ago. He warned me that it was going to be a vegetarian dinner. Which meant that there would be a lot of vegetarian dinner. Since I love to eat meat, I was a little worried I might […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]
Ancient Emergent Consciousness
Open Mic Night? I went to a local club a couple nights ago. I thought it was an open mic night, but I wasn’t sure. The guy I saw did some pretty interesting magic tricks. He had a lot of sleight of hand skills, he was very smooth. Good Storyteller https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug01Loop.mp4 […]
Memory Confusion Experiment
Watch Closely Researchers did an interesting memory study. They had a guy pretending to be a thief come into a large classroom while a professor was lecturing and steal a bag off the desk in front. A common understanding is that winners of wars write the history books. We might assume that […]
Social Proof Hallucination
End Of Stone Age The stone age ended when ancient humans figured out how to smelt ore, get the metal out and make tools and weapons. They’ve found very intricately decorated bowls in some of the oldest mines. They suspect it’s the humans giving gifts to the gods of the Earth in exchange […]
Time Flies Like An Arrow
Instinct People Humans have a ton of instincts. Things that compel us to behaviors, sometimes against our will. Most of us are familiar with social instincts, and food instincts and sex instincts. But there is also a humor instinct. It makes sense from a physiological-immune system kind of way. Whenever we laugh, aside […]
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