Popcorn Palace There’s this really interesting popcorn store downtown. All they have are popcorn related paraphernalia. I got to admit, I passed by it a few times before going inside, and I was surprised how big it is. They got popcorn from all over the world, special popcorn pans and pots. […]
Doppelganger Night Terror
Dangerous Inventor I have this neighbor that lives a few doors down. He’s incredibly intelligent, and retired in his mid forties because of a couple of patents he invented. He loves hobbies, building things, most of which would get him arrested if anybody knew about this. Instant Turkey https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun30Loop.mp4 His latest invention […]
Proof of Telepathy
Fake Or Real There are a lot of very clever tests to determine if somebody has ESP or not. But there is one that indicates there might be some kind of extrasensory perception, but nobody’s really sure. It does require attempting to communicate telepathically with somebody you know. What Do You Really […]
Spinning Brains
Science Toys There’s this cool toy called Euler’s Disk. It’s like a big coin, very heavy, and you spin it on a very polished, slightly concave surface. It spins for a very long time, and they have plenty of different designs that create holographic images while it’s spinning. Health Promises https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun07Loop.mp4 There […]
Cake Baking Trifecta
Three Cakes There are three ways to bake a cake. From scratch, which takes a while, but gives you maximum flexibility. From a box of cake mix, which is much quicker, much cheaper but comes with the cost of not really knowing, for sure, what the ingredients are. Redefining Markets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun03Loop.mp4 One […]
Downtown Chicken Man
Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
Blue Book Chaos
Too Smart To Study I saw an interview by a professor who’d written a book based on the best attempts he’d seen at cheating. The best one, according to him, was a guy that showed up with two blue books, for an essay test. He spent the entire time writing a letter to […]
She Went Inside Her Brain
Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
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