Party People I was at this party the other night, and there were these two people, guy and a girl, that were flirting with each other from across the room. But it was just barely perceptible. Every time the girl would make eye contact with the guy, her eyes would quickly dart away […]
Math Sex Magic
Hey, Don’t I Know You? I ran into an old friend at a party the other night, and I almost didn’t recognize him. I remembered him as being really intelligent, and really introverted. He was a nice guy if you talked to him long enough to get to know him, and he seemed […]
DNA Destruction
Transitions One of the most important transitions one can make in life is from being a child to being an adult. From a purely instinctive, ancient hunter gatherer standpoint, children are expected to consume more then they produce. They are expected to require others to help solve most of their problems. Adults […]
Self Sabotaging Magic
Circus Theory In the circus, they have trapeze artists whose job it is to flip around up in the air, so people can watch this and be entertained. But to maximize the enjoyment of these tricks, they must provide a safety net for the trapeze artists. Without a safety net, the trapeze artists […]
Physician’s Revenge
Global Death There was this huge international conglomerate that killed a guy’s family. He worked for the company, and lived nearby, and due to some oversight his wife and kid died. He spent ten years fighting them, essentially living off donations. This is a problem with battling these gigantic international conglomerates, they […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
Evil Clown Show
Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
The Death of Hippocrates
Health Expo I went to this health expo a few weeks ago. It was kind of non-main stream expo, mostly supplements, lots of homeopathic based medicine. They had a lot of booths, mostly books and supplements. They also had a lot of talks, some by doctors, some by dieticians, but they were […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
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