Nurture And Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12_Post.mp4 There are two general schools of thought about what makes us who we are as individuals. There’s the blank slate side of the spectrum. That our minds are completely programmable. That with the right training, we can be “programmed” to do pretty much anything our “programmers” want us […]
Bowling Ball Magic
Best Museum I went to this really amazing science museum once in Hong Kong. They had tons of floors, tons of rooms with tons of different science exhibits and interactive things in a bunch of different rooms. Like a gigantic mall, but every shop had something to do with science. There was […]
Blender Hallucinations
Home Depot Disaster I had a friend once in this class I took a couple of years ago at a community college. He told me a story about how he’d just seen the movie, “Jackass,” and was feeling inspired. So, he and a friend went into Home Depot and he took a dump […]
Waking Lucid Dreams
Meditation Masters There are a few people who have complete control over their body. For example, some can slow down their heartbeat and breathing to very low levels. This is possible for everybody, but it takes a lot patient practice. Reclusive Super Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr29Loop.mp4 There is this scientist that the authorities have […]
Increasing Slopes
Science Toys There are tons of cool science toys you can buy. Disks that spin on smooth, concave surface. Seemingly infinite vortexes with small balls that spend round and round. Boulder Dares https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr17Loop.mp4 When I was younger I was in Boy Scouts and we went to Joshua Tree quite a lot. […]
Subconscious Deception Techniques
Prank Videos There are plenty of entertaining prank videos online. This type of thing has been around for a long, long time. Even as a kid I remember watching old reruns of Candid Camera, plenty of carefully set up pranks on unsuspecting victims. Fake Right Go Left https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09Loop.mp4 A common move or […]
Bartender Stories
Empty Bar Opportunity I went to a fairly new bar the other day. There was nobody there, so I had a nice chat with the bartender. I started asking her some random questions about various superlatives. Poor To Rich https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29Loop.mp4 She has this friend that is very rich, very successful. Before […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Artificial Energy Shapes
Square Apples I saw this video recently about a farm in Japan that makes square apples. When they are very young, they put them in a square box. Then by the time they are large, they are square. In Japan, square fruit is very expensive. Fusion Around The Corner https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08Loop.mp4 Back […]
MLM Universe
Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
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