Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]
Invisible Violin Player
Water Boy A few years ago some guy came by selling some water filters. He tried the puppy dog close, which is a pretty good closing technique, as it leverages commitment and consistency, as well as liking. But it does require you present your offer well, and you actually have a product that […]
Death Cycles
Dog Machine A friend of mine has this automatic dog machine. The dog drops the ball in the machine, the machine waits a random amount of time, and then spits the ball out with a random amount of force. The dog, after dropping the ball in, backs up, gets ready, and catches the […]
Mental Brain Illusions
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions. They are, of course, based on mismatch between what you see, and what you think you are seeing. Our eyes and our visual cortex need to make a lot of assumptions about what we think we see, and up to […]
Peak Brain
Tension and Release Tension and release can be found everywhere, from inorganic matter, to large celestial objects like the sun. Books, movies and music all have tension and release built into the structure. Even humor is based on tension and release, and is thought to bring many health benefits, such as lower blood […]
Blood and Semen
How Do I Do This? I read and interesting research paper recently about the rapidly diminishing skill set of most normal humans. They reported that up to 40% of people were dependent on the Internet to understand how complete basic house hold tasks. They couldn’t do simple tasks like fixing a leaky faucet, […]
Deadly Hidden Costs
Tiny House There are some miniature houses you can buy from Amazon. So long as you’ve got the land, you can order a house, they’ll ship it to you, and you can put it together in a couple of days. You do need to have some land to put it on, and a […]
Social Status Death Trends
Health Boom I read an interesting study the other day that wanted to find any correlation between recent health food trends and the actual health benefits of the food trends. The assumption was that there would be at least some correlation between how popular any particular diet was, and how beneficial it was from […]
Evil Cat Lady
Japanese Genius I have this friend in Japan who, after a long and circuitous route, has finally managed to open his own shop. He did so after getting a PhD in electrical engineering, and then realizing what a huge mistake that might have been. But then he found a way out and now […]
Bifurcation Of Humans
Stand Up Hypnosis I saw this really obscure video of a standup comedian a few weeks ago. This guy was really funny, really interesting, and I’m certain that this guy was using some very advanced forms of covert hypnosis. But I tried to find out about this guy, but I couldn’t find anything. […]
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