Drug Ads on TV It’s a widely accepted fact that 70% of all television advertisements are paid for by the pharmaceutical companies but what’s unclear is why these ads are so uninteresting. If you watch ads from other consumer products like fast food or shoes or Doritos or Snickers, these ads will be very […]
Organic Dissipative Structures
Anthropomorphized Anthills There are two basic ways to look at an anthill. Because we humans tend to anthropomorphize things and we are so proud of our own individuality we see ants as individual entities. We don’t tend to see an anthill as one organic structure. It seems to be much more appropriate, according to […]
Ancient Human Superpowers
Weird Friend I have this really weird friend who’s always been practicing some esoteric form of metaphysics. His latest one is the strangest yet. He said he’s been practicing a form of sun gazing where you stand there in a field and stare directly at the sun. You’re supposed to get a lot of […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
Hidden Valley Of Women
Backpacking Trip I’ve done a lot of backpacking. I have since I was very very young. As a kid backpacking is fun because you get to you get to get out into the wilderness and sleep in a tent or sleep under the stars, but as an adult it’s rewarding in much different way. […]
Origins Of Modern Civilization
History of Metal I watched a very interesting video a couple days ago about the history of metal. Not heavy metal music but actual metal. The kind of stuff you get out of the ground, melt down and form into tools that you can use. It turns out that the discovery of metal and […]
Reversions To The Mean
Camping Is Fun I’ve always liked camping. I’ve always liked different kinds of camping. When I was very young I joined Boy Scouts and that’s where I first learned all about camping and how you can do it in its various forms. When I was in college me and my friends used to go […]
Dirt Is Important
Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
Temple Of Solomon
Free Seminar I went to a very interesting seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a free seminar, the kind of seminar where they advertise in the newspaper, you show up and they give you a two-hour pitch that sounds fantastic and then they try to close you at the end for some kind […]