Looping Sounds There’s an auditory illusion called a Shepard tone, that sounds like it is continuously rising. But at the same time, it always ends up back where it started. It’s very hypnotic to listen to this, because the more you listen to this, the more you want to understand what, exactly is […]
Colonization Plans
What You See Isn’t Real There are a lot of cool optical illusions floating around. They are, of course, built by understanding the inefficiency of our visual perception. Most of what we see is an approximation, and by purposely creating false approximations, we will see things that aren’t really there. The field […]
Weaponized Brain Swarms
Food Inflation Rising prices can quickly destroy a society. They say that any civil society is only a three meals away from a revolution. Studies have shown that the majority of civil unrest after world war two is based on food inflation. Affordable Food Most Important https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov23Loop.mp4 The ideas about democracy, freedom, […]
Sexy Witch Librarian
Human Memory Human memory is a very squirrely concept. Everybody has memories of studying hard for a test, and getting a C. This is case of knowing exactly what to remember, but not being able to remember this effectively. Other times things happen unexpectedly, and don’t know how to remember this. […]
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 […]
Lion Debt and Extinction Events
Hunting Documentary I saw this interesting documentary about lions and how they hunt. Lions, like all other animals, have instincts that are calibrated for their environment. And like all other animals, they need to energy to survive, and they have to expend energy to survive. This is essentially the difference between any […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
CIA Remote Seduction
Lame Sci Fi Movie I saw what I thought was going to be an interesting movie the other night but I ended up not even finishing it. It had an interesting concept, but this turned out to be a gimmick. One that wasn’t enough to overcome the weak story and character development. […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
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