Marketing Genius There is a cereal company that has come up with an ingenious marketing strategy. It is a cereal targeted at kids, so they need to have some kind of gimmick. A prize in the box, some kind of game or comic strip on the back. They were slowly losing market […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Controlling Frequencies
Doppler Effect The Doppler effect is pretty cool and pretty easy to understand. When something is making a sound, getting closer, and then passes you, the sound will change in pitch. As it’s just about to pass you, the apparent frequency will change, as the relative velocity will change. Green Light Creation […]
Cause Effect Keto
Keto Diet Fad Lately, the keto diet has become very popular. On a larger scale, many limited carbohydrate diets have been popular for several decades. And cashing in on the keto boom are plenty of people on YouTube with plenty of keto recipes. Athenian Imperialism https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar17Loop.mp4 When Athens was in its early […]
Pythagorean Mysticism
Triangle Cult Pythagoras is credited with discovering the secrets of the right triangle, namely A^2+B^2=C^2, but this is not likely true. Not only was Pythagoras likely a fictional creation of the Pythagorean cult who worshipped numbers, but this same idea was discovered by plenty other ancient cultures. For example, long before the Greeks […]
They’re In Your Brain
Angry Genius There was this really intelligent engineer that absolutely hated his job. He didn’t hate his job directly, he hated his job indirectly. He was and had been really good at his job for fifteen years. But during that time he neglected his wife and family, she had an affair, divorced and […]
Separation Anxiety
Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
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. […]
Impending Cannibal Apocalypse
Science Fiction Story There is this really cool story by I think Ray Bradbury. It’s about this planet that has a bunch of people. The first use fire, then they discover agriculture, then they have an Industrial Revolution and then they invent nuclear weapons. Then they use the weapons on themselves, bombing […]
How To Perform Miracles
Highly Skilled Therapist I see this really fantastic massage therapist. She does something that I haven’t found anybody else that can do this as well as she can do this. But she is also little bit more expensive than most, and she has a bit of weird ideas, but because of how much […]