Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Flooding The Nile
Flooded Farmers In ancient Egypt, the Nile would flood once a year. This was actually a very good thing, as the Nile brought in needed silt that would enrich the crops. Other places didn’t have such luck, as their soil would tend to get more and more depleted over time. Stacked Up […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Hypnotic Sex Triggers
Bending Light One interesting aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity is something called a gravitational lens If a celestial object, or several celestial objects are large enough, their gravity will bend light. So it looks like the light is curving around the celestial object. Real Estate Commissions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15Loop.mp4 There was this real […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Social Proof Gone Mad
Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Once Only Clothing
Cheap Traveler A friend of mine went on a trip to Thailand, and wanted to travel as cheaply as possible. He was going to backpack around, stay in hostels, etc. But he found an interesting way to save money, one he never would have predicted before the trip. Sleazy Profits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May10Loop.mp4 Recently […]
Planetary Murder Cult
No Lights There’s a pretty well known urban legend about head lights. As the legend goes, murderers will drive around at night with their lifts off. Whoever blinks at them to turn on their lights is their target. Scavenger hunts are pretty common and usually pretty enjoyable. Got Any Wooden Clothespins? […]
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