Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Hallucinated Evolution
Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Lucid Dreaming Lab
Anti Anxiety Pattern There’s been a fairly recent discovery about how the brain will reconfigure itself during deep sleep to get rid of anxiety. This, of course, can lead to either positive or negative reinforcing loops. The less anxiety you have, the better you sleep, which will further decrease your anxiety. The […]
Purple Man Magic
Night TV Dangerous Watching TV at night, especially after work is the most dangerous thing you can do. Advertisers know that this is when your brain is the most open, when you are at home, relaxed, thinking you are safe. This is why the subliminal messages and advanced hypnotic technology that creates deep […]
Culinary Trainwreck
Cooking Experiment I had wanted to cook this complicated recipe for a long time. It was a recipe that required multiple steps of cooking, as well as a bunch of different ingredients I don’t normally use. Finally I decided to pull the trigger, so I budgeted a few hours one weekend to try […]
Ageless Elite Apocalypse
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub a couple of weeks ago, at the behest of a couple of friends. I had to go a few times before I could get in and get a seat, it was really crowded. When I finally got there, I was expecting some […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
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