Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Treasure Hunting Symmetry
Emmy Noether There was a German mathematician, Emmy Noether, who came up with a beautiful idea linking symmetry and conservation laws. She said that wherever you find any kind of symmetry, you’ll find a corresponding conservation law. And whenever you have a conservation laws, there will be an equivalent symmetry somewhere. Invisible […]
Anti Anxiety Nightmare
Drugs There is a huge market for anti-anxiety drugs. Plenty of people suffer from social anxiety of one form or another, so if they could come up with a drug that would completely eliminate anxiety, that would be fantastic. But so far, most anti anxiety drugs work more or less like chemotherapy. […]
Sevens Sixes and Brains
Pope Gregory Right now the entire world uses the same calendar. The one that counts up the years from year zero. This used to be called BC and AD, but they changed it to take out the reference to Jesus. Before BC meant before Christ, and AD meant Anno Domini, which is […]
Future Human Communication
Club Trip A couple of weeks ago a new club opened downtown. I don’t usually go to clubs, but they’ve been heavily advertising this one for some reason. They’ve hired a lot of very attractive young women who have been handing out fliers. And they’ve trained them very well. When they hand you the […]
Satanic Children and Killer Apes
Backpacking Trip I used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger. One particular time we were sitting around the campfire after dinner and we saw these two small pair of eyes looking at us from about 20 or 30 yards away. Before we had gone on this backpacking trip in the […]
Museum Of Time
Wandering Downtown A couple of weeks ago I was wandering downtown and I came across a clock museum. Now, I had seen this clock museum sign before and I had always assumed it was some kind of a clever marketing gimmick for a a watch shop or a clock shop but it turns out it’s […]
Ancient Magic Spells
Sent Letter A friend of mine sent me a letter a couple of weeks ago but it never came. He assured me that he sent it. He assured me that it was sent to the right address. He suggested that I go and check at the post office. I went to the post office […]
Get Your Ex Back Disaster
Cute Barista Recently there’s been a very cute girl that started working at my coffee shop, one the coffee shops I go to. She seems to be flirtatious with me, but in this situation is always hard to figure out what to do. You never quite know if she’s being flirtatious with you because […]
Creativity Enhancement
Electronics Expo A couple of weeks ago I went to this electronics expo. When I first went I didn’t really know what to expect. I think I saw an ad for it in a magazine that I was reading somewhere outside of my home. I didn’t really think too much about what it was […]
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