Pieces of Eight An octagon has eight sides. An octopus has eight legs. But October is the tenth month. Why the discrepancy? There have been a few interesting experiments done on how to grow seeds with much more efficiency. Energy In Energy Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct19Loop.mp4 Efficiency being a measure of energy […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
Hidden Insanity Revealed
Differential Equations I had this really cool differential equations teacher once. He would always be halfway through an equation and then he’d stop and tell a story. They weren’t the kind of stories that helped to illustrate the underlying idea of the equation. It was just that he would be talking about […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Invisible People In Your Brain
Square Roots Are Easy If you needed to find the square root of four, this would be pretty easy. The square root of four is either two or negative two. Negative two times negative two is four. Two times two is four. This is something we learn in elementary school, or […]
Trading Fear For Money
Horrible Horror Movie I saw this really messed up horror movie the other night. It was about this guy who was an insane killer, that pretty much lived inside of a hallucination. It started out with this guy jogging down some country road. And then a guy pulled up in a van, […]
Frequency Death Resonance
The Wedge There’s a beach about an hour north of San Diego called The Wedge. It’s called The Wedge because of how the waves form. The beach is right next to an artificial jetty. The waves come in at about a 45 degree angle. Waver Interference Patterns https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept30Loop.mp4 They come in, […]
Cannibal Buffet
Bad Business Plan There was this new buffet the opened up a few weeks ago. I’m generally not a big fan of buffets, but this particular restaurant had spent a lot of money on marketing. I kept getting a lot of fliers, and the prices were really low. So low I wanted […]
The Missing Gorilla Paradox
Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]
Why Evil Magic Is Difficult
House Moving Party A friend of mine called me a few weeks ago, said he was moving. He told me to bring my car, and that he wanted me to use my car to help him move. But he told me he’d give me tons of food and alcohol as a result, that […]
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