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 […]
Lucid Dreaming Archetypes
Ancient Mythology There is a key difference between mythology between how it evolved, and how it is studied. When we study or even enjoy mythology, we do so from a frame of mind of knowing it isn’t true. Of knowing this happened a long time ago, without really needing to know the environment […]
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, […]
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 […]
Cannibal Evolutionary Cycles
Looping Sounds There’s an auditory illusion called a Shepard tone, that sounds like it is continuously rising. But at the same time, it always ends up back where it started. It’s very hypnotic to listen to this, because the more you listen to this, the more you want to understand what, exactly is […]
Artificial Physics
Lame Movie I saw this really terrible movie the other night. About a serial killer who had diplomatic immunity. So they knew who he was, but they couldn’t arrest him. Beware When Crossing State Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan10Loop.mp4 Different states have different laws. If you travel from state to state, you might get […]
Continuum Of Law
We’re All Felons A sociologist did an interesting study and found some troubling results. Each normal citizen, that wouldn’t consider themselves a criminal nor would be considered a criminal by their friends and colleagues, commits, on average, three felonies a day. This is a function of how many laws are created and are […]
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 […]
Scientific Birdcage Mythology
Correlation and Causation One of the biggest causes of misunderstanding in the world of science is a mistaking correlation for causation. Especially if you have one main variable, that is driving all the other variables,. Then any two of the driven variables can be correlated, and thereby misunderstood to having a causative relationship. […]
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