Fake Bible Fights There used to be this very famous atheist who liked to debate bible people. She and this same preacher would have public debates and draw huge crowds. But they actually had a secret deal, to be as combative on stage as possible, as that would draw large crowds and earn […]
Reverse Polarity Experiments
Food Con Jobs Plenty of large food producers have paid for research that leads to some questionable results. The science is valid, the data is corrected accurately, but they come to conclusions that don’t seem to make sense. This is not too different from corporations lobbying to make it easier to make a […]
Hidden Mistakes
Roman Persuasion There is a common technique in the art of rhetoric that goes back to the Roman Empire. You oscillate between an idea that is true, and an idea that sounds true. So long as the true sounding idea is sandwiched between two true ideas it will usually go undetected. One […]
Double Speed Brainwashing
Hungry and Thirsty Most people are familiar with subliminal messages that are used in advertising. The most famous is the study where they showed images during a movie theater. And they noticed and uptick in sales of coke and popcorn. Double Speed Lameness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14Loop.mp4 Apparently Netflix has been contemplating an option to […]
Subconscious Deception Techniques
Prank Videos There are plenty of entertaining prank videos online. This type of thing has been around for a long, long time. Even as a kid I remember watching old reruns of Candid Camera, plenty of carefully set up pranks on unsuspecting victims. Fake Right Go Left https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09Loop.mp4 A common move or […]
Peripheral Resonance
No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
Malthusian Cycles
Up And Down I used to love cycling. I had a well calibrated loop around where I used to live, up and down the biggest hills I could find. I actually enjoyed going up long hills, since I could look forward to going back down. Potential Dream Job https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar25Loop.mp4 I used to […]
Death and Taxes
Emotional Logic According to psychologists, the human brain is wired for subconscious logic with emotional inputs. This means that we think we think logically, but in reality this is a hallucination. Even more interesting is we all think we are the logical ones, but everybody is driven by irrational emotions. Kite Flyer […]
Sliding Into Amnesia
Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
Collective Energy Use
Drafting Birds If you ever see a flock of birds flying, they’ll tend to draft off one another. This is an instinctive way to move much more efficiently as a group. It’s a technique that cyclists and truck drivers do. Predators and Parasites https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10Loop.mp4 One way to think of a predator is […]
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