Big History If you study big history, you’ll see plenty of similarities between all major civilizations. Doesn’t matter where or when they are, they all share many similarities. For example, you’ll find pyramids in plenty of cultures. Egyptian, Meso-American and ancient Greece. Another common trait is how they modified the environment to […]
Occult Economics and Black Arts
Shoe Repair There is this old shoe repair shop in my neighborhood. The dude that runs the place is in his late seventies. His son, who’s in his forties is going to take over I guess when he dies. I saw this PBS documentary on YouTube. It started out as a human interest […]
The Importance of Savings
Old College Friend I have a friend from college that lives just north of San Diego. He lives in a small town. I forget the name. I went to visit him recently. The downtown area has fallen on hard economic times. Most of the shops are closed up, out of business. But there is […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]
Spirit Guide Acquisition
Free T Shirt I was out driving when I heard they were giving away t shirts. Some radio station said they were parked a couple blocks away and the first 50 people would get a free T-shirt. I showed up and they had a big van with the radio station on the side, […]
Infinite Nests of Treasure
Free Sales Seminar I went to an interesting seminar a few years ago. It was free, and it had a whole bunch of speakers. Each speaker would present for an hour or two, and each person would try and upsell some kind of home study course. One guy started talking, and he used […]
Brown Bag Whiskey Drinker
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub recently. I’d been kind of curious about it. I’m not much of a beer drinker, but a long time ago me and a friend used to make beer. So I was just kind of curious as this place had a few of their own […]
Persistence Inventing
Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
Brain Replication and Creation
Genetically Programmed Builders Ants, beavers and bees all have one thing in common. They are genetically programmed to come into this world, take raw materials from their environment and turn those raw materials into complex functioning homes. If you went back in time a million years, you’d see bees and beaver and ants busily […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
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