Modern Trainwreck https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr07_Post.mp4 One idea of modern education is that it is a training system. Or a teaching system. Sure, if you asked all the people involved, that’s what they’d say. But in reality, it was “modeled” after a system that was similar, but not meant for teaching. More for sorting. […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Bees Flowers Friends Lovers
Little Thinking Required https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar15_Post.mp4 Mother Nature is a genius. Many people love the idea of “auto pilot.” Spend any time online, looking for ways to make money, and you’ll find the phrase “auto pilot” all over the place. Nobody likes the idea of going door to door and selling a variety of […]
Brain Shenanigans
Bad Surgeon Once there was a brain surgeon. A very unethical brain surgeon. He had borrowed a lot of money. To become a brain surgeon. Unfortunately, for him. The people at the student loan company. Underestimated his loan payments. And overestimated his brain surgeon salary. Need More […]
Sun Tzu Kangaroo
A Boy And His Pet Once there was a man. Who had a pet kangaroo. He loved his kangaroo. So he taught him many things. How to speak English. How to make sandwiches. How to play the piano. How to play hopscotch. He even toilet trained him. […]
Magic Hula Hoops
Infinite Flow Theory I had this friend in college that was always trying to do this ridiculous experiment. He thought that if he calibrated everything correctly, he’d be able to create a non stop flow from beer into his mouth, and urine out of his penis. But he never quite matched the beer […]
Disappearing People
Backwards Thinking I have this really weird from who, somewhere along the way, picked up a really strange way to increase intelligence. I don’t know if he’s ever tested it out, but it takes quite a while. He’s otherwise a very normal guy, makes decent money, has decent relationships with decent looking ladies. […]
Reverse Slingshot Infinity
One At A Time I have this really weird friend who has this strange eating style. According to his mom, he’s had it ever since he was a kid. He absolutely refuses to put solids and liquids into his mouth at the same time. I first found out about this when I […]
Black Magic Alchemy
Slave Card Makers
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
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