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 […]
Black & Decker Brain Surgery
Super Power Language Patterns I had this friend that learned a whole collection of covert language techniques. He wanted to experiment with these covert language techniques in job interviews. He tried to get a job interview at places that he was absolutely not qualified for. He would try to use these covert language techniques […]
Organic Dissipative Structures
Anthropomorphized Anthills There are two basic ways to look at an anthill. Because we humans tend to anthropomorphize things and we are so proud of our own individuality we see ants as individual entities. We don’t tend to see an anthill as one organic structure. It seems to be much more appropriate, according to […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
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