Street Preacher I was out wandering around the other day and I saw a street preacher off in the distance. I could hear the sound of his voice, but I couldn’t make out the words he was saying. But the crowd was huge, and even from a distance I could taste the charisma […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Invisible Overlords
Accidental Science Rubber was accidentally invented at least twice. First by the Aztecs, who perhaps accidentally mixed two chemicals from two plants. According to the Aztecs, they mixed the blood of one plant with the semen of another plant. Animals Training Animals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar13Loop.mp4 Humans aren’t the only animals to domesticate other animals. […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
The Butter War Demon
Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Quantum Tube Consciousness
Pieces of Eight An octagon has eight sides. An octopus has eight legs. But October is the tenth month. Why the discrepancy? There have been a few interesting experiments done on how to grow seeds with much more efficiency. Energy In Energy Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct19Loop.mp4 Efficiency being a measure of energy […]
California Cave Cult
Almond Lover I like to eat almonds. Lately I’ve been buying my almonds from Trader Joe’s. They have the best and the cheapest almonds, even compared to online. Most almonds are grown in California. California has a lot of farms, which require a lot of water. Water Corruption https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug23Loop.mp4 And […]
Parasitic Brain Demons
Street Stall Delicacy There’s a very tiny street downtown that has tons of food stalls. They sell very cheap, and very delicious food. Way better, and way cheaper than in any restaurant. A common type of private equity is the leveraged buy out. Often called LBO. Uninvited Guests https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15Loop.mp4 This […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
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. […]