Supermarket Battle I was talking to a friend of mine from Japan a couple days ago. Somehow we ended up talking about American food you can find in Japanese supermarkets vs. Japanese food you can find in American supermarkets. Since we’d both lived in both places, it was a compare contrast kind of […]
Origins Of The Gods
Learning Center I went to an interesting lecture a couple of nights ago at a local learning center. The topic was the history of written language. It was only an hour, but the guy who taught went through a really quick bullet point overview, which was fascinating. Reading and writing are things we […]
Jesus Origin Story
A Walk In The Park I just moved to a new neighborhood. There are lots of parks, and there’s this one walking path that kind of snakes it way through all of them. It’s a cement path for both walking and biking. Most of the parks are long and narrow. They are kind of […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Specialty Coffee and the Speed of Light
Shared Molecules I remember the first chemistry class I took in college. It was in one of those big auditorium type classrooms. The professor comes in and the first thing he said was to close your eyes. To think about somebody you admire. They can be alive, they can be dead, but they have […]
Sex Beliefs and Social Status
Young Anthropologist There was this young female anthropologist during Victorian England that went on an expedition by herself to some island in the South Seas to study the people that lived in the South Seas. The people that lived in the South Seas had dealt with British people before and they could sort of […]
Gold Horsemen And Apocalypses
Wizard Of Oz One of the most interesting stories that is been around for a long time is the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a good story for a lot of reasons. For one it follows the heroes journey to a T. There’s been a lot of comparisons between the Wizard of […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Eternal Battles And Your Soul
Protestant Reformation One of the biggest challenges that came to the Catholic Church came in the Middle Ages with the Protestant Reformation. This represented a huge market share challenge to the Catholic Church because up until that point the Catholic Church was the most powerful entity in Europe. They had a lot of power […]
Sociopaths And Sucker Punches
Japanese Prank Show There used to be a lot of very interesting Japanese prank game shows. Not so much anymore because I think a lot of people got sued. There was one there was kind of simple, kind of interesting. It started off with a young woman, a young attractive woman in this small […]
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