One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]
Science Alchemy and ROI
Origins of Physics Physics was invented before chemistry. In fact Isaac Newton, the guy who wrote the very first book on physics is why we call non-quantum physics Newtonian physics. Isaac Newton was a proponent of alchemy. Today alchemy is usually thought of as a kind of magic to turn dirt into gold or […]
The Woman With All The Answers
Health Food Store There is a fairly small health food store that I like to go to occasionally in part because sometimes I can find stuff there cheaper that I can find online but mainly because the woman that works three, the owner, she seems to know quite a bit about all of the products. […]
The Juggler
Stoplight I was driving home from somewhere a few weeks ago I stopped at a stoplight. It was about three in the afternoon. The traffic was fairly light. There was maybe two or three other cars at this intersection. Unexpectedly this guy ran out into the intersection. My first response was he was some […]
Feasts And Famines
Alternative Health There’s been a lot of interesting articles recently in the area of alternative health. Alternative health is kind of a misnomer because once upon a time doctors were these people that knew a lot of information that was useful to become healthy. That was useful to change your behaviors to become healthy. To […]
Social Status and Wealth
Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
Cycles Of Corruption
Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
Limits Of Free Will
Impossible Physics I was watching a very interesting set of videos the other night called “Impossible Physics.” They were using fiction and fictional science as a starting point to understand why those fictional science ideas would be impossible according to the real laws of physics. They were doing this to try to make movies […]
Genetic Dispositions
Mail Room Hero I have a friend of mine who is a CFO of a pretty big company. He recently explained to me how he came to be the owner of the company and I told him it was a fantastic story. I told him that he should hire a ghostwriter to write a […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
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