Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]
Sex Magic Commands
Oven Commercial I saw this really cool infomercial the other day for this oven thing. I don’t even remember what kind oven it was, but this guy doing the demonstration was extremely skilled in covert hypnosis. This guy was really good at being able to use embedded commands so I decided I’d better […]
Vampire Parasite Nation
Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Time Travel Brain Entropy
Word Order Critical If you compare a dictionary and a bible, the two are vastly different. One is filled with words and definitions. The other is filled with ancient stories and metaphors about the nature of human existence. But both are filled only with words. Words ordered one way will create […]
Invisible Demons and Killers
Germs Are Deadly Before they discovered what germs were and how they operate, before they understood that we live in a world with invisible entities that can kill us, a lot of extra people died in surgery. Particularly horrible was when 1 in 4 women died during childbirth. It wasn’t uncommon back in […]
Evolution Of Indestructible Roaches
Hand Cleanser If you use alcohol based hand cleansers, it’s possible you are purposely altering the natural evolution of potentially dangerous microbes. It works like this. When you put the hand sanitizer on, it kills almost all of the germs. 99.9%. Which ones doesn’t it kill? It kills all but the very strongest. […]
Twin Flame Seduction
Marketing Expo A friend of my called me up. Wanted to help with a marketing expo at a local business fair. I just needed to sit at a table and answer basic questions Long time ago I worked at this place that sold high ticket items. If you sold one, you got […]
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 […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
FOMO Ingredients
Cialdini Laws There are seven common Cialdini laws of influence that are well known by most people. The most common is something called social proof and social proof says that when a lot of people are doing something it’s going to be very hard to resist doing that same thing. The second most common […]
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