I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
Self Deluded Geniuses
Islands and Oceans One of my favorite science metaphor is about the relationship of what we know, to the stuff we don’t know. What we know is like the coastline of a small island. What we don’t know is the huge ocean. Which means the more we discover things that we know, […]
Hypnotic Massage Technique
Collapsing Anchors A very common technique for quitting smoking is a technique using anchors. Over several different sessions with a hypnotist, the hypnotist will connect positive anchors to non smoking behavior, and negative anchors to smoking behavior. So when the client sees positive things on a daily basis, those good feelings will be […]
Sliding Into Amnesia
Collective Memory One of the interesting things about any given society at any given time is the idea of collective memory. The bigger a society gets, the bigger its collective memory gets which will allow any technology to be subsequently added to over the generations. However, like any complex systems, there are many […]
Immortal Monkey Apocalypse
Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Nerf Brain Physics
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 […]
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