Looping Sounds There’s an auditory illusion called a Shepard tone, that sounds like it is continuously rising. But at the same time, it always ends up back where it started. It’s very hypnotic to listen to this, because the more you listen to this, the more you want to understand what, exactly is […]
Lucid Dreaming Lab
Anti Anxiety Pattern There’s been a fairly recent discovery about how the brain will reconfigure itself during deep sleep to get rid of anxiety. This, of course, can lead to either positive or negative reinforcing loops. The less anxiety you have, the better you sleep, which will further decrease your anxiety. The […]
Treasure Hunting Symmetry
Emmy Noether There was a German mathematician, Emmy Noether, who came up with a beautiful idea linking symmetry and conservation laws. She said that wherever you find any kind of symmetry, you’ll find a corresponding conservation law. And whenever you have a conservation laws, there will be an equivalent symmetry somewhere. Invisible […]
Cult of Sacred Geometry
Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Subconscious Time Control
Trampoline Train I saw a pretty cool video the other day. A bunch of guys doing tricks on a trampoline, but the trampoline was on an open train car that was moving pretty quickly along the train tracks. From the trampoline perspective, they were only moving up and down. But from the […]
Photographic Fear Elimination
Childhood Fear Creation Developing childhood fears is a pretty common experience. A common example is when a kid touches a hot stove. Before this fear is hard wired in to the poor kids brain, the stove is a this cool looking thing. It creates really cool smells. Happy Place https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept24Loop.mp4 All […]
The Missing Gorilla Paradox
Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]
CIA Street Magician
Micro Brew Pub There’s this new micro brew pub downtown I went to the other day. I don’t normally go to these kinds of places, but I’ve heard some pretty cool stories about this. So I wanted check this out. Spiritual Center https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept13Loop.mp4 There’s an interesting spiritual center I’ve been going to. […]
Alien Fermi DNA Strategy
Quick Cooker Recently I bought a pressure cooker. It’s pretty cool for two reasons, but it does have on major drawback. You can cook things quickly and it’s pretty much set and forget. I have a friend whose side business is growing marijuana. Pot Growing Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept01Loop.mp4 But he has a […]
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