Hoarding Trails One of the more interesting reality shows is about hoarders. People that have so much stuff in their house, they only have space to get from their bed to the toilet, and from their bed to the front door. And if they aren’t too bad off, they’ll be a path to […]
Hallucinated Statistics
Monty Hall There is an interesting problem in statistics and probability known as the Monty Hall problem. You can choose one of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the other two are goats. You choose door number three, and then Monty Hall opens door number one, showing a goat, […]
Mirror Universe
Original Super Genius Emmy Noether is undoubtedly one of the most under appreciated mathematicians of all time. She developed this abstract theory back in the 1800’s relating symmetry and conservation laws. That every time there is a conversation law, there will be an associated symmetry law, and vice versa. Cause Effect Paradox […]
Invisible Overlords
Accidental Science Rubber was accidentally invented at least twice. First by the Aztecs, who perhaps accidentally mixed two chemicals from two plants. According to the Aztecs, they mixed the blood of one plant with the semen of another plant. Animals Training Animals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar13Loop.mp4 Humans aren’t the only animals to domesticate other animals. […]
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 […]
Imaginary Paradoxes
Gabriel’s Horn There is a paradox in calculus called the Horn of Gabriel. It’s a mathematical function, a three dimensional representation of the two dimensional equation y=1/x, but rotated around the x axis. The reason it is considered a paradox is this is a three dimensional shape with infinite surface area but finite […]
AI Time Travel
Robot Factories There have been a lot of advancements recently in robot assisted manufacturing. One article I read recently was about a completely automated pizza crust factory, that could make 1000 pizza crusts per minute or something. Robots are very efficient, and they have already started creeping into the our common experience. […]
Emergent Financial Parasites
Black Jack System Before the advent and widespread use of facial recognition technology, a group of MIT students developed a very lucrative blackjack system. They made a movie about it, but the movie was necessarily altered to make room for good guys and bad guys and back stories and character arcs. But the […]
Hypnotizing Chickens
Super Genius Doctor There is this therapist that, when she first got her MD, she wanted to be the most successful therapist in the world. But she wanted to do so without ever having to prescribe any drugs to her patients. So she invented a very powerful form of deep hypnosis to solve […]
Step By Step Magic
Card Tricks A long time ago I had to teach a magic class to two groups of kids. One group of five year olds, and another group of six year olds. We ended up deciding to teach them a set of self working magic tricks, along with some magic stories along with the […]
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