Weird Storyteller I had this weird professor in college. Once he told us about this goofy union job he had. He worked there for two years, and all he did was pick up boxes on one shelf, put them another shelf, and then later, after everything had been moved, put them back. […]
No Coasting Allowed
Racing Styles They have different kinds of bike races. Flat races, races through hills, and on mountain trails. And races on those loops where they ride bikes that don’t have any gears and you can’t coast. Stay Or Go? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun11Loop.mp4 I have a friend that was debating whether or not he should […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Spinning Brains
Science Toys There’s this cool toy called Euler’s Disk. It’s like a big coin, very heavy, and you spin it on a very polished, slightly concave surface. It spins for a very long time, and they have plenty of different designs that create holographic images while it’s spinning. Health Promises https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun07Loop.mp4 There […]
Free Will Paradox
Never See It Coming It’s common for large companies to keep their employees in the dark as long as possible before any large layoffs. They want to keep them from knowing so they can get a maximum amount of productivity out of them. Individually, this is much easier to manage. God vs. […]
Downtown Chicken Man
Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
She Went Inside Her Brain
Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
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, […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
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