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 […]
Unintended Mind Control
Hobby Shop I found this used electronic shop downtown. They had a bunch of old kits, and what looked like some homemade gadgets that didn’t seem to have any indication what this was. I asked the guy behind the counter, and he didn’t know what this was either. His dad had opened […]
Blood and Semen
How Do I Do This? I read and interesting research paper recently about the rapidly diminishing skill set of most normal humans. They reported that up to 40% of people were dependent on the Internet to understand how complete basic house hold tasks. They couldn’t do simple tasks like fixing a leaky faucet, […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Social Status Death Trends
Health Boom I read an interesting study the other day that wanted to find any correlation between recent health food trends and the actual health benefits of the food trends. The assumption was that there would be at least some correlation between how popular any particular diet was, and how beneficial it was from […]
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 […]
Wood Shop Genius
Wooden Man I have a neighbor who has turned his hobby into a pretty interesting income stream. He creates this really intricate wood carvings that he sells to people. He’s got a massive online reputation, and he’s got a long list of customers waiting for his products, that takes him dozens of hours […]
Ancient Alien Mythology
Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Sex God Consciousness
Random Telepathy Most people have had at least a few experience of paranormal communication. You know it is when your phone rungs, you suspect something is about to happen before it happens. Unfortunately, few people ever follow up on this latent skill. Solitary Wolves https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan12Loop.mp4 When wolves hunt alone, they seem very […]
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