Natures Lid A lot of inventions weren’t invented on purpose, rather they were invented on accident. Butter, for example, wasn’t create to be something to eat. It was used to keep lid on milk back when they didn’t have refrigeration. It kept out bacteria that would make milk spoil, keeping it drinkable […]
Inter Generational Resonance
Math and Music One of the coolest overlapping areas of science is humans and music. On the one hand, humans are very subjective, logic or mathematics isn’t our strong suit. In fact, if most of us had to take a course in pure logic or any advanced math like calculus or differential equations, […]
DNA Destruction
Transitions One of the most important transitions one can make in life is from being a child to being an adult. From a purely instinctive, ancient hunter gatherer standpoint, children are expected to consume more then they produce. They are expected to require others to help solve most of their problems. Adults […]
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 […]
Self Sabotaging Magic
Circus Theory In the circus, they have trapeze artists whose job it is to flip around up in the air, so people can watch this and be entertained. But to maximize the enjoyment of these tricks, they must provide a safety net for the trapeze artists. Without a safety net, the trapeze artists […]
Self Replicating Cults
Secret Psychology There is this psychologist who has been studying cults for a long time. His angle is to compare their origin stories and their underlying mythological identity structure. For example, Heaven’s Gate had the idea that dying meant going to a higher plane, and that involved aliens. Famous Cultists https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov22Loop.mp4 Jim […]
Physician’s Revenge
Global Death There was this huge international conglomerate that killed a guy’s family. He worked for the company, and lived nearby, and due to some oversight his wife and kid died. He spent ten years fighting them, essentially living off donations. This is a problem with battling these gigantic international conglomerates, they […]
Demon Planet
Exorcism Increase There have been a lot of stories in various news media about the increasing number of exorcisms. Some say this is correlated to the slowly collapsing global economy. Some say this is correlated to the rise of civil unrest in many parts of the world. One theory says this is […]
Oscillating Desires
Finally Broke Up I have a friend who just broke up with her boyfriend. She’d been wanting to break up with him for a long time, and was always asking my advice, and she finally did it. Now she’s having regrets, and she wanted me to hypnotize her to help forget the things […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
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