Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
The Butter War Demon
Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Truth Serum Hallucinations
Watch The Hemlock Socrates was famous for proving that everything anybody knew was false. He would create rapport, and then carefully ask targeted questions to get more and more information about the beliefs of his conversational partner. It wouldn’t take long for him to extract enough ideas from their brains that they could […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
Medieval Historian Disaster
Gut Bacteria Scientists have recently discovered an interesting link between gut bacteria diversity and health. People that are more sedentary, eat a lot of processed food and are overweight have much less diversity in their gut bacteria. People that are more active, live a healthy lifestyle and eat much less processed food have […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
Magic Mind Control
Party Tricks A friend called me the other day. She said she needed some props for a party she was having. I asked her what kind of party she was having. She said it was a birthday party. For her son, who is in second grade. No Props Up Here […]
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 […]
Trading Fear For Money
Horrible Horror Movie I saw this really messed up horror movie the other night. It was about this guy who was an insane killer, that pretty much lived inside of a hallucination. It started out with this guy jogging down some country road. And then a guy pulled up in a van, […]
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 […]
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