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, […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Watch The Cereal
Bowl After Bowl I have a friend who is a cereal aficionado He’s always trying out new types of cereal. Recently he bought a box and it seemed heavier than normal. He didn’t understand why until he got home. House Flipper https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May23Loop.mp4 Once this guy bought a house. He got […]
Cheese Empire Origins
Cheese Eater I have this friend who absolutely loves cheese. For the longest time, he would rave rant and tell anybody who would listen about this fantastic new cheese that he’d found. But then he was tangentially involved in this industrial accident, and even though he didn’t get hurt, he got a huge […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
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 […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Subacoustic Phone Store
Gong Once… There is this auctioneer who makes twice as much money as everybody else. He travels around, kind of like a free agent. He came to my town, so I decided to figure out what the deal was. Why So Crowded? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May04Loop.mp4 I was wondering through my local mall and […]
Hot Dog Empire
Worse Than Drugs Processed food is not only dangerous, but it is very hard to resist. One reason is they are strategically located in the grocery stores. Sumerian Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May03Loop.mp4 There are a collection of ancient symbols, supposedly handed down to the ancient Sumerians by the aliens who first founded Earth. These […]
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