Backwards Strategy The impending financial disaster and potential societal collapse is based on a very simple idea. If the economy, or even if your individual income is growing, it is a potentially legitimate idea to borrow money. As you or the economy continues to grow, your earning or earning potential will be greater […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Future Toast Pattern
Why Am I Here? A common experience is temporary amnesia. You’ll be sitting there, thinking about something important. Then you’ll get an idea of something else important that you need to get from another room. Sorry, Who Are You? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr28Loop.mp4 Most people openly admit that they suck at remembering names. Somebody […]
Controlling Frequencies
Doppler Effect The Doppler effect is pretty cool and pretty easy to understand. When something is making a sound, getting closer, and then passes you, the sound will change in pitch. As it’s just about to pass you, the apparent frequency will change, as the relative velocity will change. Green Light Creation […]
Friction Elimination Hypnosis
Ancient Fire Starters Friction is a simple idea. Two objects in contact with interact with each other on the surface. There is also resistance, which can be thought of as electrical friction. Advanced Cloud Bursting https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr19Loop.mp4 A group of meditators in the desert have successfully change the frequency of a pulsar. […]
Energy Transfer Loss
Hot And Cold The Sterling engine is an interesting example of many clever ways to transform energy into different forms. It takes the differential in two chambers of two different temperatures and transforms that into kinetic energy. There’s an interesting inventor that used a similar technique with a bicycle. Not So Nice […]
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