Babies Can Add They’ve done some pretty cool experiments on babies to determine what kind of pre-wiring we have that allows us to understand math. They can tell that babies can add up simple numbers before they can differentiate between objects. Meaning that before we humans are a year old, we have the […]
Galileo’s Timepiece
Drugs and Brains For every drug you can take, that can give you an interesting mental experience, you have to have a corresponding receptor in your brain. Drugs, whether they be naturally occurring in nature, or highly synthesized and concentrated in a lab, can only work if they match with a pre-existing receptor site […]
Circles Bread and Pi
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 […]
Cult of Sacred Geometry
Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
Invisible People In Your Brain
Square Roots Are Easy If you needed to find the square root of four, this would be pretty easy. The square root of four is either two or negative two. Negative two times negative two is four. Two times two is four. This is something we learn in elementary school, or […]
Ice Cream Interference Pattern
One Day… I was walking home the other day from the library, and I decided to stop by the supermarket and buy some ice cream. I was in the express lane between two ladies and in front of this guy who had Led Zeppelin T-shirt. The lady at the front had twelve items. […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]
Infinite Nests of Treasure
Free Sales Seminar I went to an interesting seminar a few years ago. It was free, and it had a whole bunch of speakers. Each speaker would present for an hour or two, and each person would try and upsell some kind of home study course. One guy started talking, and he used […]
Recover Ancient Spiritual Power
Beginnings of an Adventure A couple of weeks ago I was reading some local online forum and they were talking about this place downtown. A couple of days later I decided to go check it out. I didn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was in an adventurous mood. I took […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]