Secret Recipe There are a lot of very complex recipes that require you put in the right ingredients, in the right order, and at the time temperature. Do everything perfect, and this comes out tasting fantastic. Make one tiny mistake, and you have a gross tasting pile of crud that even you’re dog […]
Invisible Attraction
Candid Camera There was this episode of a hidden camera prank TV show from way back before the Internet, like in the sixties or seventies. A woman had a suitcase, and inside the suitcase was a magnet. And she would ask guys to help her carry the suitcase, but none of the guys […]
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 […]
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 […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
Greek Plays I would have been cool to be alive back in ancient Greece when they had local plays put on at local amphitheaters. From today’s perspective, this doesn’t seem very special. This doesn’t seem very extraordinary. But today, we have access to tons of material to satisfy our story instinct. […]
Emergent Sentient Consciousness
Beat The Races If you look at the times of various horse races, like the Kentucky Derby, over the past hundred years, you’ll see a slow decrease. This is due to scientific advances in nutrition, sports medicine and strength and endurance training. But similar times of human races, like marathons, the 100 and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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