Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
Eventual Fight Against Evil
Hero’s Journey Origins The hero’s journey is a very common structure that has been found in mythological stories around the world. It’s believed that the hero’s journey structure was a precursor to modern religions. Modern religions can be seen as metaphysical or mythical guidelines or moral codes on how to live an thrive […]
Lion Debt and Extinction Events
Hunting Documentary I saw this interesting documentary about lions and how they hunt. Lions, like all other animals, have instincts that are calibrated for their environment. And like all other animals, they need to energy to survive, and they have to expend energy to survive. This is essentially the difference between any […]
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 […]
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. […]
Fourier Hallucination Magic
Digital Audio Workstations If you are at all familiar with music production, then you know what a DAW is. A digital audio workstation. A way to create pretty much any kind of music you want. There are two kinds of virtual instruments that go inside of a DAW. Sampled instruments, which […]
Energy Harvesting Strategies
Origins Of Imperialism Human imperialism has been around for a long time, in a lot of different forms, and under a lot of names. Imperialism, of course, is when large societies have become empires are specifically and strategically attempting conquest. But even smaller bands of raiders like the Vikings of the middle ages […]
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 […]
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