Food Con Jobs Plenty of large food producers have paid for research that leads to some questionable results. The science is valid, the data is corrected accurately, but they come to conclusions that don’t seem to make sense. This is not too different from corporations lobbying to make it easier to make a […]
Hidden Mistakes
Roman Persuasion There is a common technique in the art of rhetoric that goes back to the Roman Empire. You oscillate between an idea that is true, and an idea that sounds true. So long as the true sounding idea is sandwiched between two true ideas it will usually go undetected. One […]
Math Horse
Subconscious Arithmetic Once there was a horse that could do basic arithmetic. He attracted a lot of attention from locals and media. Then the scientists came to study this. Hypnotic Words Unimportant https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr13Loop.mp4 An interesting double blind study was done on hypnotists, and hypnotic scripts. The gathered the best hypnotic scripts […]
Telepathic Mental Momentum
Up And Down Hills I used to do a lot of bike riding. Once I had this messed up bike. It was really hard to get going. Impulse Buy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12Loop.mp4 I bought a forearm workout device. It was a ball inside a ball. You had to get the inside ball […]
Scarcity Pizza
Pizza Shop I used to have this job in college at a pizza shop. There was an old retired guy working, and he loved it when tons of customers would come in and we’d be slammed. There’s a theory that we subconsciously use smell to qualify potential romantic partners. Sniffing Out DNA […]
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 […]
Subconscious Deception Techniques
Prank Videos There are plenty of entertaining prank videos online. This type of thing has been around for a long, long time. Even as a kid I remember watching old reruns of Candid Camera, plenty of carefully set up pranks on unsuspecting victims. Fake Right Go Left https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09Loop.mp4 A common move or […]
Peripheral Resonance
No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
Negative Junk Response
Hoarding Trails One of the more interesting reality shows is about hoarders. People that have so much stuff in their house, they only have space to get from their bed to the toilet, and from their bed to the front door. And if they aren’t too bad off, they’ll be a path to […]
Psychic Alien Invaders
How Will They Come Experts are still not in agreement about how, specifically, the impending alien invasion will take place. One of the biggest issue of contention is their assumed technological advancement. This, of course, is based on when they achieved self awareness, on a timeline compared to humans. Emergence https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr04Loop.mp4 A […]
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