College Job When I was in college I got this cool job at a donut shop. I’d never really thought about donuts before them, from an engineering standpoint. I worked late afternoons, early evenings, when you got to make all the donuts. You took processed flour, sugar and some coloring, mixed it […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Zombie Invasions and Split Testing
Problems and Solutions A famous quote from Einstein says that you can’t solve a problem from the same mindset that created the problem. When the space shuttle blew up in the late 80’s it was a tragedy for a lot of reasons. One because it killed a lot of people. Two because […]
Deep Deception and Sexual Influence
Curve Ball Killer An inside out curve ball is a very vicious and insidious pitch. Normal curve balls appear to be on their way to cross the plate, but then the curve away from the batter. Inside out curves appear to be slightly inside, but they curve toward the batter. These are […]
Atomic Russian Thought Control
Invention of Chemistry Once they figured out how atoms worked, chemistry was invented. The first guy who figured out the period table was a Russian guy named Mendeleev. Atoms all have the same basic structure, neutrons and protons on the inside, with electrons on the outside. Three basic atoms, Carbon, Oxygen and […]
Invisible Demons and Killers
Germs Are Deadly Before they discovered what germs were and how they operate, before they understood that we live in a world with invisible entities that can kill us, a lot of extra people died in surgery. Particularly horrible was when 1 in 4 women died during childbirth. It wasn’t uncommon back in […]
Parasite Demons In Your Brain
Poor Mouse There’s a messed up parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii. When I mouse eats this, it switches his fear polarity. Normally when a mouse senses a cat he runs away as fast as he can. But once a mouse ingests the Toxoplasma Gondii parasite, it makes them believe the cat is his […]
Ancient Emergent Consciousness
Open Mic Night? I went to a local club a couple nights ago. I thought it was an open mic night, but I wasn’t sure. The guy I saw did some pretty interesting magic tricks. He had a lot of sleight of hand skills, he was very smooth. Good Storyteller https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug01Loop.mp4 […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
The Once And Future Hallucination
The Demon There was this philosopher guy a couple hundred years ago named Descartes. He came up with a problem that was unsolvable then, and unsolvable now. The problem was how do we know whether what is happening all around us is real, or just a hallucination? His idea was that our […]
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