Bowl After Bowl I have a friend who is a cereal aficionado He’s always trying out new types of cereal. Recently he bought a box and it seemed heavier than normal. He didn’t understand why until he got home. House Flipper https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May23Loop.mp4 Once this guy bought a house. He got […]
Ghost Town Squatters
Strange Home I watched a very interesting documentary the other day about squatters. But these weren’t your average, run of the mill squatters who are probably living in your block. The kind that find empty houses that the banks are desperate to make look like somebody is living there to keep housing prices […]
Cheese Empire Origins
Cheese Eater I have this friend who absolutely loves cheese. For the longest time, he would rave rant and tell anybody who would listen about this fantastic new cheese that he’d found. But then he was tangentially involved in this industrial accident, and even though he didn’t get hurt, he got a huge […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Toothpick Industrial Complex
Nano Bot Toothpicks Recently, the toothpick companies have been secretively and experimentally increase their technology. It turns that on a subatomic surface level, the inter-enamel can create some surprisingly non linear results. This may explain why, despite routine flossing, brushing and tooth-picking, tooth decay doesn’t see to correlate to any particular variable in […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Termite Cavities
Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Hypnotic Sex Triggers
Bending Light One interesting aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity is something called a gravitational lens If a celestial object, or several celestial objects are large enough, their gravity will bend light. So it looks like the light is curving around the celestial object. Real Estate Commissions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15Loop.mp4 There was this real […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Social Proof Gone Mad
Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
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