Self Help Loops Any kind of self development absolutely requires an honest feedback loop. You need both success data and failure data in order to better calibrate the targeted behavior. This is true in sports, music, investing and even business, in the case of profits and losses. No Aliens https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09Loop.mp4 The Fermi […]
Controlling Frequencies
Doppler Effect The Doppler effect is pretty cool and pretty easy to understand. When something is making a sound, getting closer, and then passes you, the sound will change in pitch. As it’s just about to pass you, the apparent frequency will change, as the relative velocity will change. Green Light Creation […]
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 […]
Ukulele Preacher
Beach Magic I went down to the beach a couple weeks ago. There was a guy sitting there, staring out at the ocean, playing a Ukulele. He stopped right when I looked at him, and told me he could control people’s behaviors with his music. Music Teacher https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31Loop.mp4 There was a music […]
Doppelganger Apocalypse
Artificial Scarcity A very common and old marketing strategy is to create and manage a level of artificial scarcity just enough to calibrate and maintain the desired purchasing level. For example, a company will be getting ready to release a new product, and advertise like crazy, building up massive demand. Then they purposely […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Alarm Clock Hibernation
Daily Struggle Everybody has their own unique, highly calibrated strategy for making the transition from sleeping to waking up. Because of this, you can find pretty much any alarm clock that will accommodate this strategy. Few people leap out of bed in the morning with an excited feeling of bliss and anticipation. […]
Demon Planet
Exorcism Increase There have been a lot of stories in various news media about the increasing number of exorcisms. Some say this is correlated to the slowly collapsing global economy. Some say this is correlated to the rise of civil unrest in many parts of the world. One theory says this is […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
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