Islands and Oceans One of my favorite science metaphor is about the relationship of what we know, to the stuff we don’t know. What we know is like the coastline of a small island. What we don’t know is the huge ocean. Which means the more we discover things that we know, […]
Hidden Disruptive Technologies
Excess Brain Power All modern problems can be resolved to what evolutionary psychologists call an instinct mismatch. That our mind body system was calibrated for a world much different than the one in which we live. A corollary to this idea is that we have a significant amount of excess brain capacity. […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Culinary Trainwreck
Cooking Experiment I had wanted to cook this complicated recipe for a long time. It was a recipe that required multiple steps of cooking, as well as a bunch of different ingredients I don’t normally use. Finally I decided to pull the trigger, so I budgeted a few hours one weekend to try […]
Sub Acoustic Stripper Hypnosis
Crowd Control There is a very cool crowd disbursement technique that is illegal in the United States, but not in Britain. It’s based on the idea that as we get older, the upper threshold of the audible range of sound decreases. This means it’s possible to make some very loud, very painful high […]
Mind Control Pheromones
Hare Krishna Magic Once upon a time, the Hare Krishna’s were a bunch of broke hippies. They were founded in the sixties in New York, and their entire business model was based on begging for money and trying to teach people their philosophy. There were always broke, because they didn’t really apply any […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
Hypnotic Sexual Brainwashing
So, I’m At This Party… I was at this party the other night. I don’t really remember why I went. Maybe a friend of a friend called me. I was just hanging out talking to whoever. I saw this woman across the room. She was mid to late 40s. When I saw her she […]