Party Tricks A friend called me the other day. She said she needed some props for a party she was having. I asked her what kind of party she was having. She said it was a birthday party. For her son, who is in second grade. No Props Up Here […]
Time Travel Intuition
Chimps and Humans The timeline between chimps and humans is six or eight million years. Humans became humans only a couple hundred thousand years ago. But chimps and likely proto-humans can communicate well without using spoken words. Non Verbal Communication https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08Loop.mp4 It’s estimated that up to 93 percent of human communication is […]
Slow Motion Brain Wreck
Iced Tea Commercial I watched this really cool video recently About how they made an ice T commercial. First they showed the commercial. A close up of a tall glass with ice cubes one stream of ice T came in from one side, and a stream of milk came in from the […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]
California Cave Cult
Almond Lover I like to eat almonds. Lately I’ve been buying my almonds from Trader Joe’s. They have the best and the cheapest almonds, even compared to online. Most almonds are grown in California. California has a lot of farms, which require a lot of water. Water Corruption https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug23Loop.mp4 And […]
Phase Shift Thought Extraction
Carbon The most important element in life is carbon. Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen make up plenty of necessary chemicals for life and the needed elements to sustain life. Carbon by itself, simply by how it’s organized, can take on vastly different configurations. Diamonds and Graphite https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug18Loop.mp4 Both diamonds and graphite are made […]
The Spirit In The Basement
Party People I went to a networking event recently. It was at this bar restaurant type place and there were a surprising number of people there. I was walking through the park and I saw this guy fishing. Right when I walked up he turned and started to talk to me. […]
Long Game Occultist
License Scams Getting a license these days to sell something is difficult. A hundred years or so ago, if you wanted to sell something, you just sold it. An interesting problem from game theory is why it’s illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV. Why No Cigarette Ads? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Loop.mp4 Most people assume that […]
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 […]
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