Weird Pie Man I used to have this really weird neighbor a while back. He loved to bake pies, and he was always giving everybody pies. They were really good, and he kind of had a legitimate reason for this strange behavior, but it was still kind weird. He’d just show up […]
Science, Magic and Brainwashing
Doctor Lecture I was watching an interesting lecture by this doctor a few weeks ago. He was talking about how, when he first was a doctor working in the ER, he remembered having more compassion for some patients and less compassion for other patients. This was because he assumed that some patients were […]
Evolutionarily Assisted Planet Rotation
Before Fire Archaeologists can tell the time when proto humans invented fire. Before they invented fire, they find gnawed up human bones in caves along side fully intact skeletons of large predators. Before fire, predators would kill proto humans, drag them into caves, and slowly eat them. Before Farming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug29Loop.mp4 After humans […]
Cannibal Trinity Apocalypse
Atmospheric Pressure One of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution has nothing to do with factories. It has to do with something called the Haber process. Plants need nitrogen to grow. And every since life started, the only place plants could get nitrogen was from the Earth. Even though nitrogen […]
Pay For Your Sins
Bake Sale I was out driving around and I came across a group of kids having a car wash. They said it was for a fund raiser for a local church. They gave me a flier while I was waiting, and they flier said they were having a bake sale the coming weekend. […]
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 […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Eternal Battles And Your Soul
Protestant Reformation One of the biggest challenges that came to the Catholic Church came in the Middle Ages with the Protestant Reformation. This represented a huge market share challenge to the Catholic Church because up until that point the Catholic Church was the most powerful entity in Europe. They had a lot of power […]
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