Getting Ready For Winter The idea of squirrels collecting nuts for the winter is a structure than you can find everywhere. Inmates tend to hoard food in their cell, as it feels good to have a secret stash of energy if you ever need this. Preppers also store months of food in case […]
Structural Permutations
Pasta Machine I have a friend that just bought a pretty cool pasta machine. It comes without about 50 different attachments, so all you need to do is put dough in, and whatever pasta you want will come out the front. She said it’s cool to use, but really difficult to clean. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Parasitic Brainwashing
Mud Bowl I had a friend once, in junior high school, liked to play football, and was playing a game with some friends during the rain. He accidentally swallowed some mud, maybe thought he’d eaten some bugs or something, everybody, including him, thought it was pretty funny. Then a few weeks later he […]
Wood Shop Genius
Wooden Man I have a neighbor who has turned his hobby into a pretty interesting income stream. He creates this really intricate wood carvings that he sells to people. He’s got a massive online reputation, and he’s got a long list of customers waiting for his products, that takes him dozens of hours […]
Game Room Of Horror
Winchester Mystery House One of the weirdest ghost stories that is sort of true is the Winchester House. The lady who married the guy who got rich by inventing the Winchester gun got worried that all the ghosts from people killed by that gun were going to come after her. She she figured […]
Continuum Of Law
We’re All Felons A sociologist did an interesting study and found some troubling results. Each normal citizen, that wouldn’t consider themselves a criminal nor would be considered a criminal by their friends and colleagues, commits, on average, three felonies a day. This is a function of how many laws are created and are […]
Inorganic Portal Destruction
Tech Advances We live in a time of massive technological advances. Some of the stuff that is coming in the near future is even better. Most of us would not enjoy living a thousand years ago with no electricity, no penicillin, and much shorter life expectancies. There is a troubling trend that […]
Ancient Deities
Invention Categories There are many types of inventions, and many different reasons that drive the creativity that leads to inventions. But they can all be put into a few categories, based on the intentions behind them. There are the types of inventions that are to make money for the inventor, and therefore are […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 5
- Next Page »