Anti Anxiety Pattern There’s been a fairly recent discovery about how the brain will reconfigure itself during deep sleep to get rid of anxiety. This, of course, can lead to either positive or negative reinforcing loops. The less anxiety you have, the better you sleep, which will further decrease your anxiety. The […]
Purple Man Magic
Night TV Dangerous Watching TV at night, especially after work is the most dangerous thing you can do. Advertisers know that this is when your brain is the most open, when you are at home, relaxed, thinking you are safe. This is why the subliminal messages and advanced hypnotic technology that creates deep […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ageless Elite Apocalypse
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub a couple of weeks ago, at the behest of a couple of friends. I had to go a few times before I could get in and get a seat, it was really crowded. When I finally got there, I was expecting some […]
Scientific Birdcage Mythology
Correlation and Causation One of the biggest causes of misunderstanding in the world of science is a mistaking correlation for causation. Especially if you have one main variable, that is driving all the other variables,. Then any two of the driven variables can be correlated, and thereby misunderstood to having a causative relationship. […]
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 […]
Self Replicating Hallucinations
Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Storytelling Serial Killer
Tinder Murder There is a very elusive, very evil, very sociopathic serial killer than has been murdering about one woman every two months for several years. He meets desperate and lonely ladies on online dating, and he’s got the perfect story that sets them up for an easy kill. They believe his story, […]
Caviar Planet
Bell Curve Experiment I saw this cool experiment a couple days ago. Not really an experiment, more like a demonstration. A demonstration of a math teacher to his elementary school students. About probability and the Gaussian distribution. He had all the students stand in one line in the gym and face […]
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