Misspent Youth When I was very young, in junior high school, I did a lot of exercise and physical conditioning. When I was in junior high school I got a weight set and so I started lifting weights in the garage and I started to jog after school and on the weekends. I even ran […]
Life’s Viciousness
Clint Eastwood Samurai There’s a lot of similarities between the Clint Eastwood cowboy character and a lot of man-with-no-name samurai characters. In fact a lot of the Western movies with Clint Eastwood were remakes of Japanese period piece Japanese samurai movies. The idea that drives evolution is natural selection and you’ll find natural selection […]
Satanic Children and Killer Apes
Backpacking Trip I used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger. One particular time we were sitting around the campfire after dinner and we saw these two small pair of eyes looking at us from about 20 or 30 yards away. Before we had gone on this backpacking trip in the […]
Pancakes and Fractals
Old Woman There was this old woman sitting outside of her shop. She was sitting on the ground, not quite on the ground on a very low seat, and she had this big plastic pitcher of pancake batter. She would pour enough pancake batter onto a small electric griddle that was in front of […]
Old Vs. New Learning Styles
Junior High School When I shifted from elementary school to junior high school it was a particularly chaotic time, maybe a little bit traumatic from an emotional standpoint. In elementary school, I could walk to school. It was about two minutes. I walked to school with my friends. I knew a bunch of people […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Born With Knowledge
Child Prodigies The other night I watched an interesting TV show about child prodigies they had all these kids that were 5,6,4 that could do all these really interesting things. The most interesting kid was this boy who was four years old. He can name all of the presidents in order. If you gave […]
Past Live Regressions Metaphors
Necktie Change There’s a guy that I work with that recently had a kid and it’s his first kid and you can see the absolute dramatic change before and after he’s had this kid. If you have children yourself you know that nothing will change your outlook on life like having a child. From […]
Super Brain Theory
Kick The Can When I was a kid me and a bunch of other kids on my block would play a lot of kid games. We played scavenger hunt a couple of times. Somebody would come up with a list of regular household items and then we would break into teams and see who could […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
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