Stoplight I was driving home from somewhere a few weeks ago I stopped at a stoplight. It was about three in the afternoon. The traffic was fairly light. There was maybe two or three other cars at this intersection. Unexpectedly this guy ran out into the intersection. My first response was he was some […]
Feasts And Famines
Alternative Health There’s been a lot of interesting articles recently in the area of alternative health. Alternative health is kind of a misnomer because once upon a time doctors were these people that knew a lot of information that was useful to become healthy. That was useful to change your behaviors to become healthy. To […]
Social Status and Wealth
Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
Cycles Of Corruption
Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
Genetic Dispositions
Mail Room Hero I have a friend of mine who is a CFO of a pretty big company. He recently explained to me how he came to be the owner of the company and I told him it was a fantastic story. I told him that he should hire a ghostwriter to write a […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Preconscious Chaos
Ratio of Known To Unknown There’s this very common idea that every single second we have about one million bits of information hitting our senses but at the same time our conscious minds are only capable of perceiving a very, very tiny fraction of that. There is this metaphorical thing, maybe an actual thing, […]
Light Cones and Time Travel
Physics of Time I was watching this very interesting series of videos recently on the physics of time. Time is something that is very difficult to think about because unlike other subjects of science you can’t think about it objectively. Even if you’re doing a mental experiment you can’t really put time in front […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Meta Levels of Consciousness
Blood Work One of the jobs that blood has as it moves through the body is to deliver oxygen to the cells of the muscles and pick up CO2 and take it to the lungs to exhale. Then when it drops off the CO2 with the lungs to exhale it picks up 02. Then […]
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