Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Toothpick Industrial Complex
Nano Bot Toothpicks Recently, the toothpick companies have been secretively and experimentally increase their technology. It turns that on a subatomic surface level, the inter-enamel can create some surprisingly non linear results. This may explain why, despite routine flossing, brushing and tooth-picking, tooth decay doesn’t see to correlate to any particular variable in […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Termite Cavities
Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Hypnotic Sex Triggers
Bending Light One interesting aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity is something called a gravitational lens If a celestial object, or several celestial objects are large enough, their gravity will bend light. So it looks like the light is curving around the celestial object. Real Estate Commissions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15Loop.mp4 There was this real […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Social Proof Gone Mad
Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
Once Only Clothing
Cheap Traveler A friend of mine went on a trip to Thailand, and wanted to travel as cheaply as possible. He was going to backpack around, stay in hostels, etc. But he found an interesting way to save money, one he never would have predicted before the trip. Sleazy Profits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May10Loop.mp4 Recently […]
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